2022 Fall Speaker List (more speakers to be added)
3:05 to 4:20 p.m.
Thursday, August 25 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
Graduate Student Convocation
- Program overview presented by Prof. Darren Pagan
- CAPS (Counseling & Psychological Services)
Thursday, September 1 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
Safety
Presented by Paige and Elliot Laratonda from Penn State Environmental Health and Safety
Thursday, September 8 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
“Slip Localization and the Prediction of Fatigue Strength of Polycrystalline Alloys”
Jean-Charles Stinville, Assitant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thursday, September 15 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
“An Overview of GE’s Accident Tolerant Fuel Program”
Rajnikant Umretiya, Research Scientist, GE Research
Thursday, September 22 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
"Radiation Detection using Perovskites – from Materials to Devices"
Paul Sellin, Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey
Thursday, September 29 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
“Additive Manufacturing: Mechanics, Metallurgy, and Machine Learning ”
Allison Beese, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; Director, Additive Manufacturing & Design Graduate Program, Penn State
Thursday, October 6, 2022 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
“A New Shape Memory Rubber with Reconfigurable Matrix and Elastomeric Fibers”
Patrick T. Mather, Dean, Schreyer Honors College, Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State
Thursday, October 13, 2022 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
"Uncovering Emergent Correlations in Materials using Comprehensive X-ray Scattering Studies"
Jacob Ruff, Director, the Center for High Energy X-ray Science (CHEXS)
Thursday, October 20, 2022 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
"Engineering Liquid Crystalline and Protein-based Networks for Responsive Biomaterials"
Kelly Burke, Associate Professor, Director of Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut
Thursday, October 27, 2022 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
"Surface composition analysis of ultra-shallow surface regions with complementary in-situ characterization under energetic particle irradiation"
Jean Paul Allain, Department Head of Nuclear Engineering, Lloyd and Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in Plasma Medicine, Penn State
Thursday, November 3, 2022 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
"Phonons, phonons everywhere!"
Vincent Meunier, P. B. Breneman Chair and Department Head, Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State
Thursday, November 10, 2022 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
"Influence of Precipitates on Deformation and Damage In Wire Arc Additive Manufactured Nickel-Aluminum-Bronze"
Aeriel Leonard, Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University
Thursday, November 17, 2022 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
"Rocks, Metal, Scissors — Plasticity Mechanisms and Non-Equilibrium Microstructures During Intense Shear Deformation"
Suveen Mathaudhu, Professor, Colorado School of Mines
Thursday, November 24, 2022 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
Thanksgiving - No Seminar
Thursday, December 1 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
“Design and Development of Pharmaceutical Formulations and Process Concepts”
Sana Hosseini, Sr. Scientist, Process and Product Development, Serán Bioscience
Thursday, December 8 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at the 112 Kern Grad Building
“Predicting properties and performance, and assuring quality in additively manufactured titanium alloys”
Peter Collins, Professor and Associate Chair, Materials Science and Engineering; Stanley Chair in Interdisciplinary Engineering, Iowa State University
