Title:  “Warm-blooded Plastics” Bio-inspired Solutions to Smart Material Systems

Speaker: Dr. Ximin (Tracy) He, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University

Title:  Energy Harvesting & Management for Smart Microsystems

Speaker:  Dr. Erkan Aktakka, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Michigan

Title:  Thermal Energy Conversion, Storage & Transport in Silicon Nanostructures

Speaker:  Dr. Sanjiv Sinha, Mechanical Science & Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title:  Uncovering the mysteries of skeletal muscle: from experiments to models to hypotheses to experiments

Speaker:  Prof. Silvia Salinas Blemker, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, and Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Virginia

Title:  "Atom Probe Tomography: Past, Present and Future?"

Speaker:  Professor George Smith, Materials Department, Oxford University

Title:   Harnessing distributed flexible resources for sustainable electric energy systems

Speaker:  Dr. Johanna Mathieu, Power Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich

Title:  Adaptive Estimation and Control of Models for Battery Electrochemistry

Speaker:  Scott Moura, Ph.D, UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego