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Calendar
2012
2011
May 12: 38th Annual Spring Symposium of the AVS Michigan Chapter
April 20th: “Controlling Low Temperature Plasmas: From Nanofabrication to Plasma Medicine”
Prof. Mark J. Kushner, recent AVS Welch Award winner, Director of the Michigan
Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering.
2010
December 14th: Lecture - "Silicon MEMS Oscillators-From Research to Products"
Dr. Wan-Thai Hsu, Discera, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
May 26th: 37th Annual Spring Symposium
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~peicheng/news/AVSmeeting.html
March 4th: “Focused-Ion Beam Assisted Epitaxy of Hybrid Multifunctional Materials”
Speaker: Prof Rachel Goldman, University of Michigan.
2009
October 29th:
“Surface Chemistry for Decreased Platinum Usage in
Fuel Cells”
Speaker: Dr. Fred Wagner from GM R&D.
May 21: 36th Annual Spring Symposium
April 22: Chapter Meeting
2008
November 5: “Materials Aspects of Lithium-Ion Batteries for
Transportation Applications.”
Speaker: Dr. Gholam-Abbas Nazri from General
Motors R&D Center in Warren, MI.
September 24: Our next Dinner-Talk will be on September 24, 2008 at 6:00 pm. The dinner-talk will be preceded by a Board Meeting at 5:30 pm. As usual, all members are invited to come and be an active part of the organization.
Our speaker will be Prof. Phillip M. Duxbury of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Michigan State University. He will be talking about “Characterization and Control of Nanoparticle Structure, Dispersion and Self-Assembly”
May 28: 35th Annual Spring Symposium of the AVS Michigan Chapter held at the Student Union of the University of Toledo, OH
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The theme of this year's Symposium is "Thin Film and Nanostructured Materials of Alternative Energy Applications"
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Student's Poster Session
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Vendors Equipment Exhibit
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Keynote Speaker: Lawrence Kazmerski, NREL - Solar PV Technology: The Beginning of the Revolution
Symposium Organizers:
Dr. Terry Bigioni:
Terry.Bigioni@utoledo.edu
Dr. Pilar Herrera-Fierro:
pilarhf@umich.edu
March 5 - Dinner Meeting
Speaker:
Prof. Katsuo
Kurabayashi from the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Departments of the
University of Michigan.
"MULTI-SCALE INTEGRATION OF SOFT POLYMERS AND BIOMOLECULES FOR HYBRID
MICROSYSTEMS"
Contact:
Pilar
Herrera-Fierro, MI Chapter Secretary
2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - Dinner Meeting
Speaker: L. Jay Guo, University of Michigan
"NANOIMPRINTING TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS"
Contact: Pilar Herrera-Fierro, MI Chapter Secretary
Wednesday May 9
– Spring Symposium @ Michigan Union, U of M
“Smart
Materials and Thin Films for Biomedical Applications”
Wednesday May 9 – 1-day Short Course at Michigan Union, U of M
“Fundamentals of Vacuum Technology”
Instructor Prof. Paul Holloway
February 15, '07- Dinner Meeting Talk by Dr. Galen Fisher , DELPHI Corporation, “Future Vehicle Emission Control Technologies and On-Board Hydrogen Generation: Spatially Resolved Species and Temperature Profiles Along a Reformer Catalyst"
2006
AVS Michigan Chapter Board Meeting Minutes 11/29/06
In PDF format
2003-2004
| April 19, 2004 |
Omar Yaghi, University of Michigan
Materials Full of Nothing for Hydrogen Storage
and More |
| February 18, 2004 |
Stella Pang, University of Michigan
Inking and Reversal Nanoimprinting for
3-Dimensional Patterning |
| November 13, 2003 |
Ale Lukaszew, University of Toledo
Issues in Nano-Magnetism |
2002-2003
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February 27, 2003
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Harold Kung,
Northwestern University
Designing Heterogeneous Catalysts – How Far Are
We? |
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December 11, 2002
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Mark Yeadon, National University of Singapore
UHV in-situ TEM studies of the synthesis and processing of materials |
| October 30, 2002 |
Norman Birge, Michigan State University
A
Tutorial Introduction to “Mesoscopic Physics”
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2001-2002
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March 7, 2002
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E. W. Plummer, University of Tennessee
An atomic view of the dynamic role of defects in determining physical and chemical properties of surfaces |
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December 6, 2001
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Daniel E. Resasco, University of Oklahoma
Highly Selective Catalysts for the Synthesis of
Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes by CO Disproportionation
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November 6, 2001
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Joanna Mirecki Millunchick
Morphological and Compositional Instabilities in
Compound Semiconductor Films |
2000-2001
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0April 19, 2001
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Hans-Joachim Freund, Fritz-Haber Institut
Deposited Metal Particles as Models for
Heterogeneous Catalysts: From Individual Clusters to Cluster Ensembles
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March 6, 2001
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Sinil Sinha, Argonne National Laboratory
The Impact of Synchrotron Radiation on
Nanoscience |
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October 25, 2000
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John Gland, University of Michigan
In-situ Studies of Catalytic C3
Oxidation |
1999-2000
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April 12, 2000
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Ching-Hwa Kiang, UCLA
Single-Walled
Carbon Nanotubes |
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March 15, 2000
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Steven Yalisove, University of Michigan
Using
A Laboratory X-Ray Source For In-Situ Diffraction During Sputter Deposition
Of Thin Films |
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February 9, 2000
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Jose Rodriguez, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Surface
Science and Environmental Catalysis: Photoemission and XANES Studies on
the Chemistry of SO2 on Model Metal and Oxide Catalysts |
1998-1999
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April 12, 1999
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Judith C. Yang, University of Pittsburgh
Heteroepitaxy: A Novel Way to See Metal Oxidation |
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February 4, 1999
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Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology
Engineering of Direct Band Gap Group IV Semiconductors: SixSn1-x
and GexSn1-x Alloys |
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December 8, 1998
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Robert S. Weber, Arthur D. Little Corp.
On Board Fuel Processing for Transportation |
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November 17, 1998
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Kevin Hoffman, United Solar Systems
The Status of Roll-to-Roll Solar Cell Production using Thin-Film Amorphous
Silicon Alloys |
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October 27, 1998
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Leonard J. Brillson, Ohio State University
Changing Roles of Researchers in Industry |