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Beyer Distinguished Lectures Archives

Date Title Speaker
04/24/2026 - 2:30pm ChImERA: Chemical Imaging Exploration, AI-assisted Reasoning, and Data-Worth Analysis for Critical Mineral and Materials Applications Sameera Venkat
04/17/2026 - 2:30pm Resilient Composite Manufacturing for Next-Generation Space Structures Jeffery Baur
04/10/2026 - 2:30pm The Coastal Hazards, Economic Prosperity, and Resilience (CHEER) Hub Rachel Davidson
04/03/2026 - 2:30pm Endophytes: Key to Enhancing Microbes-assisted Phytoremediation Abdul Khan
03/27/2026 - 2:30pm Improving Rainfall Accuracy: Harris County Gauge Corrected (HCGC) Radar Rainfall Dataset for the Greater Harris County Area Abebe Gebregiorgis
03/13/2026 - 2:30pm From Data Science to Decarbonization for Sustainable Wastewater Systems Zhiyong Jason Ren
03/06/2026 - 2:30pm Enabling nitrogen recovery from drinking and wastewater using electrochemical methods Charles Werth
02/27/2026 - 2:30pm Additive Manufacturing of Wood-based Structures Maksud Rahman
02/20/2026 - 2:30pm From Reactions to Resources: Characterizing Lithium in Shale Brines Through Multiscale Modeling of Fluid-Rock Interactions Kyung Jae Lee
02/13/2026 - 2:30pm Powered by Symmetry. Protected by Topology: A Journey Through the Special Mechanics of Kagome Metamaterials Stefano Gonella
02/06/2026 - 2:30pm Hybrid Solvers: AI-Integrated Numerical Simulators for Reliable Real-Time Inference Somdatta Goswami
01/30/2026 - 2:30pm Form, Force, Flow: Structural Optimization in Practice Daniela Castano
11/21/2025 - 2:30pm Encapsulated Microorganisms for Enhance Wastewater Treatment Paige Novak
11/14/2025 - 2:30pm Challenges and Opportunities in Harnessing Big Data and AI/ML for Local-scale Hurricane Hazard Assessment Avantika Gori
10/31/2025 - 2:30pm Electrified Filter for Sustainable Water Treatment and Reuse Wensi Chen
10/24/2025 - 2:30pm Risk-Informed Consequence-Driven Hybrid Cyber-Physical Protection System Security Optimization for Advance Reactor Sites Karen Kirkland
10/17/2025 - 2:30pm Analysis and Optimization of Extruded Thin-Walled Beams Haim Waisman
10/10/2025 - 2:30pm Effectiveness and Microbial Community Dynamics Kung-Hui Chu
10/03/2025 - 2:30pm Digital Twins and AI Towards the Autonomy of Built Environmental-Facility/Infrastructure Operations and Management Use Case Burcu Akinci
09/26/2025 - 2:30pm More Than Just Sand and Clay: A Deep Dive into Soil Cohesion and Friction Ali Seiphoori
09/19/2025 - 2:30pm Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment Pedro Alvarez
09/05/2025 - 2:30pm Modeling Coastal Flood Risk: From Physics-Based Simulations to Data-Driven Digital Twins Jun-Whan Lee
04/25/2025 - 2:30pm An Overview of Environmental Applications and Implications of Nanomaterials IIIya Medina Velo
04/18/2025 - 2:30pm Designing Human-Centered Disaster Impact Information Sabine Loos
04/11/2025 - 2:30pm Advances in Autonomous Materials and Structures Qianyun (Gloria) Zhang
04/04/2025 - 2:30pm Self-Healing Materials and Electrochemical Fouling Control: Managing Tradeoffs in Environmental Applications Bezawit Getachew
03/28/2025 - 2:30pm A Universal Scaling Law for Gas Transfer Velocities across Complex Interfaces Gabriel G. Katul
03/21/2025 - 2:30pm Fate of Organic Pollutants and Pathogens in Electrochemically Treated Wastewater Solids Kayleigh Millerick
03/07/2025 - 2:30pm Probabilistic Digital Twins for System Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Decision-Making Sankaran Mahadevan
02/28/2025 - 2:30pm Developing Operando Optical Imaging Methods to study Chemical Reactions across Interfaces in Energy Conversion Processes Xiaonan Shan
02/21/2025 - 2:30pm AI and the Future of Higher Education Jeff Morgan
02/14/2025 - 2:30pm Back to Basics: Coagulation for Water Treatment Shankar Chellam
02/07/2025 - 2:30pm Is Bangladesh Doomed to Drown? Sea Level Rise versus Dynamics of the World's Largest Delta Michael Steckler
01/31/2025 - 2:30pm Engineering Now: Are We Ready? Franz-Josef Ulm
01/24/2025 - 2:30pm Effects of Pore Fluid Pressure on Extension and Extension-Shear Mixed-Mode Fracture in Berea Sandstone and Carrara Marble Hiroko Kitajima
01/17/2025 - 2:30pm Not All Concrete is the same: Low Embodied Carbon Dry-Cast Concrete Masonry Nick Lang
11/22/2024 - 2:30pm TBD Dr. Joseph Powell
11/15/2024 - 2:30pm Environmental Benefits of Algae-Based Fertilizers: A Sustainable Approach to Soil Health and Crop Productivity Dr. Venkatesh Balan
11/08/2024 - 2:30pm Observations of Opening, Mixed, and Sliding Modes of Brittle Fracture Dr. Joseph Labuz
11/01/2024 - 2:30pm Nondestructive Evaluation Methods for Evaluating Existing Masonry Construction Mr. Michael Schuller
10/25/2024 - 2:30pm Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Physics-Based Data-Driven Design and Manufacturing Dr. Yan Wang
10/18/2024 - 2:30pm Elevating the Performance of the Built Environment through Cyberphysical Systems Dr. Jerome Lynch
10/11/2024 - 2:30pm Intellectual On-site Construction Management in a Connected Environment Dr. Kinam Kim
10/04/2024 - 2:30pm The Nexus of Machine Learning, Physics-based Modeling, and Uncertainty Quantification Dr. Michael Shields
09/27/2024 - 2:30pm Hurricane Research - From Storm Surge Field Surveys of Katrina, Nargis, and Haiyan to Large-Scale Laboratory Experiments Dr. Hermann Fritz
09/20/2024 - 2:30pm High-Temperature Carbon Fibers Ablation in 4D Dr. Francesco Panerai
09/13/2024 - 2:30pm Representative Sample Size for Estimating Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity via Machine Learning Dr. Behzad Ghanbarian
09/06/2024 - 2:30pm Impact and Vibration Control – The Design of Pounding Tuned Mass Damper (PTMD) and Applications Dr. Gangbing Song
08/30/2024 - 2:30pm From Drain to Data: The Power of Wastewater Monitoring for Disease Surveillance Dr. Lauren Stadler
04/26/2024 - 2:30pm Modeling Interface Interactions in Complex Structures and Materials Professor Ghadir Haikal, North Carolina State University
04/19/2024 - 2:30pm Localization Limiter for Stochastic Simulations of Quasibrittle Fracture Professor Jia-Liang Le, University of Minnesota
04/12/2024 - 2:30pm Organoarsenicals in Foods: Occurrence and Toxicological Effects of Chronic Exposure Assistant Professor Amrika Deonarine, Texas Tech University
04/05/2024 - 2:30pm Exploring and Exploiting Fairness in AI/ML: Algorithms and Applications Assistant Professor Na Zou, University of Houston
03/29/2024 - 2:30pm Measuring, Modeling, and Mimicking Atmospheric Turbulent Processes Assistant Professor Kelly Huang
03/22/2024 - 2:30pm Where Do We Stand on Metamaterial-Based Seismic Design of Engineering Structures? Professor Yi-Lung Mo, University of Houston
03/08/2024 - 2:30pm How the Masonry Code Affects Design and Construction John Chrysler
03/01/2024 - 2:30pm Rigidity and Failure in Granular Materials: From the Particle to the Bulk Scale Professor Karen Daniels, North Carolina State University
02/23/2024 - 2:30pm The Value of Distributed Sensing in Civil Engineering Infrastructure Professor Kenichi Soga, University of California, Berkeley
02/16/2024 - 2:30pm Global Water Resource Challenges Identified Using GRACE Satellites and Potential Solutions Dr. Bridget Scanlon, The University of Texas at Austin
02/09/2024 - 2:30pm Hydrogen Value Chain Professor Christine Ehlig-Economides, University of Houston
02/02/2024 - 2:30pm Development of Acoustic Telemetry and Autonomous Sensing Technologies to Support the Design and Operations of Environmentally Friendly Renewable Energy Systems Dr. Daniel Deng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
01/26/2024 - 2:30pm Creating a New Circular Carbon Economy via Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Professor Ah-Hyung “Alissa” Park, University of California Los Angeles
01/19/2024 - 2:30pm Enabling Polyolefin Circularity Through Upcycling and Compatibilization of Plastic Waste Professor Megan Robertson, University of Houston
09/01/2023 - 2:45pm Geology and Deformation at the Conditions of Slow Slip in Subduction Zones Melodie French
08/25/2023 - 2:45pm Tailoring Structure and Flow Properties of Colloidal Suspensions Through Polymer Molecular Weight Jacinta Conrad
10/22/2021 - 2:45pm Adaptive Stiffness Structural Systems: State of the Art and Practice Professor Satish Nagarajaiah, Rice University
05/07/2012 - 11:15am Engineering Approaches for Reducing Exposure to Harmful DBPs Professor David Reckhow, University of Massachusetts
05/03/2012 - 11:15am Reliability-based Calibration of Bridge Design Code Professor Andrzej S. Nowak, University of Nebraska
04/23/2012 - 11:15am Environmental and Biological Fate Processes of Engineered Nanomaterials and their Implications for Risk Professor Gregory Lowry, Carnegie Mellon University
04/18/2012 - 11:15am Predicting Chemical Partitioning and Toxicity Using Molecular Interaction Models: The End of the Age of Octanol Professor Dominic Di Toro, University of Delaware
04/02/2012 - 11:15am Seismic Triggering of Submarine Landslides Professor Giovanna Biscontin, Texas A&M University