Departmental Seminar Series

Spring 2012

Fridays, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Wean Hall 7500

Date	Speaker & Location	Title
January 30	Alberto Fernandez De Las Nieves Georgia Institute of Technology	Spheres, doughnuts, pretzels and frustrated nematic order
January 27	John Allison University of Michigan	Integrated Computational Materials Engineering: The Next Big Thing in Structural Materials
February 3	Mark Hersam Northwestern University	Chemically refined carbon nanomaterials for electronics, energy and medicine
February 10	Hyung Ju Ryu Carnegie Mellon University, MSE	Microstructure Evolution in Block Copolymer/Block Copolymer Blend Systems
February 17	NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR
February 24	Philip Kim Columbia University	Toward Graphene Quantum Electronics
March 2	Yury Gogotsi Drexel University	Carbon Nanomaterials for Energy Applications
March 9	GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM 9AM – 6PM Singleton Room
March 16	SPRING BREAK	NO SEMINAR
March 23	Jeffery Brown Westinghouse	Performance of Nuclear Fuel Materials under Normal and Accident Conditions
March 30	OPEN HOUSE WEEKEND	NO SEMINAR
April 6	Darrell Schlom Cornell University	Enhancing Oxide Properties – The Approach of the Modern Alchemist
April 13	William Gerberich University of Minnesota	Low-Temperature, High Toughness, Ceramics
April 20	CARNIVAL	NO SEMINAR
April 27	Jeff Brinker Sandia National Laboratory
May 4	Naomi Halas Rice University