Please join the Materials Research Society (MRS) and DMSE in its second Lunch and Lecture of the Fall semester with Professor Michael Demkowicz.

Pizza and refreshments will be served!

Tailoring nanocomposite properties by atomic-scale design of interfaces

Michael J. Demkowicz, John C. Chipman Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Thursday, October 22nd

12:00pm-1:00pm (pizza and refreshments will be served at 11:40am)

The Chipman Room (6-104)

Abstract:

As the characteristic microstructural dimensions of a composite material decrease, its interface area-to-total volume ratio increases. In nanocomposites, interfaces make up such a large fraction of the total material that they may dominate its thermal, mechanical, and diffusion behavior. Understanding the atomic-level structure and properties of interfaces is therefore essential to explaining and controlling the macroscale behaviors of nanocomposites. This talk will present how atomistic simulations can shed light on the role of interfaces in the radiation response of Cu-Nb multilayer nanocomposites as well as how this insight can be used to design new radiation-resistant materials.

*The MRS “Lunch N Lecture” is a series of informal talks from any faculty member whose research interests are in materials. To learn more about the MRS and its lecture series, please visit the MRS homepage. Want to see a particular faculty member give a talk? E-mail the MRS officers at mrschapter.officers@mit.edu and give us suggestions!

Sponsored by MRS and DMSE

The MIT Class of 2010, Graduate Student Council, and the Society of Women Engineers proudly host:

The MIT Career Fair

Thursday, September 17th 2009

10:00AM to 6:00PM

Johnson Athletic Center (W34)

Go to career-fair.mit.edu

To register and submit your resume by 11:59 P.M. Friday, September 11th, 2009

To volunteer as a Career Fair Student Representative

To view participating companies and the Career Week Schedule

MIT Career Fair 2009, MIT’s flagship recruiting event, will be the largest recruiting event of the year and the only MIT-wide career fair to be held in the fall. It is open to companies and students of all disciplines and degree programs. In past years, the Career Fair has attracted more than 300 companies and more than 5,000 students attended. The Fair is part of a week-long Career Week, September 14 to September 18, 2009 in which students will have the opportunity to attend company-sponsored presentations and information sessions where employers and students can meet one-on-one to discuss careers in a variety of fields.

This is an exclusive event limited to current undergraduates, graduates, post-docs, and alumni of MIT only.

We look forward to your participation!

Best Regards,

Executive Committee, Career Fair 2009

Prof. Jeffrey Grossman, formerly of the University of California, Berkeley, has recently joined the DMSE faculty, assuming a position that is the result of an interdepartmental search organized by the School of Engineering, for faculty pursuing energy research.

Prof. Grossman’s area of expertise is computational materials science and engineering with a focus on energy. His group uses theory and simulation to gain fundamental understanding, develop new insights based on this understanding, and then use these insights to develop new materials with improved properties – working closely with experimental groups at each step. While the focus of the group is primarily on materials with applications in energy conversion and storage, the group also works on problems related to surface phenomena, nano-mechanical phenomena, and synthesis and assembly. The research program includes a strong emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach in order to expand the scientific possibilities beyond any one discipline or field. Prof. Grossman’s presence further enhances MIT’s and DMSE’s strong computational materials group and furthers its work in the energy research that is so critical today.

Fall 2009 Schedule

Sponsored by: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Processing Center

Please mark your calendars and note that the lecture day, time, and location has changed:

Thursdays at 3:00 pm
Room 66-110

September 10: Richard Register (Princeton University)

September 24: Amit Misra (Los Alamos National Lab)

October 1: Stephen Forrest (University of Michigan)

October 15: Sharon Glotzer (University of Michigan)

November 5: Alex Zettl (UC Berkeley)

November 19: Debra Rolison (Naval Reseach Labs)

Prof. Ishi Talmon, former department head of the ChE department, Technion, will give a special seminar,  ”State-of-the-Science Electron Microscopy of Nanostructured Liquid Systems,” on Friday, July 24, 11 a.m. in 6-104 (Chipman Room).

Seminar will cover some unusual complex fluid systems studied by cryo-TEM , and the latest in cryo-SEM, a new, exciting, and very promising tool.