Past Seminars

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• Professor K. Ravi-Chandar
  University of Texas at Austin
  "Characterization of Ductile Failure"
  January 28th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Tammie Borders
  Lockheed Martin
  "Technology Trends in the Aerospace & Defense Industry"
  February 11th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Lev Gelb
  University of Texas at Dallas
  "Coarse-Grained Modeling of Aerogels and the Effects of Material Compliance on Capillary Phenomena"
  February 18th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Virginia A. Davis
  Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, AL
  "Macroscale Assembly of Nanocylinders: New Materials Meet a 120-Year Old Field"
  February 24th, Thursday 3-4pm, B155
• Professor Emily Carter
  Princeton University
  "Lecture: How Quantum Mechanics Can Help Solve Our Energy Problems"
  March 4th, Friday 3:30pm, Chemistry 106
• Professor Adri van Duin
  Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University
  "Development of the ReaxFF Reactive Force Fields and Applications to Combustion, Catalysis and Material Failure"
  March 10th, Thursday 1-2pm, B155
• Dr. R. B. Schwarz
  Laboratory Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
  "The Effects of Coherency Strains on Phase Equilibrium in the Pd-Deuterium System"
  March 11th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Sarit B. Bhaduri
  Departments of MIME & Surgery, University of Toldeo
  "Microwave Processing of Advanced Materials"
  March 23rd, Wednesday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor William C. Curtin
  Brown University
  "Origin of Plasticity Length-Scale Effects in Fracture and Deformation"
  March 25th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Rajiv S. Mishra
  Center for Friction Stir Processing, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
  Missouri University of Science & Technology
  "Ultrafine Grained Materials via Friction Stir Processing: Emerging Scientific and Technological Opportunities"
  March 28th, Monday 2-3pm,  A131
• April 8-9 - 1st Annual Texas Materials Modeling Network Meeting
• Professor Ying Sun
  Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University
  "Transport Phenomena Associated with Inkjet Printing of Colloidal Drops for Printable Electronics Fabrication"
  April 15th, Friday 1:30-2:30pm, B155
• Professor Dimitris C. Lagoudas
  Texas A&M University
  "Recent Advances in the Modeling, Analysis, and Characterization of SMA-Based Aerospace Structures"
  April 26th, Tuesday 2-3pm, B155
• Dr. Somuri V. Prasad
  Sandia National Laboratories
  "The Role of Crystallography and Nanostructures on Metallic Friction"
  April 29th, Friday 2-3pm, B155

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• Professor G. R. Odette
  University of California Santa Barbara
  "Can We Teach an Old Dog (Steels) Some New Tricks: Nanostructured Ferritic Alloys for Advanced Fission and Fusion Energy Applications"
  September 3rd, Friday 2-3pm, B155
  
• Professor Erik van der Giessen
  University of Groningen
  "Bauschinger Effects in Thin Films"
  September 10th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Wonbong Choi
  Mechanical and Materials Department, Florida International University
  "Engineering Carbon Nanomaterials for Future Applications"
  September 17th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Dr. Neville R. Moody
  Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
  "The Role of Adhesion on the Performance of Nanostructured Films"
  September 24th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Subhash Mahajan
  Arizona State University
  "Self-assembled Nanostructures in Mixed III-N Layers"
  September 27th, Monday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Xianghua Zhang
  Université de Rennes, France
  "Infrared Transmitting Glasses and Glass Ceramics"
  October 15th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor A. D. Rollett
  Carnegie-Mellon University
  "Hot Spots in Viscoplastic Deformation of Polycrystals"
  October 22nd, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Dr. Thomas Bayha
  Director, Research and Development, ATI Allvac
  "ATI 425® Titanium Alloy for Aerospace Structural Applications"
  October 26th, Tuesday 1-2pm, B155
• Dr. Renge Li
  University of North Texas
  "The Effect of Solute and Dislocation Interactions on the Strain Rate Sensitivity and Flow Stress of Metallic Alloys"
  October 29th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Aleksandra Fortier
  University of North Texas
  "Design and Manufacturing of Materials and Components used in Electronic and Biomedical Applications"
  November 10th, Wednesday 3-4pm, D202
• Professor Carlo Pantano
  Pennsylvnia State University
  "Adsorption Reactions and Polymer Interfaces with Multicomponent Glass Surfaces"
  November 19th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Dr. Irene Beyerlein
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
  "Interface-mediated Deformation Twinning in Nanostructured Composites"
  December 3rd, Friday 2-3pm, B155

 

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• Professor Susan B. Sinnott
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida
  "Integrated Experimental and Computational Investigation of the Tribological Properties of PTFE"
  January 29th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor W. Gregory Sawyer
  University of Florida
  "Sliding Electrical Contacts"
  February 5th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Gregory S. Rohrer
  Carnegie Mellon University
  "Measuring and Interpreting the Three-Dimensional Structure of Grain Boundary Networks"
  February 12th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Wei Tong
  Southern Methodist University
  "Characterization of Deformation and Failure of Materials and Structures by Image-Based 3D Measurement Methods"
  February 26th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Jun Lou
  Rice University
  "Quantitative In Situ Characterization of Metallic Nanowires"
  March 5th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Paul Bagus
  University of North Texas
  "Rigorous Theoretical Interpretations of Core-Level Spectra"
  March 12th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Pankaj Sinha
  University of North Texas
  "Extremely Bright Luminescent Coinage-Metal Complexes: Applications of Fundamental Photophysical and Theoretical Research"
  March 26th, Friday 2-3pm B155
• Dr. Claus Daniel
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee
  "Energy Storage: Challenges and Opportunities"
  March 31st, Wednesday 2:30-3:30pm, B155
• Professor John W. Hutchinson
  Harvard University
  "Computational Models of Ductile Fracture"
  April 2nd, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Dr. W. J. Boettinger
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  "Growth of Sn Whiskers from Pre-tinned Cu"
  April 9th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Rajesh Khare
  Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University
  "Local Chain Dynamics and Dynamic Heterogeneity in Crosslinked Polymers near the Glass Transition: A Molecular Perspective"
  April 14th, Wednesday 3-4pm, B155
• Professor Subrata Saha
  State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center
  "Microwave Processing of Dental Restorative Ceramics and Mechanical Behavior of PMMA based Bone Cement"
  April 16th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor V. Vitek
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
  "Multiscale Modeling of Plastic Deformation of Transition Body-Centered-Cubic Metals: From Atomic to Continuum Level"
  April 21st, Wednesday 3:30-4:30pm, B185
• Professor Sharvan Kumar
  Brown University
  "Crack Interaction with Microstructure: Experiments and Computation"
  April 23rd, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Robert O. Ritchie
  University of California Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  "Bioinspired Structural Materials"
  May 4th, Tuesday 2-3pm, B155

 

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• Professor Nandika D'Souza
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas
  "Polymer Nanocomposites: What Lies Beneath"
  September 4th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Peter V. Sushko
  Department of Physics & Astronomy and London Centre for Nanotechnology
  University College London, UK
  "Embedded cluster method for modeling defects in ionic and polar solids"
  September 15th, Tuesday 3-4pm, B155
• Professor Eric Chason
  Division of Engineering, Brown University
  "Residual stress and morphology evolution in thin films: importance of non-equilibrium conditions"
  September 25th , Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Francisco Armero
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
  "Finite Elements with Embedded Discontinuities for the Modeling of Failure in Solids"
  October 2nd, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Dr. Dennis M. Dimiduk
  Air Force Research Laboratory
  "Mesoscopic Size-Effects in Microcrystal Deformation"
  October 9th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Amine Benzerga
  Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University
  "Size and Scale Effects in Crystal Plasticity"
  October 16th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Dr. Srikumar Banerjee
  Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India
  "R&D Challenges for Nuclear Energy in India"
  October 23rd, Friday 10:30-11:30am, B155
• Dr. S.A. Maloy
  Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  "Core Materials Development for Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative"
  October 23rd, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Dr. Arthur F. Voter
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
  "Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Methods"
  November 4th, Wednesday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Justin Youngblood
  University of North Texas
  "Photocatalytic Water Splitting in a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell"
  November 6th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Dr. Michel Dupuis
  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chemical and Materials Sciences Division
  "Charge Transport and Reactivity in Complex Environments"
  November 13th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Dr. Fei Gao
  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  "Materials Behavior under Extreme Conditions - Multiscale Computer Simulation"
  November 18th, Wednesday 2-3pm, B155
• Dr. Amit Misra
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
  "Nanolayered Composites: Defect Structures, Mechanical Behavior and Radiation Effects"
  November 20th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor VenuGopal Varanasi
  University of California, San Francisco
  "mproving Biomaterials from a Cellular Perspective"
  December 4th, Friday 2-3pm, B155

 

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• Dr. M. I. Baskes
  Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of California, San Diego
  "Semi-empirical atomistic modeling: A perspective of the past and gateway to the future"
  January 14th, Wednesday 3-4pm, B185
• Dr. M. K. Miller
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  "Exploring the Nanoworld with Atom Probe Tomography"
  January 30th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Dr. Mathias Wallin
  Division of Solid Mechanics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
  "Numerical aspects of continuum plasticity models"
  February 13th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Donald Brenner
  North Carolina State University
  "Using Atomic and Multiscale Modeling to Advance New Technologies: Simulations of Au Contacts in RF-MEMS and the Shock Sensitivity of Energetic Materials"
  February 20th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Julia R. Greer
  California Institute of Technology
  "Size Matters: Mechanical properties of materials at nano-scale"
  February 27th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Mark F. Horstemeyer
  Mississippi State University
  "Multiscale Modeling and Practical Engineering Applications"
  March 6th, Friday 10-11am, B155
• Professor David McDowell
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  "Trends in Modeling Multiscale Plasticity"
  March 27th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Dr. Soumya Nag
  University of North Texas
  "Probing the Early Stages of Elemental Partitioning During the Nucleation and Growth of Intra-granular Alpha in the Beta Matrix of Titanium Alloys"
  April 3rd, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Armand Beaudoin
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
  "Dislocation Dynamics and Size Effects in the Creep of Ice"
  April 24th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
  
  

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• Professor Tahir Cagin
  Texas A&M University
  "Functional Materials and Material Systems through Simulation"
  September 5th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Pushan Ayyub
  Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai India
  "Metal Nanorods: A Modern Solution for Classical Problems"
  September 12th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Cate Brinson
  Northwestern University
  "Inside Polymer Nanocomposites – Interphases, Gradients and Percolation"
  September 17th, Wednesday 4-5pm, B155
• Professor George Pharr
  The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  "From Pop-in to Pillars: The Utility of Nanoindentation in the Study of Small-Scale Plasticity"
  September 24th, Wednesday 4-5pm, B155
• Professor Srinivasan (Srini) Srivilliputhur
  University of North Texas
  "Structural, elastic, and electronic properties of Fe3C from first principles"
  October 3rd, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Dr. George D. Skidmore
  DRS Infrared Technologies LP, Dallas, TX
  "Introduction to Microbolometers for Infrared Imaging"
  October 15th, Wednesday 4-5pm, B155
• Professor Thomas Scharf
  University of North Texas
  "On the Role of Interfacial Layers and Shear Accomodation in Solid Lubricants"
  October 31st, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor Jincheng Du
  University of North Texas
  "From glass to polycrystalline ceramics: how modeling and simulations contribute to our understanding of engineering materials"
  November 7th, Friday 2-3pm, B155
• Professor K. J. Cho
  University of Texas at Dallas
  "Electronic Structures of Graphene Nanoribbons and Graphene Oxides"
  November 21st, Friday 2-3pm, B155

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