The Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences has announced speakers and dates for the fall 2016 Arkema Speaker Series. The series features talks from leaders in materials science and engineering research and are held from 9:45 to 11 a.m. on Thursdays in 117 Osmond Laboratory. Seminars are free and open to the public.
The 2016 fall semester series is as follows:
- Sept. 1: “Convocation” – Suzanne Mohney, professor of materials science and engineering, Penn State
- Sept. 8: “Lab Safety: Our Goals, Our Challenges, Our Approach” – William Drummer, EH&S Delivery Leader, The Dow Chemical Company
- Sept. 15: “Ion-Conducting Polymers for Green Energy and Clean Water Applications” – Michael Hickner, associate professor of materials science and engineering, chemical engineering, Penn State
- Sept. 22: “Novel Gas Separation Membranes from Polymer Grafted Nanoparticles” – Sanat Kumar, professor of chemical engineering, Columbia University
- Sept. 29: “a Room Temperature Multiferroic made by Thin-Film Alchemy” – Darrell Schlom, professor of materials science and engineering, Cornell University
- Oct. 6: “Structure – Process – Property Relationships Governing Solution Processed Semiconductor Performance” – Elsa Reichmanis, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Oct. 13: “Biomimetic and Bioinspired Membranes: Opportunities, Challenges, and New Directions” – Manish Kumar, assistant professor of chemical engineering, Penn State
- Oct. 20: “Alloy Development and Advance Processing for Light Metals: The Role of Thermodynamics and Kinetics” – Alan Luo, professor of materials science and engineering, Ohio State University
- Oct. 27: “Disentangling a Gordian Knot in Oxide Thin Film Growth” – Roman Engel-Herbert, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, Penn State
- Nov. 3: “New Tricks for Strain Engineering and Applied Pressure in Older Complex Oxides” – James Rondinelli, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, Northwestern University
- Nov. 10: “Pushing the Performance of Electro-Mechanical Thin Films” – Paul Muralt, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, Switzerland
- Nov. 17: “Near-Net-Shaping of Dense and Porous Ultra High Temperature Ceramics for Extreme Applications” – Carolina Tallon, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, Virginia Tech
- Nov. 24: No seminar (Thanksgiving break)
- Dec. 1: No seminar (Materials Research Society Conference)
- Dec. 8: “Structural Dynamics of Supported Metal Nano-Clusters” – Judy Yang, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, physics, University of Pittsburgh
The speaker series is sponsored by Arkema, a leading specialty chemicals and advanced materials company headquartered in Colombes, near Paris.