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Interested members of the U of T community who would like to attend the seminars can email Kendra Hunter at hunter@mie.utoronto.ca Professor Wendy Rogers University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Living in Interactive Future Environments: Supporting Successful Aging through Technology Abstract Technology advances have the potential to support successful aging but are often not designed with consideration for […]

Interested members of the U of T community who would like to attend the seminars can email Kendra Hunter at hunter@mie.utoronto.ca Professor Ophir Frider Georgetown University Digitized Health Abstract Computing in general, and the AI revolution specifically, continues to change the landscape of nearly all domains, medicine included. For instance, patient interactions can be simplified by […]

nterested members of the U of T community who would like to attend the seminars can email Kendra Hunter at hunter@mie.utoronto.ca Dean Alissa Park University of California, Los Angeles Creating a New Circular Carbon Economy via Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Abstract HTo meet the ever-increasing global energy demands while addressing climate change, the development of […]

Interested members of the U of T community who would like to attend the seminars can email Kendra Hunter at hunter@mie.utoronto.ca Professor Jonathan Caulkins Carnegie Mellon University Systems Modeling to Inform Policy Toward Illegal Drugs, the Opioid Epidemic, and Prescribed Safer Supply Abstract This talk will illustrate what happens when formal training in operational analysis meets […]

Professor Yuehwern Yih Purdue University  Human, Technologies, and Innovations in Health and Humanitarian Relief Abstract Technologies and innovations are advancing rapidly to meet human needs. However, in complex environments, such as health care and humanitarian relief, the interplay between human, technologies, and innovations could present unintended consequences that lead to suboptimal outcomes. In this seminar, Dr. […]

Interested members of the U of T community who would like to attend the seminars can email Kendra Hunter at hunter@mie.utoronto.ca Professor Yonggang Huang  Northwestern University (McCormick School of Engineering) A dynamically reprogrammable surface with self-evolving shape morphing       Abstract Dynamic shape-morphing soft materials systems are ubiquitous in living organisms; they are also of rapidly increasing […]

Interested members of the U of T community who would like to attend the seminars can email Kendra Hunter at hunter@mie.utoronto.ca Professor Eberhard Bodenschatz  Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Fluid Transport in the Third Ventricle of the Mammalian Brain       Abstract Cerebrospinal fluid transports many physiologically important signalling factors through the ventricular […]

Interested members of the U of T community who would like to attend the seminars can email Kendra Hunter at hunter@mie.utoronto.ca Professor Rupa Valdez  University of Virginia Designing Systems That Promote Equity: A Journey Across Disciplines       Abstract Fueled by global crises including the pandemic and the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many […]

Friday, November 3, 2023 2:00pm-3:00pm Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102 5 King's College Road   Interested members of the U of T community who would like to attend the seminars can email Kendra Hunter at hunter@mie.utoronto.ca Professor Jay Humphrey Yale University (School of Engineering & Applied Science) Vascular Mechanics and Mechanobiology Illustrated Abstract Mechanics is critically important […]

Friday, October 13, 2023 2:00pm-3:00pm Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102 5 King's College Road   Interested members of the U of T community who would like to attend the seminars can email Kendra Hunter at hunter@mie.utoronto.ca Professor Gang Chen Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Department of Mechanical Engineering) Photomolecular And Thermal Evaporation at Water-Air Interface Abstract Bulk water does […]

Interested members of the U of T community who would like to attend the seminars can email Kendra Hunter at hunter@mie.utoronto.ca Professor Mark Van Oyen University of Michigan (Industrial and Operations Engineering) A hospital bed placement decision support system implementation and new methods for patient decisions via capacitated multi-armed bandits with delayed rewards and reusable resources […]