2023 Fall Speaker List
Thursday, August 24 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building
Graduate Student Convocation
Program overview presented by John Mauro, Associate Head for Graduate Education and Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State
Thursday, August 31 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building
Safety
Presented by Elliot Laratonda, Coordinator, Penn State Environmental Health and Safety
Thursday, September 7 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building
"Towards large-scale and integrated functional metasurfaces"
Xingjie Ni, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Penn State
Thursday, September 14 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building
"Nanotwin Formation in Thin Metal Films"
Shefford P. Baker, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University
Thursday, September 21 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building
"Nematicity in iron-based superconductors – Insights from strain-dependent ARPES"
Heike Pfau, Assistant Professor of Physics, Penn State
Thursday, September 28 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building
"The Mechanisms Governing Grain Boundary Migration in Polycrystals"
Amanda Krause, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Thursday, October 6 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building
"Functional Imaging at the Atomic Scale"
Robert F. Klie, Professor and Department Head of Physics, University of Illinois Chicago
Thursday, October 12 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building
"Magneto-Raman Spectroscopy to Identify Spin Structure in Low-Dimensional Quantum Materials"
Angela R. Hight Walker, Senior Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Thursday, October 19 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building
"Local to Meso-scale Order in Electronic Ceramics Materials Characterized by Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron"
Elizabeth Dickey, Teddy & Wilton Hawkins Distinguished Professor and Department Head of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Thursday, October 26 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building
"4D Metamaterials"
Nader Engheta, Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, November 2 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building
"Exploiting automatic image processing and in-situ transmission electron microscopy to understand the stability of nanoparticles"
Eric Stach, Robert D. Bent Professor of Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, November 9 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building
"Accelerating Materials Discovery, Design, and Development with Materials Informatics"
James Saal, Director-External Research Programs, Citrine Informatics, Inc.
Thursday, November 16 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building - *Further information will be provided soon
Kristi Kiick, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor, Professor and Department Chair of Biomedical Engineering, University of Delaware
Thursday, November 23 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building
Thanksgiving - No seminar
Thursday, November 30 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building
No seminar
Thursday, December 7 from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. at 10 Sparks Building - *Further information will be provided soon
Salva Salmani-Rezaie, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
