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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
January 19 MSE Graduate Exposition: Poster presentations by graduate students in various research programs


January 26 Nondimensional Herschel-Bulkley Analysis of Magnetorheological Dampers and Applications to Aerospace Systems Prof. Norman Wereley
University of Maryland
February 2 Green Engineering and Life Cycle Analysis aspects of Materials Science Prof. Sean McGinnis
Virginia Tech

February 9

MSE Student Presentations

Development and design of a Mach 5 High Dynamic Pressure Hypersonic Nozzle for the Langley 8' High-Temperature Structures Tunnel

Brian Stewart

Shape Memory Alloy / Glass Composite Gas Seal for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Christopher Story
Indirect capture of carriers into the ground state and the saturation of optical power in quantum dot lasers Li Jiang

February 16

MSE Student Presentations

Durability of Composite Joints for Navy Structures Steven Kyriakides
Amorphization of Equimolar Ti-Ni by Mechanical Alloying and Heat Treatment Niven Monsegue
Microstructural Evolution in Silica Aerogel Carlos Folgar
Februrary 23 Multifunctional magnetic and doped semiconductor based oxides Prof. Aswini Pradhan
Norfolk State University

March 2

MSE Student Presentations

 A novel chemical and biological fiber optic sensor Brian Scott
Stability of foams and single foam films in the presence of n-alkyl polyoxyethylene homologues Ruijia Wang
Temperature dependence of breakdown voltage in encapsulant materials Megan Enzinna
March 9 No seminar (spring break)  
March 16 Photodetectors: UV to IR Prof. Joe Campbell
University of Virginia
March 23 Metallurgy as Cool as It Gets - 1.6 K !
Materials Engineering of Advanced Accelerators		 Prof. Michael Kelley
William & Mary, Jefferson National Lab, VT Affiliate MSE

March 30

MSE Student Presentations

 Evolution of Compounds/Phases During Isothermal and Non-Isothermal Processing in the TiO2-Al-System Jairaj Payyapilly
Solid state amorphization of Zr-Ni alloy by mechanical alloying and annealing Kai Zang
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Multiple Twinned Ag Nanowires Joshua Monk
April 6 Experimental, Environmental and Engineering Challenges of Investigating the Nano/Bio – Materials Interface Dr. Dudley Finch
AISthesis, LLC
April 13 Molecular Dynamics Modeling of Short-Pulse Laser Ablation: Applications to Laser Shaping of Metals and Puled Laser Deposition Dr. George Gilmer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
April 20 No Seminar

 

April 27

MSE Student Presentations

 Output power and the light-current characteristic of a tunneling-injection quantum dot laser diode Dae-Seob Han
Nano Growth Twins and Abnormal Magnetic Behavior in CoFe2O4 Epitaxial Thin Films Li Yan
Ferroelastic damping behaviour of barium titanate and nickel-barium titanate composites Ted Asare
Near Room-Temperature Consolidation of Ferroelectric Ceramic Reinforced Multifunctional Metal Matrix Composites by Electroforming Ben Poquette

 

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

 

 
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