MEDALIST’S PLENARY LECTURES
Track Chairs
Abhijit Dasgupta
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
dasgupta@umd.edu
Teng Li
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
lit@umd.edu
AWARDS SYMPOSIA
Track Chairs
Abhijit Dasgupta
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
dasgupta@umd.edu
Teng Li
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
lit@umd.edu
Symposium A1: Prager Medal Symposium in honor of J.N. Reddy
Symposium A2: Eringen Medal Symposium in honor of Gang Chen
Symposium A3: G.I. Taylor Medal Symposium in honor of Mory Gharib
MECHANICS OF FLUIDS AND THERMAL SYSTEMS
Track Chairs
Ken Kiger
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
kkiger@umd.edu
Bao Yang
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
baoyang@umd.edu
Symposium B1: Pore Scale Modeling and Simulation of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media
Symposium B2: Biological and Bio-Inspired Fluid Mechanics
Symposium B3: Quantitative Imaging Methods in Fluid Mechanics: From Lighting to Enlightenment
Symposium B4: Turbulent Transport in Multiphase Flow
Symposium B5: Heat Transfer: From Meso-Scale to Macro-Scale
Symposium B6: Fluid-Structure Interaction and its Applications
Symposium B7: Viscous Flow Simulations Over Complex Geometries: Algorithms and Applications
MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL AND SOFT MATERIALS
Track Chairs
Sulin Zhang
Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics
The Pennsylvania State University
suz10@psu.edu
Xuanhe Zhao
Department of Mechanical Engineering
MIT
zhaox@mit.edu
Siddhartha Das
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
sidd@umd.edu
Symposium C1: Mechanics of biological and bioinspired materials
Symposium C2: Mechanics of Polymers with Dynamics Bonds
Symposium C3: Mechanical Characterization of Soft Materials: Experiments and Modeling
Symposium C4: Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Mechanics
Symposium C5: Mechanics and Physics of Soft Materials
Symposium C6: Surface Tension and Surface Charge Driven Phenomena in Soft Matter
Symposium C7: Mechanics of inelastic deformation and failure in biological materials
Symposium C8: Soft tissue mechanics: Theoretical considerations, experimental results, and applications
Symposium C9: 3D printing implantable constructs for biomedical applications
Symposium C10: Multiscale Studies of Cell Mechanics
Symposium C11: Mechanics of Bioinspired Soft Machines
Symposium C12: Mechanical Behaviors of Cytoskeleton and Cells
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Track Chairs
Teng Li
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
lit@umd.edu
Katia Bertoldi
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
bertoldi@seas.harvard.edu
Symposium D1: Multi-scale Mechanics of Particulate Media
Symposium D2: Mechanics and Materials in the Oilfield
Symposium D3: Mechanics of 3D Printed Materials and Structures
Symposium D4: Mechanics in Manufacturing, Synthesis and Processing of Materials, Structures and Devices
Symposium D5: Mechanics and Design of Mechanical Metamaterials
Symposium D6: Advanced instrumentation and fabrication techniques for measurement of mechanical and physical properties of solids and structures
Symposium D7: Instability in Solids and Structures
Symposium D8: Computational Mechanics of Materials and Structures
Symposium D9: Friction, Fracture and Damage
Symposium D10: Uncertainty Propagation and Quantification in Multiscale Simulation of Materials Response, Structural Performance, and Failure
Symposium D11: Instability and Interfacial Adhesions in Bio-compatible Electronics
Symposium D12: Mechanics, Materials, and Manufacture of Flexible and Stretchable Electronics
Symposium D13: Architectured Meta-materials: Engineering Science, Design, Manufacturing and Characterization
Symposium D14: Non-linear Response of Highly Deformable Structures
Symposium D15: Measurement, Diagnosis, and Prognosis of Damage and Degradation for the Assessment of Materials Integrity
MECHANICS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE
Track Chairs
K. T. Ramesh
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
ramesh@jhu.edu
Yong Zhu
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
North Carolina State University
yong_zhu@ncsu.edu
Liangbing Hu
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
binghu@umd.edu
Symposium E1: Mechanics and Electrochemistry of Energy Materials
Symposium E2: Mechanics of One-dimensional Nanomaterials: Experiment and Modeling
Symposium E3: Advanced Nano-manufacturing for Multi-functional Nanosystems
Symposium E4: Modeling and Characterizing the Mechanics of Boundaries in Materials
Symposium E5: Mechanics of Multifunctional 2D materials and 2D-based nanostructures
Symposium E6: From Quantum Mechanics to Materials Engineering: first principles methods in the mechanics of materials and structures
Symposium E7: Advances in modeling and simulation of material damage and failure under dynamic conditions
Symposium E8: Dynamic Failure, Fragmentation, and Localization
Symposium E9: Characterization and Modeling of Damage Mechanisms of Semiconductor Packaging Materials and Components
DYNAMICS AND CONTROLS
Track Chairs
Olivier Bauchau
Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
obauchau@umd.edu
Nikhil Chopra
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
nchopra@umd.edu
Symposium F1: Dynamics and Control of Soft Robot Systems
Symposium F2: Modeling, Design and Safety Analysis in Physiological Closed-loop Systems
Symposium F3: Wave Phenomena in Linear and Nonlinear Metamaterials
Symposium F4: Applications of Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials in Acoustics, Vibration, and Wave Propagation
Symposium F5: Rigid and Flexible Multibody Dynamics Systems Modeling
GRAND CHALLENGES IN ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Education; Policy; Publications; Research Programs/Centers, Infrastructure
Track Chairs
Yonggang Huang
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
y-huang@northwestern.edu
Abhijit Dasgupta
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
dasgupta@umd.edu
Teng Li
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
lit@umd.edu
SES2016 Banquet Plenary Presentation: Nanotechnology and Other Grand Challenges in the United States
Meet the Editors-in-Chief of Mechanics Journals at SES2016: An Open Forum
POSTER SYMPOSIUM
Track Chairs
Hugh Bruck
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
bruck@umd.edu
Yifei Mo
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
yfmo@umd.edu