September 21

Andrea J. Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
"Actin Self-Assembly and Listeria Motility"

September 28

William L. Grosshandler, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Chief, Fire Research Division
"The Technical Investigation into the Collapse of the World Trade Center"

October 5

Anand Jagota, Lehigh
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of Bioengineering and Life Sciences Program
"Aligned Deposition of DNA-Dispersed Carbon Nanotubes"

October 12

Bruce M. Clemens, Stanford University
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
“Nanostructured Materials for Hydrogen Storage”

October 19

Grant D. Smith, University of Utah
Associate Professor. Department of Materials Science & Engineering
"Multiscale Simulations of Polymers and Polymer-Based Nanomaterials"

October 26

Joost J. Vlassak, Harvard
Associate Professor, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
"TBA"

November 2

Kevin J. Hemker, John Hopkins
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
"Mechanical behavior of materials for MEMS and nanocrystalline metals "

November 9

Easo P. George, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Senior Research Staff Member
"Small Scale Mechanical Behavior of Multiphase Materials"

November 14

Dr. Elizabeth Holm,
Sandia National Laboratories
"Putting it all Together: New Algorithms, New Connections in Computational Materials Science"

November 16

Pulickel M. Ajayan, MSE, RPI
Henry Burlage Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
"Engineering Carbon Nanotube Architectures"

November 23

Thanksgiving

November 30

MRS Fall Meeting

December 7

Edwin L. Thomas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor and Department Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
"Deaf, Blind and Tough - Having Fun with Periodic Materials"