Materials Science and Engineering Colloquium
The MSE Colloquium meets on select Fridays, from 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, in room 214 Mudd
2023-2024
Coordinator: Professor Yuan Yang
Friday, September 22, 2023
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Dr. X. Steve Xiao. Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL)
"Hydrogen isotope separation development at SRNL"
Friday, September 29, 2023
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Professor Marco Bernardi, Caltech
"Building the Computational Toolbox for Quantum Materials: Precise First-Principles Calculations of Electron and Spin Dynamics"
Friday, October 6, 2023
10:30 AM, 214 Mudd (earlier start time)
Professor William Kaden, University of Central Florida
"Single-crystalline metallic nanowires: Exploring emerging paradigm shifts in charge-transport through next-generation CMOS interconnect technology"
Friday, October 20, 2023
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Professor Trevor David Rhone, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"AI-guided materials discovery of two-dimensional magnets"
Friday, October 27, 2023
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Dr. Thomas P. Moffat
Material Measurement Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Electrochemical Deposition for Microelectronic Interconnects"
Friday, November 17, 2023
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Professor Benjamin Rogers, Brandeis University
2022-2023
Most seminars will take place in-person, in room 214 Mudd, but we will also offer a hybrid version. Please email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Friday, October 7, 2022
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Professor E. Koray Akdogan, Rutgers University
"Flash Sintering of Ceramics"
Friday, October 14, 2022
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Professor Tomce Runcevski, Southern Methodist University
"Kinetic and Thermodynamic control of Condensed Organic Matter"
Friday, October 28, 2022
10:00 AM, Virtual (Zoom)
Professor Jeehwan Kim, MIT
"Advanced Heterogeneous Integration Enabled by Remote Epitaxy"
Friday, November 4, 2022
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Dr. Pablo M. Piaggi, Princeton University
"Understanding the crystallization of ice polymorphs from first principles"
Friday, December 2, 2022
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Professor Ravi Prasher, University of California, Berkeley / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"New and Emerging Applications of Molecular and Nanoscale Thermal Science and Engineering for Decarbonization"
Friday, December 9, 2022
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Professor Vlad Pribiag, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
"Exploring and Controlling Superconducting States with 2D Quantum Structures"
Friday, January 20, 2023
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Professor Fazel Tafti, Boston College
"Chemical tuning of anisotropic exchange interactions in Kitaev materials"
Friday, January 27, 2023
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Professor Nian Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Nano- and Microscale Material and Reactor Engineering for Electrochemical Energy Storage"
Friday, February 10, 2023
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Professor Matthew Jones, Rice University
"Developing a Mechanistic Picture of the Synthesis and Assembly of Inorganic Nanomaterials"
Friday, February 24, 2023
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Dr. Judith Yang, Brookhaven National Laboratory
"The Surface DYNAMICS of the Initial Stages of Cu Oxidation"
Friday, April 14, 2023
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Professor Kester D. Clarke, Colorado School of Mines University
"Thermomechanical processing for metal manufacturability and performance"
Friday, April 21, 2023
11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Dr. Kat Stephan, Senior Scientific Editor, Joule at Cell Press
"Publishing with Joule: Editorial Insights from Cell Press"
2021-2022
No seminars were scheduled during the 2021-2022 academic year
2020-2021
Fall 2021 - cancelled
Spring 2021 - virtual
January 29, 2021 - Professor F. H. da Jornada, Stanford University
Title: Understanding excited states in low dimensions for energy applications: from biexcitons to universal dispersionless plasmons
Host: Renata Wentzcovitch
February 5, 2021 - Professor A. Manthiram, UT-Austin
Title: Next generation battery technologies
Host: Yuan Yang
March 19, 2021 - Professor Sharmila M. Mukhopadhyay, The University of Maine
Title: Advanced Materials & Devices for Sensors and Intelligent Technologies
Host: S. -W. Chan
April 2, 2021 - Professor Qian Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaig
Title: "Cinematography" of Soft, Biological and Energy Matter at the Nanoscale
Host: Oleg Gang
April 8, 2021 - Chair Professor D. Srolovitz, The City University of Hong Kong
Title:Grain Boundary Dynamics: From Atomistic Mechanism to Microstructure Evolution
Host: Katayun Barmak
Accessibility
Columbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disability accommodations to attend an event at Columbia University, please contact the Office of Disability Services at 212.854.2388 or [email protected].