Past Materials Science and Engineering Seminars

Spring 2010

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

Sept. 10 hosts: Ned?	Richard Register	Princeton	Shear-Aligned Block Copolymer Thin Films as Nanofrabrication Templates
Sept. 24 hosts: Demkowicz/Beach	Amit Misra	LANL	Design of Multifunctional Nanolayered Composites
Oct. 1 hosts: Alfredo?	Stephen Forrest	U. Michigan	Nanostructured Organic Thin Films
Oct. 15: hosts: Francesco/Chris Love	Sharon Glotzer	U. Michigan	Designing for Self-Assembly: The Shape of Things to Come
Oct. 29 hosts: Rubner/Cohen	Andrew Parker	Oxford	Biomimetics: Design by Nature
Nov. 5 hosts: Grossman/Gradecak	Alex Zettl	UC Berkeley	Exploiting Carbon Nano-Materials for Electronic and Mechanical Applications
Nov. 19 hosts: Francesco	Debra Rolison	NRL	Nanoarchitectures: Why More of Less is More---Especially for Energy Storage and Conversion

Feb. 6 host: Rubner	Monica de la Cruz	Northwestern	Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking by Electrostatics in Helical Fibers and Buckled Membranes
Feb. 20 host: Francesco	Frans Spaepen	Harvard	Simulating Atomic-Scale Phenomena with Colloids
April 24 host: MRS student chapter	David Seidman	Northwestern	On the Genesis of Nuclei and Phase Decomposition on an Atomic Scale
May 1 host: Silvija	Matthew Doty	U. Delaware	Quantum Dot Molecules
May 8 host: Ned	David Smith	Duke	Expanding the Realm of Electromagnetics: From Negative Refraction to Transformation Optics and Invisibility Cloaks

Oct. 3	Paul McEuen	Cornell	Nano-Carbon: From String Theory to Atomic Drums
Oct. 17 (postponed)	David Smith	Duke	(as above)
Oct. 24	Taeghwan Hyeon	SNU	Large-Scale Synthesis of Uniform-Sized Nanoparticles and their Designed Assembly and Multifunctional Biomedical Applications
Nov. 14	Ken Sandhage	Georgia Tech	Shape-Preserving Chemical Conversion of 3-D Nanostructured Biological Assemblies
Nov. 21	Chekesha Liddell	Cornell	Confinement Controlled Ordering of Nonspherical Colloids for Photonic Applications
Dec. 12	Izabela Szlufarska	U. Wisconsin	Friction and Adhesion at the Nanoscale

Feb. 22	Elise Morgan	Boston University	Measurement of the Local Mechanical Environment of Skeletal Tissues
March 21	Naomi Halas	Rice University	Plasmonics: Merging Nanoparticles with Light
April 4	Roger Hanlon	Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole	Quick-Changing Camouflage in Octopus and Squid: Potential Biomimetic and Biophotonic Applications in Engineering and Materials Science
April 18	Juan de Pablo	University of Wisconsin	Driven Assembly at the Nanoscale and its Application to Nanofrabrication
April 25	ENERGY MICROSYMPOSIUM	Harry Atwater; Gerbrand Ceder, Bob Armstrong	Frontiers of Materials Science: Role of Materials in the Energy Landscape
May 2	John Cumings	Univ. of Maryland	In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy: From Telescoping Nanotubes to Artificial Ice
May 9	David Srolovitz	Yeshiva University	Grain Growth, Shape, and Topology in All Dimensions: Beyond von Neumann-Mullins

Sept. 14th	Sergio Lozano-Perez	Oxford University	Recent Advances in Stress Corrosion Cracking Characterization
Sept. 21st	Sara Majetich	Carnegie Mellon Univ.	Nanoscale Imaging of Magnetic Nanoparticles
Nov. 2nd	Frederico Capasso	Harvard Univ.	The Bright Future of Nanophotonics: Recent Advances and Challenges
Nov. 9th	Energy Microsymposium	Gerd Ceder, Yet-Ming Chiang, Moniz, Mukerjee	Materials for Energy: Materials challenges, new developments, and potential solutions to the energy problem
Nov. 16th	Craig Hawker	UC Santa Barbara	Design Strategies for the Synthesis and Commercial Application of Tailor-Made Polymeric Nanostructures
Nov. 30th	Joerg Lahann	Univ. of Michigan	Engineering the Biointerface: From Switchable Surfaces to Multiphasic Polymer Particles

Feb. 23rd	John Cahn	Univ. of Washington	The Unexpected Coupling of Shear to the Motion of Interfaces Between Crystalline Grains
March 9th	Darrin Pochan	Univ. of Delaware	Construction of Nano-Structures and Materials Through Polypeptide or Charged Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
March 23rd	Michael Graetzel	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne	Mesoscopic Junctions and Nanocrystalline Solar Cells
April 6th	Shu Yang	UPenn	Directed Assembly on Patterned Polymer Substrates: From Soft Robotics to Photonics
April 20th	Mauro Ferrari	Univ. Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Silicon Nanotechnologies for Medical Applications
May 4th	Mark Asta	UC Davis	The Crystal-Melt Interface: Insights from Atomic-Scale Modeling

Sept. 15	Julia Kornfield	Caltech	Making them Faster and Better: Flow-Induced Crystallization of Polymers
Sept. 29	Ainissa Ramirez	Yale	The Crystallization of NiTi Shape Memory Thin Films
Oct. 13	Gerard Wong	U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Molecular "Hole-Punchers" and their Mechanisms: From Synthetic Antimicrobials to HIV Protein Transduction Domains
Oct. 27	Vincent Pigot	U. College London	The Spread of Tin-Bronze in the Old World: A Pan-Asian Technological Phenomenon
Nov. 17	Rachel Goldman	U. Michigan	Tailoring the Nanometer-Scale Structure and Properties of Dilute Semiconductor Alloys
Dec. 8	Miguel Salmeron	LBNL	Liquids, Wetting and Surface Reactions at the Nanometer Scale

Sept. 9	Jerry Tersoff	IBM
Sept. 16	Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann	Queen Mary College, U. of London
Sept. 23	Jennifer Lewis	Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Sept. 30	Sossina Haile	Caltech
Oct. 7	Paul Nealy	Univ. Wisconsin
Oct. 14	Chris Wolverton	Ford
Oct. 21	Frances Ross	IBM
Oct. 26	Chad Mirkin	Northwestern
Nov. 4	Giulia Galli	LLNL
Nov. 18	Mike Aziz	Harvard
May 5	Paul Alivisatos	UC Berkeley
Dec. 9	Thomas Russell	UMass Amherst