Lecture Series
Lecture Series
Materials Science and Engineering Department – Fall 2019 Seminars
Fall 2020 Seminars
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 – CANCELLED
Jinsang Kim
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Seminar Title: Designing Conjugated Polymers and Organic Emitters for Smart Chemical and Bio Sensors
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Tony Low, PhD
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Seminar Title: 2D Materials Plasmons: Physics and Applications
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Karen I. Winey
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Seminar Title: Self-Assembly of Segmented Polyolefin-Based Single Ion Conductors: New Morphologies and Ion Conductivity
Previous Seminars
FALL 2019 SEMINARS
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Dr. John Q. Xiao
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
The Development of Spintronics: How Application-Driven Research Advances Science
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Dr. Ebrahim Najafi
The Chemours Company
Wilmington, Delaware
Seminar Title: Space-Time Imaging of Charge Carriers at the Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Dr. Cecilia Leal
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Illinois
Seminar Title: Complexity in the Chemistry and Physics of Lipid Membranes as a Handle to Activate the Delivery of Cargo to Cells
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Dr. Jason Valentine
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Seminar Title: Flat Optics: From Dynamic Control to Optical Computing
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Dr. Melissa Grunlan
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Texas A & M University
Seminar Title: Orthopedic Biomaterials Enabled by Network Architecture
Fall 2018 Seminars
Dr. Michael Yakes
Naval Research Lab
Washington, DC
Web Site: https://www.nrl.navy.mil/
Seminar Title: Understanding Diffusion and Phase Separation in InGaAs Lattice Matched to InP
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Dr. Paul J. Simmonds
Physics – Micron School of Materials Science & Engineering
Boise State University
Website: https://coen.boisestate.edu/faculty-staff/paulsimmonds/
Joint Seminar with Physics
Seminar Title: Tensile-strained self-assembly of quantum dots for entangled photon sources and band structure engineering
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Dr. Tingyi Gu
Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Delaware
Web Site: http://www.ece.udel.edu/research/by-faculty.Tingyi%20Gu.html
Seminar Title: Integrated photonics of advanced materials
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Dr. Zubin Jacob
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Purdue University
Web Site: http://www.zjresearchgroup.org/
Seminar Title: Photon Spin Quantization in New Topological Phases of Matter
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Dr. Kyle Lampe
Chemical Engineering
University of Virginia
Web Site: https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/kyle-j-lampe
Joint Seminar with Biomedical Engineering
Seminar Title: Biomaterial Design for 3D Hydrogel Microenvironments and Neural Tissue Engineering
Wednesday, November 14. 2018
Dr. Edo Waks
Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Maryland
Web Site: https://ece.umd.edu/faculty/waks
Seminar Title: Quantum Nanophotonics: Controlling spin with light on a semiconductor chip
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Dr. Chekesha M. Liddell Watson
Materials Science & Engineering
Cornell University
Web Site: http://www.mse.cornell.edu/people/profile.cfm?netid=cml66
Seminar Title: No title at this time
Spring 2018 Seminars
February 7, 2018- Dr. Russell Composto
Materials Science and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Web Site: https://polymer.seas.upenn.edu/
Seminar Title: Using Nanoparticle Diffusion to Reveal the Nanostructure in Polymer Hydrogels
March 14, 2018 – Dr. Derek Patton
Polymer Science & Engineering
University of Southern Mississippi
Web Site: https://www.usm.edu/polymer/faculty/derek-l-patton
Seminar Title: Degradable, Pro-Active Polymer Networks via Thiol-Mediated Photopolymerization
April 18, 2018 – Dr. Peter J, Schuck
Mechanical Engineering
Columbia University
Web Site: http://engineering.columbia.edu/web/faculty/content/peter-j-schuck
From band gaps to bound excitons: disentangling optical transitions and localized emitters in TMDCs even at nanoscale dimensions
May 9, 2018 – Dr. Susan Sinnott
Materials Science & Enginerring
The Pennsylvania State University
Web Site: http://www.matse.psu.edu/directory/faculty/susan-sinnott
Seminar Title: Material Design and Discovery
Fall 2017 Seminars
October 11, 2017- Dr. Jane Chang
William F. Seyer Chair in Materials Electrochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Web Site: http://www.seas.ucla.edu/Chang/
November 1, 2017 – Dr. Glen Solomon
Joint Quantum Institute
National Institute of Standards & Technology & University of Maryland
Web Site: http://jqi.umd.edu/people/glenn-solomon
Seminar Title: Measuring Photon Non-Classicality Using Quantum-Dot Light Sources
October 25, 2017 – Dr. Jamie Phillips
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Michigan
Web Site: http://web.eecs.umich.edu/faculty/phillips/
Seminar Title: Photovoltaics for Self-Powered mm-Scale Systems and Recent Advances for IR Imaging Technologies
November 8, 2017 – Dr. Jennifer Mass
President, Scientific Analysis of Fine Art, LLC
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Cultural Heritage Science, Bard Graduate Center
Web Site: http://scienceforfineart.com/index.php/about-us/
Seminar Title: Capturing Artists’ Intent in Works of the Impressionists through the Expressionists: Pigment Manufacture and Alteration
November 15, 2017 – Dr. Erik Luijten
Chair of Materials Science and Engineering
Northwestern University
Web Site: http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/directory/profiles/luijten-erik.html
Seminar Title: Dynamics of Passive and Active Colloids
FRIDAY, December 1, 2017 @ 2:00 PM Dr. Andreas Offenhauser
Institute of Complex Systems, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Web Site: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ics/ics-8/EN/Home/_node.html
Spring 2017 Seminars
February 8, 2017 – Luis Campos
Chemistry, Colombia University
Seminar Lecture: Polyelectrolytes from Cyclopropenium Ions
February 15, 2017 – Maria Tamargo
City College of NY, Chemistry
Seminar Lecture: Heterovalent and Heterocrystalline Epitaxy for Device Applications and New Physical Phenomena
February 22, 2017 – Ioannis (John) Kymissis
Columbia University SEAS, Electrical Engineering
Seminar Title: Electronics On Anything: How Thin Film Electronics can Instrument the World
March 2, 2017 – Stephanie Tomasulo
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Seminar Title: Molecular beam epitaxy of wide-bandgap solar cells for future multi-junction schemes
March 8, 2017 – Stuart Rowan
University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering
Seminar Title: Using Dynamic Chemistry to Access Stimuli-Responsive Materials
March 22, 2017 – Timothy Scott
University of Michigan, Chemical Engineering
April 12, 2017 – Joshua Caldwell
Naval Research Lab