January 26

Junqiao Wu
Chemistry and Chemical Biology,Harvard University
"Metal-Insulator Phase Transition on the Nanoscale"

February 6

Dr. Rainer J. Hebert
LRSM READING ROOM
"Microstructural stability of amorphous Al alloys during intense deformation"

February 9

Nathan Guisinger
Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
"Silicon Based Molecular Electronics"

February 16

Fotois Papadimitrakopoulos
University of Connecticut
“TBA”

March 2

Scott Milner
Exxon
"Why Good Solvents Are Seldom All That Good"

March 9

Spring Break

March 16

APS Meeting in Baltimore

March 23

Rob Carpick
" Friction: Big Challenges, Small Scales, and Novel Materials"

March 30

Katharine Frase (Alum)
Vice President, Technology, IBM Corporate Technology and Intellectual Property
"TBA"

April 6 (6^th Special Dinner)

Elsa Reichmanis
Grace Hopper Lecture
Lucent Technologies
Director, Bell Labs, Materials Research Department

April 27

John E. Fischer
Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
"Gallium Nitride Nanowires: Synthesis, Contacts, Electron Transport, Resonators, and Defects, Defects, Defects."