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Graduate Seminars

The Fall EMA 6936 Graduate Seminar series will feature talks by outstanding researchers from the Metals, Ceramics, Electronic Materials, Polymers and Biomaterials specialties. All seminars will be 6th period, 12:50pm – 1:40pm in the Pugh Hall Teaching Auditorium. All interested parties are welcome to attend.

Seminar Lineup — Fall 2008
Date Speaker Title
August 29 K. Jones/Martha McDonald
MSE, University of Florida
Intro Seminar
September 5 Mark Yanchisin
EH&S, University of Florida
Lab Safety Seminar
September 12 Melanie Cole
Army Research Lab
Compositionally Tailored Material Properties To Enable Performance Enhanced Tunable Microwave Devices
September 19 Michael Kaufman
Colorado School of Mines
Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction in Materials Characterization
September 26 Yanfei Gao
University of Tennessee
Friction Mechanism at Small Scales: Tomlinson, Peierls, or Friction Stress Model
October 3 Quyen Nguyen
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Nanostructures in Organic Semiconductors and the Energy Challenge
October 10 Jean-Michel Martin
Ecole Centrale de Lyon France
October 17 John Kieffer
MSE, University of Michigan
October 31 Greg Tew
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Chemically Rich Macromolecules: Biomimetics to Advanced Materials
November 7 Aaron Crumm
Adaptive Materials
November 14 Juan Nino
MSE University of Florida
Enhancing the Ionic Conductivity of Ceria for SOFCs (an insider's story)
November 21 Curtis Taylor
MAE University of Florida
December 5 Mehmet Sarikaya
University of Washington
Molecular Biomimetics – Genetically
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