Presentations

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  • Hussein, M.I.*, Biringen, S., Bilal, O.R. and Kucala, A., “Phononic subsurface: Flow stabilization by crystals,” 2015 American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 22-24 November, 2015.
  • Hussein, M.I.*, Biringen, S., Bilal, O.R. and Kucala, A., “Flow control by subsurface phonons,” Proceedings of 2015 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Houston, Texas, 13-19 November, 2015, Abstract no. IMECE2015-51530, 2015.
  • Yang, L.* and Hussein, M.I., “Thermoelectric properties of silicon nanophononic metamaterials,” Proceedings of 2015 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Houston, Texas, 13-19 November, 2015, Abstract no. IMECE2015-51743, 2015.
  • Honarvar, H.*, Yang, L. and Hussein, M.I., “Thermal properties of a nanophononic metamaterial by molecular dynamics simulations,” Proceedings of 2015 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Houston, Texas, 13-19 November, 2015, Abstract no. IMECE2015-51744, 2015.
  • Bacquet, C.L.* and Hussein, M.I. “Metadamping phenomenon in a locally resonant beam,” Proceedings of Phononics 2015, Paper PHONONICS-2015-0462, pp. 478-479, Paris, France, 31 May-5 June, 2015.
  • Frazier, M.J.* and Hussein, M.I. “Dynamic effective properties of damped periodic materials,” Proceedings of Phononics 2015, Paper PHONONICS-2015-0497, pp. 448-449, Paris, France, 31 May-5 June, 2015.
  • Golobic, M.*, Bilal, O.R. and Hussein, M.I. “Local analysis of resonators in elastic metamaterials,” Proceedings of Phononics 2015, Paper PHONONICS-2015-0494, pp. 402-403, Paris, France, 31 May-5 June, 2015.
  • Krattiger, D.* and Hussein, M.I. “Ultrafast band structure computation by generalized Bloch mode synthesis,” Proceedings of Phononics 2015, Paper PHONONICS-2015-0491, pp. 316-317, Paris, France, 31 May-5 June, 2015.
  • Cebrecos, A.*, Krattiger, D., Maute, K., Sánchez-Morcillo, V.J., Park, K.C., Oh, I.K. and Hussein, M.I. “Fluidic metamaterial: An elastic medium with a time-changing band structure,” Proceedings of Phononics 2015, Paper PHONONICS-2015-0418, pp. 274-275, Paris, France, 31 May-5 June, 2015.
  • Frandsen, N.M.M.*, Bilal, O.R., Jensen, J.S. and Hussein, M.I. “Band gaps in continuous elastic structures by inertial amplification” Proceedings of Phononics 2015, Paper PHONONICS-2015-0411, pp. 272-273, Paris, France, 31 May-5 June, 2015.
  • Khajehtourian, R.* and Hussein, M.I. “Nonlinear waves in 1D periodic media: Modeling and dispersion characteristics,” Proceedings of Phononics 2015, Paper PHONONICS-2015-0486, pp. 200-201, Paris, France, 31 May-5 June, 2015.
  • Bilal, O.R.*, Kucala, A., Biringen, S. and Hussein, M.I. “Three-dimensional nonlinear channel-flow instability control using phononic crystals,” Proceedings of Phononics 2015, Paper PHONONICS-2015-0429, pp. 148-149, Paris, France, 31 May-5 June, 2015.
  • Honarvar, H., Swinteck, N.Z., Deymier, P.A. and Hussein, M.I. “Thermal conductivity prediction of nanophononic metamaterials using molecular dynamics simulations,” Proceedings of Phononics 2015, Paper PHONONICS-2015-0406, pp. 74-75, Paris, France, 31 May-5 June, 2015.
  • Hussein, M.I., Biringen, S., Bilal, O.R. and Kucala, A., “Flow control by subsurface phonons,” Proceedings of Phononics 2015, Paper PHONONICS-2015-0493, pp. 44-45, Paris, France, 31 May-5 June, 2015.
  • Biringen, S.*, Hussein, M.I., Kucala, A. and Bilal, O.R., “Simulation of transitional flows and their control by phononic subsurfaces,” Keynote Address, 8th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, Istanbul, Turkey, 25-28 May, 2015.
  • Hussein, M.I., Biringen, S., Bilal, O.R. and Kucala, A., “Reducing flow drag by crystals,” Invited Talk, 2015 Smead Symposium, Vail, Colorado, 15-16 May, 2015.
  • Honarvar, H., Yang, L. and Hussein, M.I., “Nanophononic metamaterial: Thermal conductivity reduction by dispersion-resonance hybridization,” American Physical Society March Meeting 2015, San Antonio, Texas, 2-6 March 2015.
  • Khajehtourian, R. and Hussein, M.I., “Nonlinear elastic waves in solids: Deriving simplicity from complexity,” American Physical Society March Meeting 2015, San Antonio, Texas, 2-6 March 2015.
  • Davis, B.L., Honarvar, H. and Hussein, M.I., “Nanophononic metamaterial: Slowing down heat transfer by mechanical vibrations,” Invited Talk, The Egyptian Materials Research Society Workshop on Metamaterials, Hurghada, Egypt, 6-9 January, 2015.
  • Khajehtourian, R. and Hussein, M.I., “Nonlinear wave interactions in solids: Deriving simplicity from complexity,” Invited Talk, The Egyptian Materials Research Society XXXI International Conference on Materials Science and Applications, Hurghada, Egypt, 6-9 January, 2015.
  • Khajehtourian, R. and Hussein, M.I., “Theory of nonlinear wave dispersion in rods,” Proceedings of 2014 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Montreal, Canada, 14-20 November 2014, Abstract no. IMECE2014-39050, 2014.
  • Bacquet, C., Murray, T. and Hussein, M.I., “Metadamping in viscoelastic metamaterials,” Proceedings of 2014 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Montreal, Canada, 14-20 November 2014, Abstract no. IMECE2014-39063, 2014.
  • Hussein, M.I., Honarvar, H., Krattiger, D., and Bilal, O.R., “Nanophononic metamaterial: Slowing down thermal transport by mechanical vibrations,” Proceedings of 2014 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Montreal, Canada, 14-20 November 2014, Abstract no. IMECE2014-39038, 2014.
  • Hussein, M.I., “Nanophononic metamaterial: Thermal conductivity reduction by mechanical vibrations,” Invited Talk, EUPHONON Workshop, Le Mans, France, 1-5 September, 2014.
  • Khajehtourian, R. and Hussein, M.I., “Nonlinear wave dispersion in rods with lateral inertia,” Proceedings of 25th ASME Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB), Buffalo, New York, 17-20 August 2014.
  • Davis, B.L. and Hussein, M.I., “Nanophononic metamaterial: Energy harvesting with nanoscale heat brakes,” Proceedings of Fourteenth Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm 2014), Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 27-30 May 2014.
  • Davis, B.L. and Hussein, M.I., “Energy harvesting with nanoscale heat breaks,” Invited Talk, 2014 Smead Symposium, Vail, Colorado, 16-17 May, 2014.
  • Khajehtourian, R. and Hussein, M.I., “Linear and nonlinear dispersive waves in a periodic rod,” Invited Talk, Proceedings of the167th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, Rhode Island, 5-9 May, 2014.
  • Krattiger, D. and Hussein, M.I., “Fast phonon dispersion computation using Bloch mode synthesis,” Proceedings of the 2014 AmeriMech Symposium on Dynamic Response of Periodic Materials and Structures, Atlanta, Georgia, 3-4 April, 2014.
  • Davis, B.L. and Hussein, M.I., “Nanophononic metamaterial: Slowing down heat transfer by mechanical vibrations,” Invited Talk, Proceedings of the 2014 AmeriMech Symposium on Dynamic Response of Periodic Materials and Structures, Atlanta, Georgia, 3-4 April, 2014.
  • Krattiger, D. and Hussein, M.I., “Fast full-spectrum phonon calculations for large lattices by Bloch mode synthesis,” American Physical Society March Meeting 2014, Denver, Colorado, 3-7 March 2014.
  • Khajehtourian, R. and Hussein, M.I., “Elastic wave propagation in the presence of linear and nonlinear dispersive mechanisms,” American Physical Society March Meeting 2014, Denver, Colorado, 3-7 March 2014.
  • Davis, B.L. and Hussein, M.I., “Nanophononic metamaterial: Thermal conductivity reduction by local resonance,” American Physical Society March Meeting 2014, Denver, Colorado, 3-7 March 2014.
  • Davis, B.L. and Hussein, M.I., “Thermal conductivity reduction by nanophononic metamaterials,” Proceedings of 2013 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, San Diego, California, 15-21 November 2013, Abstract no. IMECE2011-66686, 2013.
  • Krattiger, D. and Hussein, M.I., “Efficient elastic band structure calculations by Bloch mode synthesis,” Proceedings of 2013 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, San Diego, California, 15-21 November 2013, Abstract no. IMECE2011-66382, 2013.
  • Frazier, M.J. and Hussein, M.I., “Damped Bloch wave propagation: Viscous and viscoelastic models,” Proceedings of 2013 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, San Diego, California, 15-21 November 2013, Abstract no. IMECE2013-66212, 2013.
  • Reinke, C.M.*, Su, M.F., Bongsang, K., Davis, B.L., Hussein, M.I., Leseman, Z.C., Olsson III, R.H. and El-Kady, I., “Temperature Dependence of Thermal Conductivity Reduction in Micro-Scale Phononic Crystal Films,” 2013 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, San Diego, California, 15-21 November 2013, Abstract no. IMECE2013-65323, 2013.
  • Hussein, M.I. and Frazier, M.J., “Metadamping: An emergent phenomenon in dissipative metamaterials,” Invited Talk, International Symposium on the Theory and Application of Artificial Periodic Structures, Changsha, China, 18-20 October, 2013.
  • Davis, B.L. and Hussein, M.I., “Thermal conductivity reduction by nanophononic metamaterials,” Invited Talk, The 1st International Conference on Phononics and Thermal Energy Science (PTES2013), Shanghai, China, 2-4 September, 2013.
  • Abedinnasab. M.H., Khajehtourian, R. and Hussein, M.I., “Nonlinear wave dispersion: Exact analysis and physical insights,” Proceedings of 25th ASME Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB), Portland, Oregon, 4-7 August 2013.
  • Hussein, M.I. and Frazier, M.J., “Emergent dynamics of dissipative acoustic metamaterials,” 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science/ASME-AMD Summer Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, 28-31 July, 2013.
  • Davis, B.L. and Hussein, M.I., “Nanophononic metamaterials: Thermal conductivity reduction by local resonance,” Workshop on Thermal Transport at the Nanoscale, Telluride, Colorado, 25-29 June 2013.
  • Davis, B.L.* and Hussein, M.I. “Thermal conductivity reduction by nanoscale metamaterials,” Proceedings of Phononics 2013, Paper PHONONICS-2013-0177, pp. 224-225, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, June 2-7, 2013.
  • Frazier, M.J.* and Hussein, M.I. “Metadamping: An emergent phenomenon in dissipative metamaterials,” Proceedings of Phononics 2013, Paper PHONONICS-2013-0174, pp. 178-179, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, June 2-7, 2013.
  • Bilal, O.R.* and Hussein, M.I. “Trampouline metamaterials: Local resonance enhancement by springboards,” Proceedings of Phononics 2013, Paper PHONONICS-2013-0173, pp. 176-177, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, June 2-7, 2013.
  • Khajehtourian, R.* and Hussein, M.I. “Nonlinear locally resonant metamaterials: Modeling and dispersion characteristics,” Proceedings of Phononics 2013, Paper PHONONICS-2013-0175, pp. 180-181, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, June 2-7, 2013.
  • Frazier, M.J. and Hussein, M.I., “Dissipative phononic materials: Mathematical models and physical phenomena,” Invited Talk, Fourth International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META’13), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 18-22 March 2013.
  • Frazier, M.J., Abedinnasab.M.H. and Hussein, M.I., “Phonons manipulation by damping and nonlinearity,” Invited Talk, The Egyptian Materials Research Society Workshop on Functional Materials, Marsa Alam, Egypt, 25-28 November, 2012.
  • Davis, B.L. and Hussein, M.I., “Phonons manipulation by boundaries and symmetry,” Invited Talk, The Egyptian Materials Research Society XXX International Conference on Materials Science and Applications, Marsa Alam, Egypt, 25-28 November, 2012.
  • Abedinnasab.M.H. and Hussein, M.I., “Models and properties of nonlinear phononic materials,” 2012 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Houston, Texas, 9-15 November 2012.
  • Reinke, C.M.*, Su, M.F., Bongsang, K., Davis, B.L., Hussein, M.I., Leseman, Z.C., Olsson III, R.H. and El-Kady, I., “Calculation of the thermal conductivity of micro-scale phononic crystals using continuum mechanics and lattice dynamics,” 2011 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Houston, Texas, 9-15 November 2012.
  • Davis, B.L. and Hussein, M.I., “Control of phonon transport via nanophononic crystals,” Proceedings of PHONONS 2012: XIV International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 8-12 July, 2012.
  • Bilal, O.R.*, Guo, Q., Rumpf, R.C. and Hussein, M.I., “Ultrafast band structure calculation for photonic crystals and metamaterials,” Proceedings of PECS-X: 10th International Symposium on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-8 June, 2012.
  • Bilal, O.R.* and Hussein, M.I., “On the properties of optimal low symmetry photonic crystals,” Proceedings of PECS-X: 10th International Symposium on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-8 June, 2012.
  • Davis, B.L. and Hussein, M.I., “Thermal transport analysis of silicon-based nanoscale phononic crystals,” Proceedings of 2012 ASME 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 3 ̶ 6 March 2012.
  • Abedinnasab.M.H. and Hussein, M.I., “Nonlinear elastic waves in periodic media,” 2011 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Denver, Colorado, Canada, 11-17 November 2011.
  • Davis, B.L.* and Hussein, M.I., “Thermal transport studies of silicon-based phononic-crystal thin films,” 2011 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Denver, Colorado, Canada, 11-17 November 2011.
  • Reinke, C.M.*, Su, M.F., Olsson III, R.H., Leseman, Z.C., Hussein, M.I. and El-Kady, I., “Computationally efficient plane-wave expansion band structure calculations for phononic crystal devices,” 2011 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Denver, Colorado, 11-17 November 2011.
  • Bilal, O.R., El-Beltagy, M.A. and Hussein, M.I., “Genetically evolved photonic crystals: Breaking the world record in band gap size,” Invited Talk, The Egyptian Materials Research Society Workshop on Photonic Crystals and Graphene, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 3-6 October, 2011.
  • Hussein, M.I., “Phononics: Controlling material motion across size scales and across disciplines,” Invited Talk, The Egyptian Materials Research Society XXVIV International Conference on Solid State Science and Materials Physics, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 3-6 October, 2011.
  • Bilal, O.R.* and Hussein, M.I. “Phononic band gap optimization for combined in-plane and out-of-plane waves,” Proceedings of Phononics 2011, Paper PHONONICS-2011-0173, pp. 102-103, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, May 29-June 2, 2011.
  • Hussein, M.I. “Multiscale dispersive design: A building blocks approach to phononics,” Proceedings of Phononics 2011, Paper PHONONICS-2011-0182, pp. 104-105, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, May 29-June 2, 2011.
  • Frazier, M.J.* and Hussein, M.I. “Dissipative effects in acoustic metamaterials,” Proceedings of Phononics 2011, Paper PHONONICS-2011-0172, pp. 136-137, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, May 29-June 2, 2011.
  • Tomchek, A.S.*, Flores, E.A, Liu, L., Davis, B.L. and Hussein, M.I. “Characterization of band gap resonances in finite periodic structures,” Proceedings of Phononics 2011, Paper PHONONICS-2011-0177, pp. 192-13, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, May 29-June 2, 2011.
  • Davis, B.L*. and Hussein, M.I. “Reduction of thermal conductivity in silicon slabs by unit cell nanostructuring,” Proceedings of Phononics 2011, Paper PHONONICS-2011-0174, pp. 236-237, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, May 29-June 2, 2011.
  • Guo, Q.*, Bilal, O.R. and Hussein, M.I. “Convergence of the reduced Bloch mode expansion method for electronic band structure calculations,” Proceedings of Phononics 2011, Paper PHONONICS-2011-0176, pp. 238-239, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, May 29-June 2, 2011.
  • Davis, B.L. and Hussein, M.I., “A building block approach to controlling phonon dynamics in nanostructures: Lattice dynamics in a Lagrangian framework,” Proceedings of the National Science Foundation CMMI Research and Innovation Conference, [Poster Presentation], Atlanta, Georgia, 4 ̶ 7 January 2011.
  • Abedinnasab.M. H.* and Hussein, M.I., “Analytical approach to elastic wave propagation in periodic beams,” 2010 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 12-19 November 2010.
  • Liu, L., Davis, B.L., Tomchek, A.S., Flores, E.A. and Hussein, M.I., “Band gap maps for flexural beams: Effects of periodicity type, properties and termination,” 2010 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 12-19 November 2010.
  • Hussein, M.I. and Davis, B.L., “Bloch modal analysis in lattice dynamics: Orders of magnitude reduction in model size,” Workshop on Thermal Transport at the Nanoscale, Telluride, Colorado, 21-25 June 2010.
  • Bilal, O.R.*, El-Beltagy, M.A. and Hussein, M.I., “Effect of symmetry on optimal photonic crystals design,” Second International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META’10), [Poster Presentation], Cairo, Egypt, 22-25 February 2010.
  • Hussein, M.I., “Photonic crystal band structure calculation by Bloch modal analysis,” Second International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META’10), Cairo, Egypt, 22-25 February 2010.
  • Hussein, M.I., “Damped Bloch waves in phononic crystals,” Invited Talk in Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials Special Session, Second International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META’10), Cairo, Egypt, February 22-25, 2010.
  • Hussein, M.I. “Analysis of wave propagation in phononic crystals by Bloch mode decomposition,” 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 13-19 November 2009.
  • Hussein, M.I., “Lattice dynamics by modal analysis: Orders of magnitude decrease in computational expense,” 10th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Columbus, Ohio, 16-19 July 2009.
  • Hussein, M.I., “Band structure calculations by modal analysis,” American Physical Society April Meeting 2009, Denver, Colorado, 2-5 April 2009.
  • Hussein, M.I., “Reduced Bloch mode expansion for fast band structure calculations,” American Physical Society March Meeting 2009, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 16-20 March 2009.
  • Hussein, M.I. “Reduced Bloch mode expansion for fast computation of dispersion curves,” 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Boston, Massachusetts, 31 October-6 November 2008.
  • Hussein, M.I., “Reduced Bloch mode expansion for periodic media band structure calculations,” Keynote Lecture in Innovative and Advanced Methods for Computational Dynamics Symposium, World Congress in Computational Mechanics VIII, 5th European Congress in Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Venice, Italy, 30 June - 4 July 2008.
  • Landry, E.S.*, Hussein, M.I. and McGaughey, A.J.H., “Designing Si/Si1-xGex Superlattices with Tailored Thermal Transport Properties,” 2008 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco California, 24-28 March 2008.
  • Deshpande, V.S.* and Hussein, M.I., “Discrete Dislocation Modeling of Size Effects in Voided Single Crystals,” Needleman-Tvergaard Symposium: Bridging Scales in Mechanics, Providence, Rhode Island, 16-18 August 2006.
  • Hussein, M.I. and Deshpande, V.S., “A Discrete Dislocation Plasticity Study of the Micro Void Size Effect,” 15th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Boulder, Colorado, 25-30 June 2006.
  • Hussein, M.I., Hulbert, G.M., Scott, R.A., Hamza, K. and Saitou, K., “Design of Banded Materials and Structures for Vibration and Shock Isolation,” 8th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Austin, Texas, 24-28 July 2005.
  • Hussein, M.I., Hulbert, G.M. and Scott, R.A., “Analysis and Design of Dispersive Materials and Structures,” 21st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Lecture Presentation: Impact and Wave Propagation Session), Warsaw, Poland, 15-21 August 2004.
  • Hussein, M.I. and Hulbert, G.M., “A Multiscale Reduced Order Model for Computing Frequency Spectra of Periodic Materials,” 40th Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 12-15 October 2003 (received 1st prize in Student Paper Competition).
  • Hulbert, G.M.*, Hussein, M.I. and Scott, R.A., “Analysis and Design of Elastodynamic Waveguides and Filters,” 7th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 27-31 July 2003 (plenary lecture by Professor Gregory Hulbert).
  • Hussein, M.I. and Hulbert, G.M., “A Fast Multiscale Method for Computing Dispersion Curves of Periodic Materials,” 7th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 27-31 July 2003.
  • Hussein, M.I. and Hulbert, G.M., “High Frequency Dispersive Modeling of Periodic Media,” Symposium in Honor of Professor J. Tinsley Oden, 14th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Blacksburg, Virginia, 23-28 June 2002.
  • “Two Tales of Complex Wave Motion: Wave Synchronization across a Fluid-Structure Interface and Wave Dispersion under Finite Deformation,” Invited talk, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University at Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, Scheduled at December 10th, 2015.
  • “Two Tales of Nonlinear Wave Motion: Wave Synchronization across a Fluid-Structure Interface and Wave Dispersion under Finite Deformation,” Invited talk, Nonlinear Waves Seminar, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, October 13th, 2015.
  • “Flow Stabilization by Crystals,” Invited talk, Department of Aerospace (GALCIT), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, Scheduled at October 2nd, 2015.
  • “Nanophononic Metamaterial: Slowing Down Heat Transfer by Mechanical Vibration (Lecture 3),” Invited talk, Institut d'électronique de microélectronique et de nanotechnologie, Université Lille 1-Sciences et Technologies, Lille, France, July 9th, 2015.
  • “Phononic Subsurface: Reducing Flow Drag by Crystals,” Invited talk, Institut FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France, July 6th, 2015.
  • “Large-motion Elastic Waves in Solids: Unweaving the Nonlinearity (Lecture 2),” Invited talk, Institut d'électronique de microélectronique et de nanotechnologie, Université Lille 1-Sciences et Technologies, Lille, France, July 2nd, 2015.
  • “Phononic Subsurface: Reducing Flow Drag by Crystals (Lecture 1),” Invited talk, Institut d'électronique de microélectronique et de nanotechnologie, Université Lille 1-Sciences et Technologies, Lille, France, June 30th, 2015.
  • “Phononics: Structural Dynamics at the Material Level,” Invited talk, International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, June 10th, 2015.
  • “Exact Dispersion Relations for Finite-strain Elastic Waves in Solids,” Invited talk, Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, April 3rd, 2015.
  • “Exact Dispersion Relations for Finite-strain Elastic Waves in Solids,” Invited talk, Applied Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, February 27th, 2015.
  • “Phononic Metamaterials: The Big, the Small and the Nonlinear,” Invited talk, Departamento De Física Aplicada/IGIC, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia-Campus de Gandia, Gandia, Spain, September 8th, 2014.
  • “Phononic Metamaterials: The Big, the Small and the Nonlinear,” Invited talk, Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Main (LAUM), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France, September 5th, 2014.
  • “Phononic Metamaterials: Control of Material Motion by Mechanical Vibrations,” Invited talk, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Systems Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon City, South Korea, August 20th, 2014.
  • “Large-motion elastic waves in solids: Unweaving the nonlinearity (Part 1); Nanophononic metamaterial: Slowing down heat transfer by mechanical vibration (Part 2),” Invited talk, Institute of Mechanics and Materials, ETH-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, June 10th, 2014.
  • “Nanophononic Metamaterial: Thermal Conductivity Reduction by Local Resonance,” Invited talk, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Colorado, February 7th, 2014.
  • “Damped and Nonlinear Wave Dispersion in Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials,” Invited talk, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 5th, 2014.
  • “Nanophononic Metamaterials: Thermal Conductivity Reduction by Local Resonance,” Invited talk, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 4th, 2014.
  • “Nanophononic Metamaterial: Thermal Conductivity Reduction by Local Resonance,” Invited talk, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, January 17th, 2014.
  • “Phononic crystals and acoustic/elastic metamaterials: A new platform for dissipation engineering,” Invited talk in Workshop on Metamaterials and Controlling Dynamic Response, The 2013 Annual Grantees’/Contractors’ Meeting, Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials & Microsystems, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Arlington, Virginia, September 18th, 2013.
  • “Nanophononic metamaterials: Thermal conductivity reduction by local resonance:,” Invited talk, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, December 5th, 2013.
  • “Generalized Bloch’s Theorem for Damped and Nonlinear Phononic Materials,” Invited talk, School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, October 16th, 2013.
  • “Damped and Nonlinear Wave Dispersion in Homogeneous and Periodic Media,” Invited talk, Department of Mechanics, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, October 15th, 2013.
  • “Phononics: Controlling Material Motion Across Scales and Disciplines,” Invited talk, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, September 25th, 2013.
  • “Phononics: Controlling Material Motion Across Scales and Disciplines,” Invited talk, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, April 12th, 2013.
  • “Designer Silicon: Tailoring of Thermal Conductivity by Phonon Engineering,” Invited talk, Department of Physics, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, Januray 3rd, 2013.
  • “Phononics: Controlling Material Motion Across Scales and Disciplines,” Invited talk, Department of Physics, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, October 2nd, 2011.
  • “Phononics: Controlling Material Motion Across Scales and Disciplines,” Invited talk, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, September 9th, 2011.
  • “Phononic Materials Across Multiple Scales: Computer Models and Dynamical Characteristics,” Invited talk, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 1th, 2011.
  • “Wave Propagation in Phononic Materials: Effects of Periodicity Type, Properties and Termination,” Invited talk, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and D. Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, January 7th, 2011.
  • “Crossflow of Concepts and Techniques from Structural Dynamics to Material Dynamics,” Invited talk, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, November 19th, 2010.
  • “Dynamics of Materials: A Narrative for Interdisciplinary Research,” Invited talk in Graduate Research Seminar, School of Sciences and Engineering, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, March 4th, 2010.
  • “Dynamics of Materials: Theory, Phenomena and Applications,” Invited, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, February 28th, 2010.
  • “Computational Dynamics of Periodic Materials: Discrete and Continuous Models,” Invited talk, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 17th, 2009.
  • “Analysis and Design of Phononic Crystals Across Different Length Scales,” Invited talk, Sound and Vibration Laboratory, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, July 30th, 2009.
  • “Thermal Transport Mechanisms in Nanoscale Phononic Crystals,” Invited talk in First International Workshop on Phononic Crystal (PnC) Materials, Devices, and Applications, Nice, France, June 25thth, 2009.
  • “Analysis of Phononic Crystals by Bloch Mode Decomposition,” Invited talk in First International Workshop on Phononic Crystal (PnC) Materials, Devices, and Applications, Nice, France, June 24thth, 2009.
  • “Structural Vibrations Control using Phononic Crystals,” Invited talk in Structural and Material Systems Seminar Series, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, April 16th, 2008.
  • “Vibration Control using Periodic Structural Building Blocks,” Invited talk in Dynamics and Vibrations Tea Time Seminar Series, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, June 1st, 2007.
  • “Banded Materials and Structures: Building Blocks for a New Paradigm in Vibration Engineering,” Invited talk, Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Boulder, Colorado, June 28th, 2006
  • “Dispersive Dynamics of Periodic Materials and Structures: A Multiscale/Multiphysics Perspective,” Invited talk, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, April 24th, 2006.
  • “Microdynamics of Periodic Materials: From Vibration Isolation to Heat Insulation,” Invited talk in Micromechanics Seminar Series, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, January 20th, 2006.
  • “Dynamics of Dispersive Materials and Structures: Computational Analysis and Design in Multiple Scales,” Invited talk, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 9th, 2005.
  • “Dispersive Wave Motion in Periodic Materials and Structures: Multiscale Methodologies for Computation and Design using Finite Element Analysis,” 17th Annual Robert J. Melosh Medal Symposium, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, April 29th, 2005 (received Robert J. Melosh medal).
  • “Band-Gap Materials and Structures for Control of Mechanical Vibrations,” Invited lecture in Graduate Course EECS 598: Photonic Crystals, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 24th, 2004.
  • “Dynamics of Continuous and Atomistic Band-Gap Materials/Structures: Analysis, Design and Computation,” Invited talk, Rockwell Scientific Company, Thousand Oaks, California, November 17th, 2004.
  • “A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Dispersion: Its Role in Thermal Transport and Dynamics of Composite Materials and Structures,” Invited talk, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., October 25th, 2004.
  • “Introduction to Finite Volume Analysis,” Invited lecture in Graduate Course ME 511: Computational Methods in Engineering, Department of Engineering, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, December 31st, 1995.
  • “Frequency Domain Analysis of Nonlinear Systems in Structural Dynamics,” Invited talk in Graduate Research Seminar, Department of Engineering, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, October 19th, 1995.