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The Fall 2020 MatSE 590 Seminars for graduate students consists of an exciting, jam-packed schedule. The semester will consist of lectures from Penn State including: Convocation, Students' Choice Seminar, Richard E. Tressler Lecture in Materials, and David Ford McFarland Lecture. We have also teamed up with more than 30 universities for the inaugural program of the North American Materials Colloquium Series (NAMCS).

All seminars will be held via Zoom and graduate students will receive link information via @psu.edu email. Graduate students are required to virtually attend all 590 Seminars. If you have any questions, please email Hayley Barnes at hjc24@psu.edu.

August 27 - Convocation (590)
John Mauro, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program; and, Associate Head for Graduate Education, Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State

September 3 - Students' Choice Seminar (590)
Tresa Pollock, Alcoa Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of Engineering University, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Development of the TriBeam Tomography Platform and Acquisition of Multimodal 3D Materials Data"

September 10 and 11 (NAMCS) (590)
Ruopeng Zhang, Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley
“Imaging of Chemical Short-range Order and Its Impact on Deformation in Structural Alloys”

September 17 and 18 (NAMCS) (590)
Andrew Meng, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania
“Manufacturing of Advanced Materials for the 21st Century”

September 24 and 25 (NAMCS) (590)
Hande Ozcan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Texas A&M University
“Oligocrystalline FeMnAlNi Shape Memory Alloys: Microstructural Evolution, Scale-up, Magnetic Sensing”

October 1 and 2 (NAMCS) (590)
Shane Lindemann, Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin–Madison
“Giant Piezo-Driven Multiferroic Heterostructures by Design”

Anna Dorner, Graduate Student, Missouri University of Science and Technology
“Solute Characterization of (Zr,Ta)B₂ Ceramics”

October 8 and 9 (NAMCS) (590)
Shanshan Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ohio State University
“The Subsurface Structure of Abraded Al Alloys and its Influences on Corrosion”

October 15 and 16 (NAMCS) (590)
Kayla A. Cooley, Graduate Student, Penn State
“The Effect of Metal Incorporation on Properties and Critical Interfaces in GeTe-Based Devices”

October 22 - Richard E. Tressler Lecture in Materials (590)
Melissa Hockstad, M.S. President and CEO, American Cleaning Institute
“Materials for Success: Bringing Together the Elements for a Successful Career”

October 29 and 30 (NAMCS) (590)
Diptak Bhattacharya, Graduate Student, Colorado School of Mines
“Liquid Metal Embrittlement Susceptibility of Zn-Coated Advanced High Strength Steels”

November 5 - David Ford McFarland Lecture (590)
William Woodford, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CTO, Form Energy
“The Critical Role of Materials in Global Decarbonization"

November 12 and 13 (NAMCS) (590)
Christopher E. Shuck, Postdoctoral Researcher, Drexel University
“MAX Phases as Precursors to New MXenes”

November 19 and 20 (NAMCS) (590)
Brianna L. Musicó, Graduate Student, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“High Entropy Oxides: The Multicomponent Materials, Their Synthesis, and Properties”

Wenxiang Chen, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
“Strain-Induced Electrochemical Inhomogeneity in Cathode Nanoparticles Revealed at Atomic Level”

December 3 and 4 (NAMCS) (590)
Chao Lang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Penn State
“Soft Materials from Block Copolymer Self-assembly: From Bioinspired Membranes to Hierarchically-Structured Hydrogels”

Sridhar Niverty, Postdoctoral Researcher, Purdue University
“Four Dimensional (4D) Microstructural and Electrochemical Characterization of Corrosion in High Performance Light Metal Alloys”

December 10 and 11 (NAMCS) (590)
Rebekah I. Webster, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Virginia
“Mixed Phase Ytterbium Silicate Environmental-Barrier Coatings for Improved Calcium–Magnesium–Alumino-Silicate Resistance”

December 17 and 18 (NAMCS) (590)
Shiteng Zhao, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley
“Nonequilibrium Deformation and Engineering of Materials”