Seminars
Archived Materials-Related Seminars
Thursday, November 19, 2009
10:00 AM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Microbiological Engineering"
Ali Demirci, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, PSU
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
10:00 AM - 320 Whitmore Building
"Asymptotics of the New Vertex"
Frank Hellmann
Friday, November 13, 2009
3:30 PM - 339 Davey
"Quantum coherence of protons in water on surfaces, superprotonic conductors and ferroelectrics, as observed by Deep Inelastic Neutron Scattering"
George Reiter, University of Houston
Series - CAMP
Thursday, November 12, 2009
4:00 PM - 135 Reber Building
"Air Products Distinguished Lecturer"
Dr. Marmoru Ishii, Walter Zinn Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Series - NucE Seminar
Thursday, November 05, 2009
11:00 AM - 339 Davey
"Low Frequency Dynamics of Solid Helium"
John Beamish, University of Alberta
10:00 AM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Vaccination Using Microneedles"
Mark Prausnitz, Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Thursday, October 29, 2009
4:00 PM - 117 Osmond
"Cooper Pair Mediated Coherence Between Two Normal Metals"
Venkat Chandrasekar, Northwestern
10:00 AM - 102 Chemistry Building
"A Cornucopia of Particle Packings: From Hard Spheres to Ellipses and from Polymer Packings to Folded Proteins"
Corey O'Hern, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Physics, Yale
Friday, October 23, 2009
11:00 AM - 117 HUB-Robeson Center
"Interface Engineering of Tailored Interfaces for Organic Opto-Electronics and Photovoltaics"
Tobin J. Marks, Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Series - Nelson W. Taylor Lecture in Materials
10:15 AM - 117 HUB-Robeson Center
"Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy, Imaging and Devices in Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics"
Venkatraman Gopalan, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Associate Director of the Center for Optical Technologies
Series - Nelson W. Taylor Lecture in Materials
9:45 AM - 117 HUB-Robeson Center
"Refractive Index Engineered Nanostructures"
Theresa Mayer, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Associate Director of the Materials Research Institute, Penn State
Series - Nelson W. Taylor Lecture in Materials
9:15 AM - 117 HUB-Robeson Center
"What Can Be Done with Sculptured Thin Films"
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles G. Binder Endowed Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State
Series - Nelson W. Taylor Lecture in Materials
8:45 AM - 117 HUB-Robeson Center
"Optoelectronic Applications of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanostructures"
Jian Xu, Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State
Series - Nelson W. Taylor Lecture in Materials
Thursday, October 22, 2009
10:00 AM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Development of High Performance Anodes and Cathodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells"
John Vohs, Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, October 08, 2009
10:00 AM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Adaptive Kinetic Monte Carlo for Simulating Dynamics in Atomic Systems"
Graeme Henkelman, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, September 24, 2009
10:00 AM - 102 Chemistry Building
"The Wonders of One Dimensional Chemistry: Carbon Nanotubes for Single Molecule bioDetection and Energy Applications"
Michael Strano, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
3:30 PM - 339 Davey Lab
"Role of the Near-Field Modes in Thermal Conductance Across a Nanoscale Interface"
Slava Rotkin, Lehigh Univeresity
Series - CAMP
Thursday, September 10, 2009
10:00 AM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Thin Film Processing Challenges in Solar Energy and Nanomaufacturing Applications"
Raymond Adomaitis, Professor, Dept. Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland
Thursday, September 03, 2009
10:00 AM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Water Management in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells"
Chao-Yang Wang, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Penn State
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
3:30 PM - 339 Davey
"Where's My Hydrogen Car? Concepts and Reality for Gas Storage in Materials"
Craig Brown, NIST
Series - CAMP
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
2:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"A Novel Ultra-cold Molecular Rydberg Plasma: A New State of Matter"
Klaus Muller-Dethlefs, University of Manchester
Thursday, August 20, 2009
10:00 AM - 140 Fenske Laboratory
"Support Effect on Syngas Formation from Natural Gas and from Renewable Bio-Oil"
Prof. Fabio Barboza Passos, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Universidade Federal Fluminense de Niteroi de Brazil
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
10:00 AM - 250 MRL Building
"Crystal Chemistry and Domain Structure of Rare-Earth Doped BiFeO3 Ceramics"
Ian Reaney, University of Sheffield, UK
Monday, July 13, 2009
10:45 AM - 186 MRI Building
"The Latest and Greatest in DualBeam(TM) and Extreme High Resolution SEM"
Lucille A Giannuzzi, FEI Company
Thursday, June 04, 2009
8:00 PM - 102 Thomas
"Fashion, Faith and Fantasy: How Big is Infinity"
Roger Penrose, Oxford University
Monday, June 01, 2009
12:00 PM - S-5 Osmond
"Directed Motion of Colloidal Particles Via Chemical Reactions: Osmotic Propulsion"
Ubaldo M. Cordova-Figueroa, Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
2:00 PM - 125 Reber
"Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) Compact Gasifier Development"
Kenneth Sprouse Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Series - A Center for Advanced Power Generation Seminar
Notes - Refreshments to be served at 1:30 PM
Monday, May 18, 2009
10:00 AM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Hydroxyl Mediated Activity and Stability of Supported Gold Catalysts"
Dr. Gabriel Veith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Friday, May 08, 2009
2:30 PM - 301A Chemistry Building
"Studying the Dynamics of Chemical Reactions with Force Fields: Proton Transfer and Ligand Binding in Proteins"
Markus Meuwly, University of Basel
Monday, May 04, 2009
12:00 PM - S-5 Osmond
"Probing the states near the Fermi level in GaMnAs using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)"
Anthony Richardella, Princeton University
Thursday, April 30, 2009
11:15 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"Calorimetric Studies of the Energetics of Nanomaterials and their Surfaces and Interfaces"
Dr. Alexandra Navrotsky, Director, Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory
Series - MatSE Colloquium
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
2:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Multifunctional Nanowires: From Nanoactuators to Nanomotors"
Joseph Wang, University of California, San Diego
1:30 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Domain Textures in Piezoelectric Materials"
Prof. Keith Bowman, Purdue University
Series - MatSE 597D
Thursday, April 23, 2009
11:15 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"Dynamic Electron Microscopy of the Growth of Semiconductor Nanowires"
Dr. Frances M. Ross, Manager, Nanoscale Materials Analysis Department
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
1:30 PM - 250 MRL Building
"High Power Measurement and Characterization of Piezoelectrics"
Seyit Ural, MatSE, Penn State
Series - MatSE 597D
12:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Anisotropic Nanostructure: Building Valency into Nanoparticles"
Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
3:30 PM - 339 Davey
"Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: a Dynamical Mean Field Theory Perspective"
Gabriel Kotliar, Rutgers University
Series - CAMP Seminar
10:00 AM - 102 Chemistry Building
"On the Hydrogen Lubrication Mechanisms of Nearly-Frictionless Carbon Films: An Imaging TOF-SIMS Study"
Ali Erdemir, Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Friday, April 17, 2009
3:30 PM - 22 Deike Building
"Managing for Value in the Current Precious Metals Environment"
Richard O'Brien, President & Chief Executive Officer, Newmont Mining Corp.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
2:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Near Fields without NSOMs"
Anne A. Lazarides, Duke University
1:30 PM - 189 MRL Building
"The Secret Life of Ferroic Domain Walls"
Prof. Venkat Gopalan, MatSE Dept., Penn State
Series - MatSE 597D
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
10:00 AM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Colloidal Separations by Sedimentation"
Darrell Velegol, Associate Professor Chemistry, Penn State
Monday, April 13, 2009
2:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Ambifunctional Molecular Systems in Organic Synthesis"
Paul Blakemore, Oregon State University
Friday, April 10, 2009
2:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Studies of Electron Tunneling and Transport in Molecules and between Biomolecules and Electrodes"
David Waldeck, University of Pittsburgh
Thursday, April 09, 2009
12:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Self-Assembly Processes for Constructing Unconventional Organic, Organometallic, and Inorganic Electronic Circuitry"
Tobin Marks, Northwestern University
11:15 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"Calorimetric Studies of the Energies of Nanomaterials and their Surfaces and Interfaces"
Dr. Alexandra Navrotsky, Director, Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory and NEAT ORU
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
1:30 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Structuring of Composites and the Effect of Induced Anisotropy on Their Electrical Properties"
Vivek Tomer, Penn State MRI
Series - MatSE 597D
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
1:55 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Laminar Composite Dielectric for High Energy Density Capacitors"
Pratyush Tewari, MatSE, Penn State
Series - MatSE 597D
1:30 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Phase-field simulation of Domain Stabilities and Structures in Strained SrTiO3"
Guang Sheng, MatSE, Penn State
Series - MatSE 597D
Thursday, March 26, 2009
11:15 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"Polyelectrolyte Materials for Batteries, Fuel Cells and other Energy Applications"
Dr. John Kerr, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
1:30 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Electrocaloric Materials, Properties, and Potential for Solid State Refrigeration"
Dr. David Sheng-Guo Lu, Penn State MRI
Series - MatSE 597D
Thursday, March 19, 2009
11:15 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"Understanding and Designing Engineering Materials Based on Ab Initio Thermodynamics"
Dr. Jorg Neugebauer, Director of Computational Materials Design, Max-Planck-Institute
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
2:00 PM - C213 Coal Utilization Lab
"Fuel Flexibility for New Generation Combustion Applications"
Don Ferguson, PhD, National Energy Technology Lab - US DOE
Notes - refreshments served at 1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Evaluation of Single Crystal Technology for Use in High Power Underwater Transducers"
Nevin Sherlock, ARL
1:30 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Large Signal Measurement of Hard Ferroelectric Ceramic and Crystals"
Nevin P. Sherlock, Penn State ARL
Series - MatSE 597D
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
10:00 AM - 102 Chemistry Building
"The Role of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering in Coping with the Energy Crisis"
Dionisios G. Vlachos, Senior Professor and Chair, University of Delaware
Thursday, March 05, 2009
2:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Mechanoresponsive Polymers"
Jeff Moore, University of Illinois
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
1:30 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Nanostructures and Microstructures of Ferroelectric Polymers Using Lithography and Self-Assembly"
Dr. Lei Zhang, Penn State MRI
Series - MatSE 597D
Thursday, February 26, 2009
12:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Coordination"
Peter Stang, University of Utah
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
1:55 PM - 189 MRL Building
"High Field Characterization of Ferroelectrics"
Ichiro Fujii, MatSE, Penn State
Series - MatSE 597D
1:55 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Dielectric Materials for Thin Layer Devices"
Roni Levi, MatSE, Penn State
Series - MatSE 597D
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
1:30 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Defect Structures and Their Impact in Functional Oxides"
Prof. Clive A. Randall, MatSE, Penn State
Series - MatSE 597D
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
1:30 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Recent Progresses in Piezoelectric Single Crystal Development"
Prof. Ho-Yong Lee, Sunmoon University, Korea
Series - MatSE 597D
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
1:30 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting"
Prof. George A Lesieutre, Aerospace Engineering, Penn State
Series - MatSE 597D
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
1:30 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Laser Annealing of Films"
Dr. Srowthi Bharadwaja, Research Associate, Penn State MRI
Series - MatSE 597D
Thursday, January 22, 2009
4:00 PM - 117 Osmond
"A Nanoscience Approach to Photocatalysis and Solar Cells"
Tom Mallouk, Penn State
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
3:30 PM - 339 Davey
"A Self-Consistent Theory for Graphene Transport"
Shaffique Adam, University of Maryland
Series - CAMP
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
1:55 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Probing Coupled Order Parameters in Multiferroics Using Non-linear Optics"
Amit Kumar, MatSE, Penn State
Series - MatSE 597D
1:30 PM - 189 MRL Building
"Nonlinear Optical Probing of Strain Enabled Ferroeelectric CaTiO3 and Multiferroic EuTiO3"
Eftihia Vlahos, MatSE, Penn State
Series - MatSE 597D
Thursday, December 11, 2008
10:10 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"Understanding the Evolution of Complex Microstructures: Fundamentals and Applications"
Katsuyo Thornton, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Host - MATSE
Series - Materials Science and Engineering 590
Thursday, December 04, 2008
10:10 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"The Surface Kinetics of the Initial Stages of Cu and Cu Alloy Oxidation"
Judith Yang, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, B.P. America Faculty Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
Host - MATSE
Series - Materials Science and Engineering 590
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
2:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Fast Fluid Flow through Nanotubes and Nanopipes"
Jacob Beveridge, Penn State
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
4:00 PM - 135 Reber
"Near-Wall Velocimetry in Microscale Flows"
Minami Yoda, Georgia Tech
Series - Mechanical Seminar Series
Monday, November 24, 2008
12:00 PM - S-5 Osmond
"Strain Enabled Multiferroicity in EuTiO3 and CaTiO3"
Darrell Schlom, MatSE, PSU
Thursday, November 20, 2008
10:10 AM - 26 Hosler Building
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Nitash Balsara, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Host - MATSE
Series - Materials Science and Engineering 590
Monday, November 17, 2008
11:15 AM - 301 Steidle Building
"FIB-Based Techniques for 3D Imaging and Analysis"
Lucille A. Giannuzzi, Ph.D. of FEI Company
Thursday, November 13, 2008
10:10 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"Deconstructing Nanowires: Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships at the Nanoscale"
Lincoln Lauhon, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
Host - MATSE
Series - Materials Science and Engineering 590
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
4:00 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Nanometer-scale Mechanics of Microtubules"
Zachary Donhouser, Vassar College
4:00 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Nanometer-scale Mechanics of Microtubules"
Zachary Donhauser, Vassar College
3:30 PM - 339 Davey
"Scattering of Dirac Fermions in Graphene"
Jun Zhu, Penn State
Series - CAMP
Thursday, November 06, 2008
2:00 PM - 125 Reber
"Energy Production in a Carbon-Constrained World"
Dr. George Richards, Focus Area Leader, Energy System Dynamics, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
Series - Advanced Power Generation Seminar Series
10:10 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"Microstructural Design and Control of Electronic Ceramics"
Toshi Tani, Senior Executive Engineer, Toyota Research Institute of North America and Professor, Toyota Technological Institute
Host - MATSE
Series - Materials Science and Engineering 590
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
10:10 AM - 140 Fenske Laboratory
"Next Generation Biofuels"
James C. Liao, Chancellor's Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Friday, October 31, 2008
2:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Charge Separation and Transport in Organic Semiconductors"
Xiaoyang Zhu, University of Minnesota
2:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"The Exciton Dissociation Problem in Inorganic Quantum Dot and Organic Semiconductor Based Solar Cells"
Xiaoyang Zhu, University of Minnesota
Thursday, October 30, 2008
10:10 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"Design of a Stable Nanocrystalline Alloy Coating"
Christopher Schuh, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host - MATSE
Series - Materials Science and Engineering 590
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
4:00 PM - 135 Reber
"Carbide-Derived Carbons for Super-capacitors and other Energy Related Applications"
Yuri Gogotsi, Drexel Univeristy
Series - Mechanical Seminar Series
3:30 PM - 339 Davey
"The Power of Graphene for Electronics and How to Channel It"
Jorge Sofo, Penn State
Series - CAMP Seminar
3:30 PM - 339 Davey Lab
"The Power of Graphene for Electronics and How to Channel It"
Jorge Sofo, Associate Professor of Physics, Director of Materials Simulation Center, Penn State
Series - CAMP Seminar
10:10 AM - 140 Fenske Laboratory
"Particle Migration and Self-Organization in Simple and Chaotic Flows"
James F. Gilchrist, P.C. Rossin Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University
Thursday, October 23, 2008
12:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Toward Coherent Control in the Nanoscale"
Tamar Seideman, Northwestern University
Host - Chemistry
10:10 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"Charged Polymers and Charged Liquids"
David Hoagland, Associate Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, University Of Massachusetts
Host - MATSE
Series - Materials Science and Engineering 590
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
4:00 PM - 135 Reber
"An Introduction To Structural Magnetostrictive Alloys"
Alison Flatau, University of Maryland
Series - Mechanical Seminar Series
Thursday, October 16, 2008
2:00 PM - 125 Reber
"Challenges of Carbon Dioxide Capture as a Global Warming Mitigation Strategy"
Dr. George Muntean, Chief Engineer & Director of Transportation Programs Energy and Environment, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Series - Advanced Power Generation Seminar Series
10:10 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"Templated Titania Coatings for Flexible Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells"
Dunbar Birnie, Professor of Ceramic Engineering, Rutgers University
Host - MATSE
Series - Materials Science and Engineering 590
Friday, October 10, 2008
2:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Exploring Electron Transfer: From Simple Photochemistry to Energy Conversion"
Troy Van Voorhis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, October 09, 2008
4:00 PM - 102 Thomas Building
"Gas Separations Using Ionic Liquids and Ionic Liquid Polymers"
Richard D. Noble, Alfred T. & Betty E. Look Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder
10:10 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"Piezoelectric Thin Films for Sensors, Actuators and Energy Harvesting"
Susan Troiler-McKinstry, Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering and Director, W. M. Keck Smart Materials Integration Laboratory, Penn State University
Host - MATSE
Series - Materials Science and Engineering 590
Thursday, October 02, 2008
10:10 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"Many-Scale and Multi-Scale Modeling in Computational Nanoscience"
Peter Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University and Principal Scientist in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Host - MATSE
Series - Materials Science and Engineering 590
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
4:00 PM - 135 Reber
"A New Frontier for Interventional Medical Devices Enabled by Thin Film Shape Memory Alloys"
Greg Carman, UCLA
Series - Mechanical Seminar Series
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