Special Lectures

Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Margaret Gardel

Horace B. Horton Professor, Physics and Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
“Active & Adaptive Matter Driving Cell Dynamics”
September 25, 2023


Franklin Institute Award Lecture
Philip Kim

Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard University
“Stacking van der Waals Atomic Layers: Quest for New Quantum Materials”
April 27, 2023


Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Dmitri N. Basov

Higgins Professor and Chair of Physics, Columbia University
“Shedding Nano-Light on Quantum Materials”
April 3, 2023


Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Nadya Mason

Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Designing Superconductivity: Using nanostructures to manipulate interactions in a complex system”
February 21, 2019


Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Emilio Mendez

Director of Energy Science and Technology, Brookhaven National Laboratory
and Professor of Physics, Stony Brook University
“Confinement & Tunneling, Pillars of Nanoscience”
February 14, 2017


The 2016 Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Robert J. Cava

Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University
“Finding New Electronic Materials”
April 28, 2016


Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Michael L. Klein
Laura H Carnell Professor of Science Temple University
“SOFT MATERIALS: Physics to Physiology via Computation”
March 24, 2015


Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Alan J. Heeger

Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 2000
Department of Physics & Department of Materials
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Plastic Solar Cells: Coherence & Uncertainty in Nano-structured Materials”
November 12, 2013