Seminars
All seminars are held Thursdays, 4 to 5 p.m., in 202 Hill Hall, unless noted otherwise.
October 26, 2017: Electrometallurgical Extraction for Metal Winning
November 2, 2017: Socio-Technical Understandings of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Latin America
November 9, 2017: OPTICAL METROLOGY FOR LASER MANUFACTURING: FROM WELDING TO PHOTOVOLTAICS
November 16, 2017: Microwave Microfluidics and Tunable Materials
November 30, 2017: Hysteresis and Fracture in Soft Materials
December 7, 2017: Time-of-flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (TOF-SIMS)
January 11, 2018: LATTICE-MISMATCHED III-V MATERIALS FOR MULTIJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS
January 18, 2018: Challenges in Coated Advanced and Ultra-High Strength Steels for Automotive Application
January 25, 2018: FATIGUE AND FRACTURE BEHAVIOR IN METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
MME Seminar: Nik Hrabe, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Host: Emmanuel De Moor, Assistant Professor
February 1, 2018: PHASE SIMULATIONS OF MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION: APPLICATIONS TO FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
MME SEMINAR: Katsuyo Thornton, University of Michigan
Host: Amy Clarke, Associate Professor
February 8, 2018: CONTROL OF LAO/STO HETERO-INTERFACE BEHAVIOR BY POINT DEFECTS
MME SEMINAR: Alp Sehirlioglu, Case Western
Host: Geoff Brennecka, Assistant Professor
February 15, 2018: HOW TO TAILOR MICROSTRUCTURES AT HIGH TEMPERATURES: THE COMPLEXION ROUTE
MME SEMINAR: Amanda Krause, Lehigh University
Host: Geoff Brennecka, Assistant Professor
February 22, 2018: HYDROGEN-INDUCED DEFORMATION AND FRACTURE: FROM EXPERIMENTS AND MODELING TO PROGNOSIS
MME SEMINAR: Petros Sofronis, University of Illinois
Host: Angus Rockett, Professor and Department Head
March 1, 2018: INCOHERENT INTERFACES: STRAIN, ADSORPTION, AND RECONSTRUCTION
MME SEMINAR: Wayne Kaplan, Technion-Israeli Institute of Technology
Host: Ivar Reimanis, Professor
March 8, 2018: ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS OF DISLOCATIONS AND GRAIN BOUNDARIES IN METALLIC MATERIALS
MME SEMINAR: Douglas Spearot, University of Florida
Host: Amy Clarke, Associate Professor and Garritt Tucker, Assistant Professor (ME)
March 15, 2018: FERRITE GROWTH IN THE MULTICOMPONENT STEELS - SOLUTE DRAG, COUPLED SOLUTE DRAG AND TRANSFORMATION STASIS
MME SEMINAR: Chris Hutchinson, Monash University
Host: Emmanuel De Moor, Assistant Professor
March 22, 2018: BULK SINGLE CRYSTAL GALLIUM NITRIDE GROWTH
MME SEMINAR: Siddha Pimputkar, Lehigh University
Host: Geoff Brennecka, Assistant Professor
March 29, 2018: SOLAR SYSTEM FORENSICS: USING METEORITES AS CLUES TO UNDERSTANDING OUR ORIGINS
MME SEMINAR: Gregory Brennecka, Westfaliche Wilhelms-Universitat Munster
Host: Geoff Brennecka, Assistant Professor
APRIL 5, 2018: MODELS BEHAVING BADLY AND POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR MICROFRACTURE HEALING IN MICROWAVE-INDUCED ROCK WEAKENING
MME SEMINAR: Rennie Kaunda, PhD, PE, Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Emmanuel De Moor, Assistant Professor
APRIL 12, 2018: TOUGHNESS ENHANCEMENT IN HARD SINGLE-CRYSTAL TRANSITION METAL NITRIDE THIN FILMS
MME SEMINAR: Hanna Kindlund, Lund University
Host: Emmanuel De Moor, Assistant Professor
APRIL 19, 2018: Generation of Frenkel Defects above the Debye Temperature by Proliferation of Phonons near the Brillouin Zone Edge
MME SEMINAR: Malte Jongmanns, University of Duisburg-Essen
Host: Ivar Reimanis, Professor
April 26: Light Construction: Using Lasers to Manufacture Solar Cells
MME SEMINAR: Brian Simonds, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Host: Stephen Liu, Professor
MAY 1: THE APPLICATION OF PHYSICS TO THE CHARACTERIZATION OF MATERIALS AND TO INSTRUMENTATION
MME SEMINAR: Dennis Mueller, University of North Texas
Host: Brian Gorman, Associate Professor
May 3: AT THE INTERSECTION OF MICROBES AND MATERIALS: BIOCORROSION AND BIODETERIORATION IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
MME SEMINAR: Blake Stamps, Colorado School of Mines
Host: Emmanuel De Moor