Events

Abstract: Most microbes in drinking water do not pose a human health risk, but the presence of pathogenic microbes can have severe public health implications. Hence, the current paradigm for drinking water quality management includes technologies (1) to inactivate, starve, or remove microorganisms during treatment and minimize growth during water distribution and (2) source-to-tap monitoring […]

The Maputo Sanitation (MapSan) trial is a long-term study of the health impact of upgraded shared, private latrines constructed by Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor in urban Maputo, Mozambique. Children born into households served by these facilities experienced reduced exposure to enteric pathogens and increased linear growth compared with a comparable cohort of […]

To meet climate goals, there is a need to lower the embodied carbon of concrete. A potential pathway is to implement carbon mineralization schemes to convert industrial wastes (e.g. construction and demolition waste) into fillers and supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs). This can simultaneously upcycle waste and provide a permanent form of CO2 storage. Further, by […]

Reduced-order models (ROM) provide practical solutions to problems that were once considered too computationally expensive. In Cardiovascular Mathematics, surgical optimization takes Personalized Medicine to an unprecedented level. Meanwhile, Data Assimilation (DA) may play a pivotal role in bridging theory with clinical practice. DA involves a set of techniques that integrate mathematical models with measurements to […]

Thin plates are an elegant and versatile design platform that combine strength and efficiency. They appear in stately geodesic domes, workaday corrugated cargo containers and in countless natural settings, from leaves to cellular membranes. In each case, their mechanical response is derived not only from their composition but also from their patterning, such as corrugation […]

An increasing number of extreme events - including wildfires and hurricanes - are now being live-streamed online. These streams often emerge from the repurposing of existing infrastructure (such as smart doorbells), as well as from so-called 'influencers' producing social media content. In addition to generating large viewerships, streams have contributed to both fatalities (of streamers) […]

Abstract: During cardiovascular development, peristaltic contraction of the embryonic heart tube produces time-varying hemodynamic forces and pressure gradients across the atrioventricular canal. However, the relative importance of myocardial contraction and hemodynamic force to modulate cardiovascular morphogenesis in the non-Newtonian flow regime remains poorly understood. By developing the 4-D light-sheet fluorescent microscope and post-imaging machine-learning algorithms, […]

In recent years, there has been growing interest in applying neural networks to the data-driven approximation of partial differential equations (PDEs). In this talk, we present GenCFD, a generative AI algorithm for fast, accurate, and robust statistical computation of three-dimensional turbulent fluid flows. On a set of challenging fluid flows, GenCFD provides an accurate approximation […]

Motivated by the need to better understand and predict exchange processes between the land surface and the atmosphere and their impact on weather and climate, the past decades have seen substantial efforts devoted to studying atmospheric turbulence within and above natural and built environments. The current understanding of such a flow phenomenon is largely rooted […]

From autonomous vehicles navigating busy intersections to quadrupeds deployed in household environments, robots must operate safely and efficiently around people in uncertain and unstructured situations. However, today's robots still struggle to robustly handle low-probability events without becoming overly conservative. In this talk, I will discuss how planning in the joint space of physical and information […]

Biofilms are viscoelastic materials. Biofilm viscoelasticity is an evolved property of these communities, and the production of multiple extracellular polymeric slime components appears to be a mechanism to ensure the development of biofilms with complex viscoelastic properties. However the importance of this attribute to the survival and persistence of these microbial communities is yet to […]