Colloquia

Fall 2026

Fridays, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Joyce Cummings Center (JCC), Room 170

September 11, 2026
Introductory Class

September 18, 2026
Semiconductors, Ultra-High Vacuum
Ramya Chandrasekaran, Ph.D., Director of Technology and Head of Thin Films
Dynavac, Massachusetts

September 25, 2026
Cancelled

October 2, 2026
Photonics, Plasmonic, Metamaterials
Viktor Podolskiy, Professor, Assistant Chair, Graduate Coordinator of Physics
University of Massachusetts – Lowell

October 9, 2026
Abstract To Be Announced
Owen Melia, Research Fellow, Center for Computational Mathematics
Flatiron Institute

October 16, 2026
Animal Inspired Robotics
Hungtang Ko, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Tufts University

October 23, 2026
To Be Announced

October 30, 2026
Integrated Photonics, Sensing, Heterogenous Integration
Christopher Heidelberger, Technical Staff
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

November 6, 2026
Medical Robotics, Image-Guided Interventions, Medical Software
Laura Connolly, Malone Postdoctoral Fellow, Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare
Johns Hopkins University

November 13, 2026
Acoustics, Beamforming
Diego Cuji Dutan, Senior Postdoctoral Associate, Electrical Engineering
Stony Brook University

November 20, 2026
To Be Announced

November 27, 2027
No Classes (Thanksgiving)

December 4, 2026
To Be Announced

December 11, 2026
Medical Robotics
Pierre Dupont
Edward P. Marram Chair and Chief Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering, Boston Children’s Hospital 
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School