January 22 (Monday)

Dr. Peter Kroll
LRSM READING ROOM
Institut for Inorganic chemistry
RWTH, Aachen University
"Amorphous Ceramics, Interfaces, and nanostructures: Atomistic Modelling and Ab-initio Computations"

January 29 (Monday)

Dr. Grant Smith
LRSM READING ROOM
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science, University of Utah
"Multiscale Modeling of Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles

February 5 (Monday)

Dr. Berndt Meyer
LRSM READING ROOM
Lehrstuhl for Theoretical Chemistry
Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
"Understanding Catalyst Surfaces: From Thermodynamic to Kinetic to Dynamic Properties"

February 8

Dr. Jun Li
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Ohio State University
"Shear Localization Lengthscale in Metallic Glass"

February 15

Dr. Stefan Curatolo
Department of Mehanical Engineering and Materials Science
Duke University
"Developing Materials with Data-Mining of Quantum Calculations: The Example of LiB, Superconductor and Adaptive Alloy"

February 22

Dr. James R. Morris
Senior Scientist, Metals & Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, University of Tennessee
"From Atoms to Material Properties: What Computation Can Tell Us About Real Materials"

March 1

Spring Break

March 22

John Rogers
UIUC Founder Professor of Engineering
"Stretchable Single Crystal Electronics"

March 29

Christopher Schuh
MIT
Danae and Vasilios Salapatas Associate Professor of Metallurgy
"Design of Stable Nanocrystalline Alloys For Coating Applications"

April 5

Miroslav Hodak
North Carolina State
"Copper Binding To Proteins Relevant in Prion and Parkinson's Diseases"

April 9-13

MRS Meeting
Moscone West | San Francisco Marriott
San Francisco, CA , USA

April 12 (MRS week)

Krystyn J. Van Vliet
MIT
Lord Foundation Assistant Professor
"Direct-Write Assembly of 3-D Micro-Periodic Structures"

April 19

Jennifer A. Lewis
UIUC
Hans Thurnauer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Willett Faculty Scholar of Engineering
Interim Director, F. Seitz Materials Research Laboratory

April 24 -- 3PM -- Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine

Dr. Dan DiMicco
Chairman, President & CEO, Nucor Corporation
"From University of Pennsylvania to Chairman and CEO of Nucor Corporation--A Little About The Journey and the Nucor Innovations That Revolutionized an Industry"

April 26

Dr. Ramamoorthy Ramesh
University of California
Materials Science and Engineering and Physics departments
"Controlling Magnetism with an Electric Field using Multiferroics"