Lecture Series
Fall 2022 Seminars
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 | 10 am
Dr. Xin Zhang
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Boston University – Boston, Massachusetts
“Functional Metamaterials and Metadevices”
This seminar is virtual. For Zoom information, e-mail sdrogers@udel.edu
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 | 11:15 am
Dr. Nitash Balsara
University of California – Berkeley, California
“Barriers to Current Flow in Nanostructured Polymer Electrolytes and the Pesko Condition”
Colburn Lab 104
For Zoom information, e-mail sdrogers@udel.edu
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | 11:15 am
Dr. Martin Thuo
North Carolina State University – Raleigh, North Carolina
“Nanointerfaces-Driven Frugal Engineering”
Colburn Lab 104
For Zoom information, e-mail sdrogers@udel.edu
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | 11:15 am
Co-sponsored by Charm
Dr. Qi Lu
Delaware State University – Dover, Delaware
Colburn Lab 104
For Zoom information, e-mail sdrogers@udel.edu
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 | 11:15 am
Dr. Yongmin Liu
Northeastern University, Boston University
“Interfacing Photonics with Artificial Intelligence: A New Design Strategy for Photonic Metamaterials Based on Deep Learning”
Colburn Lab 104
For Zoom information, e-mail sdrogers@udel.edu
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | 11:15 am
Dr. Kun Fu
University of Delaware – Newark, Delaware
“Composite Materials and Manufacturing Innovations”
Colburn Lab 104
For Zoom information, e-mail sdrogers@udel.edu
Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 11:15 am
Dr. Lilo Pozzo
University of Washington – Seattle, Washington
“Opportunities in Experimental AI-Driven High-Throughput Materials Research”
For Zoom information, e-mail sdrogers@udel.edu
Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 11:15 am
Co-sponsored by Charm
Dr. Aristides Marcano
Delaware State University – Dover, Delaware
“Photothermal Spectroscopy – Basics and Applications”
Colburn Lab 104
For Zoom information, e-mail sdrogers@udel.edu
Previous Seminars
SPRING 2022 SEMINARS
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Dr. Huolin Xin
University of California, Irvine
“Reducing Carbon Footprint by Single-Atom Catalysts—A Biomimetic Approach to Achieve High Selectivity and High Efficiency for Small-Molecule Activation”
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Professor Andrei Faraon
California Institute of Technology
“Metaphotonics with 2D and 3D Engineered Optical Materials”
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Dr. James Edgar
Kansas State University
“Hexagonal Boron Nitride Crystals for Advanced Electronic, Optoelectronic, and Nanophotonics”
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Dr. Mahesh Mahanthappa
University of Minnesota
“Lurking in Plain Sight: Low Symmetry Packings of Ionic Spherical Micelles”
Wednesday, May 5, 2022
Dr. Helen Zha
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“From Proteins to Polymers and Back Again: Synthesis and Application of Silk-Inspired Materials”
Fall 2021 SEMINARS
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Dr. Ho Nyung Lee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
“Quantum Phenomena in Correlated Oxide Heterostructures”
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Dr. Fei Ding
University of Southern Denmark
“Manipulating Circularly Polarized Optical Radiation with Functional Metasurfaces”
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Dr. Rosa Maria Espinosa-Marzal
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Soft Matter Interfaces and Confinement”
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”
SPRING 2021 SEMINARS
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Dr. Susan Gentry
University of California
Davis, California
“Supporting Student Learning of Computational Materials Science: A Book with Many Chapters”
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Dr. Yohannes Abate
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
“Probing Local Interactions at the Nanoscale”
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Dr. Róisín M. Owens
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
“Harnessing the Power of Electronics for Biology”
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Dr. Julianne Holloway
Arizona State University
Phoenix, Arizona
“Designing Biomaterials with Spatiotemporal Control for Tissue Engineering Applications”
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Dr. Tabbetha Dobbins
Rowan University
Glassboro, New Jersey
“New Possibilities for Understanding Complex Metal Hydrides via Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering (QENS) Studies”
FALL 2020 SEMINARS
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Dr. Alfred Crosby
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts
“Polymer Gels for Autonomous Motion and Mesoscale Assembly”
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Dr. Joan Redwing
Penn State University
State College, Pennsylvania
“Epitaxy in 2D: The path to Wafer-Scale Single Crystal Monolayers and Heterostructures”
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?
October 7, 2020
Dr. Ismaila Dabo
Penn State University
State College, Pennsylvania
First-Principles Optimization and Discovery of Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
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
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
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
Flat Optics: From Dynamic Control to Optical Computing
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Dr. Melissa Grunlan
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Texas A & M University
Orthopedic Biomaterials Enabled by Network Architecture
Fall 2018 Seminars
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Dr. Michael Yakes
Naval Research Lab
Washington, DC
Website: https://www.nrl.navy.mil/
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
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
Website: http://www.ece.udel.edu/research/by-faculty.Tingyi%20Gu.html
Integrated photonics of advanced materials
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Dr. Zubin Jacob
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Purdue University
Website: http://www.zjresearchgroup.org/
Photon Spin Quantization in New Topological Phases of Matter
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Dr. Kyle Lampe
Chemical Engineering
University of Virginia
Website: https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/kyle-j-lampe
Joint Seminar with Biomedical Engineering
Biomaterial Design for 3D Hydrogel Microenvironments and Neural Tissue Engineering
Wednesday, November 14. 2018
Dr. Edo Waks
Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Maryland
Website: https://ece.umd.edu/faculty/waks
Quantum Nanophotonics: Controlling spin with light on a semiconductor chip
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Dr. Chekesha M. Liddell Watson
Materials Science & Engineering
Cornell University
Website: http://www.mse.cornell.edu/people/profile.cfm?netid=cml66
Spring 2018 Seminars
February 7, 2018
Dr. Russell Composto
Materials Science and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Website: https://polymer.seas.upenn.edu/
Using Nanoparticle Diffusion to Reveal the Nanostructure in Polymer Hydrogels
March 14, 2018
Dr. Derek Patton
Polymer Science & Engineering
University of Southern Mississippi
Website: https://www.usm.edu/polymer/faculty/derek-l-patton
Degradable, Pro-Active Polymer Networks via Thiol-Mediated Photopolymerization
April 18, 2018
Dr. Peter J, Schuck
Mechanical Engineering
Columbia University
Website: 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 & Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
Website: http://www.matse.psu.edu/directory/faculty/susan-sinnott
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
Website: http://www.seas.ucla.edu/Chang/
November 1, 2017
Dr. Glen Solomon
Joint Quantum Institute
National Institute of Standards & Technology & University of Maryland
Website: http://jqi.umd.edu/people/glenn-solomon
Measuring Photon Non-Classicality Using Quantum-Dot Light Sources
October 25, 2017
Dr. Jamie Phillips
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Michigan
Website: http://web.eecs.umich.edu/faculty/phillips/
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
Website: http://scienceforfineart.com/index.php/about-us/
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
Website: http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/directory/profiles/luijten-erik.html
Dynamics of Passive and Active Colloids
December 1, 2017
Dr. Andreas Offenhauser
Institute of Complex Systems, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Website: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ics/ics-8/EN/Home/_node.html
Spring 2017 Seminars
February 8, 2017
Luis Campos
Chemistry, Colombia University
Polyelectrolytes from Cyclopropenium Ions
February 15, 2017
Maria Tamargo
City College of NY, Chemistry
Heterovalent and Heterocrystalline Epitaxy for Device Applications and New Physical Phenomena
February 22, 2017
Ioannis (John) Kymissis
Columbia University SEAS, Electrical Engineering
Electronics On Anything: How Thin Film Electronics can Instrument the World
March 2, 2017
Stephanie Tomasulo
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
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
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