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Seminars

Materials Research Lectures

Wednesdays at 4:00 pm in 106 Spalding
Refreshments at 3:45 PM, Spalding 113
Contacts: Jeff Snyder and Rosie Sanchez

The lectures are part of a course designed to introduce advanced undergraduates and graduate students to modern research in Materials Science and related fields. Sponsors and regular attendees include faculty and students in the Materials Science Option, Applied Physics Option, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division and the Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials (NSF Center).

Announcements of upcoming lectures and reminders are sent via the mrl.caltech.edu mailing list. Click here to subscribe (our unsubscribe) to the mailing list.


Spring 2007-08

April 9, 2008
John Kouvetakis, Arizona State University
Epitaxial Si-Ge-Sn materials for Si-based optoelectronic applications: strain/composition tuning via designer molecular routes

April 23, 2008
David Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Theory of Thermoelectric Power Applied to Oxides and Chalcogenides

April 30, 2008
Cristian Ciobanu, Colorado School of Mines
Finding the Atomic Structure of Surfaces and Nanowires via Global Optimization Methods

May 7, 2008
Rus Hemley, Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution of Washington
New Findings in Materials Under Extreme Pressures

May 14, 2008
Alberto Salleo, Stanford University
What Do We Know About How Polymeric Semiconductors Work?

May 21, 2008
Gang Feng, Brown University
Nanomechanical Characterization and Modeling

May 28, 2008
William A. Goddard III, Caltech
The Plaquette Polaron Paradigm for Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors

Winter 2007-08

January 23, 2008
Arthur Ballato, US Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development & Engineering Center
Physics and Network Realizations of Bulk Acoustic Wave Devices for Wireless and MEMS Applications

January 30, 2008
Frank DiSalvo, Cornell University
Ordered Intermetallic Catalysts for Fuel Cell Applications

February 6, 2008
Sarah Kurtz, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Challenges and Science of High-efficiency Solar Cells and Systems

February 13, 2008
Mark Brongersma, Stanford
En Route to Si-based Nanophotonics and Plasmonics

February 27, 2008
Lionel Kimerling, MIT
Silicon Microphotonics: Hardware for the Information Age

March 12, 2008
Emily Carter, Princeton University
Disentangling High Temperature Evolution of Thermal Barrier Coatings

March 19, 2008
Katayun Barmak, Carnegie Mellon University
Grain Growth and the Puzzle of its Stagnation in Thin Films: The Tale of a Tail and an Ear?

Fall 2007-08

October 24, 2007
Nguyen Minh, Formerly head of Fuel Cell Research at GE Energy
The Materials Science and Engineering of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

November 7, 2007
Vidvuds Ozolins, UCLA
First-principles Engineering of Advanced Hydrogen Storage Materials

November 14, 2007
Julia R. Greer, Caltech
SIZE MATTERS: Nano-scale Mechanical Properties of Crystals

December 5, 2007
MRL / Southern California Mechanics Lecture
Richard D. James, University of Minnesota
A Relation Between Compatibility and Hysteresis and Its Role in the Search for New Smart Materials

December 12, 2007
Sossina M. Haile, Caltech
Breakthroughs in Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

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