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MSE Colloquium Series: 2008/2009

The MSE Colloquium Series features distinguished speakers as well as Division faculty and graduate students addressing topics in the relevant areas of the program: Biomaterials, Electronic and Photonic Materials, Materials for Energy and Environment, and Nanomaterials. Click on the talk title for the abstract and bio.

Fall 2009 Colloquium Series
Summer 2009
Spring 2009 Colloquium Series (flyer, pdf)
Fall 2008 Colloquium Series


Fall 2009 MSE Colloquium Series
October 16, 2009 Friday, 3:00PM 15 Saint Mary's Street, Rm 105 Cosponsored by CNN flyer	Dr. Xinqiao Jia Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Delaware Molecular Design of Functional Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine
October 23, 2009 Friday, 3:00-4:30PM GSU Metcalf Hall, 775 Commonwealth Avenue College of Engineering 2009 Future of Engineering Symposium	Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang Kyocera Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT Amplifying the Societal Impact of Engineering Research: A Case Study in Clean Technology
October 30, 2009 Friday, 3:00PM 15 Saint Mary's Street, Rm 105 flyer	Dr. Fernando A. Ponce Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Delaware Materials Challenges for Green InGaN Injection Lasers
November 6, 2009 Friday, 3:00PM 8 Saint Mary's Street, Rm 210 Cosponsored by CNN flyer	Dr. Ramesh Jasti Department of Chemistry; Division of Materials Science and Engineering Boston University Bridging Organic Synthesis and Nanoscience
November 13, 2009 Friday, 3:00PM 8 Saint Mary's Street, Rm 210 Cosponsored by Physics flyer	Dr. Thomas P. Russell Polymer Science and Engineering University of Massachusetts, Amherst Macroscopic Arrays of Block Copolymers with Areal Densities of 10 Terabit/inch2 and beyond
November 20, 2009 Friday, 3:00PM 8 Saint Mary's Street, Rm 210 Cosponsored by ECE and Physics flyer	Dr. William Klein Physics Department Boston University Non-Classical Nucleation and Spinodals
December 4, 2009 Friday, 3:00PM 8 Saint Mary's Street, Rm 210 Cosponsored by ECE and Physics flyer	Dr. Clemens Heske Chemistry Department University of Nevada at Las Vegas Using Soft x-rays to Look Into Interfaces of Energy Conversion Devices


summer 2009 MSE seminar
July 17, 2009 Friday, 11 AM - 12 PM EMB 105 Cosponsored by the BU Clean Energy Initiative	Dr. Zhenguo (Gary) Yang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Title: Advanced Electrochemical Energy Storage for Renewable Integration and Smart Grid Applications


Spring 2009 MSE Colloquium Series flyer (pdf)
February 27, 2009 Friday, 3:00PM PHO 211 flyer	Dr. Meilin Liu School of Materials Science and Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Probing and mapping electrode reactions in SOFCs using in situ Raman spectroscopy
March 6, 2009 Friday, 3:00PM PHO 211 flyer	Dr. Gerbrand Ceder Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Materials Design with First Principles Computations and application to Materials for Energy Storage and Generation
March 20, 2009 Friday, 3:00PM PHO 211 Cosponsored by ECE, Physics, and the Center for Nanotechnology flyer	Dr. Theodore Moustakas Division of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Boston University Nitride Semiconductors and their Applications
March 27, 2009 Friday, 3:00PM PHO 211 flyer	Dr. Uday Pal Division of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Boston University Performance Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and New Electrode Materials
April 3, 2009 Friday, 3:00PM PHO 211 Cosponsored by ECE, Physics, and the Center for Nanotechnology flyer	Dr. Arto Nurmikko Division of Engineering Brown University Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Dots as Active Optical Elements: From Single Photons Sources to Lasers?
Postponed to Fall 2009	Dr. Jung Han Department of Electrical Engineering Yale University Science of Epitaxy for Solid State Lighting
Postponed to Fall 2009	Dr. Thomas P. Russell Polymer Science and Engineering University of Massachusetts, Amherst Macroscopic Arrays of Block Copolymers with Areal Densities of 10 Terabit/inch2 and beyond

Fall 2008 MSE Colloquium Series
October 17, 2008 Friday, 11AM 110 Cummington St., Room 245	Dr. Newell R. Washburn Carnegie Mellon University Design Principles for Cytokine-Regulating Biomaterials Joint with Mechanical Engineering
October 17, 2008 Friday, 4PM 8 Saint Mary's Street, PHO 210	Dr. Sudipta Seal Professor of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida Regenerative Catalytic Rare Earth Nanoparticles as Therapeutics Joint with CNN
October 24, 2008 Friday, 1:30-2:30PM 8 Saint Mary's Street, PHO 339	Dr. Robert F. Davis John R. and Clare Bertucci Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Initial and Subsequent Modes of Growth AlN, GaN and ZnO Semiconductor Films
October 31, 2008 Friday, 3PM 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 210	Dr. Efthimios Kaxiras Department of Physics and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Multiscale Simulations Of Complex Materials For Engineering And Biological Applications Joint with ECE and Physics
November 7, 2008 Friday, 11:30AM 15 Saint Mary's Street, Room 105	Guest Lecturer Dr. U. (Balu) Balachandran Argonne National Laboratory Development of Dense Membranes for Hydrogen Production and Purification
November 7, 2008 Friday, 3PM 8 Saint Mary's Street, PHO 210	Dr. H. Eugene Stanley Director, Center for Polymer Studies, BU College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics Liquid Water Joint with ECE
November 14, 2008 Friday, 3PM 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 901	Dr. George M. Whitesides Harvard University Ionic Electrets and Contact Electrification Joint with CNN
November 21, 2008 Friday, 3PM 8 Saint Mary’s Street, PHO 210	Dr. Ilhan A. Aksay Chemical Engineering Department, Princeton University Biologically Inspired Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposites Joint with CNN
December 5 , 2008 Friday, 11AM 110 Cummington Street, Rm 245	Dr. Seung-Wuk Lee Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley Making Viruses Work For Us Joint with Mechanical Engineering