2017 Young Investigator Lectures

Bioelectrochemical Systems (BESs) for Energy Recovery from Wastewater
Date: March 8, 2017, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Christine Dykstra, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Graphene Intercalation: A Pathway Towards Stabilizing New Two-Dimensional Crystals
Date: April 5, 2017, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Zakaria Al Balushi, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

Hypervelocity Impact Flash and Plasma on Electrically Biased Spacecraft Surfaces
Date: April 14, 2017, 3:00 PM
Speaker: Monica (Yayu) Hew, Stanford University

The Transport of Heat by Charge Carriers, Lattice Vibrations, and Spin Waves in Complex Materials
Date: April 19, 2017, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Annie Weathers, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Breaking Lorentz Reciprocity: From Physics to New Wireless Communication Paradigms
Date: April 21, 2017, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Negar Reiskarimian, PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

Next-Generation Computing Using Spin-Based and 2D Materials
Date: May 11, 2017, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Jean Anne C. Incorvia, Stanford University

Short-Wavelength Infrared Photon Detector Based on Charge Injection
Date: May 12, 2017, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Vala Fathipour, Electrical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley

Machine Learning + Physics
Date: May 18, 2017, 11:00 AM
Speaker: Julia Ling, Princeton University

A Dynamical View of Optimization Algorithms
Date: May 22, 2017, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Ashia Wilson, University of California at Berkeley

High‐Fidelity Probabilistic Model Identification and Monitoring of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Date: May 23, 2017, 11:00 AM
Speaker: Audrey Olivier, Columbia University

Pressure and Velocity Fluctuations in Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows
Date: June 2, 2017, 3:00 PM
Speaker: Angeliki Laskari, University of Southampton