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SAFL Seminars are held in the St. Anthony Falls Auditorium, every Wednesday at 3:30pm. The Fall 2009 seminars have been arranged by graduate student Trung Le.

St. Anthony Falls Seminar Series
Fall Semester 2009
Click here to view live webcasts, if available.

Sept. 2*
3:30

SPECIAL SEMINAR: Dr. Helmut Habersack, Professor
River Engineering and Hydraulics
Institute for Water Management, Hydrology, and Hydraulic Engineering
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Science, Vienna, Austria
The integrated river engineering project on the Danube east of Vienna
+ Webcast
+ PDF poster
Sept. 9

SAFL ORIENTATION SEMINAR (Attendance is mandatory for lab personnel)
+ PDF poster

Sept. 11*
10:00am
PhD THESIS DEFENSE: Eric Novotny
Advisor: Heinz Stefan
De-icing salt impact on Minnesota waters
+ PDF poster
Sept. 16

Dr. Alexandra Techet, Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biologically inspired impulsive starting and maneuvering for solitary and aggregate systems
+ Webcast
+ PDF poster

Sept. 18*
10:00am
PhD THESIS DEFENSE: Chandana Gangodagamage
Advisor: Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Scale invariance and scaling breaks: New metrics for inferring process signature from high resolution LiDAR topography
+ Webcast
+ PDF poster
Sept. 23

NO SEMINAR (UPPER DECK CONSTRUCTION)

Sept. 29*
(Tuesday)
SPECIAL SEMINAR: Dr. Julie Lundquist, Research Fellow
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Enabling the expansion of wind energy with atmospheric science
+ Webcast
+ PDF poster
Sept. 30

Dr. Paolo D’Odorico, Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia
Ecosystem stability and resilience at the desert margins
+ Webcast
+ PDF poster

Oct. 7

NO SEMINAR (UPPER DECK CONSTRUCTION)

Oct. 14

Dr. Sean Garrick, Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota
Modeling and simulation of mass transfer in multiphase flows: Mercury, coal, and virtual sorbent beds
+ Webcast
+ PDF poster

Oct. 21

Dr. Vladimir Nikora, Professor, Chair
Department of Environmental Fluid Mechanics
University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Hydrodynamics of aquatic ecosystems: An interface between Fluid Mechanics, Ecology, and Biomechanics
+ Webcast
+ PDF poster

Oct. 28

Dr. Alex Horner-Devine, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Washington
Beneath the surface: Interpreting remotely sensed coherent structures on the water surface in rivers and estuaries
+ Webcast
+ PDF poster

Nov. 4

Dr. Oliver Fringer, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Stanford University
Numerical simulation of salinity and turbulence in a macrotidal estuary
+ Webcast
+ PDF poster

Nov. 11 Dr. Erkan Istanbulluoglu, Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Washington
Vegetation dynamics and landscape evolution
+ Webcast
+ PDF poster
Nov. 18

Trung Le, SAFL Graduate Student
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Minnesota
Cardiovascular flow: a patient-specific approach
+ Webcast
+ PDF poster

Nov. 25

Dr. Luca Solari, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Florence, Italy
Local high-slope effects on sediment transport and fluvial bed form dynamics
+ Webcast
+ PDF poster

Dec. 2

Seok Koo Kang, SAFL Graduate Student
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Minnesota
Title TBA

Dec. 9

LAB HOLIDAY GATHERING

Fall 2009 printable schedule.
Spring 2009 printable schedule.
Other seminar series:
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Water Resources Science
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
Mechanical Engineering
Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Please contact safl@umn.edu for questions or suggestions.

 

 
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