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

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

Date Title Speaker/Affiliation
January 20 Poster presentations by graduate students in various research programs

MSE Graduate Exposition
January 27

In-situ Fiber Strength Distribution in Nextel 610 Reinforced Aluminum Composites

Deposition and Characterization of Pb(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 Thin Film by Pulsed Laser Deposition

Mr. Joseph Butler
MSE Graudate Student

Mr. Li Yan
MSE Graduate Student
February 3 Multiscale Modeling of Carbon Nanotubes and Heterogeneous Solids Prof. Romesh Batra
ESM, VT
February 10 The ORNL Advanced Microscopy Laboratory, and Applications of the JEOL 2200FS Aberration-Corrected Electron Microscope to Materials Characterization

Dr. Lawrence F. Allard, Jr.
Oak Ridge National Labs

February 17 Ferroelectric Domain Structures and Switching in Ceramics and Thin Films  Prof. Long-Qing Chen
Penn State University
February 24 Ultra-High Temperature Materials: The Integration of Thermochemistry and Finite Element Modeling for High-Shear, High Thermal-Stress Environments

Dr. Eric Wuchina
Naval Surface Warfare Center
March 3 Nanoscale Morphology Control Using Ion Beams Prof. Michael Aziz
Harvard University
March 10 Spring Break - No Seminar  
March 17

Nanomanufacturing: Fulfilling the promise of nanotechnology

Dr. Kevin Lyons
NSF
March 24

Low Resonant Frequency ME Sensor Design

Reaction Synthesis of Titanium Aluminide / Titanium Boride in Situ Composites

Low-frequency, Passive-detection of Pico-Tesla Magnetic Fields using Magneto-electric Sensors at Room-temperature

Mr. Zengping Xing
MSE Graduate Student

Ms. Elizabeth Jeffers
MSE Graduate Student

Mr. Junyi Zhai
MSE Graduate Student
March 31 Development of Ferroelectric Glass-ceramics for High Energy Density Capacitors Dr. Ming-Jen Pan
U.S. Naval Research Lab
April 7

Fragile phase stability in (1-x)Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3O3)-xPbTiO3 crystals:
A comparisons of [001] and [110] field-cooled phase diagrams

Novel Methods to Fabricate Porous Materials and Carbon Nanotubes as Intracellular Antibiotic Transporters

The Effect of Microwaves on Aqueous Corrosion of Lithium Disilicate (Li2O-2SiO2) Glass

Mr. Hu Cao
MSE Graduate Student

 Mr. Navin Manjooran
MSE Graduate Student

Mr. Mathew Lynch
MSE Graduate Student

April 14 Elucidating the Deformation of Advanced Materials with Neutron Diffraction and Polycrystalline Plasticity Models Dr. Don W. Brown
Los Alamos National Lab
April 21

Electric Response of TiB2 Particles in a Polyimide Polymer Matrix

 

Magneto-elastic Interactions in a Cracked Ferromagnetic Body's

Mr. Jonathan Lok
MSE Graduate Student

 

Ms. Satenik Harutyunyan
MSE Graduate Student

April 28

(2:30-5:00 PM)

Senior Project Presentations

(Graduate students are encouraged to attend)

Dr. Marie Paretti
MSE/ESM Communications Program

For additional seminar information, contact Dr. A.O. Aning, at 540-231-6849, or by email at aaning@vt.edu
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