UW Seminars Archive
Fall 2005 Seminars
December
8: "Micro-end milling and thermally-assisted manufacturing" by Frank
Pfefferkorn, Professor
Mechanical Engineering, UW-Madison
November 3: In-situ STM Applications in Electrochemical Surface Science”by Natasa Vasiljevic, Sandia National Laboratories.
October 27: Effective Behavior, Microstructure Evolution and Macroscopic Instabilities in Elastomeric Composites”by P. Ponte Castaneda, ME&AME, University of Pennsylvania/ Ecole Polytechnique, France.
October 20: The lateral organization of lipid membranes: From model bilayers to living cells as viewed by atomic force microscopy”by Alan Burns, Biomolecular Materials and Interfaces Dept., Sandia National labs, Albuquerque, NM.
October 13: Computational Studies of Growth Mechanisms and Properties of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond”by Peter Zapol, Materials Science Division and Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Lab.
October 6: Mapping of strain in nanocrystals in three dimensions by Ian Robinson, Professor, University of Illinois.
September 29: Multifunctional oxide materials for microelectronic and optoelectronic applications”by Jane P. Chang, Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engr., University of California.
September 22: Dipolar Field Effects in Organic Semiconductor Devices: Transistor Tunability and Chemical Sensitivity”by Howard E. Katz, Professor, MS&E Dept., Johns Hopkins University.
September 15: Materials for Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterials for Electronics”by David Eaglesham, Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA.
Spring 2005 Seminars
May 5: Toward atomistic theory of self-assembled quantum dots”by Dr P. Hawrylak, Principal Research Officer, Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada.
April 28: Dynamics and Mechanics of Interfacial Films in Sliding Contacts”by Kathryn J. Wahl, Tribology Section, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC.
April 21: Spin Polarized Transport in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions: The Effects due to DOS and Barrier Shape”by John Q. Xiao, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Delaware.
April 7: Designing bioactive materials for tissue regeneration”by Kristyn Masters, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UW-Madison.
March 17: Back to punch cards: Scaling down polymer thermomechanics for data storage applications”by Bernd Gotsmann, IBM Zurich.
March 10: Binary polymer brushes: Laterally structured surfaces with reversibly tunable wetting properties”by Marcus Mueller, Professor, Dept. of Physics, UW-Madison.
March 3: Science, Politics and Policy”by Patrick Looney, Assistant Director, Physical Science and Engineering, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President.
February 24: Alloys to Amino Acids Multiscale Modeling of Multiple Species”by Dane Morgan, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Department, UW-Madison.
February 17: Microfluidics, soft materials, interfaces, and maybe a bit of biology”by David Beebe, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UW-Madison.
February 3: Making Multifunctional Oxide Heterostructures Atom by Atom by Chang-Beom Eom, Professor, Materials Science & Engineering Department, UW-Madison.
January 27: Tailoring the Properties of Carbon Nanotubes by Filling and Irradiation”by Susan Sinnott, University of Florida.
Fall 2004 Seminars
December 9: Mimicking Tissue Development: Smart Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering”by William L. Murphy, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UW-Madison.
November 11: Shocking Behavior: High-Rate Loading of Molecular Explosives”by Daniel E. Hooks, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Detonation Physics Team, Dynamic Experimentation Division.
November 4: Defects and Deformation in Organic Molecular Semiconductors”by David C. Martin, Ph.D., Director of Macromolecular Science & Engineering. Professor of MS&E and Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan.
October 28: Making A Many-Colored Processing Engine: Signal Processing with Optical Filters”by Dr. Christi K. Madsen, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies.
October 21: Materials Optimization on the Basis of Electronic Structure Theory”by J. K. Norskov, Director, Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics, Technical University of Denmark.
October 14: How Thin is Too Thin? In-Situ Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering Studies of Ultrathin Ferroelectric Films”by S.K. Streiffer, Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science Division.
October 7: “Introduction to the UW Materials Science Center”by Paul Voyles (MSE Dept.) & the Materials Science Center, UW-Madison.
September 23: “Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth and Characterization
of Group IV Semiconductor Nanowires” by Joan
M. Redwing, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The
Pennsylvania State University.
September 16 : "In(Ga)As/Ga(Al)As Sel-Orfganized Quantum Dots and
Their Application for Optoelectronic Devices"by Pallab
Bhattacharya, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Spring 2004 Seminars
May 6: “On the Atomic Scale Origins of Static and Kinetic Friction” by Jacqueline Krim, Physics Department, North Carolina State University.
April 22: "Electron Spin Injection from
Ferromagnetic Contacts
Materials Science Seminar" by Dr.
Darryl Smith, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
April 15: "Structure and Atomic Motion in Metallic Glasses and Supercooled Liquids" by Yue Wu, Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy & Curriculum in Applied & Materials Sciences, University of North Carolina.
April 8: “Flow and Fracture in Block Copolymers”by Frank S. Bates, Professor, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Univ. of MN, Mnpls., MN.
April 1: “Glassy Aqueous Solutions by
Liquid Quenching
for Cryopreservation and Cryosurgery” by William
E. Brower, Jr., Departments of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and
Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University.
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