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
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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
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?
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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