Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science - Materials Science

Materials Research Lecture Series
Past Seminars

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
Wednesday February 17, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Order-Disorder-Property Relationships in Structural Materials: Guided by Randomness
Speaker: Daniel Gianola, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 3, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Understanding and Enhancing Li-Ion Transport in Solids and at Interfaces for All-Solid-State Electrochemical Energy Storage
Speaker: Linda Nazar
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 27, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Speaker: Salva Salmani-Rezaie, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 27, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Speaker: Salva Salmani-Rezaie, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 13, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
What Can Ancient Materials Teach Us About Designing Sustainable Materials Today?
Speaker: Admir Masic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 6, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Is Densification During Sintering Diffusion Limited? Insights from Ultrahigh Temperature in situ Nanomechanical Testing and Sintering
Speaker: Shen J. Dillon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 22, 2020 10:00 AM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Designing Hysteresis Free High-Valent Redox for Electrochemical Applications
Speaker: Iwnetim Abate, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday December 2, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Neutron Scattering applied to Hydrogen Storage in Metal-Organic Frameworks at the NIST Center for Neutron Research
Speaker: Craig Brown, University of Delaware, Team Lead Structure and Dynamics of Materials National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Wednesday November 18, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Coaxing the Recalcitrant: The Test Case of Grain Boundary Complexions
Speaker: Martin Harmer, Lehigh University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 11, 2020 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Growing the Nearly Impossible: Routes to Stabilize Metastable Phases
Speaker: Lauren Garten, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 4, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Amorphous Materials: Ideality, Losses, and Two Level Systems (TLS) in Amorphous Silicon Films
Speaker: Frances Hellman, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 28, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Orbital Degeneracy Lifting: Broken Local Symmetries and their Orderings in Interesting Electronic Materials
Speaker: Simon Billinge, Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Wednesday October 21, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Quasi 2D and 1D van der Waals "Quantum" Materials
Speaker: Alexander Balandin, University of California, Riverside
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Wednesday October 14, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Tuning Properties of 2D Materials: From Catalytic Activity to Single Photon Emission
Speaker: Talat S. Rahman, University of Central Florida
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