Lyman Handy Colloquium Series

Colloquia are held in OHE 122 at 12:45 p.m. on Thursdays unless otherwise noted.

• January 12 "Aberration Corrected Electron Microscopy: What are the New Perspectives for Materials Sciences?"
  Dr. Christian Kisielowski
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• February 9 Professor Abbas Firoozabadi
  Department of Chemical Engineering
  Yale University
• March 9 Professor Efthimios (Tim) Kaxiras
  Department of Applied Physics
  Harvard University.
• April 13 Professor Siegfried Hecker
  Center for International Security and Cooperation
  Stanford University

Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminars

• January 24 "Subspace Identification Using the Parity Space"
  Jin Wang, Ph.D., P.E.
  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc
• March 23 Dr. Larry Lake
  Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
  The University of Texas

Materials Science Seminars

All of the following are occuring on a Friday at 2:30pm in VHE 217 unless otherwise noted. Here is the latest schedule of 2006 lectures:

• Jan. 13 -- David Kisallus (UCSB)
• Jan. 20 -- Raj Mohanty (Boston Univ.) Nanomechanics: Quantized Motion, Stochastic Resonance & Nanoscale Memory Abstract
• Jan. 27 -- Joanna Groza (UC Davis) Electrical Field Enhanced Sintering and Reactions Abstract
• Feb. 3 -- Dongping Zhong (Ohio State) Protein Dynamics At Atomic Scale Abstract
• Feb. 10 2:30 SSL 150 -- G. Lu (UC Irvine) Fabrication and Characterization of Nanoscale Hybrid Structures and Devices
• Feb. 17 -- A. Pangiotopoulos (Princeton)
• Feb. 24 -- P. Ajayan (RPI)
• March 3 -- Nina Lin (Harvard)
• March 10 -- S. Bader (Argonne)
• March 17 -- SPRING BREAK
• March 24 -- E. Lavernia (UC Davis)
• March 31 -- J. Qin (UT Austin)
• April 7 -- E. Bouchaud (Caltech)
• April 14 -- V. Ravi (JPL)
• April 21 -- A. Mukherjee (UC Davis)
• April 28 -- Joe Marschall (SRI) Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics for Hypersonic Flight Vehicles

Guest Seminars

• Amazing Nanochemistry and Nanomechanics at Silicon Carbide Surfaces

• 09/23/2005
• Presentation by Prof. Patrick G. Soukiassian
  Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Saclay and
  Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
• Presentation here: [41.1MB PDF]

• The Signficance of Hyperelasticity for Dynamic Fracture

• 08/26/2005

• Presentation by Asst. Prof. Markus J. Buehler
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Cross-scale interactions in dynamical fracture of brittle materials:
How atomic interactions govern macroscopic fracture properties
[4.3MB PDF]