Seminar Series: Spring 2026

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. in Gilman Hall 50

Friday, January 30, 2026
Dr. Sasha Ukhorskiy (Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory)
“Unveiling the Mysteries of Multiscale Magnetotail Dynamics with the CINEMA Constellation”
Hosted by: Prof. Charles Meneveau (MechE)
Seminar Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/93762992307

Friday, February 20, 2026
Prof. Alexis Kaminski (University of California, Berkeley)
“Stratified Mixing on the California Inner Shelf”
Hosted by: Prof. Dennice Gayme (MechE)
Seminar Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/93762992307

Friday, February 27, 2026
Prof. Alfredo Peña (Danish Technical University)
“Challenges and Paradoxes of Modeling and Measuring Atmospheric Flow”
Hosted by: Prof. Julie K. Lundquist (MechE)
Seminar Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/93762992307

Friday, March 6, 2026
Prof. Sukanta Basu (University at Albany)
“AIML-Driven Modeling of Atmospheric Turbulence for Weather, Energy, and Defense Applications”
Hosted by: Dr.
Branko Kosović (ROSEI)
Seminar Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/93762992307

Friday, March 13, 2026
Prof. Yue (Olivia) Meng (Purdue University)
“From Fracture to Flow: How Calving Ice Sheets Drive Mélange and Fjord Dynamics?”
Hosted by: Prof. Thomas Haine (EPS)
Seminar Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/93762992307

March 16-20, 2026
SPRING BREAK – NO SEMINAR

Friday, March 27, 2026
Prof. Marcus N. Hultmark (Princeton University)
“Bringing the Lab to the Field and the Field to the Lab: Investigations of Environmental Flows”
Hosted by: Prof. Dennice Gayme (MechE)
Seminar Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/93762992307

Friday, April 3, 2026  (Online Presentation Only)
Winner of the 2024 Corrsin-Kovasznay Outstanding Paper Award
Prof. Hanxun Yao (University of Science and Technology of China)
“Entropy and Fluctuation Relation in Isotropic Turbulence”
Hosted by: Prof. Charles Meneveau (MechE)
Seminar Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/93762992307

Friday, April 10, 2026
Prof. Vijay Vedula (Columbia University)
“Multifidelity Models of Blood Flow: From Lab to Clinic”
Hosted by: Prof. Rajat Mittal (MechE)
Seminar Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/93762992307

Friday, April 17, 2026
Prof. Maziar S. Hemati (University of Minnesota)
Controlling Flow Interactions to Improve Performance in Aerodynamic Systems
Hosted by: Prof. Dennice Gayme (MechE)
Seminar Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/93762992307

Friday, April 24, 2026
Prof. Keefe B. Manning (The Pennsylvania State University)
The Challenges of Validating Computational Models Related to Blood Clotting: An Experimentalist Perspective
Hosted by: Prof. Rui Ni (MechE)
Seminar Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/93762992307

Friday, May 1, 2026 (Different Location)
The 2026 Kovasznay Memorial Lecture in Fluid Dynamics
Prof. Katepalli R. Sreenivasan (New York University)
“Decaying Turbulence”
Hosted by: Prof. Charles Meneveau (MechE)
Seminar Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/93762992307

Friday, May 15, 2026 SPECIAL CEAFM SEMINAR
Dr. Ralph Lorenz (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
Dragonfly : A Relocatable Rotorcraft Lander for Titan. Two years to Launch!
Hosted by: Prof. Rui Ni (MechE)
Seminar Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/93762992307

Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics