IMR Colloquia

The OSU Institute for Materials Research (IMR) announces the first talk in its 2009-2010 IMR Colloquia Series:

Toward Higher Performance Permanent Magnets for Automotive Applications
Kazuhiro Hono
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and University of Tsukuba

Thursday, October 29, 2009
9:00 – 10:00 AM (light reception to follow)
E100 Scott Laboratory
201 West 19th Avenue

For a full abstract and bio click here

On May 5th, the IMR hosted its last seminar in the 2008-2009 IMR Colloquia Series, a lively talk featuring Dr. Larry “Kaz” Kazmerski, Executive Director of Science and Technology Partnerships at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Kazmerski’s colloquium, “Photovoltaics R&D: The Revolution Has Begun” was an entertaining, multi-media presentation of the history of solar energy technology and the future of photovoltaics production and use globally.

This popular event generated many requests for the presentation, and Dr. Kazmerski generously agreed to share it with the IMR community.

Download the slides from Dr. Kazmerski’s presentation.

Photovoltaics R&D:  The Revolution has Begun
 
Dr. Lawrence L. Kazmerski
Executive Director, Science and Technology Partnerships
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(former Director of the National Center for Photovoltaics)
 
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
9:00 – 10:00 AM
The Blackwell Ballroom

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The Institute for Materials Research is pleased to announce that Dr. Jeffrey Wadsworth will serve as the next guest lecturer for the IMR Colloquia series on Thursday, October 25th.

Earlier this year, Dr. Wadsworth was named Executive Vice President of Global Operations for Battelle. In this new leadership position, he oversees the management or co-management of six national laboratories. All are invited to join us for this informative colloquium to learn more about recent scientific advances at Battelle and the national laboratories.

Click here for more details about this colloquium and other colloquium. 

Dr. Robert Chau is an internationally known and distinguished researcher at Intel Corporation, where he is the Director of Transistor Research and Nanotechnology and an Intel Senior Fellow. He will give a lecture entititled “Research and Advancement in Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics in the Semiconductor Industry” to be held on Friday August 31, 2007 from 3:00 to 4:00pm in Scott Laboratory Room E001, with a light reception to follow.

Dr. Chau will receive the 2007 College of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award earlier that same day. This exciting presentation is open to the entire materials community (faculty, staff, and students). For more information, see Dr. Chau’s abstract and short bio on our Colloquia page.

The OSU Institute for Materials Research (IMR) announces nine awards for its inaugural Interdisciplinary Materials Research Grants competition.
IMR Interdisciplinary Materials Research Grants (IMRGs) are intended to stimulate and advance collaborative and multidisciplinary research in materials-allied fields with the specific goal of generating highly competitive external grant proposals that target large, multi-investigator and center-level opportunities.
The nine awarded research projects for funding in 2007 by IMR are:

• Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Solar Conversion Systems, Lead: Malcolm Chisholm, Chemistry; Co-Applicants: Arthur Epstein; Physics; Paul Berger, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Nitin Padture, Materials Science and Engineering; Terry Gustafson, Chemistry
• Electrical measurements of gold nanoparticles in biological tissue for cancer detection, Lead: Joseph Heremans, Mechanical Engineering; Co-Applicants: Robert Lee, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Edward Martin, Jr, Surgery; Stephen Povoski, Surgery; Vish Subramaniam, Mechanical Engineering; Duxin Sun, Pharmacy; Ronald Xu, Biomedical Engineering
• Chemically-triggered Materials Assembly from Synthetic Peptides and Soy Proteins, Lead: Dennis Bong, Chemistry; Co-Applicant: Stephen St. Martin, Horticulture and Crop Science
• Novel active structure design exploiting 3D multi-functional materials, Lead: Steve Bechtel, Mechanical Engineering; Co-Applicants: Marcelo Dapino, Mechanical Engineering and Michael Mills, Materials Science and Engineering
• Materials with magnetic ordering and low loss for new high frequency applications, Lead: Henk Verweij, Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Applicants: John Volakis, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Patrick Woodward, Chemistry
• Physics-Based Multiscale Modeling Tools for Ultrastructural Evolution, Lead: Hamish Fraser, Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Applicants: Ju Li, Materials Science and Engineering; Yunzhi Wang, Materials Science and Engineering; Michael Mills, Materials Science and Engineering; Jim Williams, Materials Science and Engineering; Somnath Ghosh, Mechanical Engineering; John Wilkins, Physics; Parthasarathy Srinivasan, Computer Science and Engineering; Raghu Machiraju, Computer Science and Engineering; Kim Boyer, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Ashok Krishnamurthy, Electrical and Computer Engineering; William Carson, Surgery; Atom Sarkar, Neurological Surgery
• Computational Modeling of Novel Multi-functional Materials, Lead: Nandini Trivedi, Physics; Co-Applicants: Mohit Randeria, Physics; Leonard Brillson, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Chris Hammel, Physics; Patrick Woodward, Chemistry
• Assessing the physico-chemical properties of bio-based PLA-PEG films for food packaging applications, Lead: Yael Vodovotz, Food Science and Technology; Co-Applicant: Kurt Koelling, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Interfacial engineering and scaling of hybrid biological-electrical biosensing architectures based on wide-bandgap semiconductor GaN, Lead: Wu Lu, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Co-Applicants: Leonard J. Brillson ; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Stephen C. Lee, Biomedical Engineering