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Seminars

Materials Research Lectures 1999-2000

Fall 1999-00

October 13, 1999
Terry Langdon, Departments of Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California.
The Principles of Grain Refinement Using Severe Plastic Deformation

October 20, 1999
Tim Sands, Department of Materials Science & Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.
Integration of Epitaxial Thin Films by Laser Liftoff

October 28, 1999
Z. Guan
, DuPont Central Reseearch & Development.

November 3, 1999
John Spence
, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University.
Imaging Chemical Bonds


November 17, 1999
Frans Spaepen
, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University
Mechanical Properties of Metallic Thin Films


Winter 1999-00

January 13, 2000 (Thursday)
Doug Lauffenburger
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Molecular Cell Biology as a Foundation for the New Bioengineering

January 18, 2000 (Thursday)
Philip Withers
, Department of Materials Science, University of Manchester and UMIST, U.K.
Neutron and Synchrotron Diffraction - Providing Inside Information for Materials Scientists and Engineers

January 26, 2000
Thomas Ahrens
, W. M. Keck Professor of Geophysics, Caltech.
Shock Attenuation in Phase Changing Materials

February 9, 2000
Sossina Haile, Department of Materials Science, Caltech.
Hydrogen Bonding and Phase Transitions in Proton-Conducting Solid Acids

February 16, 2000

Rainer Dauskardt, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University.
Adhesion of Thin Film Structures

February 23, 2000
Michael Thackeray, Argonne National Laboratory.
From Gems to Lithium Battery Electrodes

March 1, 2000
James Watkins, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Preparation of Nanostructured Materials Using Novel Deposition and Templating Techniques in Supercritical Fluids


Spring 1999-00

March 29, 2000
Katherine Faber, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University.
Interfacial Characterization in Fiber-Reinforced Ceramic Materials


April 5, 2000
Robert McMeeking, Departments of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, and Materials Science, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Constitutive Models and Fracture Mechanics for Ferroelectric Ceramics

April 13, 2000 (Thursday)
Arup Chakraborty, University of California, Berkeley.
Biomimetic Self-Assembly Processes of Disordered Heteropolymers in Solution and at Interfaces

April 19, 2000
C. Bosnyak

May 1, 2000 (Monday)
John W. Cahn, Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, NIST

May 10, 2000 (Monday)
Takeshi Egami, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania.

May 17, 2000
(Monday)
Yue Wu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina.
Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and the Overall Structural Order and Metastability of a-Si:H: What can we learn from NMR?

May 24, 2000
Ersan Üstündag, Department of Materials Science, California Institute of Technology
Investigation of Solid State Reactions Using Neutron Scattering

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