Invited Seminars @ MESA Lab @ UC Merced

Invited Academic Research Seminars Hosted by Professor Chen and MESA LAB since Fall 2014

2023

10/09/2023. "DIGITAL TWIN SUPPORTED POWER ELECTRONICS CONTROLLER DESIGN: A CASE STUDY FOR FLYBACK CONVERTERS". by Marco Milanesi, PhD Candidate at the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Brescia, Italy. Monday, Oct. 9, 2023; 12:00noon to 1:00pm; Location: Zoom [ flyer.docx can be used as a future flyer template]

Many seminars not listed. Lazy. Blame pandemics too.

2015

08/14/2015. Friday. Dingyu Xue. Northeastern University, China. "Object Oriented Programming in MATLAB - with Applications to Fractional-order Systems" and Prof. Xuefeng Zhang. Northeastern University, China. "State transition matrix of linear time varying fractional order systems and its application in stability" (flyer.docx) AFC Workshop.
07/06/2015. Dr. Antonio Visioli. Università degli Studi di Brescia. Robust Fractional Order Controls. AFC Workshop. (Flyer.pdf)
04/03/2015. Friday. Mark Edelman. Stern College for Women and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York. Systems with power-law memory and fractional attractors. (Flyer)
02/27/2015. Friday. Professor Carlos Montalvo, Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of South Alabama. META AIRCRAFT FLIGHT DYNAMICS AND CONTROLS. (Flyer) (ME flyer)

2014

12/05/2014. Prof. Dr. Woonki Na, Electrical and Computer Engineering,California State University, Fresno. Controls of Power Converters for Energy Systems and Electric Vehicle Applications. (Flyer.docx)
11/24/2014. Dr. Calvin Coopmans. AggieAir @ USU. Research and Operations at Utah State University AggieAir: Cyberphysical Unmanned Remote Sensing. (Flyer.docx)
11/21/2014. Dr. Mendez-Costabel, Martin. E&J Gallo Winery. "High resolution imagery and new data processing technologies for vineyard analytics" (Flyer.docx)
11/04/2014. Prof. Dr. Lincong Chen. Visiting Professor. Huaqiao Univ. China. Stochastic dynamics and fractional optimal control of quasi integrable Hamiltonian systems with fractional derivative damping (Flyer.docx)
10/31/2014. Dr. Yuri Owechko. HRL. Overview of Sensor Processing Research at HRL Laboratories (Flyer.docx)

Impressive Seminars Attended by Dr. YangQuan Chen

11/14/2014. 1:30PM. SE2-224.

Cold Plasma Biomedicine

Prof. David Graves

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

Ionized gas plasmas near room temperature are used in a remarkable number of technological applications mainly because they are extraordinarily efficient at exploiting electrical power for useful chemical and material transformations near room temperature. For example, plasma-assisted thin film deposition and etching applications in integrated circuit manufacture have evolved into technologies that allow control of features at the nanometer scale in commercial processes. In this seminar, I will address the newest area of low temperature ionized gas plasmas, in this case operating under atmospheric pressure conditions, in which the temperature-sensitive material is living tissue. We sometimes use the term cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) to describe near-room temperature, atmospheric pressure partially ionized gas plasmas. CAP research directed towards biomedical applications such as sterilization, surgery, wound healing and anti-cancer therapy has seen remarkable growth in the last 3-5 years, but the mechanisms responsible for the biomedical effects have remained mysterious. It is known that AGP readily create reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS). ROS and RNS (or RONS), in addition to a suite of other radical and non-radical reactive species, are essential actors in an important sub-field of aerobic biology termed ‘redox’ (or oxidation-reduction) biology. I will review the evidence suggesting that RONS generated by plasmas are responsible for their observed therapeutic effects. Finally, I will review recent research results from our group and from other groups around the world, and suggest some of the more promising intellectual challenges and biomedical applications from our current perspective.

Speaker

David B. Graves joined the University of California at Berkeley in 1986 after receiving his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He is currently Full Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UC Berkeley. Professor Graves holds the Lam Research Distinguished Chair in Semiconductor Processing at UC Berkeley. He is author or co-author of over 200 publications. Prof. Graves is a fellow of the American Vacuum Society and the Institute of Physics and was the recipient of the Electrochemical Society Young Author Award, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Tegal Plasma Thinker Award, the 3rd annual Plasma Prize of the Plasma Science and Technology Division of the American Vacuum Society, and the 2014 Allis Prize of the American Physical Society.