| 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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