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 Haworth 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	Mr. Li Jiang 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	No Seminar
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	Further Insights into the Dealloying Critical Potential: Effect of Electrolyte Composition Computational Study of Large Electric-Field-Induced, Hysteresis-Free Strain in Ferroelectric Single Crystals Tension compression asymmetry and size effects in nanocrystalline Ni nanowires	Mr. Davis Eichelberger Graduate Student, MSE-VT Mr. Weifeng Rao Graduate Student, MSE-VT Mr. Joshua Monk Graduate Student, MSE-VT
November 24	Thanksgiving Holiday, no seminar
December 1	Narrow Gap Semiconductors, Spin Splitting With No Magnetic Fields And More...	Prof. Giti Khodaparast Physics Department, Virginia Tech
* Dr. Horton will be accompanied by Dr. Arthur Baddorf, Dr. David Joy, and Dr. Viviane Schwartz. ** Joint seminar with Department of Geosciences