Spring Semester 2022
Seminars take place in White 411, from 4-5:15 p.m. on Tuesdays unless otherwise noted. This semester's series focuses on thin films and data science. More information is available here.
Contact Professor Jennifer Carter with questions.
This semester's speakers are:
January 11, 2022 - 3 pm by Zoom
Dr. Megan Cordill, Vice Director of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science - "Utilizing Delaminations to Study Thin Film Adhesion in Microelectronics"
January 18, 2022 - 3 pm by Zoom
Dr. Stanislav Žak, Austrian Academy of Sciences Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science - "Buckling-induced plastic deformation during thin film adhesion measurements – finite element analysis"
Dr. Wiria Soltanpoor, Institute for Nanotechnology at University of Twente, Netherlands - "Single source pulsed laser deposition of halide perovskites"
January 25, 2022 - 4 pm, White 411
Dr. Laura Bruckman, CWRU - "Materials Data Science: Framework for Materials Degradation and Lifetime Prediction"
February 1, 2022 - 3 pm by Zoom
Dr. Ing. Guus Rijnders, Scientific director MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at University of Twente, Netherlands - "Novel Functionalities in Atomically Controlled Oxide Heterostructures by Pulsed Laser Deposition"
February 8, 2022 - 4 pm, White 411
Three-Minute Thesis Presentations - students in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
February 15, 2022 - 4 pm, White 411
Dr. Joshua Agar, Lehigh University - "Data-Driven Design, Manufacturing, Understanding, and Control of Responsive and Agile Multifunctional Materials"
February 22, 2022 - 4 pm, Zoom
Dr. Mitchell Wood, Sandia National Laboratory - "Data-driven Models for Material Science and Beyond"
March 1, 2022
No seminar due to TMS.
March 8, 2022
No seminar due to spring break
March 14-16, 2022: Van Horn Lectures - POSTPONED TO FALL 2022
March 29, 2022 - 4 pm, Zoom
Dr. Kaai Kauwe, Quantitative Scientist, Verana Health - "Accuracy, uncertainty, inspectability: learning with compositionally-restricted attention-based networks"
April 5, 2022 - 4pm, Zoom
Elahe Farghadany, CWRU - "Heteroepitaxial growth of ultra-thin films using pulsed laser deposition"
Nishan Senanayake, CWRU - "High-throughput methods to establish quantitative process -structure-property linkages in Ni-based superalloys"
April 12, 2022 - 4 pm, White 411
Dr. Ina Martin, CWRU - "Interface Design by Chemical Synthsesis"
Van Horn Lecture Archives
2015 - Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge
2016 - Wayne Kaplan, Technion, Haifa, Israel Institute of Technology
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Interfacial States and Thermodynamic Transitions at Interfaces
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The Influence of Fields and Dopants on Grain Boundary Mobility
2017 - Chris Schuh, MIT
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Harder, Cheaper, Greener: The Materials Science of Nanostructured Metal Coatings
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Materials Entrepreneurship: Nanostructured Metal Coatings as a "Platform Technology"
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Materials Scale-Up Science: How Thermodynamics Enables Mass Manufacturing
2018 - Harry Atwater, Caltech
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Turnable Light-Matter Interactions in Two-Dimensional Materials & Metasurfaces
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Trip the Light Fantastic: Photonic Materials Challenges for Interstellar Travel
2019 - Gerbrand Ceder, UC Berkeley