Department of Materials Science & Engineering

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Departmental Seminar Series

Spring 2007

Date	Speaker	Title
January 19	Eric Schmidt CMU, MSE	On the Kinetics, Morphology, and Mechanism of Austenite Formation during Thermal Processing of Iron Alloys
January 24	Professor Darrin Pochan University of Delaware	Hydrogels for Cell Encapsulation and Injectable Delivery via Peptide Folding and Consequent Self-assembly
February 1	Professor David Srolovitz Yeshiva University	Grain Growth in 3-D: Beyond von Neumann-Mullins
February 9	Nitin Patel CMU, MSE	Structure-Property Relationships of Nitride Superlattice Hard Coatings prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition
February 16	Professor Peter Green University of Michigan	Self-organization & Structural Instabilities in Thin Films
February 23	Professor Richard LeSar Iowa State
March 2	no seminar
March 16	no seminar
March 23	Professor Ian Robertson UIUC	Direct Visualization of the Behavior of Defects
March 30	Professor Robert Sinclair Stanford University	In Situ High Resolution Electron Microscopy of Material Reactions
April 6	Sabuj Halder CMU, MSE	On a New Ironmaking Concept: Simulation of Reduction of Iron-Oxide-Carbon Composites in a Rotary Hearth Furnace
April 13	Patrick Fisher CMU, MSE	Thin film growth mechanisms, phase stabilities, and cation transport in the SrO-TiO 2 system grown with layer-by-layer molecular beam epitaxy
April 20	Professor Edwin L. Thomas MIT	Blind and Deaf: Having Fun with Periodic Polymers
April 27	Professor Jerrold Floro University of Virginia	HETEROEPITAXIAL QUANTUM DOTS: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design
May 4	no seminar