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Schedule for Fall’2008 Seminar Series
 

Refreshments at 3:00 p.m.,  Presentation at 3:30 p.m.

McBryde Hall 113

 

Date

Title

Speaker

Affiliation

August 29

Graduate Student Event:

Orientation for MSE Graduate Students

Prof. Robert Hendricks

MSE, Virginia Tech

 

September 5

 

Safety Issues

Mr. Don Conner

Environmental Health & Safety

Virginia Tech

 

 

September 12

 

Recent Advances in Flexible Matrix Composite Technology

 

Prof. Michael Philen

Aerospace and Ocean Engineering

Virginia Tech

 

September 19

 

Material Development for Advanced SONAR Transducers

 

Prof. Richard Meyer Jr.

Materials Science and Engineering

Pennsylvania State University

 

September 26

Combinatorial Polymer Scaffold Libraries for Screening Cell-Material Interactions in 3D

 

Dr. Carl Simon

Polymers Division

National Institute of Standards and Technology

 

October 3

From Atomic Surface Steps to Stars: Using TEM and FIB to Study Materials

Dr. Nabil Bassim

Nanoscale Materials Section

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

October 10

No seminar (Fall Break)

 

October 17

 

Mesophotonics: Novel Optical Effects in Coupled Microspheres

 

Prof. Vasily Astratov

Department of Physics and Optical Sciences

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

October 24

 

Ode to Force Constants

Prof. Maureen Julian

MSE, Virginia Tech

October 31

Proteins in tissue engineering: As carrier and as drug

 

Prof. Abby Morgan

MSE, Virginia Tech

 

November 7

 

Hybrid Nanomaterials for Multi-spectral Infrared Photodetection

 

Prof. Adrienne Stiff-Roberts

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Duke University

 

 

 

November 14

Foam stability

 

Ruijia Wang

Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

Glass-metal interface for solid oxide cell (SOC) application

 

Manoj Mahapatra

Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

Temperature effect on electropolishing of niobium in sulfuric acid-methanol electrolytes

 

Xin Zhao

Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

 

 

 

November 21

Creation of Albumin Based Porous Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration

 

Gabrielle Farrar

Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

In-situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) for Lunar Engineering Materials: A Multi-Component SHS Reaction Study

 

Eric Faierson

Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

Effect of Particle Size on Printing Quality of 3DP

 

Chun-Hsien Wu

Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

November 28

No seminar (Thanksgiving break)

 

 

December 5

Thermal Modeling of the Friction Stir Fabrication Process

 

David Gray

Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

Determining the effect of composition on the melting of Al2O3-TiB2 composites

 

Susan Holt

Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

Investigation of the in vivo release of drug from a sol-gel processed silica particles. Experimental Model in Mice

 

Prabhakaran Munusamy

Graduate Student, MSE, Virginia Tech

 

For additional seminar information, contact Prof. Levon Asryan [(540) 231-7033, asryan@mse.vt.edu]

and visit the WEB page

http://www.mse.vt.edu/academics/seminars/seminars.html

 
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