Prior Burstein and Maddin Lecture Series
Sponsored by the LRSM
at the University of Pennsylvania
Cell Nanomechanics & Human Disease States
Subra Suresh
Dean, School of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, February 22, 2008
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Pseudopotentials in Materials Science: Quantum Alchemy
Marvin L. Cohen
Department of Physics
University of California at Berkeley
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
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Packing of Spheres and Ellipses
Paul M. Chaikin
Silver Professor of Physics, New York University
Thursday, November 2, 2006
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The Role of Computation in Bionanotechnology
Novel Chemical Routes to Nanomaterials
C. N. R. Rao
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Sciencific Research
Bangalore, Indian
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
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Crystals Inside and Out: From Soft Crystals to Kidney Stones
Towards Predictive Modelling of Ionic Materials
“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
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Mixing Colloids and Polymers: from Coarse-Graining to Accurate Phase Diagrams
Jean-Pierre Hansen
Cambridge University
Chemical Laboratory United Kingdom
Wednesday, January 15th, 2003
From Hollow Polymeric Micro- and Nanospheres to Cell Biomimetics
Helmuth Möhwald
Director, Interfaces
Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Monday, April 1, 2002
"Recent Developments in Open-Framework Inorganic Materials"
Anthony K. Cheetham
UC Santa Barbara
Director, 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 University
The Netherlands
Date: Monday, March 19, 2001
"Nanotubes and Molecular Wires:
From New Physics to New Tools for Science and Technology"

Charles M. Lieber
Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry
Harvard University
Date: Monday, December 13, 1999
"Homogeneous Nucleation - One Century After Ostwald"

Daan Frenkel
FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics
The Netherlands
Date: Monday, November 1 , 1999
"Structure Property Relations in Smart Materials"

Robert Newnham
Penn State University
Date: Friday, December 11, 1998
"POLYELECTROLYTE COMPLEXES"

Philip A. Pincus
UC Santa Barbara
Materials and Physics Departments
Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998
"Tethered Ligand-Receptor Interactions"

Jacob N. Israelachvili
UC Santa Barbara Chemical Engineering
Date: 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"

Yuen-Ron Shen
University of California at Berkeley
Date: Friday, December 8, 1995
"Materials Modeling:
Bridging the Gaps Between Physics, Chemistry & Engineering"

David Pettifor
Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy
University 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"

Michele Parrinello
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Rüschlikon, Switzerland
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1993