A&A Seminar with Yasuhiro Miyazawa on Metamaterials
Controlling Extreme Mechanical Energy through Nonlinear Mechanical Metamaterials, Abstract:
From vehicle collisions that must be absorbed safely to ambient vibrations that could be converted into useful energy, mechanical structures are often exposed to opposite energy-management tasks: spreading a sudden impulse to prevent localized damage or concentrating initially distributed energy at a desired location. Recent development of mechanical metamaterials has offered a route to both events through structural geometry and nonlinear dynamics.
To mitigate high-intensity impacts, we introduce a Resch-patterned origami metamaterial in which dynamic bifurcation enables autonomous selection of distinct deformation pathways according to impact intensity. The transition from compliant folding to unfolding and snap-through tailors the structural deformation and energy absorption mechanism. Conversely, we demonstrate the experimental formation of mechanical rogue waves in a precisely engineered one-dimensional…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECE). Campus room: 303. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, October 9, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
HuskyADAPT Toy Adaptation Workshop
HuskyADAPT club members get together to modify switch toys to be more accessible by adding universal jacks.
Register now, Learn more about the HuskyADAPT Toy Adaptation program, Subscribe to HuskyADAPT email list to get updates, Become a HuskyADAPT student club member.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thaddeus and Lois Spratlen Hall (MDR). Campus room: 311. Accessibility Contact: adaptuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Student Activities. Workshops. Target Audience: UW HuskyADAPT members.
Friday, October 9, 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
For more info visit www.huskyadapt.me.uw.edu. HuskyADAPT Toy Donation Event
HuskyADAPT has toys ready to be donated and are hosting another toy drive! Browse the available toys with adapted switches and pick up one that works for your child.
Location
Inside the main entrance on the south side of the Mechanical Engineering building (across from the Bill and Melinda Gates Center).
Contact
For any clarifications, please contact Kyra Dang kdang04@uw.edu.
Sign upToy Interest Form - let us know you're attending and/or request an adapted toy, Learn moreExamples of adaptable toys, Learn more about the HuskyADAPT Toy Adaptation program, Subscribe to HuskyADAPT email list to get updates, Become a HuskyADAPT student club member.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Mechanical Engineering Building (MEB). Accessibility Contact: kdang04@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Student Activities. Target Audience: Anyone interested in receiving free adapted toys.
Saturday, October 10, 2026, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit forms.cloud.microsoft. A&A Monday Seminar with ETH Zurich's Zhiyu He
Learning Algorithms in Feedback Loops: Dynamics and Performance Optimization, Abstract: Learning algorithms increasingly operate not only in silico but also in vivo, regulating dynamical systems including mobility infrastructure and sociotechnical systems. The complexity, scale, and uncertainty of these systems pose critical challenges and demand algorithms that are autonomous, adaptive, and sample-efficient.
, In this talk, I address these challenges through the lens of closed-loop performance optimization. First, I view optimization algorithms as feedback controllers interacting with dynamical systems. I develop model-free, gray-box, and distributed pipelines that balance exploration, structural knowledge, sample efficiency, and robustness to model mismatch. A case study on hierarchical mobility policy in the Zurich multimodal network showcases how these pipelines steer competing mobility operators toward cooperation and deliver societal welfare gains.
, Second, I study the feedback loop between…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Guggenheim Hall (GUG). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93258516397. Campus room: 218. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, October 12, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
ME Seminar: Ashish Manohar, UW Mechanical Engineering
We are pleased to welcome ME Assistant Professor Ashish Manohar for an ME seminar.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Campus room: IEB G106. Accessibility Contact: merecept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
CREATE Student information session
Join CREATE for a student information session to meet CREATE's new Director of Education, Amy Ko and get an overview of CREATE’s mission and vision: How we support students who are working toward an accessible future, The unique benefits and opportunities that come with membership, Meet other students who are passionate about accessibility, RSVP for pizza and add the event to your calendar, CREATE is the Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences. Our mission is to make technology accessible and to make the world accessible through technology. Our vision is a world where people with disabilities are full participants in shaping tomorrow’s world.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2). Campus room: 271. Accessibility Contact: oliviapb@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Student Activities. Target Audience: Current and prospective CREATE students, undergraduate and graduate.
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit create.uw.edu. HuskyADAPT Instructional Systems Launch
Learn about Instructional Systems, HuskyADAPT’s newest branch! We invite anyone interested in technical writing, UI/UX, information access, and community-rooted work.
Sign up
Application forms will be released on October 14. Watch HuskyADAPT's Instagram for updates.
Learn moreInstructional Systems introduction video (start at 9:11), Subscribe to HuskyADAPT email list to get updates, Become a HuskyADAPT student club member.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 125. Accessibility Contact: adaptuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Student Activities. Information Sessions. Meetings. Target Audience: Anyone interested in technical writing, UI/UX, information access, and community-rooted work.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM.
For more info visit forms.cloud.microsoft. PhD Qualifying Examination: Nicholas Ozanich
Supervisory Committee Members:William Ledoux | Faculty Advisor | VA CLiMB & Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ashish Manohar | Departmental Representative | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mehmet Kurt | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michael Bailey | Committee Member | Applied Physics Lab & Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ME front desk. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, October 16, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
A&A Monday Seminar with ISE's Ashis Banerjee
Structured AI Methods for Real-Time Autonomy in Mobile Robot Systems, Abstract
Structured AI aims to fuse the benefits of classical, analytical techniques with modern-day machine learning approaches by extracting and incorporating the embedded structures in the operating environments. To do so, it draws inspiration from various fields, such as system dynamics, geometry and topology, cognition, and information theory. In this seminar, I will present some of the recent efforts in this direction to augment the visual perception and information gathering capabilities of autonomous mobile robots. Extensive evaluations show enhanced generalization capabilities in cluttered and confined spaces, while reducing computational efforts and (training) data requirements.
Bio
Ashis G. Banerjee is an Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington (UW). Prior to joining UW, he was a Research Scientist at GE Global Research and a Postdoctoral Associate at…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Guggenheim Hall (GUG). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93258516397. Campus room: 218. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, October 19, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
HuskyADAPT Toy Adaptation Workshop
HuskyADAPT club members get together to modify switch toys to be more accessible by adding universal jacks.
Registration opens soon. Check HuskyADAPT's Instagram for updates. Learn more about the HuskyADAPT Toy Adaptation program, Subscribe to HuskyADAPT email list to get updates, Become a HuskyADAPT student club member.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thaddeus and Lois Spratlen Hall (MDR). Campus room: 311. Accessibility Contact: adaptuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Student Activities. Workshops. Target Audience: UW HuskyADAPT members.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit www.huskyadapt.me.uw.edu. A&A Monday Seminar with Carbon Robotics' Ryan Crompton
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Guggenheim Hall (GUG). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93258516397. Campus room: 218. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, October 26, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
ME Seminar: Joe Powers, ME & UW Medicine
We are pleased to welcome Joe Powers, assistant professor in ME and in laboratory medicine & pathology, for an ME seminar.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Campus room: IEB G106. Accessibility Contact: merecept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
ME Seminar: Glenn Klute, VA Medical Center
We are pleased to welcome Glenn Klute, ME affiliate associate professor and director of the VA Medical Center's Center for Limb Loss and MoBility, for an ME seminar.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Campus room: IEB G106. Accessibility Contact: merecept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
PhD Qualifying Examination: Patricia Garcia Caspuenas
Supervisory Committee Members:Steve Brunton | Faculty Advisor | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brian Polagye | Departmental Representative | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Krithika Manohar | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ana Larrañaga | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ME front desk. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, November 9, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
A&A Monday Seminar with Philippe Spalart, Flexcompute
A philosophy of turbulence modeling, Abstract
After a long career we discuss both the social and the technical aspects of turbulence modeling. Socially, the author of a successful model becomes responsible to the CFD community for writing clear and complete papers; for motivating the decisions made as much as is possible; for reporting errors; for examining critical comments and proposals of improvements; for avoiding a proliferation of versions; and for persistently thinking of improvements that could become the new "official version." Technically, we outline the many constraints a model must obey, both for the physics and the numerics. We look at the sources of ideas and the sources of data, and discuss the wisdom of having a single model, or a range of versions.
Bio
Philippe Spalart studied Mathematics and Engineering in Paris, and obtained an Aerospace PhD at Stanford/NASA-Ames in 1982. Still at Ames, he conducted Direct Numerical Simulations of transitional and turbulent boundary layers. Moving to…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Guggenheim Hall (GUG). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93258516397. Campus room: 218. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, November 9, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
PhD Qualifying Examination: Nicholas Guimond
Supervisory Committee Members:Aaron Marburg | Faculty Co-Advisor | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Monica Li Storms | Faculty Co-Advisor | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Peter Dahl | Departmental Representative | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michelle Hickner| Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vivek Hari Sridhar | Committee Member | Department of Biology.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ME front desk. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
A&A Monday Seminar with Fiona Spencer, UW Applied Physics Lab
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Guggenheim Hall (GUG). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93258516397. Campus room: 218. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, November 16, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
ME seminar: Nate Sniadecki, UW Mechanical Engineering
We are pleased to welcome ME Professor Nate Sniadecki, also an adjunct faculty in bioengineering and lab medicine & pathology, for a seminar.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Campus room: IEB G106. Accessibility Contact: merecept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
A&A Monday Seminar
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Guggenheim Hall (GUG). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93258516397. Campus room: 218. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, November 23, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
A&A Monday Seminar
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Guggenheim Hall (GUG). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93258516397. Campus room: 218. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, November 30, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
ME seminar: Jenny Robinson, UW Mechanical Engineering
We are pleased to welcome ME Assistant Professor Jenny Robinson, the Endowed Chair in Women’s Sports Medicine and Lifetime Fitness in the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, for an ME seminar.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Campus room: IEB G106. Accessibility Contact: merecept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
A&A Monday Seminar
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Guggenheim Hall (GUG). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93258516397. Campus room: 218. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, December 7, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
ME seminar: Alberto Santamaria-Pang, Microsoft
We are pleased to welcome Alberto Santamaria-Pang, principal AI data scientist at Microsoft, for an ME seminar.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Campus room: IEB G106. Accessibility Contact: merecept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, December 8, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Instruction Ends - Autumn 2026
Instruction ends.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, December 11, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Final Examinations - Autumn 2026
Week of final examinations for autumn quarter.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Saturday, December 12, 2026 – Friday, December 18, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu.