The Department of Materials Science & Engineering is pleased to present the Distinguished Lecture Series. This lecture serie is designed to provide students, alumni and the greater applied science and engineering community the opportunity to enhance their understanding of materials innovation and to hear from renowned speakers on state of the art contributions to the field of materials science and engineering.
All are welcome to attend; RSVP is not required.
2019–2020
Microstructure formation in electronic solder joints
February 28, 2020 | 1:00pm to 2:00pm| GB248
Dr. Chris Gourlay | Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK
Kirigami-Inspired Metamaterials – from Morphable Structures to Soft Robots
January 24, 2020 | 1:00pm to 2:00pm| WB 116
Prof. Katia Bertoldi | Professor of Applied Mechanics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA
Biological and Bio-inspired Materials Processing
October 4, 2019 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm| GB 221
Prof. Matt Harrington | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Probing the structural and electronic properties of materials with electron microscopy
October 18, 2019 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm| GB 221
Prof. Gianluigi Botton | Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton
Computational Materials Discovery by RESCU
November 1, 2019 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm| GB 221
Prof. Hong Guo | Professor, Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
At the Intersection of Technology, Innovation and Diversity in Mining
November 29, 2019 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm| GB 221
Dr. Nathan Stubina (MMS PhD 8T8) | VP, Sherritt International
2018–2019
Color and light in forming butterfly scales, stretchy fibers, and iridescent droplets
March 25, 2019 | 1:00pm to 2:00pm| BA 1130
Prof. Mathias Kolle | Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Towards greener electronics
January 14, 2019 | 1:00pm to 2:00pm| GB 119
Prof. Clara Santato | Professor, Department of Engineering Physics, Polytechnique Montréal
High Temperature Kinetics from the Lab to the Steel Plant
December 3, 2018 | 1:00pm to 2:00pm| BA 1180
Prof. Ken Coley | Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, McMaster University
Transparent Soil, Programmable Ecosystems, and Sustainable Nanochemistry: Working at the Boundaries of Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, and Environmental Science
November 12, 2018 | 1:00pm to 2:00pm| BA 1180
Prof. Ludovico Cademartiri | Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Iowa State University of Science and Technology
Transforming Cellulose Nanocrystals into Sustainable Products through Surface Engineering
October 1, 2018 | 1:00pm to 2:00pm| BA 1180
Prof. Emily Cranston | Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University
2017–2018
Bottom-up approach to epitaxial functional oxide nanostructures and nanocomposite thin films
April 10, 2018 | 11:00 am to 12:00pm | SF 1105
Prof. Xavier Obradors | Director, Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
Elastomeric Surfaces for the Rational Synthesis, Assembly, and Fabrication of Adaptive, Functional Materials
March 20, 2018 | 4:00pm to 5:00pm | MB 128
Prof. Stephen Morin | Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Advances and Challenges in Lithium Ion Batteries
December 4, 2017 | 4:00pm to 5:00pm | MB 128
Dr. Sankar Das Gupta | Co-Founder & CEO, Electrovaya
Correlative Microscopies for Investigating Bone and Biomaterials Interfaces
November 20, 2017 | 4:00pm to 5:00pm | MB 128
Prof. Kathryn Grandfield | Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University
Bio-inspired Functional Materials Templated from Natural Species
October 16, 2017 | 4:00pm to 5:00pm | MB 128
Prof. Di Zhang| Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Epitaxial Film Growth and Some Applications of Functional Oxides
October 3, 2017 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm| WB 116
Prof. Hiromichi Ohta | Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University
A far from average talk: Distributions and the non-steady state in predicting alloy response
September 18, 2017 | 4:00pm to 5:00pm | MB 128
Prof. Chad Sinclair | Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, University of British Columbia
2016–2017
Nucleation Theory and the Austenite to Ferrite Transformation in Steels
October 28, 2016 | 1:00pm to 2:00pm | GB 119
Prof. Jeffrey Hoyt | Chair, Materials Science and Engineering Department, McMaster University
3M: Mining the Microscopy Makerspace
November 25, 2016 | 4:00pm to 5:00pm | SF 1105
Prof. Christopher Yip | Director, IBBME
Materials Challenges and Innovation in Welding and Joining Research
February 3, 2017 | 4:00pm to 5:00pm | SF 1105
Prof. Y. Norman Zhou | Director, Centre for Advanced Materials Joining, University of Waterloo
From Atomic-Scale Ordering to Materials Properties: Aberration-Corrected STEM, Spectroscopy, and Simulation
March 17, 2017 | 4:00pm to 5:00pm | SF 1105
Prof. David W. McComb| Professor & Ohio Research Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering and Director, Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis, The Ohio State University, USA
Functional magnetic nanostructures for electromagnetic and biomedical applications
April 20, 2017 | 4:00pm to 5:00pm | BA 1130
Prof. Hari Srikanth | Professor of Physics, Fellow, American Physical Society, University of South Florida