UW MRSEC
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