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

January 25, 2022
TBA

February 1, 2022 - 3 pm by Zoom
Dr. Ing. Guus Rijnders, Scientific director MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at University of Twente, Netherlands

February 8, 2022
TBA

February 15, 2022
TBA

February 22, 2022
TBA

March 1, 2022
No seminar due to TMS.

March 14-16, 2022: Van Horn Lectures
Dr. Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Pennsylvania State University

March 22, 2022
TBA

March 29, 2022
TBA

April 5, 2022
Dr. Elahe Farghadany, CWRU alumnus

April 12, 2022
Dr. Ina Martin, CWRU

Van Horn Lecture Archives

2015 - Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge

• Extremely Complex Problems 

• Evolution of Solutions 

• The First Bulk-Nanostructural Metal 

 

2016 - Wayne Kaplan, Technion, Haifa, Israel Institute of Technology

• High Temperature Wetting and Materials Engineering 

• Interfacial States and Thermodynamic Transitions at Interfaces 

• The Influence of Fields and Dopants on Grain Boundary Mobility
   

2017 - Chris Schuh, MIT

• Harder, Cheaper, Greener: The Materials Science of Nanostructured Metal Coatings

• Materials Entrepreneurship: Nanostructured Metal Coatings as a "Platform Technology"

• Materials Scale-Up Science: How Thermodynamics Enables Mass Manufacturing

 

2018 - Harry Atwater, Caltech

• Fueling Human Progress With Sunlight

• Turnable Light-Matter Interactions in Two-Dimensional Materials & Metasurfaces

• Trip the Light Fantastic: Photonic Materials Challenges for Interstellar Travel

 

2019 - Gerbrand Ceder, UC Berkeley

• Materials Issues for the Growing Electrochemical Energy Storage Market

• The Materials Genome and the Transformation of Materials Science Through Ab-initio Computing

• Machine Learning of Material Structure and Synthesis