Fall 2024
September 27
Andrew J. Whittle
Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
MoSE: The Audacious Project to Protect Venice from Flooding and Preserve the Venetian Lagoon
September 26
Ahmad Abdelrazaq
Managing Director & Founding Partner, Rise Global
Spring 2024
April 18
Raul Romero ’75, ’77
Executive Chairman for North America of Sacyr Group (retired)
April 8
Eclipse Watch Party
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse passed over North America, traveling from Mexico to Maine. Notre Dame was in the eclipse’s path and experienced 97 percent totality at 3:09 p.m. To celebrate the event, the College of Science hosted an Eclipse Watch Party. The College of Engineering/Edison Lecture Series was a donor of eclipse glasses for attendees.
Fall 2023
December 7
Dava Newman ’86
Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and Director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
September 28
Marian Ackun-Farmmer, Ph.D.
Jewell lab, University of Maryland, College Park
Modulating Innate Signaling with Self-Assembled Systems to Promote Immune Tolerance in Autoimmunity
September 28
Jamie E. Padgett
Stanley C. Moore Professor and Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
In Pursuit of Smart and Equitable Multi-Hazard Resilience Modeling for Structures and Systems
Spring 2023
April 13
Catalina Vajiac
Ph.D. student in Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Detection and Visualization of Human Sex Trafficking in Online Escort Ads
April 11
Grace O’Connell
Associate Professor and Co-directorBerkeley Biomechanics Laboratory,University of California, Berkeley
March 31
Kai-Mei Fu
Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies
March 23
Dr. Adam Simpson
IDEAL Provostial Fellow for Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
Fall 2022
December 13
Carina Martinez
Postdoctoral researcher, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Dynamic Associations Facilitate Macromolecular Engineering of Formulations
November 10
Jeseth Delgado Vela
Howard University
Spring 2022
May 5
Camilah Powell
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
April 28
Gabriel Burks, Ph.D.
Army Research Office MURI Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hierarchical Control and Characterization of Synthetic and Biopolymer Materials
April 21
Asher Williams, Ph.D.
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
March 24
Josef A. Nossek
Professor, Munich University of Technology
How to Achieve Energy Efficiency in Multi-Antenna Systems? A Physical Layer Perspective
February 1
Emma Chory, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
Phage and Robotics-Assisted Biomolecular Evolution
January 22
Fighting Irish Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad is a national organization that hosts academic competitions for students from K-12th grade. The event encourages the spread of STEM education and critical thinking to students all across the United States. The College of Engineering/Edison Lecture Series is a sponsor of this event at Notre Dame.
January 20
Martez Mott, Ph.D.
Senior researcher, Ability Group at Microsoft Research
Designing Accessible Virtual Reality Experiences for People with Limited Mobility
Fall 2021
December 7
Darius Carter, Ph.D.
President’s Postdoctoral Fellow,Georgia Institute of Technology
Near-Boundary Flow Phenomena in Unmanned Aerial/Underwater Vehicles
Spring 2021
March 17
Dr. Katlyn Turner (ND ’12)
Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab, Space Enabled Research Group
Towards Intersectional Equity in Complex Sociotechnical Systems
March 16
Dr. C. Fred Higgs III
John and Ann Doerr Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Rice University
Industry 4.0 Design for Additive Manufacturing in Energy and Bioengineering Systems