Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science - Materials Science

Materials Research Lecture Series
Past Seminars

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
Location:
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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Wednesday October 7, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
The Materials Limits(?) of Gravitational Wave Detection
Speaker: Rana Adhikari, California Institute of Technology
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Wednesday September 30, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Magnetism and quantum transport in the kagome lattices of semi-metallic Mn3X
Speaker: Collin Broholm, Johns Hopkins University
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Wednesday May 20, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture
Speaker: Lauren Garten, United States Naval Research Laboratory, NRL
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday May 13, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture
Speaker: Stephen Wilson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday May 6, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture
Speaker: Collin L. Broholm, Johns Hopkins University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday April 22, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture
Speaker: Alexander Balandin, University of California, Riverside
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday April 15, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture
Speaker: Martin Harmer, Lehigh University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday April 8, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture
Speaker: Simon Billinge, Columbia University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday March 4, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Things Fall Apart: Materials Failures in Paul Cezanne's and Edvard Munch's Masterpieces
Speaker: Jennifer Mass, Bard Graduate Center
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Friday February 28, 2020 12:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Text and Data Mining for Material Synthesis
Speaker: Elsa A. Olivetti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Keck 142
Wednesday February 12, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
A safari through thousands of 2D materials guided by data science
Speaker: Evan Reed, Stanford University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday January 22, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
"Van der Waals Heterostructures from 2D Materials and Beyond"
Speaker: Xiangfeng Duan, University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday January 15, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Quantum surprises in ultra-clean oxides
Speaker: Joseph Falson, Caltech
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday January 8, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
"Into the dark world of excitons in atomically thin semiconductors"
Speaker: Keshav M. Dani, Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology (OIST) Graduate University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday November 20, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
"Exploring and manipulating different quantum degrees of freedom in two-dimensional van der Waals materials and nano-metamaterials"
Speaker: Nai-Chang Yeh, Caltech
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday November 13, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
"Getting Something for Nothing: Classical and Machine-Learning Methods for Quantum Simulation"
Speaker: Thomas F. Miller, III, Caltech
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday November 6, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
"Reshaping Light using Metasurfaces: from Fisheye Imaging to Reconfigurable Optics"
Speaker: Juejun (JJ) Hu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday October 23, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
"Understanding the Dynamic Evolution of Materials and Interfaces in Batteries”
Speaker: Matthew T. McDowell, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday October 16, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
"Pascal conductance series in ballistic one-dimensional LaAlO3/SrTiO3 channels"
Speaker: Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday May 22, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
The Materials Science of Sustainable Cements
Speaker: Claire E White, Princeton University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday May 15, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Synthesis, the new frontier for computational materials science
Speaker: Gerbrand Ceder, University of California at Berkeley
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday May 8, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Additive Manufacturing of Glass Optics
Speaker: Rebecca Dylla-Spears, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday May 1, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Properties of Metallic Liquids at High Temperature and Their Relation to Glass Formation
Speaker: Kenneth Kelton, Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri)
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday April 24, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Magnetic Skyrmions in Thin Film Heterostructures
Speaker: Suzanne G.E. te Velthuis, Argonne National Laboratory
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday April 17, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
New Materials from High Pressure
Speaker: Timothy A. Strobel, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Tuesday April 16, 2019 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Phononic Memories for Superconducting Quantum Processors
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday April 10, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Nanophononic Devices Based on Layered Materials
Speaker: Davide Donadio, UC Davis
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday March 13, 2019 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Chip-Scale Nonlinear Photonics and its Applications
Speaker: Mengjie Yu, PhD, Harvard University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday March 6, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Smart Materials from Programmable Polymers
Speaker: Grigory Tikhomirov, Caltech
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Friday March 1, 2019 10:15 AM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Tuning the Kinetics in Phase-Change Materials: Enlightening from the phenomenology of water and amorphous metals
Speaker: Shuai Wei, RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday February 27, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Materials Science of Halide-Perovskite Solar Cells
Speaker: Nitin Padture, Brown University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Friday February 22, 2019 10:00 AM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Low-dimensional Halide Perovskites for Light Harvesting and Optical Sources
Speaker: Li Na Quan, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Thursday February 21, 2019 10:00 AM
Materials Research Lecture Series
The Importance of Interfaces: Using Ionic Liquids and Nanodiamonds to Explore New Concepts in Materials Design
Speaker: Matthew Gebbie, Stanford University
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday February 20, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials from Nanoscale to Bulk: Assembly, Properties, and Applications in Optoelectronics and Renewable Energy
Speaker: Osman Bakr, KAUST (Saudi Arabia)
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Tuesday February 19, 2019 10:00 AM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Controlling Electrochemistry Using Electrolyte Design
Speaker: Chibueze Amanchukwu, Stanford University
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday February 13, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Tailoring Instability at the Atomic Limit for Novel Material Properties
Speaker: SungWoo Nam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Friday February 8, 2019 10:00 AM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Dynamic Imaging of Chiral and Topological Excitations in Magnetism
Speaker: Felix Büttner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Thursday February 7, 2019 10:00 AM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Quantum phase transitions in ZnO two-dimensional electron systems
Speaker: Joseph Falson
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday February 6, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Harnessing data science to transform experimental materials discovery
Speaker: Taylor Sparks, University of Utah
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Friday February 1, 2019 10:00 AM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Synthesis and Transmission Electron Microscopy of Transition Metal Trichalcogenides in the Single Chain Limit
Speaker: Thang Pham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Thursday January 31, 2019 10:00 AM
Materials Research Lecture Series
New Designer Materials: Sculpting Electromagnetic Fields on the Atomic Scale
Speaker: Maiken Mikkelsen, Duke University
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday January 30, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Atomic-Scale Materials Design for Advanced Membranes
Speaker: Jeff Grossman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday January 16, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
The Morphology and Topology of Nanoporous Metals
Speaker: Peter Voorhees, Northwestern University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday January 9, 2019 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Machine Learning and Computer Vision for Processing-Property Analyses
Speaker: Samantha Daly, The University of California at Santa Barbara
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)