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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 Christy Jenstad

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 NSF Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials.

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 2012-13

April 9, 2013
Holger Kleinke, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology
Combination of Cu–Cu Bonds and Chalcogen–Chalcogen Bonds in Polychalcogenides

April 10, 2013
Dr. Navrotsky

April 17, 2013
Ioana Cozmuta, Science and Technology Corporation, NASA Ames Research Center
Emerging Space Needs: from Engineering to Fundamentals

April 24, 2013
Robert O. Ritchie, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and University of California, Berkeley
Human Bone as a Structural Material: Origins of its Fracture Resistance and Biological Degradation with Aging and Disease

May 1, 2013
Michael E. Manley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Intrinsic Localized Modes as Precursors to Useful Nanostructures in Relaxor Ferroelectrics

May 15, 2013
Laurent Bellaiche, University of Arkansas
Finite-temperature Properties of Ba(Zr,Ti)O3 Relaxors from First Principles

May 22, 2013
Marco Bernardi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Novel Materials, Computational Spectroscopy, and Multiscale Simulation in Nanoscale Photovoltaics

June 13, 2013
Yaohua Zhu, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology
A Research Road Map Approaching Nanofilms of TCO and TE Materials on Electropulsing Induced Phase Transformations and their Effects on Conductivity of Films of AZO and (Bi0.25Sb0.75)2Te3

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