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Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Schedule for 2007 Spring Seminar Series

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

Date Title Speaker/Affiliation
August 24 Graduate Student Event:
Orientation for MSE Graduate Students

Prof. Stephen Kampe
MSE, Virginia Tech

August 31 Safety Issues for MSE David Berry
MSE, Virginia Tech
September 7 Porous Optical Fibers and Related Devices Michael Wooddell
Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

A Possbile Eutectic in the Binary Al2O3-TiB2 System

Susan Holt
Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

High sensitive low noise magneto-electric detection system design

Zengping Xing
Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

September 14 Biologically Inspired Materials: Biomimetic Design and Assembly Prof. Paul Gatenholm
MSE, Virginia Tech

September 21

Modern Materials from an Ancient Resource: Rheological Studies in Wood Adhesion and Structure/Property Determination in Xylem Tissue Prof. Chip Frazier
Wood Science & Forest Products
Virginia Tech
September 28 Stilbene Copolymers and Modified Polysulfones for Enhanced Properties Prof. Richard Turner
Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute
Virginia Tech
October 5 Structural Transformation Processes and Microstructure Control in Ferroelectric Solid Solutions Dr. George Rossetti
Institute of Materials Science
University of Connecticut
October 12

Stability study of glass/glass-ceramics for solid oxide fuel cell Manoj Mahapatra
Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
Preliminary Data on Matching Molecular Weight Linear and Star-shaped PEG Self-Assembled Monolayers Christelle Jullian
Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
Electroless Nickel Coating on Boron Carbide Particle Surfaces

Xiaojing Zhu
Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

October 19 Materials Science and Engineering to Ensure a Secure Energy Future - a DOE Perspective

Dr. Harriet Kung
Materials Sciences and Engineering Division
U.S. Department of Energy

October 26 Size Effects in Indentation Response of Thin Films at the Nanoscale Arun Nair
Graduate Student, ESM, Virginia Tech
Behavior of Random Hole Optical Fibers under Gamma Ray Irradiation and Its Potential Use in Radiation Sensing Applications Bassam Alfeeli
Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
Pressureless Sintering of Titanium Diboride and Alumina - Titanium Diboride Powders Michael Hunt
Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

November 2

The Materials Science of Electrospun Structures

Prof. John Lannutti
Materials Science and Engineering
Ohio State University

November 9 Block Copolymer Thin Films: Ordering Transitions and Coarsening Phenomena Prof. Peter Green
Materials Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
November 16 Near-field opitical scanning microscopy and magneto-optics of photonic nanostructures Dr. Alexander Mintairov
Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
November 23 No Seminar (Thanksgiving Break)  

November 30

Surface Forces Measured between Gold Surfaces Coated with Self-assembled Monolayers of Thiols and Xanthates in Water Jialin Wang
Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
Magnetic and elastic wave interaction in a vibrating piecewise-homogeneous ferromagnetic space with a crack Satenik Harutyunyan
Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
Nanoscale silver paste for electronic packaging

Guangyin Lei
Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

Determining the Role of Structure and Porosity on the Thermal Properties of Graphite Foam Jenny Mueller
Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

 

For additional seminar information, contact Prof. Levon Asryan [(540) 231-7033, asryan@mse.vt.edu]

 

 

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