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	*Spring 2008*
January
31	Prof. Yvon Durant, UNH Material Science Program	Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications
February
7	Dr. Stephen Rossnagel	Nanopore sensors for DNA measurements using silicon technology
21	Prof. Daniel Gall, RPI	The Materials Machine: Nanostructure growth from the vapor phase
28	Prof. Richard Johnson, UNH Chemistry	From C4H2 to Nanotubes: Slip-Sliding into Materials Science

March
6	Dr. Eitan Zeira, Konarka Technologies, Inc. Lowell, MA	An introduction to Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics
27	Prof. Tom Russell, U. Mass. Amherst	Directed Self-Oriented Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers: Bottom-Up Meeting Top-Down

April
3	Prof. Robert Cohen, M.I.T.	Designing Superoloeophobic Surfaces
10	Prof. Jan Schroers, Yale	Bulk metallic glass
17	Prof. Lei Zhu, UConn	Self-Assembled Biodegradable Block Copolymers and DNA Lipoplexes as Potential Delivery Systems
24	Prof. Igor Sevostianov, New Mexico State University	Connections between different physical properties of heterogeneous materials

May
1	Prof. Dan Wasserman, U. Mass. Lowell	Mid-IR Optoelectronic Materials
	*Fall 2007*
September
20	Dr. Eugene Langlais, Presstek Inc.	Good Things Come in Small Packages: A discussion of how micro and nano morphology are essential to new applications in modern printing.
October
4	Prof. Young-Kyun Kwon, University of Massachusetts, Lowell.	Computational Modeling and Applications of Nanostructured Materials
11	Prof. Humphrey Maris, Brown University Dept. of Physics	Ultrasonics and Nanoscience
18	Dr. Michal Kacperski, UNH Materials Science Program	Polyurethane foams reinforced by carbon nanotubes
November
1	Dr. Mitra Yoonessi, UNH Dept. of Chemical Engineering	Synthesis, Characterization and Modeling of Carbon Nanofiber/Phenolic Resin Nanocomposites
2	Dr. Jens Wiebe, Institute of Applied Physics Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany	Imaging the magnetization of individual atoms
8	Prof. Jian-Ming Tang, UNH Dept. of Physics	Electrical manipulation of single spins in semiconductors
15	Dr. Byungki Kim University of Massachusetts, Lowell	Optical Diffraction Based Displacement Sensing in MEMS and Metrology
29	Prof. Joel Therrien, University of Massachusetts, Lowell	Fabrication of Silicon Carbide AFM Cantilevers
December
6	Prof. Marshall Ming, UNH Materials Science Program	Toward Self-Healing Polymer Surfaces

	*Spring 2007*
February
1	Dr. John Tsavalas	Waterborne Hybrid Alkyd/Acrylic Polymer Latex: Advantages and Potential Application Challenges
15	Anne Quincy, UNH Materials Science Program	A Review of Polymer Synthesis Combining Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization and Free Radical Living Polymerizations
March
8	Dr. Steven Jost, BAE Systems	Photoconductors for Affordable Sensors: An Application of Materials Physics
22	Steven Leibiger, Fairchild Semiconductor Inc.	Electrostatic Discharge Protection for Microelectronic Circuits
29	Jennifer Hydrick, AmberWave Systems	Epitaxial Oxide Growth on Si(001) for Floating Epitaxy, a Novel Process for Silicon-on-Insulator Wafer Production
April
5	Eugene L. Langlais II, Presstkek Inc., Hudson, NH	Good Things Come in Small Packages: A discussion of how micro and nano morphology are essential to new applications in modern printing.
12	Dr. Jin-Woong Kim, Harvard Universit	Uniform nonspherical colloidal particles with anisotropic properties
19	Professor Carmela Amato-Wierda, University of New Hampshire	Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Deposition of Silicon Nitride Thin Films for Solar Cells

	*Fall 2006*
September
14	Professor Igor Sokolov, Clarkson University	3D Design of Self-Assembled Nanoporous Particles
October
5	Professor Igor Tsukrov, University of New Hampshire	Micromechanical modeling of carbon/carbon composites
12	Professor Robert C. Cammarata, Johns Hopkins University	Processing and Mechanical Behavior of Nanocomposite Thin Films
26	Professor G. Slade Cargill III, Lehigh University	Thermal and Electromigration-induced Stresses and Composition Changes from Real-time X-ray Microdiffraction and Microfluorescence
November
2	Derya Deniz, UNH	Tilted Fiber Texture in Aluminum Nitride Thin Films
9	Professor William H. Green, UNH	A 21st Century Approach to Chemical Kinetic
16	Professor Brad Kinsey, UNH	Fabricating Nanoscale Features in Bulk Metallic Glass Materials
30	Pooja R. Marella, UNH	Weakly Coordinating Anions: Application in Olefin Polymerization Reactions – A Review
December
7	Chandrani Pramanik, UNH	Purification, Solubilization and Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes � A Review
	*Spring 2006*
February
2	Dr. Richard Osgood, Lincoln Laboratories	Fabrication and Measurement of Semiconductor Detectors for Astronomy
9	Dr. Nicholas Geisse, Harvard University	Mechanotransduction in Cardiac Myocytes
March
9	Professor Mehmet Dokmeci, Northeastern University	Microelectromechanical Systems
23	Professor Steven Shaler, University of Maine, Orono	Materials Research in the Development of Wood Composites at the University of Maine
30	Professor Jim Whitten, University of Massachusetts, Lowell	Oligothiophene Interfaces with Applications to Organic Electronic Devices
April
6	Professor Darrell Velegol, Pennsylvania State University	Colloidal Molecules: Synthesis and Engineering Design

	*Fall 2005*
August
2	Professor Angus Rockett University of Illinois	Growth Mechanisms and Nanochemical Science of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 and Their Effects on Solar Cell Performance
September
22	Dr. Steven Leibiger, Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation	How BiCMOS Semiconductor Devices are Made
29	Dr. Jeffrey Stubbs, University of New Hampshire	Morphology Probes for Polymer Nanoparticles
October
6	Jiebing Sun and Karsten Pohl Department of Physics University of New Hampshire	Surface alloy composition determination with nanometer resolution
19	Materials Science Workshop	Workshop Agenda List of Posters
20	Prof. Bryan Huey University of Connecticut	Quantitative Nanoscale Electronic and Mechanical Characterization
27	Georgi Nenchev University of New Hampshire	Techniques for Preparing Large Atomically Flat Au(111) Terraces for Nanotemplate Manufacturing
November
10	Prof. Sekar Dhanasekaran University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Morphology Control in Mesoporous Silica/gold Nanomaterials Synthesis Using Surfactant Self Assembly Process
December
1	Prof. Ebo deMuinck, Dartmouth Medical School	Nanoparticles for Targeted Imaging and Treatment of New Blood Vessels


	Spring 2005
January
27	Prof. Anne Mayes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Baroplastics: Low Temperature Plastics Processing by Pressure-Enhanced Mixing
February
3	Dr. Chuck Kurkjian, Rutgers University	The Mechanical Properties of Inorganic Glasses
17	Dr. N.B. Singh, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Linthicum , MD	Role of a Materials Scientist and Engineer in High Tech Industry
March
10	Bogdan Diaconescu , University of New Hampshire	Highly Stable Variable Temperature STM for Atomically and Time Resolved Imaging: Dynamics of Self-Assembly at Surfaces
24	Prof. James Krzanowski, University of New Hampshire	Materials Analysis Using Advanced Synchrotron Sources
31	Shaoning Yao , University of New Hampshire	Electrostatic Force Microscopy to Study Process-Induced Damage of MSQ-based Low-k Dielectrics
April
7	Prof. Rosemary Smith, University of Maine	Sensor Materials and Microfabricated Instruments
14	Prof. Richard Matyi, University of Albany , NY	X-rays and Nanotechnology
21	Prof. Frank Hagelberg, Jackson State University	Computational Studies of Atomic Clusters


	Fall 2004
September
9, 2004	Prof. Thomas Laue, University of New Hampshire	Materials Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
16, 2004	Prof. Robert Weiss, University of Connecticut	New Materials for Proton Exchange Membranes
23, 2004	Dr. William Holber, MKS Instruments, Inc.	Remote Plasma Sources in Semiconductor Processing
30, 2004	Prof. Olof Echt, University of New Hampshire	Electronic Excitations of Carbon-60 and its Anions
October
7, 2004	Dr. Thanas Budri, National Semiconductor Corporation	Materials Analysis in the Semiconductor Industry Using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
13, 2004	Materials Science Workshop	Workshop Agenda Workshop Posters
14, 2004	Dr. Warren MoberlyChan, Harvard University	Thin Film Growth Mechanisms as Revealed by Transmission Electron Microscopy
November
4, 2004	Dr. Koichi Takamura, BASF Corporation	Paving Using Latex Modified Asphalt Emulsion: View from the Colloid Scientist
18, 2004	Dr. Farrell Martin, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory	Seawater Crevice Corrosion of Nickel Superalloys