Lecture Series
Fall 2021 Seminars
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 | 10:30 am
Dr. Ho Nyung Lee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
“Quantum Phenomena in Correlated Oxide Heterostructures”
For Zoom information, e-mail sdrogers@udel.edu
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 | 10:30 am
Dr. Fei Ding
University of Southern Denmark
“Manipulating Circularly Polarized Optical Radiation with Functional Metasurfaces”
For Zoom information, e-mail sdrogers@udel.edu
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 | 10:30 am
Dr. Rosa Maria Espinosa-Marzal
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Soft Matter Interfaces and Confinement”
For Zoom information, e-mail sdrogers@udel.edu
Wednesday, December 8
Dr. Meisha L. Shofner
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Using Processing Strategies to Engineer Structure and Mechanical Performance in Polymers, Nanocomposites, and Fiber Networks”
For Zoom information, e-mail sdrogers@udel.edu
Previous Seminars
SPRING 2021 SEMINARS
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 | 1:00 pm
Dr. Susan Gentry
University of California
Davis, California
“Supporting Student Learning of Computational Materials Science: A Book with Many Chapters”
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | 10:30 am
Dr. Yohannes Abate
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
“Probing Local Interactions at the Nanoscale”
For Zoom information, e-mail sdrogers@udel.edu
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 | 10:30 am
Dr. Róisín M. Owens
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
“Harnessing the Power of Electronics for Biology”
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021 | 10:30 am
Dr. Julianne Holloway
Arizona State University
Phoenix, Arizona
“Designing Biomaterials with Spatiotemporal Control for Tissue Engineering Applications”
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 | 10:30 am
Dr. Tabbetha Dobbins
Rowan University
Glassboro, New Jersey
“New Possibilities for Understanding Complex Metal Hydrides via Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering (QENS) Studies”
Seminar followed by Diversity & Inclusion Discussion
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FALL 2020 SEMINARS
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 | 10:30am
Dr. Alfred Crosby
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts
“Polymer Gels for Autonomous Motion and Mesoscale Assembly”
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 | 10:30am
Dr. Joan Redwing
Penn State University
State College, Pennsylvania
“Epitaxy in 2D: The path to Wafer-Scale Single Crystal Monolayers and Heterostructures”
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October 21, 2020
Dr. Susanne Siebentritt
University of Luxembourg
Belval Campus, Luxembourg
How Do We Know If a Semiconductor Film Makes a Good Solar Cell?
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October 7, 2020, 10:30 – 11:30
Dr. Ismaila Dabo
Penn State University
State College, Pennsylvania
First-Principles Optimization and Discovery of Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
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SPRING 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
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