Outline
LECTURE NO.	DATE	TITLE (click on title to see slides)	SPEAKER & ORGANIZATION
1	Jan. 22	Thermo-Mechanical Analyses of Large and Complex Systems	Prof. Pan Michaleris Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
2	Jan. 29	Atomic-Scale Simulations in the Nanoscience of Interfaces	Prof. Kristen Fichthorn Chemical Engineering and Physics
3	Feb. 5	Computational Simulation of Blast Effects on Structural Components	Prof. Dan Linzell Civil and Environmental Engineering
4	Feb. 12	Cancelled due to snow (speaker could not travel to PSU)
5	Feb. 19	Size Effect in Domain Engineered Crystals	Prof. Wenwu Cao Mathematics
6	Feb. 26	Direct Methods of Optimal Control for Space Trajectory Optimization	Prof. Robert Melton Aerospace Engineering
7	Mar. 5	Cancelled
--	Mar. 12	SPRING BREAK
8	Mar. 19	Neural coding and information theory: Grandmother cells v. distributed codes ( click here for preprint )	Prof. John Collins Physics
9	Mar. 26	Mesh Warping Techniques with Applications to Cardiology and Nonlinear Elasticity	Prof. Suzanne Shontz Computer Science and Engineering
10	Apr. 2	Monte Carlo methods for a class of spatial models	Prof. Murali Haran Statistics
11	Apr. 9	Intelligent Autonomy for Reducing Operator Workload	Mark Rothgeb Applied Research Laboratory
12	Apr. 16	The Direct Simulation of Acoustic Wave Propagation Using a Monte Carlo Method	Amanda Hanford Acoustics
13	Apr. 23	Effective closure in multi-scale modeling and simulations	Prof. Qiang Du Mathematics
14	April 30	The Open Source Software paradigm for software development	Prof. Phillip Laplante Software Engineering Penn State Great Valley

Grading: Tentatively, grades will be determined as : 75% student-maintained journal of lectures and 25% class participation and questions. Each student will be required to keep a journal of the presentations, including speaker name, title, subject, talk outline, key points of lecture, references, questions you had, etc. The summary for each seminar must be at least one page of text (1 inch margins, 12 point font, single spacing), with any figures, tables, etc. on additional pages. These journals will be evaluated throughout the semester. Due dates for writeups: Seminars 1 - 3 and 5, Feb. 26 Seminars 6 - 9, Apr. 2 Seminars 10 - 14, May 4 Hand in hardcopies, do not email them to me. (20% off for each day they are late)

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