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Events

Date/Time	Description
May 16, 2018 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM 1670 Beyster	Van Vlack Professorship Lecture/Ceremony honoring Katsuyo Thornton, Predicting the Future: Art and Science of Computational Materials Science at the Microstructural Scale Reception immediately following in Tishman Hall more »
May 25, 2018 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pierpont - East Room	Professor John Halloran's Retirement Celebration Join us at a special luncheon to celebrate John Halloran's 27 years of service to the MSE Department! Please RVSP by May 13 to krisfres@umich.edu more »

Recent Events

Date/Time	Description
April 13, 2018 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM 1670 Beyster	MSE Distinguished Alumni Lecture Dr. Keith J. Bowman (PhD '87) , Dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County This year’s honoree, Dr. Keith J. Bowman, is dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) and Constellation Professor of Information Technology and Engineering at UMBC, the University more »
March 30, 2018 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM 1670 Beyster	Visualizing and Shaping the Nanoworld: From the Quantitative Interrogation of Site- and Species-Specific Interactions of Atoms to the Millimeter-Scale Engineering of Structures with Angstrom Precision Professor Udo Schwarz , Yale University, Departments of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Chemical & Environmental Engineering The interactions a material exhibits with the environment are largely determined by the properties of the material’s surfaces. In the first part of this talk, we describe recent efforts to more »
March 23, 2018 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM 1670 Beyster	Entropy-Stabilized Oxides Jon-Paul Maria , Penn State University The hunt for new phases of matter is among the most exciting activities in materials research. The excitement originates from the possibility of active property engineering and advanced technology opportunities more »
February 23, 2018 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Johnson Room C, LEC	Dissertation Defense: Investigating Microstructural Effects on Short Crack Growth and Fatigue Life Behavior of WE43 Magnesium Jacob Adams, PhD Candidate Magnesium alloys are increasingly being used in structural applications due to their excellent strength-to-weight ratio, particularly in applications where reductions more »
February 23, 2018 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM 1670 Beyster	They Call It "Free Energy," So, Hey, Why Pay? Professor Jim De Yoreo , Pacific Northwest National Labs, Chief Scientist, University of Washington, Affiliate Professor Nucleation is the seminal process in the formation of ordered structures ranging from simple inorganic crystals to macromolecular matrices. Observations over the past fifteen years have revealed a rich set more »
February 16, 2018 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM 1670 Beyster	Spherulitic Growth of Coral Skeletons and Synthetic Aragonite: Nature’s 3D-printing Pupa Gilbert , University of Wisconsin Crystallization done by living organisms, termed biomineralization, involves biological control over crystal nucleation, growth, and crystal orientation patterns in the final biomineral. Marine biomineralization mechanisms are only beginning to be more »