Materials
Science Graduate Seminar
Thursdays 2:00-2:50
Baldwin 544
Requirements:
1) Find a
paper related to the talk and submit the first page from that paper.
2) Attend
the Seminar.
3) Write a
hand-written, one-paragraph summary of the presentation.
3) If you
can't make the seminar:
-e-mail beaucag@uc.edu at
least one day in advance
-Do a literature search on the
topic of the presentation including at least three relevant papers
-Write a three page summary of
the papers, the topic and the person presenting citing the three
references.
Date
Topic
January 5 Organizational Meeting
January 12 The Design of Vesicles,
Dr.
Michael R. Weaver, Group Leader Analytical Discovery, Procter
& Gamble Corporation
January 19 Conducting Polymers for high performance thin film
transistors and Solar cell device Applications, Dr. Mussie Alemseghed, Oak
Ridge National Laboratory
January 26 NanoPower Africa, Prof. Greg Beaucage
February 2 Novel Approaches to the Design of Organic Photovoltaic
Devices, Prof. Vikram Kuppa
February 9 Structure Property Relationships in Spun-Bound Non-Woven
Polymers, Dr. J. P. Autran, Senior Scientist Procter &
Gamble
February 16 Oriented
Polymer Films; Their Processing and Use, Dr. Ryan Breese,
President Eclipse Film Technology
February 23 Dr.
Lawrence Drummy, Air Force Research Laboratory, Organic
Photovoltaics and Nanostructured Dielectrics
March 1 Prof. Steve
Clarson
(March 1 POSTPONED
UNTIL SPRING QUARTER Prof. David Shiraldi, Chair, Dept. of
Macromolecular Science, Case Western University)
March 8 Focusing
on the Interface: New Opportunities for Functional Polymer
Nanocomposites
Dr.
Richard Vaia, Air Force Research Laboratory