| Thursday, April 21, 2011, 4:00pm 265 Materials Science & Engineering Bldg | |
| Statics and Dynamics of Colloidal Particles in Liquid Crystals Oleg Lavrentovich Liquid Crystal Institute Kent State University In association with the UW Materials Science Program | |
| Thursday, April 21, 2011, 12:15pm 1315 Chemistry Building | |
| Electrochemical Synthesis of Electrode Materials with Controlled Compositions and Architectures for use in Clean Energy Production Kyoung-Shin Choi Department of Chemistry Purdue University In association with the UW Department of Chemistry | |
| Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 3:30pm 1800 Engineering Hall | |
| Ferry Lecture David Tirrell Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology In association with the UW Departments of Chemistry and Chemical & Biological Engineering | |
| Friday, April 1, 2011, 12:05pm 1800 Engineering Hall | |
| Dynamics of Confined Liquid Crystals: Droplets and NanoParticles Juan Hernandez-Ortiz Department of Materials Universidad Nacional de Colombia In association with the UW Rheology Research Center | |
| Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 12:15pm 1315 Chemistry Building | |
| Putting Chemistry to Work for Nano and Miomedical Research Younan Xia Department of Chemistry Washington University in St. Louis In association with the UW Department of Chemistry | |
| Thursday, March 10, 2011, 4:00pm 265 Materials Science & Engineering Bldg | |
| Molecular Engineering of Conjugated Polymers to Reach Higher Efficiency “Plastic Solar Cell Wei You Department of Chemistry University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill In association with the UW Materials Science Program | |
| Thursday, February 24, 2011, 4:00pm 265 Materials Science & Engineering Bldg | |
| Hybrid Nanostructures for Controlling Charge Separation Moonsub Shim Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In association with the UW Materials Science Program | |
| Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 9:30am 1610 Engineering Hall | |
| Simulations of Self-Assembly in Surfactant, Nanoparticle and Polymer Systems Athanassios Panagiotopoulos Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Princeton University In association with the UW Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | |
| Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 9:30am 1610 Engineering Hall | |
| Self-Assembly of Nanoscale Colloids Nicholas Kotov Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Michigan, Ann Arbor In association with the UW Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | |
| Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 11:00am 1315 Chemistry Building | |
| Polymer Micelles and Gels in Ionic Liquids: New Opportunities in Science and Engineering Timothy Lodge Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota In association with the UW Rheology Research Center | |
| Monday, October 11, 2010, 3:45pm 2317 Engineering Hall | |
| Device Physics and Applications of Intersubband Transitions in Wide-Bandgap Nitride Semiconductors Roberto Paiella Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Photonic Center Boston University In association with the UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
| Saturday, October 9, 2010, 8:15am-4:00pm | |
| Fifth Upper Midwest MRSEC Symposium "Nanostructures in Soft Matter" University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN For more details, visit http://www.mrsec.umn.edu/index.php | |
| Wednesday, October 6 & Thursday, October 7, 2010 Engineering Centers Building , Research Auditorium & Lobby | |
| 2010 UW Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium Annual Meeting Reception and poster session Wednesday at 6:00pm; presentations beginning at 8:00am on Thursday See the complete agenda for additional details RSVP by emailing kedebruin@wisc.edu no later than Tuesday, September 28 | |
| Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 9:30am 1610 Engineering Hall | |
| Block Copolymer Thin Films: Shear Alignment and Applications in Nanofabrication Richard Register Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Princeton University In association with the UW Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | |
| Friday, October 1, 2010, 12:05pm 1800 Engineering Hall | |
| New Measures for Characterizing Viscoelastic Materials using Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear (LAOS) Deformation Randy Ewoldt Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota In association with the UW Rheology Research Center | |
| Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 11:00am 1315 Chemistry Building | |
| Pathways to More Efficient Organic Solar Cells: What We Can Learn by Watching Electrons Move in Real Time John Ashbury Department of Chemistry Pennsylvania State University In association with the UW Department of Chemistry | |
| Thursday, September 9, 2010, 12:15pm 1315 Chemistry Building | |
| Photoinduced Processes in Semiconductor Nanocrystals with Analogies to Supramolecular Chemistry Gregory Scholes Department of Chemistry University of Toronto Senior Editor, Journal of Physical Chemistry In association with the UW Department of Chemistry | |
| Thursday, September 9, 2010, 10:00am 5310 Chamberlain Hall | |
| Spin, Charge and Orbital Ordering in Transition Metal Compounds: New Insights Obtained by Resonant X-ray Diffraction Ioannis Zegkinoglou Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research Stuttgart, Germany In association with the UW Department of Physics | |
| Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 9:30am 1610 Engineering Hall | |
| Designing Omniphobic Surfaces for Super-Repellency and Friction Reduction Gareth McKinley Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology In association with the UW Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | |
| Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 9:30am 1610 Engineering Hall | |
| The Design of Solvent-Based Reactive Systems: From Molecules to Process Claire Adjiman Department of Chemical Engineering Imperial College, London In association with the UW Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | |
| Thursday, April 22, 2010, 3:30pm 265 Materials Science and Engineering Building | |
| Combinatorial Approach to Materials Discovery Ichiro Takeuchi Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Maryland In association with the UW Department Materials Science and Engineering | |
| Monday, April 12, 2010, 3:45pm 2317 Engineering Hall | |
| Carbon Nanoelectronics: Towards Energy-Efficient Computing Eric Pop Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In association with the UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
| Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 9:30am 1610 Engineering Hall | |
| Engineered Protein Therapeutics and Diagnostic Agents Inspired by Nature Jennifer Cochran Department of Bioengineering Stanford University In association with the UW Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | |
| Monday, March 8, 2010, 3:45pm 2317 Engineering Hall | |
| Scaling FETs beyond 10nm: Semiclassical to Quantum Transport Models Massimo Fischetti Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts-Amherst In association with the UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
| Thursday, February 18, 2010, 3:30pm 1315 Chemistry Building | |
| Macromolecular Surfactants Frank Bates Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota Ferry Lecture, in association with the UW Department of Chemistry | |
| Thursday, February 18, 2010, 10:00am 5310 Chamberlain Hall | |
| From Quantum Electronics to Quantum Nanofluidics Guillaume Gervais Department of Physics McGill University In association with the UW Department of Physics | |
| Thursday, February 11, 2010, 3:30pm 265 Materials Science and Engineering Building | |
| The Importance of Nanostructure in Determining Interfacial Energy Francesco Stellacci Department of Materials Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology In association with the UW Department of Materials Science and Engineering | |
| Thursday, December 10, 2009, 4:00pm 265 Materials Science & Engineering | |
| Molecular Aspects of Mussel Protein Adhesion and Design of Biologically Inspired Polymers Phil Messersmith Professor Department of Materials Science & Engineering Northwestern University In association with the UW Materials Science Program | |
| Thursday, November 5, 2009, 4:00pm 265 Materials Science & Engineering | |
| New Ways of Measuring Light at the Nanoscale Alex Liddle Nanofabrication Research Group Leader Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology National Institute of Standards & Technology In association with the UW Materials Science Program | |
| Monday, November 2 & Tuesday, November 3, 2009 1610 Engineering Hall & Lobby | |
| 2009 UW Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium Annual Meeting | |
| Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 11:00am 1315 Chemistry | |
| Ultrafast Charge Transfer at Molecule/Quantum Dot Interface: Towards Multi-Exciton Dissociation Tim Lian Professor Department of Chemistry Emory University In association with the UW Department of Chemistry | |
| Thursday, October 15, 2009, 4:00pm 265 Materials Science & Engineering | |
| Mechanochemically Active Polymers Nancy Sottos Professor Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In association with the UW Materials Science Program | |
| Monday, October 12, 2009, 3:45pm 1227 Engineering Hall | |
| Optoelectronic Properties of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Systems for Various Sensing Applications Mitra Dutta Professor & Head of Department Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Chicago In association with the UW Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | |
| Thursday, September 24, 2009, 4:00pm 265 Materials Science & Engineering | |
| Kinetics-Controlled Nanoscale Materials Processing Hanchen Huang Professor Center for Integrated Electronics Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute In association with the UW Materials Science Program | |
| Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 4:00pm 1610 Engineering Hall | |
| Design of Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Materials Mark Davis Professor Department of Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology Kramer Lecture, in association with the UW Departments of Chemistry, Chemical & Biological Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering | |
| Wednesday, May 6 & Thursday, May 7, 2009 1610 Engineering Hall & Lobby | |
| 2009 UW-MRSEC External Advisory Board Meeting | |
| Saturday, April 25, 2009 1610 Engineering Hall | |
| Midwest MRSEC Symposium Presentations by MRSEC graduate students from Northwestern University, University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, and University of Wisconsin | |
| April 23-24, 2009 1610 Engineering Hall & Lobby | |
| Hougen Symposium on Frontiers of Liquid Crystals For additional information please visit: http://www.engr.wisc.edu/che/hougensymposium_2009.pdf **registration is required** Co-Sponsored by UW-MRSEC and the Hougen Professorship Fund of the UW Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | |
| Friday, March 27, 2009, 12:05 PM 1800 Engineering Hall | |
| Optimal Swimming and Crawling at Low Reynolds Numbers Anette Hosoi Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology In association with the UW Rheology Research Center | |
| Friday, March 13, 2009, 12:05 PM 1800 Engineering Hall | |
| Microfluidics Enhanced Sythesis for Bio-compatible Nonporous Materials Amy Shen Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Washington In association with the UW Rheology Research Center | |
| Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 11:00 AM 1315 Chemistry Building | |
| The Art and Science of Supercooling: Ideal Glassformers vs Ideal Glasses C. Austen Angell Professor Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Arizona State University In association with the UW Department of Chemistry | |
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 4:00 PM 1610 Engineering Hall | |
| Controlling the Activity and Selectivity of Catalytically Active Sites: Insights Gained from Experiments and Theory Alexis T. Bell Professor and Chair Department of Chemical Engineering University of California Berkeley In association with the UW Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | |
| Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 4:00 PM 1610 Engineering Hall | |
| Tunable Microenvironments for Regenerative Medicine Lonnie D. Shea Professor Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering Northwestern University In association with the UW Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering | |
| Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:05 PM 1800 Engineering Hall | |
| On the Stupendous Beauty of Closure Hans Christian Oettinger Professor Department of Materials Institute of Polymers, Zurich, Switzerland In association with the UW Rheology Research Center | |
| Thursday, January 29, 2009, 10:00 AM 5310 Chamberlin Hall | |
| What Can We Learn from Spin-dependent Shot Noise in Semiconductor and Grapheme Nanostructures? Branislav Nikolic Associate Professor Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Delaware In association with the UW Department of Physics | |



