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Seminar Series

The Materials Seminar Series, beginning in Fall 2008, will be a bi-weekly seminar featuring distinguished speakers addressing topics in the relevant areas of the program: Biomaterials, Electronic and Photonic Materials, Materials for Energy and Environment, and Nanomaterials.


Materials Talks
December 5 , 2008 Joint with Mechanical Engineering	Dr. Seung-Wuk Lee Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley Making viruses work for us Host Program: Division of Materials Engineering
April 25 , 2008 Friday, 1:30PM – 2:30PM EMB 105	Harry Tuller Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT Micro-Ionics: A Revolution in Power Generation and Environmental Sensing Host: Professor Srikanth Gopalan, Department of Manufacturing Engineering
April 2 , 2008 Wednesday, 2:00PM – 3:00PM 8 Saint Mary's Street, room 339	Christos Flytzanis Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain Ecole Normale Superieure (France) Photoinduced Magnetic Ordering and Spin Photogalvanic Effect In a Semimagnetic Semiconductor Quantum Microcavity Host: Joint ECE/MSE Seminar
February 28, 2008 Friday, 1:30PM – 2:30PM 110 Cummington Street, Room 245	Prabhakar Singh Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Materials Corrosion in SOFC Power Generation Systems: An Overview Host: Professor Srikanth Gopalan, Department of Manufacturing Engineering
February 24, 2008 Monday 11:30AM - 1PM 8 Saint Mary's Street, 9th Floor, Colloquium Room This event is part of the Photonics Forum Seminar Series, Photonics Center.	Dr. Theodore D. Moustakas GaN based Light Emitting Diodes for Solid State Lighting and UV Applications Dr. Lee E Goldstein Laser-Based Non-Invasive Molecular Diagnostic Technology for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Host Program: The Boston University Photonics Center
February 15, 2008 Friday, 2PM – 3PM EMB 105	Kyung Joong Yoon Ph.D. Student, Department of Manufacturing Engineering Advisor: Professor Uday Pal Single Step Co-Firing Technique for Manufacturing High Performance Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) Host Program: Department of Manufacturing Engineering
February 7, 2008 Friday, 12 - 1PM Pizza served, 11:30 AM This event is part of the Condensed Matter Seminar Series. All seminars will take place in the Metcalf Science Center, Room 352 at noon, unless otherwise noted	Eric Chason Brown University Influence of non-equilibirium conditions on thin film stress and surface morphology evolution Host Program: Professor Karl Ludwig, Physics Department
November 16, 2007 Friday, 2PM – 3PM EMB 116	Stephen Topping Ph.D. Student, Department of Manufacturing Engineering Advisor: Professor Vinod Sarin Growth of Luminescent Films of Lutetium Oxide Host Program: Department of Manufacturing Engineering
October 19, 2007 Friday, 2PM – 3PM EMB 116	Ping Du Ph.D. Student, Department of Manufacturing Engineering Advisors: Professor Xi Lin and Professor Xin Zhang Conductive Polymers Host Program: Department of Manufacturing Engineering
October 10, 2007 Wednesday, 10AM-11AM EMB 116	Dr. V S Raghunathan Non-Ferrous Technology Development Centre, Hyderabad, India Formerly at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India Plasma Processing of Hard Coatings Host Program: Professor Soumendra N. Basu, Department of Manufacturing Engineering