Past Events

Dissertation Defense – Andrew Erwin
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Branched Polymer Electrolytes: Responsive Nanomaterials for Controlled Ion Mobility"
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - 11:00pm
Location: BlueJeans Video Conferencing  https://bluejeans.com/396605134
Dell Technologies Coffee Chat
MSE Student Event
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 - 11:00am
Location: https://bluejeans.com/865961751
John Reynolds - Georgia Tech (MSE/Chemistry)
MSE Seminar
Title: Crossing Barriers and Boundaries: Just Why Did I Move to Georgia Tech?
Date: Monday, February 22, 2021 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/hxxyjyfs
Virtual Office Hour with the Dean
MSE Regular Event
Date: Thursday, February 18, 2021 - 9:30am to 10:30am
Location: https://bluejeans.com/331213181
Yue Qi - Brown University
MSE Seminar
Title: When Ions Meet Electrons: Modeling the Interfaces in Solid-State Batteries
Date: Monday, February 15, 2021 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/hxxyjyfs
Dissertation Proposal Defense – Sandra Stangebye
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: “Investigating Microstructural Effects on Stress-Induced Grain Boundary Migration in Freestanding Ultrathin Metal Films”   
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 - 10:00am
Location: via BlueJeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/548202584
Amy Peterson - UMass Lowell
MSE Seminar
Title: Interfaces in Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing
Date: Monday, February 8, 2021 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/hxxyjyfs

Galentine’s Day Brunch Event (Valentine’s Day for the gals)
MSE Student Event
Date: Sunday, February 7, 2021 - 11:00am
Location: https://bluejeans.com/6643803606
Shawn Walsh - Army Research Laboratory
MSE Seminar
Title: The Case for "Collectives": Creating Transformational Capability Faster from Integration of Disparate Discoveries and Technologies
Date: Monday, February 1, 2021 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/hxxyjyfs
Dissertation Proposal Defense – Sahitya Movva 
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: “Influence of Texture on Wear Behavior of 3D Printed HDPE/UHMWPE Bioimplant Material”  
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 - 9:00am
Location: via BlueJeans Video Conferencing ​https://bluejeans.com/502529905
Dissertation Defense – Sepideh Parvinian
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: “High Throughput Exploration of Process and Chemistry Space in 18% Ni Maraging Steels (C350)”
Date: Friday, December 18, 2020 - 9:00am
Location: Via Bluejeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/341423848
Dissertation Proposal Defense – Luke Soule
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: “Development of Electrode Materials for High-Rate Lithium-Ion Batteries”
Date: Friday, December 11, 2020 - 11:00am
Location: Via BlueJeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/398751641
Ageeth Bol Seminar - Eidenhoven University of Technology
MSE Seminar
Title: “Tailoring 2D transition metal chalcogenides by atomic layer deposition”
Date: Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 10:00am
Location: Bluejeans event https://bluejeans.com/765896073
Ageeth Bol - Eindhoven University of Technology
MSE Seminar
Title: Tailoring 2D transition metal chalcogenides by atomic layer deposition
Date: Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 10:00am to 11:00am
Location: Virtual Blue Jeans - https://bluejeans.com/765896073

Dissertation Proposal Defense – Shawn A. Gregory
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: “Charge Transport in Chemically Doped Semiconducting Polymers: Quantifying Charge Carrier Localization and Localization Contributions to Thermoelectric Properties”
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - 1:30pm
Location: Via BlueJeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/156653465/5985?src=calendarLink
Dissertation Proposal Defense – Doyoub Kim
MSE Regular Event
Title: “Enhancing Ion Transport in Thick Li-ion Battery Electrodes by Pore Engineering”
Date: Friday, December 4, 2020 - 1:00pm
Location: Via BlueJeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/240364006
Dissertation Proposal Defense – Pratik Nimbalkar
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Design and Demonstration of Mechanical and Electrical Reliability of 1 µm Redistribution Layers on Glass and Silicon Substrates"
Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 10:30am
Location: via Webex Video Conferencing  https://gatech.webex.com/gatech/j.php?MTID=ma4621dfab04fa8b11171db76f0a0b39b 
Dissertation Defense – Pedro J. Arias-Monje
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: “Advanced Dispersion Strategies of Carbon Nanofillers and their use to enhance Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Polyacrylonitrile Fibers”
Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 9:30am
Location: Via Bluejeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/428601647
Dissertation Defense – Morgan Watt
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Effect of Network Formation and Particle Morphology on the Electrical Properties of Composites"
Date: Monday, November 30, 2020 - 10:00am
Location: Via Bluejeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/472186811
Dissertation Proposal Defense – Daron Spence
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: “Understanding Heat Management Enabled by Silica Based Insulating Microstructures and Dielectric Mirrors ”
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 - 2:00pm
Location: Via BlueJeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/120252940/3244?src=calendarLink
Kim See - California Institute of Technology
MSE Seminar
Title: The Electrochemistry of Multivalent Cations and Multielectron Redox for Next-Generation Batteries
Date: Monday, November 23, 2020 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tyzjyjjj
Dissertation Defense – Chuchu Zhang
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Wear Rate and Mechanism Maps for Stainless Steel at High Temperature"
Date: Friday, November 20, 2020 - 1:00pm
Location: Bluejeans Video Conferencing  https://bluejeans.com/216995024
Dissertation Defense – Lisa Savagian
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Establishing Design Principles for Polythiophenes Used in Electrochemical Applications"
Date: Friday, November 20, 2020 - 12:30pm
Location: Via Bluejeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/615995348
Dissertation Defense – Bartlet DeProspo
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Modeling, Design and Demonstration of 1 µm Wide Low Resistance Panel Redistribution Layer Technology for High Performance Computing Applications"
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 1:00pm
Location: Via Bluejeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/389380024
Dissertation Proposal Defense – Sarah A. Paluskiewicz 
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Deformation and Structure-Property Relations of Paper during Steady-State Tearing”
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 1:00pm
Location: Via BlueJeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/489463049
Dissertation Defense – Gary Whelan
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Uncertainty Informed Integrated Computational Materials Engineering for Design and Development of Fatigue Critical Alloys"
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 2:00pm
Location: via Bluejeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/447133714
Juana Mendenhall - Morehouse College
MSE Seminar
Title: A New Approach to Regenerative Tissue Engineering using Smart Biomaterials
Date: Monday, November 16, 2020 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tyzjyjjj
Dissertation Proposal Defense – John A. Lewis
MSE Grad Presentation
Title:  "Probing Interfacial Dynamics in Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries”
Date: Friday, November 13, 2020 - 1:00pm
Location:  Via BlueJeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/701653962
Emily Carter - Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost, UCLA
Pritchett Lecture
Title: Designing Materials for Sustainable Energy from First Principles
Date: Monday, November 9, 2020 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tyzjyjjj
Dissertation Proposal Defense – Kellina J. Pierce
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Confinement and External Fields Effects on Cellulose Nanocrystals’ Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Behavior”
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 - 10:00am
Location: Via BlueJeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/958979519
Dissertation Proposal Defense – Kellina J. Pierce
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Confinement and External Fields Effects on Cellulose Nanocrystals’ Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Behavior”
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 - 10:00am
Location: Via BlueJeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/958979519
Marta Hatzell - Georgia Tech (ME)
MSE Seminar
Title: Managing the Nitrogen Cycle through Electrochemistry
Date: Monday, November 2, 2020 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tyzjyjjj
Dissertation Defense – Francisco Javier Quintero Cortes
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Engineering Interfaces to Control Phase Transformations in Lithium-Based Battery Components"
Date: Friday, October 30, 2020 - 1:30pm
Location: Via Bluejeans Video Conferencing ​https://bluejeans.com/281741829
Lionel Vargas-Gonzalez - Army Research Lab
MSE Seminar
Title: Operationalizing the Science to Enable Transformational Dismounted Soldier Protection
Date: Monday, October 26, 2020 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tyzjyjjj
Newell Washburn - Carnegie Mellon University
MSE Seminar
Title: Machine Learning from Small Data: Understanding and Designing Complex Material Systems
Date: Monday, October 19, 2020 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tyzjyjjj
Dissertation Defense – Yulian Yao
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Electric-Field-Induced Phase Transitions in Antiferroelectric PbZrO3 Thin Films"
Date: Friday, October 16, 2020 - 1:00pm
Location: via Bluejeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/693797119
Dissertation Defense – Mohammad Hamza Kirmani
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Studies on High-Performance Thermosets and Their Interface and Interphase With Carbon-Nanotubes"
Date: Friday, October 16, 2020 - 11:00am
Location: via Bluejeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/560429496
Kyriaki Kalaitzidou - Georgia Tech
MSE Seminar
Title: Polymeric Structures and Composites: From Nano-engineered Architectures to High Volume Applications
Date: Monday, October 12, 2020 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tyzjyjjj
Enrique Gomez - Penn State University
MSE Seminar
Title: Pushing the limits of electron microscopy of polymers
Date: Monday, October 5, 2020 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tyzjyjjj
Dissertation Proposal Defense – Cooper A. Voigt
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "An Investigation of the Role of Defects in the Thin-Film Synthesis Mechanism and Functional Properties of α-In2Se3"
Date: Friday, October 2, 2020 - 3:00pm
Location: Via BlueJeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/336468853
Dissertation Proposal Defense – Daria Bukharina
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Dynamic Chirality of Tailored One-Dimensional Polysaccharide Nanocrystals"
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - 1:00pm
Location: via BlueJeans Video Conferencing, https://bluejeans.com/254688868
André Taylor - NYU
MSE Seminar
Title: Meticulous Control on the Nanoscale Toward Improved Multifunctional Materials and Enhanced Organic Solar Cells
Date: Monday, September 28, 2020 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tyzjyjjj
Dissertation Defense – Travis J. Voorhees
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "High Precision Measurements And Modeling Of How Brittle Granular Materials Behave Under Shock Compression"
Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - 12:00pm
Location: via  MS Teams Video Conferencing (Click hyperlink to attend)
Addison Shelton - Kickr Design
MSE Seminar
Title: Product Design - A Circuitous Path
Date: Monday, September 21, 2020 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tyzjyjjj
Tae-Sik Oh - Auburn University
MSE Seminar
Title: In Situ Grown Metal Nanoparticle Catalysts: Properties and Control
Date: Monday, September 14, 2020 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tyzjyjjj
Dissertation Proposal Defense – Katarina Adstedt
MSE Grad Presentation
Title:  "Advanced Carbon-Carbon Composites for Extreme Environments: Chemical, Physical, and Mechanical Interfacial Phenomena"
Date: Monday, September 14, 2020 - 3:00pm
Location: Via BlueJeans Video Conferencing, https://bluejeans.com/556188153
Padma Gopalan - University of Wisconsin
MSE Seminar
Title: Blocks, Brushes and Nanopatterns
Date: Monday, August 31, 2020 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/tyzjyjjj
G. P. “Bud” Peterson - 11th President of Georgia Tech
MSE Seminar
Title: Some Thoughts on Leadership
Date: Monday, August 24, 2020 - 3:30pm
Location: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/wgreudux
Dissertation Defense – Augustus William Lang
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: "Electrochromic Devices Incorporating Conjugated Polymers and Cellulose: New Opportunities for Organic Electronics"
Date: Friday, August 21, 2020 - 10:00am
Location: via BlueJeans Video Conferencing https://gatech.bluejeans.com/977238789
Dissertation Defense – Yeu-Wei Harn
MSE Grad Presentation
Title: “Nonlinear Block Copolymer Nanoreactor-Enabled Precision Synthesis of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles with Controlled Dimensions and Compositions and Investigation into Their Electrocatalytic and Magnetic Properties”
Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - 10:00am
Location: via BlueJeans Video Conferencing https://bluejeans.com/816591420