GEORGE S. ANSELL LECTURE SERIES
Fall 2025 Seminars
All seminars are held in Hill Hall 202 at 4 PM unless otherwise noted.
We are currently working on our seminar schedule for fall. Please revisit our site closer to August for updates.
Thank you to all of our speakers and guests!
Past Seminars
Spring 2025
1/9/25 – Dr. Eric Payton, University of Cincinnati
1/16/25 – Dr. Lena Buehre, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
1/23/25 – Dr. Stephen Tate, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
1/30/25 – Dr. Michael Toney, University of Colorado, Boulder
2/6/25 – Dr. Xun Liu, The Ohio State University
2/13/25 – Dr. Elizabeth Opila, University of Virginia
2/20/25 – Dr. Joseph Jankowski, ATI
2/27/25 – Dr. Michael Moats, Missouri University of Science and Technology
3/6/25 – Dr. Patrick Woodward, Ohio State University
3/13/25 – Dr. Todd Palmer, Pennsylvania State University
3/27/25 – Dr. Tobias Huber, Huber Scientific
4/10/25 – Dr. Robert Kelly, University of Virginia
4/17/25 – Dr. Sridhar Seetharaman, Arizona State University
4/24/25 – Dr. David Mebane, West Virginia University
Fall 2024
9/5/24 – Dr. Yewon Shin, Colorado School of Mines
9/12/24 – Dr. Joseph Cesarano, Robocasting Enterprises LLC
9/19/24 – Dr. Efrain Rodriguez, University of Maryland
9/26/24 – Dr. Erin Barrick, Sandia National Laboratory
10/3/24 – Dr. Peter Hesketh, Georgia Institute of Technology
10/10/24 – Dr. Michael McMurtrey, Idaho National Laboratory
10/17/24 – Dr. Liisa Kuhn, University of Connecticut Health Center
10/24/24 – Dr. Yoon-Seok Choi, Ohio University
10/31/24 – Dr. Vladimiros Papangelakis, University of Toronto
11/7/24 – Dr. John Speer, Colorado School of Mines
11/14/24 – Dr. Steven Spurgeon, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
11/21/24 – Dr. Joseph Stetter, KWJ Engineering Inc. and Spec-Sensors LLC
Spring 2024
2/1/24 – Dr. Wojciech Misiolek, Lehigh University
2/8/24 – Erik Helin, The American Ceramic Society (ACerS)
2/22/24 – Dr. Janelle Wharry, Purdue University
2/29/24 – Dr. E-Wen Huang, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
3/7/24 – Dr. Luca Mastropasqua, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3/14/24 – Dr. Vladimiros Papangelakis, University of Toronto (Postponed)
4/4/24 – Dr. Izabela Szlufarska, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4/11/24 – Dr. Steven May, Drexel University
4/18/24 – Dr. Shenyan Huang, GE Research
4/25/24 – Dr. Ron Goldfarb, NIST
Fall 2023
9/7/23 – Dr. Raphaele Clement, University of California
9/14/23 – Dr. Brad Boyce, The Minerals, Metals, & Materials Society
9/21/23 – Dr. Anil Sachdev, General Motors
9/28/23 – Dr. Jessica Krogstad, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
10/12/23 – Dr. Tamas Ungar, Eötvös Loránd University
10/19/23 – Dr. David Dreisinger, The University of British Columbia
10/26/23 – Dr. Wilson Smith, University of Colorado, Boulder
11/2/23 – Dr. Zhijian Pei, Texas A&M University
11/9/23 – Dr. Paul Voyles, University of Wisconsin
11/16/23 – Dr. Nicole Lefort, Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola
11/30/23 – Dr. Laura Schelhas, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Cancelled)
Spring 2023
1/12/23 – Dr. Anna Staerz, Colorado School of Mines
1/19/23 – Dr. Douglas Stauffer, Bruker Nano Surfaces
1/26/23 – Dr. Bharat Gwalani, North Carolina State University
2/2/23 – Dr. Josh Biller, TDA Research Inc.
2/9/23 – Dr. Zi-Kui Liu, Penn State
2/15/23 – Dr. Nikhilesh Chawla, Purdue University — Wednesday, Coolbaugh Hall, Room 209
2/23/23 – Dr. Josephine Carstensen, MIT
3/2/23 – Dr. Donald Brown, Los Alamos National Lab
3/9/23 – Dr. Monica Ferraris, Politecnico di Torino
3/16/23 – Dr. Samantha Lawrence, Los Alamos National Lab
3/23/23 – No Seminar
3/30/23 – Dr. Kristina Kareh, Springer Nature
4/6/23 – Dr. Kiyo Fujimoto, Idaho National Lab
4/13/23 – Dr. Charmayne Lonergan, Pacific Northwest National Lab
4/20/23 – Dr. Mark Weaver, University of Alabama
4/27/23 – Dr. Allison Beese, Penn State
Fall 2022
9/8/22 – Dr. Ashley Paz y Puente, University of Cincinnati
9/15/22 – Dr. Eve Mozur, Colorado School of Mines
9/22/22 – Dr. Sneha Prabha Narra, Carnegie Mellon University
9/29/22 – Dr. Kim Scott, Colorado School of Mines
10/6/22 – Dr. Nik Hrabe, NIST
10/20/22 – Dr. Fadi Abdeljawad, Clemson University
10/27/22 – Dr. Claudia Rawn, University of Tennessee
11/3/22 – Dr. Shane Kennett & Dr. Kaitlin Spak, Exponent
11/10/22 –Dr. Josephine Carstensen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11/17/22 – Dr. Jihye Kim, Colorado School of Mines
Spring 2022
1/20/2022 – Dr. Andrew Slifka, National Institute of Standards and Technology
1/27/2022 – Dr. Radhakanta Rana, TATA Steel
2/3/2022 – Dr. Atieh Moridi, Cornell University
2/10/2022 – Dr. Rishi Raj, University of Colorado Boulder
2/17/2022 – Dr. Mitra Taheri, Johns Hopkins University / Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2/24/2022 – Dr. David Johnson, University of Oregon
3/3/2022 – Dr. Marie Charpagne, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign
3/10/2022 – Dr. Ashley Spear, University of Utah
3/17/2022 – Dr. Taylor Jacobs, Los Alamos National Laboratory
3/31/2022 – Dr. Daniel Harris, NRL China Lake
4/7/2022 – Dr. Bob Voigt, Pennsylvania State University
4/14/2022 – Dr. Aeriel D.M. Leonard, Ohio State University
4/21/2022 – Dr. Amit Misra, University of Michigan
4/28/2022 – Dr. Callie Higgins, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Fall 2021
9/16/2021 – Dr. Suveen Mathaudhu, Colorado School of Mines
9/23/2021 – Mr. Marc P. Church, Lockheed Martin Space
9/30/2021 – Dr. Christopher R. Weinberger, Colorado State University
10/7/2021 – Dr. Warren Miglietti, Miglietti and Associates, LLC
10/14/2021 – Dr. Sammy Tin, University of Arizona
10/21/2021 – Dr. Joy Gockel, Colorado School of Mines
10/28/2021 – Drs. Stevanovic and Mathaudhu, Colorado School of Mines
11/4/2021 – Dr. Kaka Ma, Colorado State University
11/11/2021 – Dr. May Martin, NIST
11/18/2021 – Dr. Wendy Gu, Stanford University
12/2/2021 – Dr. Desmond Bourgeois, The Ohio State University
Spring 2021
4/29/2021 – Dr. Arun Devaraj, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
4/28/2021 – Exponent Informational Seminar
4/22/2021 – Dr. Calvin M. Stewart, University of Texas, El Paso
4/8/2021 – Dr. Michael S. Kesler, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
3/25/2021 – oSTEM , Colorado School of Mines (Safezone Training Password: 243428)
3/18/2021 – Dr. Shuang Cui, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
3/11/2021 – Dr. Gwénaëlle Proust, University of Sydney
3/4/2021 – Dr. Chelsey Hargather, University of New Mexico
2/25/2021 – Dr. Amber N. Black, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2/11/2021 – Dr. Jingjing Li, Penn State University
2/4/2021 – Dr. Rebecca Schaller, Sandia National Laboratories
1/28/2021 – Dr. Linda Nazar, University of Waterloo
1/21/2021 – Dr. Terry Totemeier, Colorado School of Mines
2020
01/16/2020, Dr. Vladan Stevanovic, Colorado School of Mines
01/23/2020, Dr. Amy Clarke, Colorado School of Mines
01/30/2020, Dr. Michael Nagorka, CSM Alumnus
02/06/2020, Dr. Gunther Eggeler, Ruhr University (Bochum, Germany)
02/20/2020, Dr. Lawrence Cho, National Institute of Standards and Technology
02/27/2020, Dr. Victoria Blair, Army Research Laboratory
03/05/2020, Dr. Matthew Olszta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
03/12/2020, Dr. Kirstin Alberi, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
09/24/20, Dr. Suresh Babu, University of Tennessee
10/1/20, Dr. Nilesh Kumar, University of Alabama
10/8/20, Dr. Xun Liu, The Ohio State University
10/15/20, Dr. Justin Briggs, Antora Energy
10/22/20, Dr. Robert F. Klie, University of Illinois – Chicago
10/29/20, Diptak Bhattacharya, Colorado School of Mines
11/5/2020, Dr. Deep Choudhuri, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
11/12/2020, Dr. Megan Holtz, NIST
Auxiliary Seminars
4/14/25 – Dr. Suveen Mathaudhu, Colorado School of Mines
3/26/2025 – Eric VanDerHorn, American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)
3/3/2025 – Dr. Sara A Hornby, 2024 AIST John F. Elliott Lecture
2/4/2025 – Zhongfu Ge, American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)
12/3/2024 – Jin Wang, American Bureau of Shipping
11/12/2024 – Dr. Anastasiya Tonjes, Leibniz Institute for Materials Engineering – IWT, Germany
10/14/2024 – Dr. Federico Smeacetto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
10/1/2024 – Dr. Adnan Syed, Cranfield University, UK
3/11/2024 – Dr. Rintaro Ueji, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
2/12/2024 – Dr. Dylan Jennings & Dr. Wolfgang Rheinheimer, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
10/24/2023 – Dr. Mike Scarpulla, University of Utah
10/11/2023 – Dr. Sourav Das, Indian Institute of Technology Rourkee
9/14/2023 – Dr. Yi-Sheng (Eason) Chen, University of Sydney
11/5/2022 – Dr. Federico Smeacetto, Politecnico di Torino