MSE Seminar Schedule – Fall 2011

Seminars are on Wednesdays, 4:05P to 4:55P

C130 Chemistry Laboratory Bldg. through September 28th.

ALERT!  Beginning October 5th, moving to 125 Rhines Hall

Date

Speaker

Host

Title/Topic

August 31

Simon Phillpot/ Juan Nino/ Martha McDonald

J. Nino

Introduction to MSE Seminars

September 7

Todd Allen

University of Wisconsin

Y. Yang/ J. Nino

Fuels & Materials Research at the Advanced Test Reactor

September 14

Jean-Luc Bredas

Georgia Tech

J. Xue

Organic solar cells: Geometric and electronic structure of the organic/organic interface

September 21

Frank Urban

FIU

R. Hummel

Numerical Ellipsometry:  n-k Plane Analysis of Optical Properties of Thin Films

September 28

Jennifer Andrew

UF-MSE

J. Nino

Nanostructured Composite Materials for Multiferroic and Biomedical Applications

October 5

Katherine Faber

Northwestern University

J. Nino

Using Nature as a Template: Porous Carbides and Graphite

October 12

Jim Chelikowsky

University of Texas

S. Sinnott

The Science of Small Takes a Big Computer!

October 19

Igor Levin

NIST

J. Nino

Measurements of Local Structure in Perovskite Dielectrics

October 26

Chris Brazel

University of Alabama

J. Dobson

Magnetite Nanoparticle Platforms for Cancer Therapy Combining Hyperthermia and Chemotherapy

November 2

Kenneth Poeppelmeier

Northwestern University

J. Nino

Targeting Noncentrosymmetric Structures and other New Materials

November 9

Krishan Chawla

University of Alabama at Birmingham

B. Patterson

Foams, Syntactic Foams, and Functional Foams

November 16

Pat Woodward

Ohio State University

J. Nino

Double Perovskites: Mining the Periodic Table for New High Temperature Magnets and Half-metallic Conductors

December 7

Leonid V. Zhigilei

University of Virginia

S. Sinnott

Mesoscopic Modeling of Collective Dynamic Phenomena in Molecular Systems and Carbon Nanotube Materials