March 8, 2005: Bob Suter, "3DXDM: what
we learn from fits to silicon crystal data," Mehl
Room (2327 Wean Hall) 12:00 pm.
March 15, 2005: Ying Pang, "Correlation
between grain boundary segregation and plane
orientation in Nb-doped TiO2," Mehl Room
(2327 Wean Hall) 12:00 pm.
March 22, 2005: Abidjit Brahme, "Modeling
recrystallization and Texture Development," Mehl
Room (2327 Wean Hall) 12:00 pm.
March 25, 2005: Prof. Christopher Schuh, MIT, "Grain
Boundary Network Science: Crystallography Meets
Percolation Theory," Singleton Room, Roberts
Hall, 11:00 AM.
March 28 to April 1, 2005: 2005 MRS Spring Meeting,
San Francisco, CA
March 29, 2005: Mitra Taheri, "Recent Studies
of Zr segregation to grain boundaries in Al alloys," Mehl
Room (2327 Wean Hall) 12:00 pm.
April 5, 2005: Tomoko Sano, "Coarsening
of Faceted Crystals," Mehl Room (2327 Wean
Hall) 12:00 pm.
April 10 to 13, 2005: 107th Annual Meeting of
the American Ceramics Society, Baltimore, MD.
April 19, 2005: Chang-Soo Kim, "Microstructures
of CVD hard coatings (TiN/Al2O3/TiCN) in carbide
cutting tools," Mehl Room (2327 Wean Hall)
12:00 pm.
April 19, 2005: Jason Gruber, "Thesis Overview," Roberts
Engineering Hall, 140, 1:30 pm.
April 26, 2005: Sukbin Lee, "To be announced," Mehl
Room (2327 Wean Hall) 12:00 pm.
April 29, 2005: Tomoko Sano, "Final Ph.D.
Thesis Defence," Roberts Engineering Hall,
140, 2:00 pm.
May 3, 2005: Francine Papillon, "The Effect
of Impurities on the Grain Boundary Character
Distribution," Mehl Room (2327 Wean Hall)
12:00 pm.
May 10, 2005: Chang-Soo Kim, "Stereological
Recovery of Five-Parameter Grain Boundary Character
Distributions from EBSD Maps," Mehl Room
(2327 Wean Hall) 12:00 pm.
May 15 to 20, 2005: Third International Conference
on Microstructology, Birmingham, Alabama.
May 17, 2005: Mohammed Haroon Alvi, "To
be announced," Mehl Room (2327 Wean Hall)
12:00 pm.
May 24, 2005: Jason Gruber, "Simulation
of 3D grain growth," Mehl Room (2327 Wean
Hall) 12:00 pm.
May 27, 2005: Mitra Taheri, "Final Ph.D.
Thesis Defence," Roberts Engineering Hall,
140, 8:00 am.
July 13, 2005:Undergraduate research Progress
reports, Roberts Hall, 124, 9:30 AM
July 11 to 15, 2005: The 14th International
Conference on Textures of Materials, Leuven,
Belgium.
Aug. 11, 2005: Undergraduate research review,
Schedule Roberts Hall, 124, 9:30 AM
Fall 2004
Dec. 7, 2004: Tricia Bennett, "Grain Boundary
Distributions in Non-Oriented Fe-1%Si: Part II," Mehl
Room (2327 Wean Hall) 12:00 pm.
Nov. 23, 2004: Michael Goa, "The Effect
of External Magnetic Field on the Fe-Si Phase
Diagram and Grain Growth Behavior of Fe-1.0Si
Steel," Mehl Room (2327 Wean Hall) 12:00
pm.
Nov. 16, 2004: Ying Pang, "TBA," Mehl
Room (2327 Wean Hall) 12:00 pm.
Nov. 9, 2004: Mitra Taheri, "TBA," Mehl
Room (2327 Wean Hall) 12:00 pm.
Oct. 26, 2004: Michael Goa, "Solute segregation
at GBs and solute drag effect on moving GBs," Mehl
Room (2327 Wean Hall) 12:00 pm.
Oct. 19, 2004: Tricia Bennett, "Grain Boundary
Distributions in Non-Oriented Fe-1%Si: Part I," Mehl
Room (2327 Wean Hall) 12:00 pm.
Oct. 12, 2004: Chris Roberts, "Modeling
of grain growth in an equiaxed-columnar casting," Mehl
Room (2327 Wean Hall) 12:00 pm.
Oct. 8, 2004: Amit Acharya, MSE Department Seminar, "TBA" 11:00
AM, Hammerschlag Hall B131.
Oct. 6, 2004: Wayne Archibald, Final Thesis
Defense, "Microstructural Characterization
of Al Thin Films and Foils: Grain Growth, Grain
Boundary Topology and Statistics" 11:30
AM, Roberts Engineering Hall 140.
Sept. 23, 2004: Chang-Soo Kim, Final Thesis
Defense, "Microstructural-Mechanical Property
Relationships in WC-Co composites" 2:00
PM, Roberts Engineering Hall 140.
Sept. 13, 2004:Mohammed Haroon Alvi, Thesis
overview, Mehl Room, 2325 Wean Hall, 1:00
Spring 2004
Feb. 10, 2004: Wook Jo, Seoul National University,"The
Meaning of Experimental Surface Energies Measured
by the Thermal Grooving Method." Mehl Room,
2325 Wean Hall, 12:00 noon.
Feb. 27, 2004: Chang-Soo Kim, "Quantitative
Analysis of Microstructural Features in WC-Co
Composites and their influences on Fracture Strength" 11:00
AM, Singleton Room, Roberts Engineering Hall
(REH).
March 9, 2004: G.S. Rohrer,"Grain Boundary
Distributions: Recent Results and Future Directions." Mehl
Room, 2325 Wean Hall, 12:00 noon.
March 14 to 18, 2004: 2004 TMS ANNUAL MEETING,
Charlotte, North Carolina.
March 23, 2004: Ying Pang, "Anisotropy
of Chemical Segregation to grain boundaries," 2325
Wean Hall, 12:00 noon.
March 30, 2004: Tricia Bennett "Investigation
of Grain Boundary Properties in a Non - Oriented
Electrical Steel (Fe-1.12Si): Most Recent Results," 2325
Wean Hall, 12:00 noon.
April 6, 2004: Mitra Taheri "Boundary migration
rates during the recrystallization of Al alloys," 2325
Wean Hall, 12:00 noon.
April 12 to 16, 2004: 2004 MRS Spring Meeting,
San Francisco, CA
April 18 to 21, 2004: 106th Annual Meeting of
the American Ceramics Society, Indianapolis,
Indiana.
April 27, 2004: Katy Barmak "Evolution
of the Grain Size Distribution in Al Thin Films," 2325
Wean Hall, 12:00 noon.
May 5, 2004: Mitra Taheri, Thesis overview,
140 Roberts Hall, 12:30.
May 7, 2004: Tricia Bennett, Thesis overview,
140 Roberts Hall, 2:00.
May 18, 2004: Jihwan Kim and Chang-Soo Kim "Pushing
the limits of OIM resolution: OIM studies of
Al thin films," 2325 Wean Hall, 12:00 noon.
June 1, 2004: Welcoming Visiting Undergraduate
Researchers," 2325 Wean Hall, 12:00 noon.
June 8, 2004: Eric Homer, BYU "Preliminary
investigation of topological constraints on misorientation
distributions," 2325 Wean Hall, 12:00 noon.
June 15, 2004: Robert Suter "Recent developments
in the 3DXRDM," 2325 Wean Hall, 12:00 noon.
June 25th, 2004: Laurent Trotignon, CEA France,"Long
term behaviour of cements and metals in hyperalkaline
environments : presentation of recent results
obtained during the Maqarin Phase IV project," Abstract
2325 Wean Hall, 12:00 noon.
July 14, 2004:Tomoko Sano, Thesis overview,
140 Roberts Hall, 2:00.
July 25 to 29, 2004: Eleventh International
Conference on Intergranular and Interphase Boundaries,
Queen's University Belfast.
Aug. 6, 2004: Undergraduate research review,
Schedule Roberts Hall, 124, 9:30 AM
Aug. 16, 2004: Center Retreat and Advisory Board
Meeting: Roberts Hall, Singleton Room, 9:00 AM
to 5:00 PM. Schedule
Aug. 30 to Sept. 3, 2004: 2nd International
Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth,
Annecy, France.
Fall 2003
Sept. 2, 2003: G.S. Rohrer, " If it looks
like a polycrystal, does it act like a polycrystal?" Mehl
Room, 2325 Wean Hall, 12:00 noon.
Sept. 23, 2003: B. El Dasher, "Recent Orientation
Imaging Microscopy Studies" Mehl Room, 2325
Wean Hall, 12:00 noon
Sept. 30, 2003:C.S. Kim, "Microstructures
in WC/Co composites" Mehl Room, 2325 Wean
Hall, 12:00 noon
Oct. 14, 2003: J. Gruber, "Three-dimensional
Grain Growth Simulated Using the LANL Finite
Element Model" Mehl Room, 2325 Wean Hall,
12:00 noon
Oct. 16, 2003: Andrew M. Kraynik, Sandia National
Laboratories, "Random Polydisperse Foam:
Structure, Rheology and Coarsening," Abstract
Roberts Hall 140, 2:00 PM.
Oct. 22, 2003: Professor Valerie Randle, University
of Wales Swansea, "Application of orientation
mapping by EBSD to trace analysis of boundary
planes," Abstract Dilkes Library, Roberts
Hall, 4:30 PM.
Nov. 4, 2003: Tricia Bennett, "Recent Microstructural
Studies of Si-Fe" Mehl Room, 2325 Wean Hall,
12:00 noon.
Nov. 25, 2003: Mitra Taheri, "Recent Studies
of Grain boundary Mobility in Al" Mehl Room,
2325 Wean Hall, 12:00 noon
Dec. 9, 2003: Ying Pang, "Indexing grain
boundary plane orientations from SEM data" Mehl
Room, 2325 Wean Hall, 12:00 noon
Spring 2003
Jan. 17, 2003: Professor Peter W. Voorhees,
Northwestern University, "From Dendrites
to Superalloys: New Views of Microstructural
Evolution Using Three Dimensional Reconstructions" Singleton
Room, Roberts Hall, 11:00 AM
Jan. 28, 2003: Robert Moore, "Reconstructing
3D Polycrystalline Microstructures from Serial
Sections" Mehl Room, 2325 Wean Hall, 12:30
PM
Jan. 31, 2003: Professor David T. Wu, Yale University, "Effective
Medium Theory for Modeling Grain Growth," Baker
Hall 136A, 11:00 AM
Feb. 4, 2003: Prof. Shlomo Ta'asan, "Development
of Grain Boundary Distributions in Curvature
Driven Simulations Using Anistropic Boundary
Energies," Mehl Room, 2325 Wean Hall, 12:30
PM
Feb. 14, 2003: Doctor John W. Cahn, NIST, "Symmetries
in the Angular Characterization of Interfaces
between Crystals," Singleton Room, Roberts
Hall, 11:00 AM
Feb. 19 and 20, 2003: Site visit by external
panel. Schedule
Feb. 28, 2003: Professor Robert M. Suter, Dept.
of Physics, "The Three Dimensional X-ray
Microscope: Non-Destructive Internal Structure
Measurements," Singleton Room, Roberts Hall,
11:00 AM
April 1, 2003: Prof. Tony Rollett, "Simulated
Grain Growth, Grain Boundary Properties, Clustering
and the Cube Component ({001}<100>) ," Mehl
Room, 2325 Wean Hall, 12:30 PM
April 11 & 12, 2003: Moving boundary problems
in Physics, Mathematics, and Materials Science:
a symposium to honor Prof. Robert F. Sekerka
on the occasion of his 65th birthday Mellon Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213. To register, see the symposium
web site.
April 14, 2003: Doctor Elizabeth A. Holm, Sandia
National Laboratory, "Computational Modeling
at the Microstructural Scale," Singleton
Room, Roberts Hall, 11:00 AM (Monday)
April 15, 2003: Dr. Priya Manohar, "Parallelization
of Monte Carlo Algorithm and its Application
for Grain Growth Simulation in 2D" Mehl
Room, 2325 Wean Hall, 12:30 PM
April 25, 2003: Professor Surya R. Kalidindi,
Drexel University, "Microstructure Sensitive
Design: A Spectral Approach to Materials," Baker
Hall 136A, 11:00 AM
May 2, 2003: Doctor Andrew P. Kuprat, Theoretical
Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Modeling
3D Microstructure Evolution using Moving Finite
Elements," Baker Hall 136A, 11:00 AM
Spring semester, 2003: MSE department Seminar
Series, New Dimensions in Microstructural Science
May 6, 2003: Mitra Taheri, "Grain boundary
velocity studies: in-situ annealing of Al 1050," Mehl
Room, 2325 Wean Hall, 12:30 PM
May 13, 2003: Dr. Dominique Chatain, CNRS, "Equilibrium
Shape of Copper Crystals," Mehl Room, 2325
Wean Hall, 12:30 PM
May 20, 2003: Wayne Archibald, "Grain growth
studies in Al thin films," Mehl Room, 2325
Wean Hall, 12:30 PM
June 6, 2003: Pr. Alan W. Cramb, "Wetting
of Liquid Iron on Alumina: What is the Contact
Angle?" Mehl Room, 2327 Wean Hall, 12:30
PM
June 17, 2003: Dr. George Levi, NIST, "Energy
and Structure of Al-Al2O3 and Ni-Al2O3 Interfaces," Mehl
Room, 2325 Wean Hall, 12:30 PM
June 23-25, 2003: PICS Workshop 2003, Dilks
Library, Roberts Hall, Carnegie Mellon University.
Schedule
Summer 2003, Chiral group meetings: Schedule
Aug. 8, 2003: Undergraduate research review,
Schedule Roberts Hall, 124, 9:30 AM
Fall 2002
Sept. 23, 2002: P. Wynblatt, Discussion of grain
boundary segregation
Sept. 30, 2002: G. Rohrer, Center Overview,
site visit presentation preview
Oct. 2, 2002: Site visit by NSF Staff. view
the schedule
Oct. 7-11, 2002: TMS Meeting, Columbus OH.
Oct. 14, 2002: Chang-Soo Kim, "Interface
Character Distributions WC/Co composites"
Oct. 21, 2002: Ying Pang/ Francine Papillon, "Update
on studies of studies of grain boundary chemistry"
Oct. 28, 2002: Mohammed Alvi, "Recrystallization
kinetics and Texture evolution in Aluminum Alloy
1050"
Nov. 4, 2002: Jeehyun Lee/ David Kinderlehrer, "Recent
Progress in the Development of Herring-Mullins
grain Growth Models"
Nov. 11, 2002: Wayne Archibald, "Measuring
grain boundary mobility in Al foils"
Nov. 18, 2002: Mitra Taheri, "Differences
between the macroscopic and microscopic investigation
of stored energy"
Nov. 25, 2002: Andy Gellman, Greg Rohrer, Tony
Rollett, "Using Textured Copper for Chiral
Separations: the interface between the MIMP and
the Chiral Solids and Surfaces Project"
Dec. 9, 2002: Peng Yu / S. Ta'asan, "Grain
Boundary Simulations"
Dec. 2-6, 2002: MRS Meeting, Boston, MA.
Dec. 2-7, 2002: Materials Sensitive Design School
, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 2-7.
Spring 2002
Jan. 25, 2002: Casasent, Status of automation
in the Microscope, 12:30 PM, Mehl Room, Wean
Hall
Jan. 22, 2002: Shlomo Ta'asan, New results from
two-dimensional grain growth modeling, 12:30
PM, 12:30 PM, Mehl Room, Wean Hall
Jan. 29, 2002: Jeehyn Lee, Progess in three
dimensional grain growth simulatations, 12:30
PM, 12:30 PM, Mehl Room, Wean Hall
Feb. 12, 2002: Bob Suter, Status of the 3D x-ray
diffraction microscope, 12:30 PM, 12:30 PM, Mehl
Room, Wean Hall
Feb. 26, 2002: Jae-Hyung Cho, Texture Development
in Gold Wires, 12:30 PM, Mehl Room, Wean Hall
March 5, 2002: Tony Rollett, Influence of Grain
Boundary Properties on Texture Development, 12:30
PM, Mehl Room, Wean Hall
March 12, 2002: Chang-Soo Kim, The microstructure
of WC/Co composites, 12:30 PM, Mehl Room, Wean
Hall
March 19, 2002: Bassem El Dasher, Orientation
Mapping of Ta, 12:30 PM, Mehl Room, Wean Hall
April 8, 2002: Meeting of the CMU MRSEC Advisory
Board, Singelton Room, Roberts Engineering Hall
Schedule
April 23, 2002: Rohrer, Determining Crystal
Habits from Observations of Planar Sections,
12:30 PM, Mehl Room, Wean Hall
April 24, 2002: Ph.D. Thesis Defense. Melik
Demirel.
May 28, 2002: Wayne Archibald, Grain Boundary
Microstructures in Thin Films, 12:30 PM, Mehl
Room, Wean Hall
June 2, 2002: G.S. Rohrer, 12:30 PM, Mehl Room,
Wean Hall
June 11, 2002: R.M. Suter, 12:30 PM, Mehl Room,
Wean Hall
July 2, 2002: P. Wynblatt, 12:30 PM, Mehl Room,
Wean Hall
July 12, 2002: Mid-summer oral status reports
from undergraduate researchers, 10:00 AM, Roberts
Hall Computer Cluster.
July 16, 2002: A.D. Rollett, 12:30 PM, Mehl
Room, Wean Hall
Aug. 6, 2002: G.S. Rohrer, 12:30 PM, Mehl Room,
Wean Hall
Aug. 9, 2002: Undergraduate researcher symposium,
9:00 AM, Roberts Hall Computer Cluster. download
the schedule
Aug. 27, 2002: ICOTOM 13, International Conference
on Texture of Materials, August 26-30, 2002,
Seoul National University, Korea.
Fall 2001
Oct. 12, 2002: Special Semiar by David Saylor,
The Character Dependence of Grain Boundary Energy
in Magnesia, 11:00 A.M., Doherty Hall 1112.
Nov. 2, 2002: Memorial Tribute to William W.
Mullins: Scientist, Educator, Humanist, Friday,
November 2, 2001, 4:30-5:30 PM followed immediately
by a reception Mellon Institute Auditorium, second floor,
Mellon Institute Building, Carnegie Mellon University
Nov. 5, 2002: Ryan Larsen, A new stereology
approach to studying grain boundaries developed
at BYU, 11:30 AM, 140, Roberts Engineering Hall
Nov. 13, 2002: Greg Rohrer, Overview of Project
status, up coming events, possible directions,
12:30 PM, 140, Roberts Engineering Hall
Nov. 20, 2002: Greg Rohrer, Stategies for current
and future data collection, 12:30 PM, 140, Roberts
Engineering Hall
Nov. 27, 2002: Barmak/Archibald, Progress in
Thin Film Al Studies, 12:30 PM, 140, Roberts
Engineering Hall
Dec. 4, 2002: Mitra Taheri, Status and expectations
for new studies of Aluminum, 12:30 PM, 140, Roberts
Engineering Hall
Dec. 1, 2002: Bennett/Kim, Status and expectations
for new studies of Fe (Bennett) and WC/Co (Kim),
12:30 PM, 140, Roberts Engineering Hall
Spring 2001
Feb. 1, 2001: Seminar. David Kinderlehrer, An
Approach to Mesoscale Simulation of Grain Growth.
4:15 PM, Scaife Hall, 301.
Feb. 13, 2001: Special Seminar. David Brandon,
Controlling Texture During Electrophoretic Deposition.
11:00 AM, Roberts Hall, 143.
Feb. 15, 2001: Seminar. Greg Rohrer, The role
of the nucleation energy barrier in the shape
evolution and coarsening of faceted particles.
4:15 PM, Scaife Hall, 301.
March 1, 2001: Seminar. Tony Rollett, Adam Moraweic,
New results and perspectives on abnormal grain
growth. 4:15 PM, Scaife Hall, 301.
March 15, 2001: Seminar. Bassem Samy El-Dasher,
Lattice curvature measurements using the OIM.
4:15 PM, Scaife Hall, 301.
April 5, 2001: Seminar. David Saylor, Three
dimensional microstructural data from MIMS. 4:15
PM, Scaife Hall, 301.
April 19, 2001: Seminar. Robert Moore, A finite
element approach to modeling the properties of
three dimensional microstructures based on experimental
data. 4:15 PM, Scaife Hall, 301.
May 31 to June 9, 2001: CNA Summer School, CMU.
Multiscale Problems in Nonlinear Analysis. Registration
deadline 4/15/01.
Fall 2000
Aug. 6-11, 2000: Gordon Research Conference
on Solid State Studies in Ceramics: Interfacial
Networks in Polycrystals: Structure, Dynamics,
and Control
Aug. 7, 2000: Professor W.W. Mullins wins theCruickshank
award, given by the Gordon Research Conferences.
Aug. 25, 2000: Thesis Defense. C.-C. Yang, MRSEC
Graduate Student. "The Energy and Mobility
of Grain Boundaries in Al" 10:00 AM, WeH
2327.
Sept. 14, 2000: Seminar. John W. Cahn, NIST. "Is
Grain Rotation During Grain Growth a Consequence
of Shear at a Moving Boundary?" 1:30 PM,
Rangos 1 Ballroom, UC. Dr. Cahn was awarded the
National Medal of Science in 1999 for his contributions
to Materials Science.
Oct. 3, 2000: Seminar. A.D. Rollett, CMU. Reconstruction
of Grain boundary mobilities in Al. 12:00 PM,
WeH 2327.
Oct. 24, 2000: Seminar. D. Saylor, CMU. Using
the Capillarity vector formalism to reconstruct
interface properties. 12:00 PM, Scaife Hall 120.
Oct. 31, 2000: Seminar. K. Cherry, CMU. Driving
charged grain boundaries with an external electric
field. What is the magnitude of the potential
driving force? Scaife Hall 322.
Nov. 14, 2000: Seminar. M. Demirel, CMU. Simulating
grain growth in three-dimensions with a finite
element model. 12:00 PM, WeH 2327.
Dec. 5, 2000: Seminar. R. Suter, CMU. Recent
progress in the development of the three-dimensional
X-ray microscope. 12:00 PM, WeH 2327.
Dec. 12, 2000: Seminar. W. Archibald, CMU. Experimental
protocol for grain boundary mobility measurements
in thin Al films. 12:00 PM, WeH 2327. |
