When:
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
All day
Where: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster St, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Cost: $0.00
Contact:
Kim Robinson
(847) 491-7785
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Please join the Department of Materials Science & Engineering for the John E. Hilliard Symposium on Wednesday, May 20th at Chambers Hall.
This all-day event highlights the research of senior graduate students and those completing an Honors Senior Thesis.
Location: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster St. Evanston, IL
Keynote speaker
Grace Wang
Deputy Assistant Director for Engineering, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Abstract
From transistors to the internet, many breakthrough technologies and concepts in the past have changed the way we work, communicate, and live. While these advances frequently seem to have originated serendipitously, they result from brilliant connections across disciplinary, organizational, and industry-sector boundaries. With the global percentage of U.S. R&D investment continuously decreasing in the last decade, we are facing ever increasing global competition. At the same time, the projected population growth and the aging population in coming years drives the demand for food, water, energy, healthcare, education, and security. To address these problems in this funding climate, one might ask: (1) How to stimulate more innovative thinking to enable engineering solutions to help address these challenges; (2) How to prepare students for the future engineering jobs, some of which do not even exist yet? I discuss these challenges and describe how past successes to enable and capitalize breakthrough technologies and concepts may provide new answers.
Biography Grace Wang was named Deputy Assistant Director for Engineering at the National Science Foundation in July 2014. Prior to that, Grace was the Division Director of the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) at NSF since February of 2012. Grace joined NSF in June 2009 as a Program Director for the SBIR/STTR Program. She also served as the Cluster Leader for the Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing (NM) Cluster in SBIR/STTR Program. Before joining NSF, Grace was a Senior Development Scientist at Hitachi, where she led a team to successfully develop and launch a few generations of products into the market. While in Hitachi, Grace also led task forces both in the US and overseas that identified and executed effective and viable solutions to major technical crises, and helped mitigate impact on revenue generation. Grace started her career as an Advisory Development Scientist at IBM. Grace is the recipient of many leadership and technical achievement awards. Grace holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University.
When:
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, L361, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Cost: $0.00
Contact:
Kim Robinson
(847) 491-7785
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)
Category: Lectures & Meetings
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering welcomes you to its 2015 DOW Lecture
Craig Hawker
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Location: Tech L361, 4:00pm
Abstract: The self-assembly and directed functionalization of polymeric materials is a promising platform for the “bottom-up” fabrication of nanostructured systems. In designing such nanostructures, the molecular characteristics and functional groups of the chemical building blocks dictate the assembly process and are therefore critical in the formation of various structures. This feature will be illustrated with examples ranging from new strategies for the fabrication of nanostructured particles to novel hydrogels and surface coating inspired by marine organisms.
Biography:
Professor Craig J. Hawker, FRS is Clarke Professor and holds the Alan and Ruth Heeger Chair of Interdisciplinary Science at UCSB where he directs the California Nanosystems Institute and the Materials Research Laboratory. He came to UCSB in 2004 after eleven years as a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. Prior to this he attended the University of Queensland, Australia in 1981 and received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry. After graduating, Craig went to the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom to study the biosynthesis of Vitamin B12 under Prof. Sir A. R. Battersby. Upon finishing his doctorate, Craig ventured to the United States to do his post-doctoral work with Professor J.M.J. Frechet at Cornell University.
Professor Hawker’s research activities focus on synthetic polymer chemistry and nanotechnology, integrating fundamental studies with the development of nanostructured materials for advanced properties and functions in microelectronics and biotechnology. This work has led to over 400 peer-reviewed papers and 50 patents with a number of materials being commercialized. He has helped establish a range of start-up companies - Relypsa, Intermolecular, Olaplex, Tricida – serving as both Founder and Scientific Advisor. For his pioneering studies, Professor Hawker’s recent honors include the 2013 American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry, the 2012 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry and an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society in 2011. Professor Hawker has been honored with election to the Royal Society (2010) as well as being named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The 2015 Dow Lecture is generously supported by the Dow Chemical Company.
When:
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, L361, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Cost: $0.00
Contact:
Gail Madete
(847) 491-3537
Group: Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSci)
Category: Lectures & Meetings
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering welcomes you to the last lecture of the 2015 Spring Colloquium Series.
Joshua Goldberger
Assistant Professor
Ohio State University
Location: Tech L361, 4:00pm
Abstract Similar to how carbon can be sculpted into low-dimensional allotropes such as fullerenes, nanotubes, and graphene, one of the major themes of our research program is that the framework connectivity of atoms for any crystalline solid can be ligand-terminated along specific axes to produce stable, crystalline van der Waals materials comprised of single or few atom thick fragments. These new atomic-scale materials can have completely different and transformative physical properties compared to the original material. Here, we will describe our recent success in the creation of hydrogen and organic-terminated group IV (Si, Ge, Sn) 2D graphane analogues. We will discuss how the optical, electronic, and thermal properties of these materials can be systematically controlled by substituting either the surface ligand or via alloying the framework with other elements. Additionally, since every atom in these materials is a “surface atom”, we will show how the optical, electronic, and thermal properties of these materials can be manipulated by altering the identity of the surface bound ligands. These atomic-scale materials represent an intriguing and unexplored regime in materials design in which both surface functionalization and solid-state chemistry can be uniquely exploited to design properties and phenomena.
Biography: Josh Goldberger received his B.S. in chemistry from The Ohio State University in 2001. He then received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley under Professor Peidong Yang in 2006, as an NSF graduate fellow. He completed his postdoctoral research with Professor Sam Stupp at Northwestern University as part of the Chemistry and Materials Science Departments as well as the Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine, as an NIH-NRSA postdoctoral fellow (2007-2010).
Goldberger has received awards including a MRS Graduate Student Finalist Award in 2003, an IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists in 2007, and a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in 2015. He joined The Ohio State University Chemistry and Biochemistry Department in August of 2010.
Co-Sponsored by Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)