Seminar Information

Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Schedule for 2008 Spring Seminar Series

Refreshments at 3:00 p.m., Presentation at 3:30 p.m.
McBryde Hall 129

Date	Title	Speaker/Affiliation
January 18	MSE Graduate Exposition: Poster presentations by graduate students in various research programs
January 25	Characteristic temperature of a tunneling-injection quantum dot laser: effect of out-tunneling from quantum dots	Dae-Seob Han Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
	Encapsulated Electrochromic ISAM Devices	Reza Montazami Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
	Modification on the Morphology of Ni-B nanolayer Coated onto Boron Carbide Particles using Electroless Coating Technique	Xiaojing Zhu Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
February 1	Fundamentals and Applications of Dynamic Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy	Dr. Jerry Hunter Nanoscale Characterization and Fabrication Laboratory Virginia Tech
February 8	Composite materials and structures for advanced functional devices: Synthesis and characterization challenges	Prof. Wolfram Jaegermann Surface Science Division Institute of Materials Science Darmstadt University of Technology
February 15	Spatial hole burning and high power operation of a semiconductor quantum dot laser	Li Jiang Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
	The Ag-Au Dealloying Critical Potential	Davis Eichelberger Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
February 22	Advances in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (Cancelled)	Prof. Jagdish Narayan NSF Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures Department of MSE North Carolina State University
February 29	Overview and Applications of Magnetic Sensors - From your desktop computer to Mars	Dr. Dave Pappas Quantum Devices Group National Institute of Standards and Technology
March 7	No seminar (Spring break)
March 14	Properties and Processing of Astrophysical Ices	Prof. Raul Baragiola Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Virginia
March 21	Innovative Materials and New Medical Initiatives from the Nuclear Community…MCG/SRNL Collaborations and Multi-Use Technologies	Dr. George Wicks Savannah River National Laboratory
March 28	Electropolishing of niobium in sulfuric acid-methanol electrolytes	Xin Zhao Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
	Magnetoelectric Laminate Composites: Materials and structures	Junyi Zhai Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
	Packaging and Characterization of High Temperature SiC Power Device	Naili Yue Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
April 4	Microwave sintering of inert matrix fuel materials (8 mol% Yttria-Zirconia) for nuclear applications	Raghu Thridandapani Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
	Modeling and Simulation of Domains and Properties of Ferroelectric Single Crystals and Polycrystalline Ceramics	Weifeng Rao Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
	Processing/Property Relationships in Amorphous NiW-Reinforced Crystalline Ni Matrix Composites	Andrew Zeagler Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech
April 11	Damage and Self-Healing Behavior of Laminated Fiber-reinforced Polymer Composites	Prof. Ever Barbero Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering West Virginia University
April 18	Studies of Cell Volume Response to Physical & Chemical Stimuli Using Microfluidic Chips	Prof. Susan Hua Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Department of Physiology and Biophysics SUNY-Buffalo
April 22	MSE Senior Project Presentations
For additional seminar information, contact Prof. Levon Asryan [(540) 231-7033, asryan@mse.vt.edu]

 

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