January 24

Professor Despina Louca
Department of Physics
University of Virginia
"Competing States in a CMR Perovskite"

January 28 (LRSM Reading Room)

Dr. Anatoly Rosenflanz
Corporate Materials Laboratory
3M Center
"Novel Bulk Amorphous and Nanocrysalline Ionic Materials / Non-Equilibrium Processing and Mechanical Characteristics"

January 31

Dr. Kevin Moore
Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
"What the Heavy-Actinide Element Curium Has Taught Us About Magnetism and The Crystal Structure of Metals"

February 7

Dr. Daniel S. Gianola
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Gmbh
Institute for Materials Research II
"Deformation Mechanisms at the Nanoscale"

February 18 (LRSM Reading Room)

Dr. Yinmin (Moris) Wang
Nanoscale Synthesis and Charactrization Lab
Chemistry, Maeterials, Earth, and Life Science Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
"Deformation of Nanostructured Materials and Energy Conversion"

February 25 (LRSM Reading Room)

Dr. Daan Hein Alsem
Materials Science Division
National Center for Electron Microscopy
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Correlating Mechanical Properties and Microstructure In Micron- and Nano-Scale Systems"

February 28

Dr. Yun Liu
NIST Center for Neutron Research
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Maryland
"Improving Hydrogen Storage in Metal-Organic Framewokers Using Exposed Metal Sites"

March 3 (LRSM Reading Room)

Dr. Gang Feng
Division of Engineering
Brown University
"Nanochemical Characterization and Modeling"

March 6

Dr. Arthur F. Voter
Theoretical Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Designing Molecular Dynamics Methods to Reach Time Scales on Which Real Things Happen"

March 13

SPRING BREAK

March 20

Professor Antoine Kahn
Department of Electrical Engineering
"Conjugated Molecular Films for Organic Electronics"

March 27

MRS MEETING

APRIL 3

Professor James Heath
Rlizabeth W. Gilloon Professor
Director, NSB Cancer Center
Caltech Chemistry
"Phonon Physics in Nanowire Materials"

APRIL 10

Professor Kenneth S. Schweizer
"Structure, Phase Behavior and Dynamics of Polymer-Particle Mixtures: Nanocomposites, Suspensions and Tethered Hybrid"

APRIL 17

Professor Chekesha Lidell
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Cornell University
Title TBA

APRIL 24

GRACE HOPPER LECTURE
Professor Frances Ross
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
"Dynamic Electron Microscopy Of The Nucleation and Growth Of Self-Assembled Nanostructures"

September 20

Professor John C. Schotland MD, PhD
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
"Optical Tomography At The Nanoscale"

September 27

Dr. Marc Cawkwell
Theoretical Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Shock Waves in Energetic Materials: Theory and Experiment"

October 4

Professor Nigel Clarke
Department of Chemistry
University of Durham
Durham, UK
"Self Assembled Polymer Composites"

October 11

Professor G. Ramanath
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Directed Assembly of Nanostructures for Applications"

October 18

TBA

October 25

Dr. Simone Roux
IBM Almaden Research Center
"Phase Change Materials for Solid State Memory Applications"

November 1

TBA

November 8

Professor Sharvan Kumar
Division of Engineering
Brown University
"Synchroshear in Laves Phases: Slip, Twinning and Polytypic Transformations"

November 15

Dr. Charles T. Black
Scientist and Scientific Leader
Brookhaven National Laboratory
"Polymer Self Assembly for Nanostructured Materials at the Brookhaven Center for Functional Nanomaterials"

November 22

THANKSGIVING

November 29

TBA

December 6

Professor Emmanuel P. Giannelis
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Cornell University
"Nanocomposites and Nanofluids"

December 13

Dr. Stephen B. Long
Sloan-Kettering Institute
Title TBA