The Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Active & Adaptive Matter Driving Cell Dynamics
Margaret Gardel
Horace B. Horton Professor, Physics and Molecular Engineering
University of Chicago
Monday, September 25, 2023
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Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Shedding Nano-Light on Quantum Materials
Dmitri N. Basov
Higgins Professor and Chair of Physics
Director, Energy Frontiers Research Center
Columbia University
Monday, April 3, 2023
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Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Designing Superconductivity: Using nanostructures to manipulate interactions in a complex system
Nadya Mason
Professor of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thursday, February 21, 2019
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Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Confinement & Tunneling, Pillars of Nanoscience
Emilio Mendez
Director of Energy Science and Technology
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
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Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Jamming by Design
Heinrich Jaeger
Department of Physics
University of Chicago
Friday, May 6, 2016
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The Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Finding New Electronic Materials
Robert J. Cava
Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry
Princeton University
April 28, 2016
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Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
SOFT MATERIALS: Physics to Physiology via Computation
Michael L. Klein
Laura H Carnell Professor of Science
Temple University
March 24, 2015
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Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Plastic Solar Cells: Coherence & Uncertainty in Nano-structured Materials
Alan J. Heeger
Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 2000
Department of Physics & Department of Materials
University of California, Santa Barbara
November 12, 2013
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Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
The Physics of Cellular Motility
Michael E. Cates
School of Physics and Astronomy University of Edinburgh
April 17, 2013
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The Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Printing Functional Materials (maddin)
Jennifer A. Lewis
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
February 28, 2013
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The Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
New Directions in Colloidal Matter (maddin)
Sharon C. Glotzer
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
University of Michigan
April 23, 2012
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Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Working at the Speed of Light
J.D. Joannopoulos
Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, May 6, 2010
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The Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Nature Inspired Materials Science
Michael F. Rubner
Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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The Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Cell Nanomechanics & Human Disease States
Subra Suresh
Dean, School of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, February 22, 2008
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Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
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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Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Packing of Spheres and Ellipses
Paul M. Chaikin
Silver Professor of Physics
New York University
Thursday, November 2, 2006 Download PDF
LRSM / IME Joint Lecture
The Role of Computation in Bionanotechnology
Klaus J. Schulten
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
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Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Novel Chemical Routes to Nanomaterials
C. N. R. Rao
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Sciencific Research
Bangalore, India
Wednesday, April 27, 2005 Download PDF
LRSM / IME Joint Lecture
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
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Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Towards Predictive Modelling of Ionic Materials
Paul A. Madden
Professor of Chemistry
Oxford University
Monday, November 8, 2004
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Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
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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Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Mixing Colloids and Polymers: from Coarse-Graining to Accurate Phase Diagrams
Jean-Pierre Hansen
Cambridge University Chemical Laboratory
United Kingdom
Wednesday, January 15th, 2003
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
From Hollow Polymeric Micro- and Nanospheres to Cell Biomimetics
Helmuth Möhwald
Director, Interfaces
Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Monday, April 1, 2002
The Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Recent Developments in Open-Framework Inorganic Materials
Anthony K. Cheetham
UC Santa Barbara
Director, Materials Research Laboratory
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
SHAPE MATTERS: Entropically Driven Phase Transitions in Colloidal Suspensions of Spheres, Rods & Plates
Henk Lekkerkerker
Debye Research Institute / Utrecht University The Netherlands
Monday, March 19, 2001
The Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Nanotubes and Molecular Wires: From New Physics to New Tools for Science and Technology
Charles M. Lieber
Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry
Harvard University
Monday, December 13, 1999
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Homogeneous Nucleation – One Century After Ostwald
Daan Frenkel
FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics
The Netherlands
Monday, November 1 , 1999
The Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Structure Property Relations in Smart Materials
Robert Newnham
Penn State University
Friday, December 11, 1998
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
POLYELECTROLYTE COMPLEXES
Philip A. Pincus
UC Santa Barbara
Materials and Physics Departments
Thursday, October 29, 1998
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Tethered Ligand-Receptor Interactions
Jacob N. Israelachvili
UC Santa Barbara
Chemical Engineering
Thursday, October 30, 1997
The Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Modification of Surfaces with Polymers and Amphiphiles
Professor Matthew Tirrell
University of Minnesota
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department
Thursday, April 10, 1997
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials
Science Supported Membranes: Scientific and Practical Applications
Erich Sackmann
Technische Universität München
Garching, Germany
Wednesday, April 23, 1997
The Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Structure Determination of Internal Interfaces by High Resolution Electron Microscopy
Professor Manfred Rühle
Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Institut für Werkstoffwissenschaft, Stuttgart
Monday, April 15, 1996
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Surface Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy: Applications to Materials Science
Yuen-Ron Shen
University of California at Berkeley
Friday, December 8, 1995
The Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Materials Modeling: Bridging the Gaps Between Physics, Chemistry & Engineering
David Pettifor
Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy
University of Oxford
Tuesday, April 11, 1995
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Crystal Surfaces at High Temperatures: Theory, and Simulation
Erio Tosatti
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy
Tuesday, December 13, 1994
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Studies of Materials: The Present Situation and Future Prospects
Michele Parrinello
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Rüschlikon, Switzerland
Wednesday, November 10, 1993