Past Seminars

Our seminars are open to members of the MIT community. If you are interested in attending one of our seminars, please contact acdl_info@mit.edu

12 May 2023
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Propeller Aeroacoustics Research at the University of Bristol — Numerical Prediction, Optimization and Synergy with Experiment"
Beckett Zhou
Lecturer, University of Bristol in UK
5 May 2023
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Certifiable Dimension Reduction for Probability Measures using Markov Semigroups and Functional Inequalities"
Matthew Li, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT ACDL
28 April 2023
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
--there will be 2 short talks today--
Yuenong Ling & Nisha Chandramoorthy, GA Tech
21 April 2023
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
--there will be 2 short talks today--
14 April 2023
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"High-order metric-based mesh adaptation and correction"
Lucien Rochery
7 April 2023
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Lessons Learned on Model Order Reduction for High-speed Aerothermodynamic Applications"
Patrick Blonigan
Sandia National Laboratories
24 March 2023
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Denise Phillips
Diversity Officer, MIT AeroAstro
17 March 2023
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"High-Fidelity CFD Simulations of Rotor-in-Hover: New Tools & Insights"
Nathan Hariharan , Chief Scientist & Technologist
DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP)
10 March 2023
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"High order immersed interface methods for 3D simulations with moving boundaries"
James Gabbard , PhD student, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
MIT
3 March 2023
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"The role of Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and High-Performance Computing (HPC) in the advancement of CFD for industry."
Neil Ashton
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
24 February 2023
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
“Adjoint-based Adaptation and Optimization of Unsteady Turbulent Flows using Dynamic Closures”
Krzysztof Fidkowski, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
The University of Michigan
17 February 2023
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Direct numerical simulation and global stability analysis of boundary layer flows past roughness elements"
Rong Ma
MIT ACDL
13 February 2023
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
no seminar today (Spring Break)
9 December 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Building-block flow model for large-eddy simulation"
Adrian Lozano-Duran, Assistant Professor. Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics
MIT
2 December 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"A Wall-Modeled RANS-SA Approach for Unstructured Grids"
Carmen-Ioana Ursachi, Graduate Student, MIT ACDL
26 November 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
no seminar today (Institute Holiday)
18 November 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Modeling and controlling turbulent flows through deep learning"
Dr. Ricardo Vinuesa , Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
11 November 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
no seminar today (Veteran's Day)
4 November 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Proper Orthogonal Descriptors for Complex Chemical Systems"
Cuong Nguyen, Principal Research Scientist, MIT
28 October 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Sonic Boom Propagation through Adaptive Finite Element Methods"
Professor David Darmofal, Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT
21 October 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Better together: The partnership of numerical analysis and Bayesian inference"
Jan Glaubitz , Research Associate and Lecturer, Dartmouth College
14 October 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"PDE-based Laminar-Turbulent Transition Modeling for Complex Aerodynamic Flows"
James G. Coder, Associate Professor
Pennsylvania State University
7 October 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'Accelerating the Jacobi Iteration for Solving Linear Systems of Equations using Theory, Data, and High Performance Computing​'
Mohammad Islam
Graduate Student, MIT ACDL
30 September 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Mesh Convergence of RANS Solutions using Expert Crafted and Output-Based Adapted Meshes"
Marshall Galbraith, Research Engineer, Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT
23 September 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
No seminar today (student holiday)
16 September 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
ACDL Lab Meeting
--this is for ACDL Lab members only--
29 April 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Continuous-time analysis of the ensemble Kalman inversion"
Simon Weissmann, Postdoctoral Associate
University of Heidelberg
22 April 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
“Overcoming barriers to adoption of high-fidelity CFD”
Dr. Charles Mockett
Managing Director & Senior CFD Consultant, Upstream CFD, Berlin, Germany
15 April 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Information-theoretic formulation of turbulence: causality, modeling and control"
Prof. Adrian Lozano Duran
MIT ACDL
8 April 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
-there will be 2 short talks-
1 April 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
-there will be 2 short talks-
25 March 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
NO ACDL Seminar - spring break
18 March 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
no seminar today
11 March 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Boomerang Flight Dynamics"
John Vassberg, PhD
Chief Design Officer, JetZero
4 March 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"An Invariant Data-Driven Model for Large Eddy Simulations and Extension to Anisotropic Grids"
Aviral Prakash
PhD Candidate, University of Colorado Boulder
25 February 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
there will be no ACDL seminar today
18 February 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"From Eigenanalysis to PCA: The Power of Modal Analysis of Unstructured Mesh Finite Volume Methods in Aerodynamics"
Carl Ollivier-Gooch
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of British Columbia
11 February 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
-there will be 2 short talks-
3 December 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Dynamics-aware Bayesian filtering in chaotic dynamical systems"
Nisha Chandramoorthy, MIT ACDL
26 November 2021
12:00 pm
no seminar today - Institute Holiday
19 November 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"How quiet will we Vy? Development of Multi-Fidelity Methods for Advanced Air Mobility Aeroacoustics"
Austin Thai
R&D Engineer, Transcend Air Corp, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Mech. Eng., Boston University
12 November 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
“Flutter Assessment of a Modified Gulfstream IV Using CFD-Based Reduced-Order Models”
Nathan J. Falkiewicz, Ph.D.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
5 November 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
SEALGLIDER: New Form of Marine Transportation
Bryan Baker
Regent
29 October 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
There will be 2 short talks:
Fengyi Li and Loek Van Heyningen
22 October 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Electric Super-STOL Aircraft: A Case Study in the Computational Design of an Aircraft with Strong Aeropropulsive Interactions"
Chris Courtin
Electra Aero, MIT AeroAstro
15 October 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
There will be 2 short talks:
Cody Karcher and Berk Ozturk
8 October 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Transport-Based Likelihood-Free Sequential Inference of Model Parameters"
Paul-Baptiste Rubio, MIT ACDL
1 October 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
There will be 2 short talks:
Kelvin Leung and Mohammad Islam
24 September 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Local and Optimal Transport Perspectives on Uncertainty Propagation"
Amir Sagiv
Columbia University
17 September 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
ACDL Lab Meeting (for lab members only)
14 May 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
we will have 2 separate talks
Albert Gnadt; and Michael Brennan
MIT ACDL
7 May 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Student holiday — no seminar
30 April 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Applications of Optimal Transport to Inverse Problems in Sea Ice Modeling"
Matthew Parno, Ph.D.
Dartmouth College and US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
23 April 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
we will have 2 separate talks
Carmen Ursachi; and Shun Zhang
MIT ACDL
16 April 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo in Inverse Problems; Ill-Conditioning and Multi-Modality
Dr. Ian Langmore
Google Research
9 April 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Prospects for solution-based adaptive higher-order finite element methods in computational fluid dynamics"
David Darmofal, Professor
Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 April 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Wind farm modeling and control"
Dennice F. Gayme, Associate Professor and Carol Croft Linde Faculty Scholar
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
26 March 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Optimization and Learning of Localized Geometric Structures"
Justin Solomon, Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
19 March 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Transport methods for data assimilation and likelihood-free inference"
Youssef Marzouk, Professor
Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12 March 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
No seminar today. New grad student visit day has conflicting activities!
5 March 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
No seminar today. Many people will be attending SIAM CSE21
26 February 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Challenges in the simulation of real-world aerodynamics: the cost of simulating an aircraft and the role of machine learning
Adrián Lozano-Durán, Draper Assistant Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
19 February 2021
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
ACDL Lab Meeting (for lab members only)
11 December 2020
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Some climate action problems near us (Chandramoorthy) and Towards adaptive control of error for discretization of chaotic systems (Frontin)
Nisha Chandramoorthy and Cory Frontin
MIT ACDL
4 December 2020
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Batch greedy maximization of non-submodular functions: Guarantees and applications to experimental design
Jayanth Jagalur Mohan
MIT
20 November 2020
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Boundary Layer Stability Analysis of the BOLT Hypersonic Flight Experiment
Graham Candler, McKnight Presidential Chair, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Russell J. Penrose Professor, Associate Department Head
Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, University of Minnesota
13 November 2020
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Can a butterfly in Brazil control the climate of Texas?
Qiqi Wang, Associate Professor
Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 November 2020
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Scientific machine learning with operator inference and re-projection
Benjamin Peherstorfer, Assistant Professor
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
30 October 2020
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Post-hoc Uncertainty Quantification for Remote Sensing Observing Systems
Dr. Amy Braverman, Principal Statistician
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
23 October 2020
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Invariant Data-Driven Subgrid Stress Closure for Large Eddy Simulation
John Evans, Assistant Professor
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
16 October 2020
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Element-based Galerkin Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Models
Frank Giraldo, Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School
9 October 2020
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Data assimilation techniques for estimating separated aerodynamic flows
Jeff Eldredge, Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles
2 October 2020
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Computational Photonics and Plasmonics
Jaume Peraire, Professor
Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
25 September 2020
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Deep learning for convexification?
Laurent Demanet, Professor
Department of Mathematics, Director of MIT's Earth Resources Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
18 September 2020
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
The mission and requirements of a turbulence model
Dr. Philippe Spalart
The Boeing Company, Boeing Senior Technical Fellow
11 September 2020
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Fall 2020 ACDL Kick-off (lab members only)
4 September 2020
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Mimetic finite element methods and fast solvers for flow problems
Garth Wells, Hibbitt Professor of Solid Mechanics, Deputy Head of Department
University of Cambridge , Department of Engineering, Fellow of Jesus College
11 October 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'A Regularization approach for Automatic Quad Mesh Generation'
Julia Docampo Sanchez
4 October 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
ACDL round robin talks
27 September 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
ACDL round robin talks
13 September 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
" Portable shared-memory parallelisation strategies for high-order finite element codes"
Jan Eichstaedt
Visiting Fulbright PhD-Scholar
10 May 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'Simulation and Optimal Control of Sliding Droplets on Surfaces with Topograpic Structures and Variable Wettability'
Henning Bonart
Process Dynamics and Operations Group, Technische Universität Berlin
3 May 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'Optimal Aircraft Design Decisions Under Uncertainty via Robust Signomial Programming'
Berk Ozturk
26 April 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'A probabilistic view on sparse Cholesky factorization'
Florian Schaefer
Caltech
19 April 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'How to Reuse Information from Optimization History for Efficient Reliability-Based Design Optimization'
Anirban Chaudhuri
12 April 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'Linear response of chaotic dynamical systems'
Nisha Chandramoorthy
4 April 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Title TBA
Dr. Jana de Wiljes
University of Potsdam
22 March 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Title TBA
Habib Najm
Sandia National Laboratories
14 March 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
ACDL special seminar: Title TBA
Dr. Pawan Goyal
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems,
8 March 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'Launch Vehicle Aerodynamics Environments: From Space Shuttle to SLS/Orion'
Ray Gomez
NASA
1 March 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'Integral Boundary Layer Method for Rapid Viscous Aerodynamic Analysis'
Shun Zhang
22 February 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
''Nonlinear model reduction: Using machine learning to enable extreme-scale simulation for time-critical aerospace applications'
Kevin Carlberg
Sandia National Laboratories
15 February 2019
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'Current research topics in turbomachinery aeroelasticity'
Sina Stapelfeldt
Imperial College
7 December 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Koopman operators and the problems related to their computation"
Nisha Chandramoorthy and Ben Zhang
30 November 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Probabilistic Methods for Estimating Vehicle Capability in Damaged Composite Aircraft"
Brian J Burrows
Texas A&M
16 November 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'L1-Reduced basis method and its applications to waves, nonlocal problems, and an ultra-efficient linear system solver'
Yanlai Chen
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
14 November 2018
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
SPECIAL SEMINAR: 'Solving the NASA Vision 2030 challenge by automated Direct FEM Simulation in open source Unicorn/FEniCS'
Assoc. Prof. Johan Jansson
KTH and BCAM
9 November 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'Nonlinear model reduction via lifting transformations and POD'
Boris Kramer
2 November 2018
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
'Data-driven methods for model discovery and approximation'
Sam Rudy
PhD Student, University of Washington
1 November 2018
10:00 am to 11:00 am
SPECIAL SEMINAR: 'Sequential sampling methods for rare event estimation'
Dr. Iason Papaioannou
Technical University of Munich
26 October 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'Visual Communication for Scientists and Engineers'
Max Opgenoord
25 October 2018
9:00 am to 10:00 am
SPECIAL SEMINAR: 'Laplace-based Multilevel Methods for Bayesian Design Optimization'
Ben Mansour Dia
CIPR, CPG, KFUPM
19 October 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
NO seminar today
12 October 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas'
Juan Pablo Trelles
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
5 October 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
NO seminar today
speaker TBA
28 September 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
NO seminar today
21 September 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
NO seminar today - student holiday
14 September 2018
12:00 am to 1:00 pm
"Recent Advances in Uncertainty Quantification in Structural Dynamics"
Alice Cicirello
University of Oxford
7 September 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
ACDL Welcome
11 May 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Race Car Aerodynamics"
Max Opgenoord
4 May 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Mori-Zwanzig Formalism and Discrete Time Model Closure for Chaotic Dynamics"
Prof. Kevin Lin
University of Arizona
27 April 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
k- Irregularity in Computation of Problems with Shock, Turbulence, and Sharp Interfaces: Problem Statement and Solution
Kamran Mohseni
University of Florida at Gainesville
20 April 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'From non-modal stability theory to large-eddy simulation: Unwrapping the implicit subgrid-scale model in DG methods'
Pablo Fernandez del Campo
13 April 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'Verification Tools for Rapid ACDL Software Development'
Marshall Galbraith
6 April 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'Hierarchical Bayesian Models for X-ray Imaging: Computational Considerations for Uncertainty Quantification in Inverse Problems'
Marylesa Howard and Aaron Luttman
Nevada National Security Site
30 March 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
NO seminar today - Spring Break
23 March 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Dimension Reduction for Shape Design Insight"
Zach del Rrosario
Stanford University
9 March 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
NO seminar today
7 March 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
no seminar today - Grad Open House
5 March 2018
11:00 am
"Nano-gap plasmonics: a bridge to the quantum realm"
Cristian Ciracì
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
2 March 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'Conditional-Value-at-Risk Estimation with Reduced-Order Models
Boris Kramer
23 February 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Todays seminar by Alessio Spantini has been canceled
16 February 2018
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"A Data-Driven Non-Intrusive Approach to Model Reduction: Some Progress and Some Puzzles"
Elizabeth Qian
1 December 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Information-theoretic observation selection strategies for linear Bayesian inverse problems”
Jayanth Jagalur-Mohan
24 November 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Thanksgiving Day
17 November 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Analysis and Design of Multidisciplinary Systems with Multifidelity Methods"
Alex Feldstein
10 November 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Veteran's Day
3 November 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"A Vehicle Design and Optimization Model for On-Demand Aviation"
Arthur Brown
27 October 2017
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
"Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis for Scale-Resolving Turbulent Flow Solvers"
Patrick Blonigan, NASA Postdoctoral Program, NASA Ames Research Center
20 October 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Locating stability boundaries of complex dynamical systems using Bayesian optimization" and "An accurate and robust embedded grid method to solve flows around very flexible boundaries"
Alex Marques
13 October 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Anisotropic geometry-conforming d-simplicial meshing via isometric embeddings" AND "A Space-time Adaptive Method for Reservoir Flows"
Philip Caplan AND Savithru Jayasinghe
6 October 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Data to decisions via adaptive reduced models and multifidelity uncertainty quantification"
Professor Karen Willcox
29 September 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
no seminar today - Student Holiday
22 September 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Structure-Preserving Model Reduction of Hamiltonian Systems
Babak Maboudi
MIT Visiting student from EPFL
15 September 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Global Sensitivity Analysis and Model Error Capturing in Scramjet Computations
Xun Huan
Sandia National Laboratories
8 September 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
ACDL Welcome Lunch
12 June 2017
10:00 am to 11:00 am
"Enhancing Sparsity in Uncertainty Quantification Problems by Detecting Low-Dimensional Manifold"
Xiu Yang
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
19 May 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"TransportMaps v1.0"
Daniele Bigoni
12 May 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Data-Driven Reduced-Order Modeling for Identification and Control of Large-Scale Systems"
Boris Kramer
5 May 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
“Challenges in Conceptual Aircraft Design at Saab”
Kristian Amadori, Christopher Jouannet
Saab
21 April 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"The Bayesian Formulation and Well-Posedness of Fractional Elliptic Inverse Problems"
Daniel Sanz-Alonso
Brown University
14 April 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Bayesian predictions of ice sheet volume using local approximation MCMC"
Andy Davis
7 April 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Full-Potential / Boundary-Layer Formulation for Computational Aerodynamics
Mark Drela
14 March 2017
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
"Structure Genome: A Revolutionary Multiscale Approach to Bridging Materials Genome and Structural Analysis"
Wenbin Yu
Purdue University
10 March 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Lookahead Approaches for Black-box Optimization"
Remi Lam
24 February 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Solar-Electric and Gas Powered, Long-Endurance UAV Sizing via Geometric Programming"
Michael Burton
17 February 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Sensitivity analysis on chaotic dynamical systems by Non-Intrusive Least Squares Shadowing (NILSS)"
Angxiu Ni
10 February 2017
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
'On Stein's method for practical statistical computation'
Qiang Liu, Dartmouth College
16 December 2016
11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Holiday lunch
9 December 2016
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Student Presentations
'Optimal Approximations of Coupling in Multidisciplinary Models’ - Ricardo Baptista, 'Measure Transport Methods for Rare Event Simulation’ - Ben Zhang
2 December 2016
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
NO seminar today
25 November 2016
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
NO Seminar - Thanksgiving holiday
18 November 2016
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"The CFD Vision 2030 Study: A Commercial Software Development Perspective"
Dipankar Choudhury, Chris Hill
ANSYS
11 November 2016
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
NO Seminar - Veterans Day
4 November 2016
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"MCMC Methods for Hierarchical Models in Bayesian Inverse Problems"
Johnathan Bardsley
University of Montana
28 October 2016
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Bayesian Optimization with Multiple Information Sources and Warm Starts"
Matthias Poloczek
Cornell University
21 October 2016
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"Measure transport, sequential inference, and low-dimensional maps"
Alessio Spantini
Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT
14 October 2016
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
“Adjoint-Based Aerodynamic Design of Complex Aerospace Configurations"
Eric Nielsen
NASA
7 October 2016
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
"A novel approach for robust optimization"
Laurence Cook
Visiting Student, Cambridge University
30 September 2016
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
An Arbitrary High Order Spectral Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method for elasto-acoustic problems
Sebastien Terrana
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
23 September 2016
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
NO Seminar - student holiday
20 September 2016
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Finding Parametrically Rich Solution Space of Nonlinear System Using a Linear Modal Transformation
John Kim
NUS
16 September 2016
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
On the use of Solid Modeling Goemetry-Kernel APIs
Bob Haimes
Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT
9 May 2016
1:00 pm
Composed Nonlinear Systems
Dr. Matthew G. Nepley
Assistant Professor Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University
6 May 2016
12:00 pm
The spectral tensor-train format for high-dimensional function approximation
Daniele Bigoni
Postdoctoral Associate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
29 April 2016
12:00 pm
Data-Driven Model of Laminar Boundary Layer
Alex Marques
Postdoctoral Associate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
22 April 2016
12:00 pm
Antoni Musolas and Zheng Wang, PhD Candidates, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
21 April 2016
1:00 pm
A New Accurate Numerical Approach to Structural Dynamics and Wave Propagation Problems
Dr. Alexander Idesman
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University
15 April 2016
12:00 pm
Accelerated residual descent methods for solving systems of equations
Cuong Nguyen
Principal Research Scientist, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
8 April 2016
12:00 pm
Will Big Simulation become bigger than Big Data?
Professor Qiqi Wang
Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
1 April 2016
12:00 pm
Raghav Aggarwal and Chi Feng, PhD Candidates, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
25 March 2016
12:00 pm
NO SEMIAR - SPRING BREAK
18 March 2016
12:00 pm
An adjoint-based optimization method using the solution of gray-box conservation laws
Han Chen
PhD Candidate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
11 March 2016
12:00 pm
NO SEMINAR - GRADUATE OPEN HOUSE
4 March 2016
12:00 pm
Compositions and Their Sample Space: From Proportions to Cartesian Coordinates
Professor Juan José Egozcue, Dept. of Applied Mathematics III, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña
Professor Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn, Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Girona
26 February 2016
12:00 pm
Representing model inadequacy in reduced chemical mechanisms: A stochastic operator approach
Rebecca Morrison
Postdoctoral Associate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
19 February 2016
12:00 pm
Exploiting Low Dimensional Structures for Control, Design, and Optimization
Boris Kramer
Postdoctoral Associate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
12 February 2016
12:00 pm
Model order reduction methods for parameter-dependent equations - Applications in Uncertainty Quantification
Olivier Zahm
Postdoctoral Associate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
11 December 2015
11:30 am to 1:30 pm
Quals Practice Talks
Pablo Fernandez, Yixuan Hu, Arthur Huang, & Max Opgenoord
Graduate Students of the Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory
10 December 2015
3:00 pm
Simultaneous Random and Optimized Sources and Detectors for the Efficient Solution of Inverse Problems
Professor Eric de Sturler
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Virginia Tech
7 December 2015
11:30 am to 1:30 pm
Quals Practice Talks
Cody Karcher, Philippe Kirschen, Angxiu Ni, & Victor Singh
Graduate Students of the Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory
4 December 2015
12:00 pm
Quals Practice Talks
Philip Caplan, Hugh Carson & Antoni Musolas
Graduate Students of the Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory
27 November 2015
12:00 pm
Thanksgiving Break - No Seminar
20 November 2015
12:00 pm
A Space-Time Adaptive Method for Flows in Oil Reservoirs
Savithru Jayasinghe
Doctoral Candidate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory
13 November 2015
12:00 pm
Implicit large eddy simulation of compressible flows using the hybridized discontinuous Galerkin approach
Cuong Nguyen
Principal Research Scientist, Aerospace Computional Design Laboratory, MIT
6 November 2015
12:00 pm
Bayesian inference of chemical reaction networks
Nikhil Galagali
PhD Candidate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
3 November 2015
4:00 pm
Sampling-based incremental meshes for solving optimal control partial differential equations and beyond
Dmitry S. Yershov
Post Doctoral Associate , LIDS/ARES Group, MIT
30 October 2015
12:00 pm
Exploiting low-rank structure in optimal stochastic control and function approximation
Alex Gorodetsky
PhD Candidate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
23 October 2015
12:00 pm
Gaussian process supported trust region optimization for derivative-free constrained stochastic programming
Dr. Florian Augustin
PostDoc, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory
16 October 2015
12:00 pm
Particle flow for nonlinear filters, Bayesian decisions and transport
Dr. Frederick Daum
Raytheon
9 October 2015
12:00 pm
Design and Performance of Mission-Adaptable Aircraft Manufacturing
Tony Tao
Graduate Student, MIT International Center for Air Transportation
2 October 2015
12:00 pm
Optimization of Expensive Black-Box Models using Information Gain
Remi Lam
PhD Candidate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory
25 September 2015
12:00 pm
Leveraging Certified Reduced-Basis Methods in Optimization
Elizabeth Qian
Masters Candidate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory
18 September 2015
12:00 pm
Least Squares Shadowing for Sensitivity Analysis of Large Chaotic Systems and Fluid Flows
Patrick Blonigan
Doctoral candidate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory
11 September 2015
12:00 pm
ACDL 2015 Welcome to the Fall Term
Please note that this week's seminar is not a public event.
8 June 2015
12:00 pm
Computational Fluid-Structure Interactions: Self-Excited Vibrations
Prof. Rajeev K. Jaiman
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore
8 May 2015
12:00 pm
Stratification of Markov processes for rare event simulation
Prof. Jonathan Weare
Dept. of Statistics and James Franck Institute , University of Chicago
1 May 2015
12:00 pm
Gaussian functional regression: Data assimilation, model reduction, and experimental design
Cuong Nguyen, PhD
Principal Research Engineer, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
24 April 2015
12:00 pm
Optimal Sequential Experimental Design
Xun Huan
PhD Candidate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
17 April 2015
12:00 pm
Designing Optimal Spectral Filters and Low-Rank Matrices for Inverse Problems
Prof. Matthias Chung
Dept. of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
10 April 2015
12:00 pm
Adaptive nonlinear model reduction and missing point selection schemes
Ralf Zimmermann
Postdoctoral Associate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
3 April 2015
12:00 pm
Decomposition-Based Uncertainty Quantification of Feed-Forward Multicomponent Systems
Sergio Amaral
PhD Candidate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
27 March 2015
12:00 pm
NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
20 March 2015
12:00 pm
Estimation of Parameters of Chaotic Dynamic Systems
Prof. Heikki Haario
Laboratory of Mathematics, Lappeenranta University of Technology
13 March 2015
12:00 pm
NO SEMINAR - GRADUATE OPEN HOUSE
6 March 2015
12:00 pm
On the State of Using Analysis in Aero Design: Some Thoughts, Observations and Suggestions
Bob Haimes
Principal Research Engineer, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
27 February 2015
12:00 pm
Computational Technology for Optimal Automatic Design of Aerodynamic Shapes
Sergey Peigin
CEO, OPTIMENGA-777
20 February 2015
12:00 pm
Certified reduced basis methods and reduced collocation methods
Yanlai Chen
Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
13 February 2015
12:00 pm
Towards aerospace design in the age of extreme-scale supercomputing
Professor Qiqi Wang
Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
6 February 2015
12:00 pm
A Verification Driven Process for Rapid Development of CFD Software
Marshall Galbraith, PhD
Research Scientist, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
11 December 2014
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Perspectives on Nonlinear Filtering
Dr. Kody Law
Senior Research Scientist, KAUST
5 December 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Quals practice talks
Yixuan Hu, Zheng Wang
28 November 2014
12:00 pm
Thanksgiving break; no seminar
21 November 2014
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Quals practice talks
Savithru Jayasinghe, Harriet Li
14 November 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
No seminar
7 November 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Implicit sampling for data assimilation with an application to geomagnetic dipole modeling
Dr. Matthias Morzfeld
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
31 October 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Multi-Level Restricted Maximum Likelihood Covariance Estimation and Kriging for Large Non-Gridded Spatial Datasets
Dr. Julio Castrillon
KAUST
28 October 2014
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Control Functionals for Monte Carlo Integration
Professor Mark Girolami
Department of Statistics, University of Warwick
24 October 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Aero-Astro Centennial Symposium; no seminar
17 October 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Exploiting Convex Structure in Aircraft Design
Prof. Woody Hoburg
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
10 October 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Sensitivity of Aeroelastic Response to Changes in Shape of Flexible Vehicles
Prof. Robert Canfield
Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech
6 October 2014
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
When adding information processing into a system hurts, and when it helps (Monday seminar)
Dr. David Wolpert
Santa Fe Institute
3 October 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Bayesian-based Simulation Model Validation for Spacecraft Thermal Systems
Kevin Stout
PhD Candidate, Space Systems Lab, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
1 October 2014
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
A Compressive Sampling Framework For Sparse Polynomial Chaos Expansions
Prof. Alireza Doostan
Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
26 September 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Bayesian Solution of Inverse Problems: A Tour Through Low Dimensional Subspaces
Dr. Tiangang "TC" Cui
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
19 September 2014
12:00 pm
Student holiday; no seminar
12 September 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
CAPS: Computational Aircraft Prototype Syntheses
Bob Haimes, Marshall Galbraith
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
5 September 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
ACDL Faculty, Staff, and Student Meeting
16 May 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Combining transport maps with MCMC for efficient and exact sampling
Matt Parno
Doctoral Candidate, Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, MIT
9 May 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Modifications and Clarifications for the Implementation of the Spalart-Allmaras Turbulence Model
Steven R. Allmaras
Research Engineer, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
24 April 2014
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Wing Design via Numerical Optimization: Are we there yet?
Prof. Joaquim Martins
University of Michigan
18 April 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Towards efficient one-shot optimization with unsteady Navier-Stokes equations
Nico Gauger
Visiting Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
14 April 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Novel Multiscale Methods for Deterministic and Stochastic Time-harmonic Wave Equations
Jayanth Jagalur-Mohan
Scientific Computational Research Center, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
11 April 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Lagrange rational interpolation and its applications to model reduction and system identification
Cosmin Ionita, PhD, The Mathworks, Inc.
MathWorks
28 March 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Transonic Turbulent flow Modeling Efforts at Sandia
Srinivasan Arunajatesan, Mathew Barone, Jeffrey Payne
Aerosciences Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
26 March 2014
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Computational and Statistical Methods for Inverse Problems with Poisson Data
Prof. John Bardsley
University of Montana
21 March 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Emerging tools for high-fidelity simulations: parallelization of a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method and curved mesh generation
Xevi Roca
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
28 February 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Envisioning CFD in 2030
Dave Darmofal
Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
21 February 2014
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Localized Discrete Empirical Interpolation Method
Benjamin Peherstorfer
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
21 January 2014
10:00 am to 11:00 am
A closed advancing-layer method with changing topology mesh movement for viscous mesh generation
David L. Marcum
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Chief Scientist CFD, CAVS, Mississippi State University
13 December 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
QUALS Practice Talks
6 December 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
QUALS Practice Talks
22 November 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
On parameter estimation in chaotic systems with applications in weather and climate models
Antti Solonen
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
19 November 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Demystifying the Transition of Fundamental Aeronautical Flows with Very-Large-Scale Simulation
Xiaohua Wu, PhD
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering , Royal Military College of Canada
15 November 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Reduced-order stochastic modeling and probabilistic prediction of turbulent dynamical systems with intermittent or persistent instabilities
Themis Sapsis
ABS Career Development Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, MIT
14 November 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinear Filtering Problems
Feng Bao
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
8 November 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Model-data weak formulation for state and model-bias estimation: foundations and reduced basis approximation
Masa Yano
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
1 November 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Integrating a human designer's preferences in Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Paul Reverdy
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
25 October 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Data analysis for parameter identification by example
Luis Tenorio, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Colorado School of Mines
18 October 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Convex recovery from interferometric measurements
Laurent Demanet, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, MIT
11 October 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Robust Design and Stochastics – Key Methods, Case Studies and Challenges"
Alexander Karl, PhD
Rolls-Royce Corporation
4 October 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
International Meshing Round Table Presentations
Robert Haimes, Principal Investigator, Philip Caplan, SM Candidate
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
27 September 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Charge Transfer and Charge Transport in Photoactivated Systems: Challenges in Modeling of Chromophore Solvation, Aggregation, and Flexibility
J.Ilja Siepmann
Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
26 September 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Numerical Simulation of Giant Oil & Gas Reservoirs in the Middle East
Ali H. Dogru
Chief Technologist, Computational Modeling, ARAMCO
13 September 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
A Classification Paradigm for Computational Design
Samy Missoum
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona
27 August 2013
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
A Discontinuous Galerkin Chimera Overset Solver
Marshall Galbraith
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT