Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science - Materials Science

Materials Research Lecture Series
Past Seminars

Wednesday March 1, 2023 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Thermochemical and Thermophysical Properties of Refractory Materials above 3000 ˚C
Speaker: Scott J. McCormack, UC Davis
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Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday February 22, 2023 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Nanoconfined fluids in low-dimensional solid state systems: recent advances & perspective
Speaker: Matthias Kuehne, Brown University
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday February 15, 2023 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Atomic-Scale Design at the 2D/3D Interface
Speaker: Kate Reidy, MIT
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday February 8, 2023 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Towards Soft Intelligent Materials: Reconfigurable Single-Material Soft Microstructures
Speaker: Shucong Li, MIT
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday January 25, 2023 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Materials design for critical element separation
Speaker: Chong Liu, University of Chicago
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday January 18, 2023 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Theoretical Design of Light-Element Superconductors
Speaker: Eva Zurek, SUNY Buffalo
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday January 11, 2023 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Superlattices at van der Waals interfaces: Moiré Lattice Relaxation and Chemical Intercalation of 2D Heterostructures
Speaker: Kwabena Bediako, UC Berkeley
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday November 30, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Physical design meets convex optimization: Hidden structure in Maxwell's equations
Speaker: Owen Miller, Yale University
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday November 16, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Exotic Magnetoresistive Materials
Speaker: Despina Louca, University of Virginia
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday November 9, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Atomic tunneling in crystalline solids
Speaker: Raphael Hermann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday November 2, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Impact of Local Disorder on Materials Properties studied by Single Crystal Diffuse Scattering
Speaker: Stephan Rosenkranz, Argonne National Laboratory
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday October 19, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Atomic Dynamics in Energy Materials: Vibrations, Diffusion, and Phase Transitions
Speaker: Oliver Delaire, Duke University
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday October 12, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Neutron Scattering Studies of Exotic Magnetic Ground States
Speaker: Bruce Gaulin, McMaster University
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday October 5, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Superconductivity, Strong Correlations, and Flat Electronic Bands in (un)-Twisted Graphene Multilayers
Speaker: Stevan Nadj-Perge, Caltech
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday May 25, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Dynamical electronic correlations: from models to materials
Speaker: Vojtech Vlcek, UC Santa Barbara
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday May 4, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Atomic motion with broken time-reversal symmetry
Speaker: Sinisa Coh, UC Riverside
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday April 27, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Ultrathin topological bismuth crystals grown inside an atomically-flat van der Waals mold
Speaker: Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, UC Irvine
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday April 20, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Understanding Excitons in Quantum Flatland from First Principles
Speaker: Ting Cao, University of Washington
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday April 6, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
First-Principles Many-Body Theory and Quantum Dynamics for Materials in Quantum Information Science
Speaker: Yuan Ping, UC Santa Cruz
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday March 30, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Macroscopic Materials from Nanoparticle Assembly
Speaker: Rob MacFarlane, MIT
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday March 9, 2022 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Integrating Machine Learning With Scientific Spatial and Temporal Modeling
Speaker: Aditi Krishnapriyan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Friday March 4, 2022 12:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
New Horizons in Nanoindentation Testing: Instrumentation and Techniques for High Strain Rate and Multiaxial Measurements
Speaker: George Pharr, Texas A&M University
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday February 23, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
"Cinematography" of nanoparticles, membrane proteins, and polymer membranes at the nanoscale
Speaker: Qian Chen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 16, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Novel Indexing Approaches for Electron Back-Scattered Diffraction: Using the Complete Pattern
Speaker: Marc de Graef, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 9, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Reading Between the Reflections: Order, disorder, transport and functionality
Speaker: Jessica Krogstad, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday February 2, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Controlling interfacial electron and atom transfer reactions for chemical synthesis
Speaker: Karthish Manthiram, Caltech
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday January 26, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Small Defects, Big Deal: Using point defects to control giant opto-mechanics and to engineer new resistive switches
Speaker: Rafael Jaramillo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday January 12, 2022 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Photonics and Materials for Machine Intelligence and Cryptography
Speaker: Volker J. Sorger, George Washington University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday December 8, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Trip the Light Fantastic
Speaker: Harry Atwater, Caltech
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday December 1, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
New Materials at High Pressure
Speaker: Wendy Mao, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 17, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Real-time examination of shock-induced structural phase transitions
Speaker: Sally Tracy, Carnegie Institution for Science
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday November 10, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Quantum Disorder in the Magnetism of Spin-Orbit Entangled AMO2 Delafossites (A=alkali metal, M=metal)
Speaker: Stephen Wilson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday November 3, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Multiscale Characterization of Metallic Alloy Solidification Dynamics
Speaker: Amy Clarke, Colorado School of Mines
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday October 27, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
First Principles Simulations of Hybrid Inorganic Interfaces
Speaker: Noa Marom, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 20, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
The Wonderful World of Mössbauer Resonances: Newer Applications with Synchrotron Radiation
Speaker: Ercan Alp, Argonne National Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 13, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Deepfake, Artificial Intelligence: Will Machines Replace Us All?
Speaker: Huolin Xin, University of California, Irvine
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday October 6, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Using Density Functional Theory to Help Solve Material Mysteries
Speaker: Ronald Cohen, Carnegie Institution for Science
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday May 26, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Tracing Stress-driven Atomic-scale Dynamics in Metallic Glasses
Speaker: Robert Maass, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 19, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Computational Screening of Two-Dimensional Materials for Electro-Catalysis
Speaker: Oliviero Andreussi, University of North Texas
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 19, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Materials Science Research Lecture
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 12, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Materials for Superconducting Quantum Computing
Speaker: Andrew Houck, Princeton University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 5, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Controlling Zeolite Polymorphism from First Principles
Speaker: Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 28, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Visualizing Materials Functionality at the Atomic Scale
Speaker: Aaron Lindenberg, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 21, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Quasi-1D Hexagonal Chalcogenides: From Giant Optical Anisotropy to Ultralow Glassy Thermal Conductivity
Speaker: Jayakanth Ravichandran, University of Southern California
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 14, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Ab Initio Quantum Dynamics in Nanoscale Materials
Speaker: Oleg Prezhdo, University of Southern California
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 31, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Conformational Dynamics in Supramolecular Nanostructures and Applications to Water Purification
Speaker: Julia Ortony, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 10, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Electron Dynamics in Materials from First Principles
Speaker: Marco Bernardi, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 3, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Computationally Guided Alloy Design through Control of Bulk and Interfacial Phases
Speaker: Mark Asta, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 24, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
New Bio-inspired Materials: When Chemistry Meets Optics, Mechanics and Surface Science
Speaker: Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 24, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Materials Science Research Lecture
Location: Online Event