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Fall 2010

Sept. 9	Michael Rubner	MIT	Interdisciplinary Materials Research at MIT
Sept. 23 hosts: Tuller, Demkowicz	Susan Trolier-McKinstry	Penn State	Designing Piezoelectric Films for MEMS Applications
Oct. 7 hosts: Beach, Grossman	Malcolm Stocks	ORNL	Fundamental Studies of Defects in Structural Materials: Dislocations and Displacement Cascades
Oct. 21 host: Rubner	Kripa Varanasi	MIT	Nanoengineered Surfaces for Efficiency Enhancements in Energy and Water
Nov. 4 hosts: Grossman, Demkowicz	Daryl Chrzan	UC Berkeley	Mechanical Properties of Gum Metal
Nov. 18 hosts: Alexander-Katz, Rubner	John Rogers	UIUC	Materials and Assembly Techniques for Unusual Semiconductor Devices: Applications in Photovoltaics and Bio-Integrated Electronics

Feb. 4 host: Geoff Beach	Eric Fullerton	UCSD	Spin-Transfer Phenomena in High-Anisotropy Magnetic Nanostructures
Feb. 18 hosts: Silvija, Alfredo	Mark Brongersma	Stanford	Si Photonics Meets Plasmonics
March 4 hosts: Mike D., K. Van Vliet	L. Mahadevan	Harvard	Soft Interfaces: Statics and Dynamics
March 18 host: Silvija	Sumio Iijima	Meijo University, Japan	Atomic Structure Details of Nano-Carbon Materials
April 1 hosts: Mike D., AAK	Andrea Hodge	USC	Nanoporous Metal Foams: Synthesis and Mechanical Behavior
April 15 hosts: Jeff G., Francesco	Roberto Car	Princeton	Hydrogen Bonds: A Challenge for Ab-Initio Simulations

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