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Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Schedule for 2006 Fall Seminar Series

Refreshments at 3:00 p.m., Presentation at 3:30 p.m.
McBryde Hall 113

Date Title Speaker/Affiliation
August 25

Graduate Student Event

Orientation for MSE Graduate Students

Prof. Stephen Kampe

September 1

Materials Research - An NSF Perspective

Dr. Lance Hayworth
Division of Materials Research
National Science Foundation

September 8 Prospective Economic Analysis of a Cluster of NIST Advanced Technology Program in Composite Materials with Applications in the Automotive, Petroleum, and Civil Infrastructure Dr. Felix Wu
Advanced Technology Program
National Institute of Standards & Technology
September 15 Current Developments in Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic Materials 

Prof. Greg Hilmas
Materials Science & Engineering
University of Missouri-Rolla

September 22 The Path Forward: Opportunities for Collaboration at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences

Dr. Linda Horton*
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

September 29 Research Opportunities with the Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering of the U.S. Department of Energy

Dr. Timothy Fitzsimmons
Division of Materials Science and Engineering
Department of Energy

October 6

Effect of Internal Loss on Temperature Dependence of Threshold Current of Semiconductor quantum Dot Laser

Further Insights into the Dealloying Critical Potential: Effect of Electrolyte Composition

Mr. Li Jiang
Graduate Student, MSE-VT

Mr. Davis Eichelberger
Graduate Student, MSE-VT
October 13 Electro-Active Polymers for Autonomous Navy Sensors  Dr. John Blottman
Naval Undersea Warfare Center
October 20 Safety Issues Don Conners and David Berry
Virginia Tech
October 27 Geotechnical and Petrophysical Properties of Unconsolidated Materials from Spectral Electrical Response Measurements ** Prof. Frederick Boadu
Duke University
November 3 TBD Dr. James McCauley
US Army Research Laboratory
November 10 Doing fun(damental) materials research in a Technologically Important System: Plasticity and Fracture in Strained III-Nitride Heterostructures Prof. Jerrold Floro
Department of Materials Science
University of Virginia
November 17 Students presentation Students, please sign up
November 24 Thanksgiving Holiday, no seminar  

 

* Dr. Horton will be accompanied by Dr. Arthur Baddorf, Dr. Peter Cummings, Dr. David Geohegan, Dr. David Joy, Dr. Viviane Schwartz, and Dr. Mike Simpson.

** Joint seminar with Department of Geosciences

 
 

For additional seminar information, contact Dr. Levon Asryan, at (540) 231-7033, or by email at asryan@mse.vt.edu.
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