Prior Burstein and Maddin Lecture Series
Sponsored by the LRSM at the University of Pennsylvania
Working at the Speed of Light
J.D. Joannopoulos
Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Nature Inspired Materials Science
Michael F. Rubner
Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Cell Nanomechanics & Human Disease States
Subra Suresh
Dean, School of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, February 22, 2008
Pseudopotentials in Materials Science: Quantum Alchemy
Marvin L. Cohen
Department of Physics
University of California at Berkeley
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Packing of Spheres and Ellipses
Paul M. Chaikin
Silver Professor of Physics, New York University
Thursday, November 2, 2006
The Role of Computation in Bionanotechnology
Klaus J. Schulten
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Novel Chemical Routes to Nanomaterials
C. N. R. Rao
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Sciencific Research
Bangalore, Indian
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Crystals Inside and Out: From Soft Crystals to Kidney Stones
Michael D. Ward
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Minnesota
Friday, March 4, 2005
Towards Predictive Modelling of Ionic Materials
Paul A. Madden
Professor of Chemistry
Oxford University
Monday, November 8, 2004
“Molecular Materials by Programmed Assembly”
Roeland J. M. Nolte
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Professor
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Tuesday, November 4, 2003
Mixing Colloids and Polymers: from Coarse-Graining to Accurate Phase Diagrams
Jean-Pierre Hansen
Cambridge UniversityChemical Laboratory United Kingdom
Wednesday, January 15th, 2003
From Hollow Polymeric Micro- and Nanospheres to Cell Biomimetics
Helmuth Möhwald
Director, InterfacesMax-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Monday, April 1, 2002
"Recent Developments in Open-Framework Inorganic Materials"
Anthony K. Cheetham
UC Santa BarbaraDirector, Materials Research Laboratory
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
SHAPE MATTERS:
Entropically Driven Phase Transitions in Colloidal
Suspensions of Spheres, Rods & Plates
Henk Lekkerkerker
Debye Research Institute / Utrecht UniversityThe Netherlands
Date: Monday, March 19, 2001
"Nanotubes and Molecular Wires:
From New Physics to New Tools for Science and Technology"
From New Physics to New Tools for Science and Technology"
Charles M. Lieber
Mark Hyman Professor of ChemistryHarvard University
Date: Monday, December 13, 1999
"Homogeneous Nucleation - One Century After Ostwald"
Daan Frenkel
FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular PhysicsThe Netherlands
Date: Monday, November 1 , 1999
"Structure Property Relations in Smart Materials"
Robert Newnham
Penn State UniversityDate: Friday, December 11, 1998
"POLYELECTROLYTE COMPLEXES"
Philip A. Pincus
UC Santa BarbaraMaterials and Physics Departments
Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998
"Tethered Ligand-Receptor Interactions"
Jacob N. Israelachvili
UC Santa Barbara Chemical EngineeringDate: Thursday, October 30, 1997
"Modification of Surfaces with Polymers and Amphiphiles"
Professor Matthew Tirrell
University of Minnesota,Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department
Date: Thursday, April 10, 1997
"Supported Membranes: Scientific and Practical Applications"
Erich Sackmann
Technische Universität München,Garching, Germany
Date: Wednesday, April 23, 1997
"Structure Determination of Internal Interfaces by High Resolution Electron Microscopy"
Professor Manfred Rühle
Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung,Institut für Werkstoffwissenschaft, Stuttgart
Date: Monday, April 15, 1996
"Surface Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy:
Applications to Materials Science"
Applications to Materials Science"
Yuen-Ron Shen
University of California at BerkeleyDate: Friday, December 8, 1995
"Materials Modeling:
Bridging the Gaps Between Physics, Chemistry & Engineering"
Bridging the Gaps Between Physics, Chemistry & Engineering"
David Pettifor
Isaac Wolfson Professor of MetallurgyUniversity of Oxford
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 1995
"Crystal Surfaces at High Temperatures: Theory, and Simulation"
Erio Tosatti
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA),Trieste, Italy
Date: Tuesday, December 13, 1994
"Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Studies of Materials:
The Present Situation and Future Prospects"
The Present Situation and Future Prospects"
Michele Parrinello
IBM Zurich Research LaboratoryRüschlikon, Switzerland
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1993