CEE Virtual Seminars
Featuring distinguished guests in both academia and industry, as well as our own renowned faculty, the CEE Virtual Lecture Series brings together researchers working in all areas of civil and environmental engineering to share the latest advances of the field.
2021-22 Series Schedule
September 8, 2021
KYLE DELWICHE, postdoctoral researcher, University of California, Berkeley, "Modeling and measuring methane emissions from global reservoirs"
October 6, 2021
ILGIN GULER, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, Penn State, "Application of data-driven methods to infrastructure management"
October 20, 2021
GEORGE DEODATIS, professor of civil engineering, Columbia University, "Combined Effects of Sea Level Rise and Hurricanes on NYC’s Built Infrastructure: Optimal Adaptation Strategies"
November 3, 2021:
LAURA LAUTZ, program director for hydrologic sciences, National Science Foundation, "Impacts of channel degradation on stream health and water quality in urban watersheds"
November 5, 2021:
CHANDRA BHAT, professor and Joe J. King Chair in Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, "Adoption of Partially Automated Vehicle Technology Features and Impacts on Vehicle Miles of Travel (VMT)"
November 17, 2021:
MING XIAO, professor of civil and environmental engineering, Penn State CEE, "Permafrost Degradation and Its Impact on Natural Environment, Infrastructure, and Society in the Arctic"
January 18, 2022:
DR. ALYSSA FINDLAY, editor, Nature Climate Chang, "Introducing Nature Climate Change and the Nature Research Editorial Process"
February 2, 2022:
DRS. KYLE FRISCHKORN and LAURA ZINKE, editors, Nature Geosciences and Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, "Publishing in the Nature Portfolio Journals""
March 2, 2022:
DR. PRANNOY SURANENI, "Supplementary cementitious materials reactivity: From model systems to concrete durability""
April 13, 2022:
DR. STANLEY B. GRANT, Harleman Lecture, "Reversing the Freshwater Salinization Syndrome: A Call to Action for the Water Resources Research Community"
April 20, 2022:
DR. NING LIN, Princeton, "Hurricane Hazards and Risk in a Changing Climate"
2020-21 Lecture Series
- ELLEN WOHL, professor of geosciences at Colorado State University, “Messy Rivers are Healthy Rivers”
- HADI MEIDANI, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Scientific Machine Learning for Efficient Computational Design of Engineering Systems”
- JACK W. BAKER, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, “Simulation of regional post-earthquake recovery for performance-based engineering and resilience”
- BROOKS RAINWATER, senior executive and director at The National League of Cities’ Center for City Solutions, “Changes in the Built Environment in Light of COVID-19: A City and Policy Perspective” (recording not available)
- BRUCE LOGAN, Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering and Evan Pugh University Professor at Penn State, “You need to learn more about your daily energy use and carbon emissions to better understand the challenges of slowing climate change”
- CHRISTA KELLEHER, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Syracuse University, “Riverine thermal regimes” (recording not available)
- ALFONSO MEJIA, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Penn State, “Resilience of cities to climate-induced supply shocks”
- MEGAN KONAR, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Food flows between counties in the United States” and “A complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade-off in food trade”
- LEWIS LEHE, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Illlinoi at Urbana--Champaign, “’Hyperdemand’: traffic models with backward-bending demand curves”
- KRISTIN SAMPLE-LORD, assistant professor of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering at Villanova University, “Bentonite-based barriers for environmental protection: challenges and recent advancements”
- KOSTAS PAPAKONSTANTINOU, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Penn State, “Computational sequential decision-making under uncertainty at a human level or above, with applications in engineering”
