AVS: The Science and Technology of
Materials, Interfaces, and Processing

Michigan Chapter

Calendar


2009

April 22: Chapter Meeting
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May 21: 36th Annual Spring Symposium
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2008

November 5: The Michigan Chapter of the AVS is holding its next dinner Meeting on November 5th at the Livonia Marriott. The Speaker will be Dr. Gholam-Abbas Nazri from General Motors R&D Center in Warren, MI.

The title of the talk will be “Materials Aspects of Lithium-Ion Batteries for Transportation Applications.” Join us to listen to Dr. Nazri talk about this very important and relevant topic.

Please mark your calendar, and we hope to see you there.

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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”

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May 28: 35th Annual Spring Symposium of the AVS Michigan Chapter held at the Student Union of the University of Toledo, OH

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
 

February 27, 2003
Harold Kung, Northwestern University
Designing Heterogeneous Catalysts – How Far Are We?
December 11, 2002
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”

2001-2002
 

March 7, 2002
E. W. Plummer, University of Tennessee 
An atomic view of the dynamic role of defects in determining physical and chemical properties of surfaces
December 6, 2001
Daniel E. Resasco, University of Oklahoma 
Highly Selective Catalysts for the Synthesis of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes by CO Disproportionation
November 6, 2001
Joanna Mirecki Millunchick, University of Michigan 
Morphological and Compositional Instabilities in Compound Semiconductor Films

2000-2001
 

0April 19, 2001
Hans-Joachim Freund, Fritz-Haber Institut                                      Deposited Metal Particles as Models for Heterogeneous Catalysts: From Individual Clusters to Cluster Ensembles
March 6, 2001
Sinil Sinha, Argonne National Laboratory 
The Impact of Synchrotron Radiation on Nanoscience
October 25, 2000
John Gland, University of Michigan 
In-situ Studies of Catalytic C3 Oxidation

1999-2000
 

April 12, 2000
Ching-Hwa Kiang, UCLA 
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
March 15, 2000
Steven Yalisove, University of Michigan 
Using A Laboratory X-Ray Source For In-Situ Diffraction During Sputter Deposition Of Thin Films
February 9, 2000
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
 
April 12, 1999
Judith C. Yang, University of Pittsburgh 
Heteroepitaxy: A Novel Way to See Metal Oxidation
February 4, 1999
Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology 
Engineering of Direct Band Gap Group IV Semiconductors: SixSn1-x and GexSn1-x Alloys
December 8, 1998
Robert S. Weber, Arthur D. Little Corp. 
On Board Fuel Processing for Transportation
November 17, 1998
Kevin Hoffman, United Solar Systems 
The Status of Roll-to-Roll Solar Cell Production using Thin-Film Amorphous Silicon Alloys
October 27, 1998
Leonard J. Brillson, Ohio State University 
Changing Roles of Researchers in Industry