3:05 to 4:20 p.m. | 10 Sparks Building
September 4
“The Penn State Materials Characterization Lab”
Josh Stapleton
Director of the Materials Characterization Lab, Materials Research Institute, Penn State
Abstract and biography
September 11
“Accident Investigation - A Piece of Cake”
Elliot Laratonda
Safety Advisor and Faculty Instructor, Environmental Health and Safety, Penn State
September 18
“Space Weather Effects on Widegap Semiconductors in Low Earth Orbit”
Wolfgang Windl
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
*Friday, September 26
Nelson W. Taylor Lecture
8:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at HUB-Robeson Center
- 7:45 a.m. - Coffee and donuts
- 8:20 a.m. - "Data science for additive processing of steel alloys" presented by Amrita Basak, Shuman Early Career Professor, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Penn State
- 9:15 a.m. - "What is old is new again: new research challenges in the development and processing of stainless steels" presented by Todd Palmer, Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics and Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State
- 10:20 a.m. - "Welding science powers 3D printing, but can metal supply chains keep up?" presented by Tarasankar DebRoy, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State
- 11:20 a.m. - Keynote: "Diffusion in iron: sometimes invigorating, at other times lethargic" presented by Sir Harry Bhadeshia, Professor, School of Engineering & Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London
October 2
“Polyelectrolyte Complex Materials”
Sarah Perry
Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts—Amherst
October 9
No Seminar
October 16
No Seminar
October 23
“Tensile-strained self-assembly: Nanoscale stretching for novel quantum light sources”
Paul J. Simmonds
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University
October 30
“Unlocking the Versatility of Additive Manufacturing: CALPHAD-Enabled Design for Resource-Constraint Environments”
Wei Xiong
Associate Professor, William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh
November 6 - Cancelled
“From Bonds to Bands and back again”
Wenhao Sun
Dow Early Career Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
November 13
“Modeling Bottlebrush Polymers for Self-Assembly and Printing”
Charles Sing
James M. and Karen S. Morris Faculty Scholar and Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
November 20
“Management of Material Degradation in Nuclear Power Plants”
Ryan Wolfe
Technical Executive, Electric Power Research Institute
December 4
No Seminar
December 9
“From Processing to Performance: Architecting Electro-Ceramics and Energy-Conversion Materials”
Bed Poudel
Research Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State
December 11
“A Physics-Based Approach to Pore and Particle Transport in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Melt Pools”
Sneha Prabha Narra
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
