Spring 2023 Colloquia Series

All colloquia will be presented at 4:00 pm (16:00) EST in White building, Room 411. A zoom link is available upon request to Prof. Ernst.

January 17th, Erik Mueller National Transportation Safety Board

February 7th, Ryan Paul, GrafTech International

February 14th, Ashlie Martini, University of California, Merced

February 21st, Jim Warren, National Insitute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

March 7th, Mariana Bertoni, Arizona State University

April 18th, Chris Wolverton, Northwestern University

 

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

 

2022 - Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Pennsylvania State University

• Domain Wall Motion in Ferroelectrics
• Piezoelectric Films for Microelectromechanical Systems
• New Materials for Three Dimensional Ferroelectric Microelectronics