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Seminars

Materials Research Lectures 2000-2001

Fall 2000-01

October 4, 2000
Ho-Kwang Mao, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Center for High Pressure Research
High Pressure-A New Dimension in Physical Science

October 11, 2000
Hans J. Fecht, University of Ulm, Germany
Nanostructured Materials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications

October 19, 2000 (Thursday)
Wesley R. Burghardt, Northwestern University
In Situ X-ray Scattering Methods for Studying Polymer Structure Under Flow

November 1, 2000
Ronald Cohen, Visiting Professor, Caltech; Carnegie Institution of Washington
Fundamental Physics of Piezoelectricity and Polarization Rotation in Ferroelectrics

November 15, 2000
Rüdiger Dieckmann, Cornell University
Point Defects and Transport in Non-Stoichiometric Oxides and Cation Diffusion in Glasses

November 22, 2000
David J. Green, Pennsylvania State University
Surface Compression in Glass: An Old Curiousity?

November 29, 2000
Reiner Kirchheim, University of Göttingen, Germany
Studying Chemical Inhomogeneities on the Nanometer Scale with a 3-Dimensional Atomprobe



Winter 2000-01

January 3, 2001
U. W. Suter, Institute of Polymers Research, ETH, Switzerland
Modeling Materials Behavior: Atomistic Approaches and Beyond

January 17, 2001
Marc A. Meyers, University of California, San Diego
Constitutive Description of Dynamic Deformation

January 31, 2001

Simon J.L. Billinge, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University.
The Metal-Insulator Transition in the Manganites: a Strange Kind of Percolation


February 14, 2001
Anne M. Mayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Better Living through Self-Assembly: Amphiphilic Polymers with an Environmental Calling


February 21, 2001
C. Barry Carter, University of Minnesota
Glass Films in and on Oxides


February 28, 2001
Chris G. Van de Walle
, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Controlling the Conductivity of Wide-Band-Gap Semiconductors


March 7, 2001
David G. Goodwin, Caltech




Spring 2000-01

April 4, 2001
Professor R.E. Newnham, Pennsylvania State University
Minature Underwater Transducers

April 11, 2001
F.F. Lange, University of California, Santa Barbara
Solution Routes to Epitaxial Films


April 18, 2001
R. Cohen, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Origin of Ferroelectricity and Fundamental Theory of Electromechanical Response


April 25, 2001
Kaushik Bhattacharya, Caltech
Domain Patterns, Texture and Macroscopic Electro-Mechanical Properties of Ferroelectrics

May 9, 2001
M. F. Gyure, Hughes Research Laboratories and UCLA
Recent Theoretical Advances in Semiconductor Epitaxy


May 16, 2001
G. Ceder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

May 23, 2001
A. S. Argon
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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