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This is a special MIT event, alumni of all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to attend.
The Event is free for MIT Alumni and Imperial College faculty and students and pound;10 for Guests (spaces limited!).
To reserve your place visit: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=36562&groupID=185
Mary C. Boyce is the Gail E. Kendall (1978) Professor and Department Head of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Boyce teaches in the areas of mechanics and materials. Her research areas focus primarily on the mechanics of elastomers, polymers, polymeric-based micro- and nano-composite materials, lattice-structured materials, natural materials, and biological macromolecular networks, with emphasis on identifying connections among microstructure, deformation mechanisms, and mechanical properties. She has published over 100 journal papers in the field of mechanics and materials. Professor Boyce has been the recipient of several awards and honors recognizing her research and teaching efforts, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellow, the Department of Mechanical Engineering Keenan Award for Teaching, the Spira Award for Teaching, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the ASME Applied Mechanics Young Investigator Award, Member-at-Large of the USNCTAM, Chair of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division, Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, Fellow of the ASME, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Michael S. Triantafyllou is the William I. Koch Professor of Marine Technology, Associate Head for Ocean Engineering and Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Professor Triantafyllou has taught and published extensively in the areas of dynamics and control of marine systems, experimental fluid mechanics, and biomimetics. His work has been in the cover of Science and Scientific American; his biomimetic robot, the RoboTuna, is on permanent exhibit at the Museum of Science, London; the prototype RoboTuna has been on exhibit in the Science Museum of Minnesota and the MIT Museum. Other awards include the Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation, the ABS/Linnard Prize for best paper in the Transactions of SNAME; highlight paper of 1995 by Scientific American, and the H.L. Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization.
For further information please contact: Linda Morecroft lem@alum.mit.edu or Judy Hung thung@alum.mit.edu.