Winter 2024 Seminars
Jan. 8: Jingshan Du, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jan. 16: Jinxing Li, Michigan State University
Jan. 22: Andrew Spielberg, Harvard University
Jan. 29: Jiun-Haw Chu, University of Washington
Feb. 5: Xiao Yang, Stanford University
Feb. 12: Quansan Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Feb. 26: Douglas Reed, University of Washington
Mar. 4: Gerald Seidler, University of Washington
Fall 2023 Seminars
Oct. 2: Di Xiao, University of Washington
Oct. 9: B.J. Stanbery, Colorado School of Mines
Oct. 16: Carolyn Pearce, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Oct. 23: Charlie Marcus, University of Washington
Oct. 30: Vijayakumar Murugesan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nov. 6: Fedor Jelezko, Ulm University
Nov. 13: Mandana Veiseh, Polybiomics
Nov. 20: Justin Kollman, University of Washington
Dec. 4: Carl Naylor, Intel
Spring 2023 Seminars
Mar. 27: Sinisa Coh, University of California, Riverside
Apr. 3: Dianne Xiao, University of Washington
Apr. 24: Jeffrey Youngblood, Purdue University
May 1: Rohan Mishra, Washington University in St. Louis
May 8: Paul Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles
May 15: Roger Kamm, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
May 22: Bojana Ginovska, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Winter 2023 Seminars
Jan. 9: Xiaosong Li, University of Washington
Jan. 23: Juan Carlos Idrobo, University of Washington
Jan. 30: Bruce Hinds, University of Washington
Feb. 6: Raudel Avila, Northwestern University
Feb. 9: Jung-Ho Yu, Stanford University
Feb. 13: Kenji Yasuda, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Feb. 16: Shih-Ting Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Feb. 21: Dane deQuilettes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Feb. 27: Grant Johnson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Feb. 28: Alfred Zong, University of California, Berkeley
Fall 2022 Seminars
Oct. 3: Lilo Pozzo, University of Washington
Oct. 10: Rajiv Giridharagopal, University of Washington
Oct. 24: Yu Huang, University of California Los Angeles
Oct. 31: Yingge Du, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nov. 7: Rajendra Bordia, Clemson University
Nov. 14: Satoshi Okamoto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Nov. 21: Daniel Gamelin, University of Washington
Dec. 5: Felix Nguyen, Lockheed Martin
Spring 2022 Seminars
Mar. 28: Fumio Ohuchi, University of Washington
Apr. 4: You Zhou, University of Maryland
Apr. 11: Lilo Pozzo, University of Washington
Apr. 18: Dmitry Ovchinnikov, University of Washington
Apr. 25: Xiao-Ying Yu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
May 2: Petr Sushko, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
May 16: Michael Shuler, Cornell University
May 23: Cate Brinson, Duke University
Further Past Seminars
Gary Yang
UE Technologies
Hui (Claire) Xiong
Associate Professor in the Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering
Boise State University
Jiun-Haw Chu
Assistant Professor of Physics
University of Washington
Enrique Gomez
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Keshav Dani
Associate Professor
Okinawa Institute Tech
David Masiello
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Adjunct Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics
University of Washington
Guihua Yu
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Jiangyu Li
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Washington
Gerald Seidler
Professor of Physics
University of Washington
Navid Zobeiry
Materials Engineering
UBC
Michele Manuel
Materials Science and Engineering
University of Florida
Bo Jin
Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
USC
Timotei Centea,
Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
USC
David Ginger
Professor of Chemistry, University of Washington
Eleftheria Roumeli
Mechanical & Civil Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Brandi M. Cossairt
Associate Professor of Chemistry
University of Washington
Jun Liu
Director, Energy Processes and Materials Division
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Boryann Liaw
Department Manager, Energy Storage and Advanced Vehicles
Idaho National Laboratory
Mo Li
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics
University of Washington
Xiuling Li
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, Materials Research Laboratory
University of Illinois
Tracy Lovejoy
Nion
Bruce Hinds
Campbell Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Washington
Yutaka Oya
Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Tohoku University
Susan Trolier-McKinstry
Director, W. M. Keck Smart Materials Integration Laboratory
Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering, Penn State
Nobuyuki Odagiri
Vice President and Senior Technical Fellow
Toray Composites Materials America, Inc
Carbon Fiber Composites: History and Future
Matthew Crane
Postdoctoral Fellow
Washington Research Foundation
Namiko Yamamoto
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Manufacturing Multi-scale Engineered Materials and Structures for the Extreme Environment
Nina Shulumba
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Division of Engineering and Applied Science
California Institute of Technology
Thermodynamics and Transport of Strongly Anharmonic Systems: A First-Principles Perspective
Ting Cao
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Physics
University of California at Berkeley
Quantum Excited-States Phenomena and Topological Effects in Two-Dimensional Materials
Maxwell Radin
Postdoctoral scholar
Materials Department,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
The Materials Physics of Intercalation-Driven Structural Transformations in Layered Battery Materials
Marco Salviato
Assistant Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
University of Washington
Ian McCue
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Texas A&M
Towards Scalable Processing of Nanostructured Materials via Liquid Metal Dealloying
Amir Barati Farimani
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Chemistry
Stanford University
Liang Tan
Postdoctoral researcher on computational materials
University of Pennsylvania
Chad Mirkin
Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology,
George B. Rathmann Prof. of Chemistry and professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Medicine
Northwestern
Sebastian Pattinson
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Mechanical Engineering,
MIT
Engineering Additive Manufacturing Materials Across Length Scales for Future Wearable and Implantable Devices
Wenle Li
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Autonomous Detection of Mechanical Damage and Self-Healing"
Lili Cai
Postdoctoral fellow,
Materials Science & Engineering
Stanford University
Tailoring Radiation with Nanostructures for Personal Thermal Management
Vince Holmberg
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute
Clean Energy Institute
University of Washington
Solvent-Based Growth, Manipulation, and Integration of Inorganic Nanomaterials with Controlled Composition and Morphology
Daniel Gamelin
Harry and Catherine Jaynne Boand Endowed Professor in Chemistry
University of Washington
Degenerately Doped Colloidal Quantum Dots: Redox and Spectroscopic Properties
Scott Dunham
Professor, Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Light Induced Degradation of Silicon Solar Cells; A Materials Mystery
Hugh Hillhouse
Rehnberg Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering
University of Washington
Towards Printable High-Efficiency Tandem Photovoltaics with a Chalcogenide Bottom Cell and Hybrid Perovskite Top Cell
Mark Hersam
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Northwestern University
Mixed-Dimensional van der Waals Heterostructures for Electronic and Energy Applications
Burak “Berk” ÜSTÜNDAĞ
Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Department
Computer and Informatics, Istanbul Technical University
Can Materials be Intelligent, to Code and Process Information?
Jihui Yang
Chair and Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Tomonaga Okabe
Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Tohoku University>
Phillip Messersmith
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Bioengineering
UC Berkeley
Kai Zhu
Senior Scientist
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Justin Kollman
Professor, Biochemistry
University of Washington
Julio Rodriguez Manzo
Hummingbird Scientific
Tools for In-Situ and Operando Microscopy — How to Bring your Bench Top Experiment Inside the Microscope
Greg Rohrer
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Polar Surface Domains on Non-Polar Surfaces and Their Relevance to Photocatalytic Water Splitting
Yu Huang
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Engineering and Applied Science
UCLA
Frank Spano
Professor, Theory, Computation
Temple University
Devin MacKenzie
Materials Science & Engineering/Mechanical Engineering
University of Washington
Subhash Mahajan
Self-assembled nanostructures in mixed group III-V and group III-N layers and their influence on devices
Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
University of California, Davis
Bo Zhang
Associate Professor, Chemistry
University of Washington
Gary Drobny
Professor, Chemistry
University of Washington
Michael Dickey
Professor, Chemical Engineering
North Carolina State University
Xiaosong Li
Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of Washington
Susan Sinnott
Professor and Dept. Head, Materials Science & Engineering
Penn State University
Joseph Koo
Senior Research Scientist/Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas, Austin
Chair’s Welcome
Alex K-Y. Jen,
MSE Department Chair, University of Washington
Forming of Aluminum Alloys for Lightweight Automotive Applications
Aashish Rohatgi
Energy Materials - Transportation and Industrial Materials Group
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Engineering Optoelectronic Point Defects in Nanoscale Ceramic Materials
Peter Pauzauskie,
Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
University of Washington
The Interplay between Solid Electrolyte Interface (SEI) and Lithium Dendrite/Efficiency
Jie Xiao
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Arkansas
3-D-printing to Study the Biomechanics of Fish Tails
Michael Porter,
Assistant Professor of Mechanics,
Clemson University
Organic Photovoltaics: The Need for and Progress Towards Quantitative Structure-function Relations
Harald Ade,
Distinguished Professor, Physics
North Carolina State University
A holistic view of nucleation and self-assembly
Jim De Yoreo,
Manager, Physical Sciences, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Affiliate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, UW
Genetically Engineered Peptide-enabled Biotechnology & Dental Tissue Engineering
Deniz Tanil Yucesoy
Ph.D. Candidate, UW MSE
The role of an accurate description of local structure to inform our understanding of nucleation and assembly
Chris Mundy,
Scientist, Chemical Physics & Analysis
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jeffrey Pyun
From Garbage to Plastics and Beyond: Polymerizations with Elemental Sulfur
Professor, Organic Chemistry
Arizona State University
Omid Veiseh
Immune Modulatory Biomaterials for Cell-based Therapies
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