Inaugural Year
The LRSM, through the NSF-supported Penn MRSEC, presented a series of Science Cafés to promote NOVA’s four part TV series on materials, ‘Making Stuff with David Pogue,’ which will ran every Wednesday evening on public television stations at 9:00 pm starting January 19, 2011. The Science Cafés, which are science talks for laymen about materials-related topic of current interest, originally took place at 8:00 pm at Stoney’s British Pub, 3007 Concord Pike, Wilmington DE. The program has since expanded to other venues.
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| October 18, 2010 | Professor John Vohs Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Pennsylvania ‘What can Fuel Cells do for you?’ |
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| November 22 | Professor A.T. ‘Charlie’ Johnson Physics & Astronomy University of Pennsylvania ‘An Electronic Nose’ |
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| December 13 | Professor Jorge Santiago Electrical and Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania ‘How can we store energy?’ |
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| January 17, 2011 | Dr. Geoffrey Nunes E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. ‘The Future of Solar is Flexible’ |
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| February 21 | Dr. Curtis R. Fincher E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. ‘3-D Flat Panel Display Technologies’ |
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| March 21 | Dr. Ken Pye Lignol Innovations, Canada ‘Alternatives to Petroleum – Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass’ |
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| April 25 | Professor Arjun Yodh Physics & Astronomy University of Pennsylvania ‘Imaging inside the human body with light‘ |
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| May 23 | Professor John D. Meakin (ret’d) Materials Science and Engineering University of Delaware ‘Photovoltaic Energy Conversion’ |
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