Departmental Seminar Series
Fall 2016 Fridays 11:30 am 2210 Doherty Hall
| Date | Speaker & Location | Title |
|
September |
Dr. Bradley D. Olsen Massachusetts Institute of Technology *lecture sponsored by MilliporeSigma, a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany |
Revisiting Classical Theories of Polymer Networks |
| September 9 |
Dr. Shawn Litster Carnegie Mellon University |
Nano-scale X-ray Computed Tomography Applied to Fuel Cell and Battery Electrodes |
| September 16 |
FACULTY RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS | for first year grads only |
| September 23 |
Dr. Richard Spontak North Carolina State University |
Controlling the Morphological and Property Development in Charged Thermoplastic Elastomers for Emerging Applications |
| September 30 |
Dr. Judith C. Yang University of Pittsburgh |
Structural Dynamics of Surface Reactions: Oxidation and Heterogeneous Catalysis |
| October 7 |
Safety and Ethics Presentation | This seminar is mandatory for all MSE Graduate Students |
| October 14 |
Dr. Kris N. Dahl Carnegie Mellon University |
From Proteins to Tissues: Multi-Scale Biomodulation by Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes |
| October 21 |
mid-semester break | NO SEMINAR |
| October 28 |
Dr. Ichiro Takeuchi University of Maryland |
Combinatorial Approach to Materials Discovery |
| November 4 |
Dr. Volker W. Blum Duke University |
Materials for Solar Energy Capture and Conversion by Scalable All-Electron First-Principles Simulations |
| November 11 |
Dr. Kevin Healy University of California, Berkeley |
Bioinspired Materials Systems to Study and Regulate Stem Cell Biology |
| November 18 |
Dr. Bernard Rolfe Deakin University, Australia |
Adventures in Bending: Forming Advanced and Ultra High Steel and Other Lightweight Materials |
| November 25 |
Thanksgiving Holiday | NO SEMINAR |
| December 2 |
Dr. Valeria Milam Georgia Institute of Technology |
Screening and Characterizing DNA-based Ligands for Gold Nanomaterials |
| December 9 |