Architected Metamaterials for Civil Infrastructure

Welcoming remarks by the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Associate Chancellor for Space and Capital Planning Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts Amherst, Prof. Tilman Wolf

Welcoming remarks by the Associate Department Head, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Prof. Sergio Brena​

Introduction and opening remarks, welcome by workshop organizing committee

"Harnessing the emerging properties of architected materials: bioinspiration and beyond"

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Pavlo Zavattieri, Jerry M. and Lynda T. Engelhardt Professor in Civil Engineering, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University

"Multiscale optimization for architected materials"

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Moderator: Prof. G. Paulino, Margareta Engman Augustine Professor of Engineering
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor of the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM)

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Panelists:

Krishnan Suresh, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Josephine Carstensen, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Sustainable Materials & Infrastructur, MIT

Heng Chi, Research Scientist at Siemens

Eric de Sturler, Professor of Mathematics at Virginia Tech

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“Materials by Design: Additive Manufacturing of Multi-scale, Multifunctional Architected Materials"

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Julia Greer, Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics, and Medical Engineering, Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Caltech

NSF Program managers present the overview of the program and opportunities/challenges regarding architected materials and civil infrastructure

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Gianluca Cusatis, ECI program director, NSF

"Instability and defects"

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Moderator: Stavros Gaitanaros, Assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering at the John Hopkins University

Panelists:

Andrew Gross, Assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing, University of South Carolina

Lucas Meza, Assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington

Zeb Rocklin, Assistant professor in the Howey School of Physics, Georgia Tech

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"Design and 3D Printing of Active Mechanical Metamaterials"

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Jerry Qi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech

"Advanced Manufacturing: Going Beyond the Limits"

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Moderator: Julia Greer, Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics, and Medical Engineering, Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Caltech

Panelists:

Emily Davidson, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton

Jerry Qi, Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech

Emily Sanders, Assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech

Reza Moini, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton

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"Architected Materials for Civil Infrastructure"

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Moderator: Simos Gerasimidis, Assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Panelists:

Pavlo Zavattieri, Jerry M. and Lynda T. Engelhardt Professor in Civil Engineering, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University

Claire White, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton

Ange-Therese Akono, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern

Caitlin Mueller, Associate Professor in the Building Technology Program, School of Architecture, MIT

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