MSE Fall 2020 Virtual Seminars

We are excited to announce our full virtual seminar schedule for the fall semester. All seminars will take place at 10:45am EST via Zoom. Links will be provided in the MSE Weekly Events email sent every Sunday. A reminder that seminar attendance is mandatory for all Master’s and PhD students.

September 3
Lab Safety Seminar
Kimi Brown
Senior Lab Safety Specialist
Penn EHRS

September 10
“Approaching the Intrinsic Limit in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide van der Waals Heterostructures”
James Hone
Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Columbia University

September 17
“III-V photovoltaic substrate reuse using fracture”
Corinne Packard
Associate Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Colorado School of Mines

September 24
“How to care for yourself while navigating a complex world”
Batsirai Bvunzawabaya
Associate Director for Outreach and Prevention
Penn CAPS

October 1
“Predicting Properties of Structurally and Chemically Complex Materials using Physics-informed Statistical Learning”
Liang Qi
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Michigan

October 8
“Characterization of Complex Eutectic Microstructures”
Amber Genau
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Alabama at Birmingham

October 15
“The interplay between phase transformation and deformation mechanisms in multicomponent metal alloys”
Maryam Ghazisaeidi
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics
Ohio State University

October 22
“Polymer Informatics: Current Status & Critical Next Steps”
Rampi Ramprasad
Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Chair
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Energy Sustainability
Georgia Tech

October 29
Career Services Seminar
Jamie Grant
Joseph Barber
Penn Career Services

November 5
“From Atom to System: Advanced Characterization for Next Generation Energy Storage Materials”
Ying Shirley Meng
Zable Endowed Chair Professor in Energy Technologies
Professor of NanoEngineering and Materials Science
University of California, San Diego

November 12
“Nano-Volumetric Materials Properties of Ferroelectrics and Photovoltaics via Tomographic AFM”
Bryan Huey
Department Head
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Connecticut

November 19
“Interface Engineering in Nanoceramics”
Ricardo Castro
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
UCSD

December 10
MSE Doctoral Student Seminar
Nathan Frey, PhD Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
Jiaqi Liu, PhD Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering