Seminars

The Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering seminars typically takes place on Thursdays in Dell Butcher — except on holidays, during university breaks, or otherwise noted. For details on each seminar and speaker, visit the Rice University events calendar.

Fall 2022 Seminars

TBA

Past Seminars

Check out the list of our past seminars below to see what other fantastic speakers we've hosted.

Spring 2022

01/13/22
Hanyu Zhu, Rice University

01/20/22
Margarita Sanchez Dominguez, CIMAV, Monterrey Campus

01/27/22
Sergio Kapusta, Rice University

02/03/22
Naomi Murray, Stryker

02/17/22
Yuanwen Jiang, Stanford University

02/24/22
Flavia Vitale

03/03/22
Ali Dhinojwala, University of Akron

03/10/22
Kai Zhu, NREL

03/24/22
Beza Getachew, Rice University

03/31/22
Laszlo Forro, University of Notre Dame

04/07/22
Vivek Shenoy, University of Pennsylvania

04/14/22
Christopher Wolverton, Northwestern University

04/21/22
Gyorgy Szekely, KAUST

Fall 2021

8/26/21
Sergio Kapusta, Rice University

9/2/21
Nico Riva, MIT

9/9/21
Rui He, Texas Tech University

9/16/21
Peter Bocko, Cornell University

9/23/21
Arash Shadravan, Roboze

9/30/21
Lucas Lindsay, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

10/7/21
Meisha Shofner, Georgia Tech

10/14/21
Nikhil Verghese, SABIC

10/21/21
Vincent Tung, KAUST

10/28/21
Shi Li, University of Texas

11/4/21
Jeff Karp, MIT

11/11/21
Laszlo Forro, EPFL

11/18/21
Rohit Karnik, MIT

Spring 2021

1/28/21

Yuji Zhao, Arizona State University

2/4/21
Sergio Kapusta, Rice University

2/11/21
Sergio Kapusta, Rice University

2/25/21
Jeffrey Rickman, Lehigh University

3/4/21
Istvan Szilagyi, University of Szeged

3/11/21
Nathaniel Gabor, University of California, Riverside

3/18/21
A. Glen Birdwell, Army Research Laboratory

3/25/21
Feng Wang, Brookhaven National Laboratory

4/1/21
Jun Liu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

4/15/21
Shirley Meng, University of California, San Diego

4/22/21
Mahesh Neupane, US Army Research Laboratory

4/29/21
Yijin Liu, Stanford University

Fall 2020

9/3/20
Yimo Han, Rice University

9/10/20
Richard Averitt, University of California, San Diego

9/17/20
Sergio Kapusta, Rice University

9/24/20
Humberto Terrones, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute

10/1/20
Ju Li, MIT

10/8/20
Christopher Wolverton, Northwestern University

10/15/20
Yi Cui, Stanford University

10/22/20
Haimei Zheng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

10/29/20
Prineha Narang, Harvard University

11/5/20
Long Ju, MIT

11/12/20
Edwin Garcia, Rice University

11/19/20
Shuo Chen, University of Houston

Spring 2020

1/16/20
Michael Pettes, Los Alamos National Laboratory

1/23/20
Anirudha Sumant, Argonne National Laboratory

1/30/20
Jamie Warner, University of Texas

2/6/20
Martin Bazant, MIT

2/20/20
Tony Ivanov, Army Research Laboratory

2/27/20
Glaura Goulart Silva, UFMG

3/5/20
Nick Glavin, Air Force Research Laboratory

3/26/20
Alex Kutana, Rice University

4/2/20
Babu Ganguli, Rice University

4/9/20
Jing Zhang, Rice University

4/16/20
M.M. Rahman, Rice University

4/23/20
Soumyabrata Roy, Rice University

Fall 2019

8/29/19
Sergio Kapusta, Rice University

9/5/19
Jessica Rouge, University of Connecticut

9/12/19
Peter Loos, Rice University

9/19/19
Kristie Koski, University of California, Davis
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9/26/19
Hee Park, Laser Prismatics

10/3/19
Sunil K Pal, Micron Technology

10/10/19
Yan Yao, University of Houston

10/17/19
Ihab N. Odeh, SABIC
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10/24/19
Craig Arnold, Princeton University
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10/31/19
Venkataraman Swaminathan, Penn State University
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11/7/19
David Cahill, University of Illinois
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11/14/19
Evelyn Wang, MIT

11/21/19
Lynden A. Archer, Cornell University

11/5/19
Katsuyo Thornton, University of Michigan

Spring 2019

1/10/19
Jaime Bonilla Rios, Tecnologico de Monterrey

1/17/19
Brad W. Hoff, Air Force Research Laboratory

1/24/19
Omkaram (Om) Nalamasu, Applied Materials

1/31/19
Rajarshi Banerjee, University of North Texas

2/14/19
Jagjit Nanda, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

2/21/19
Kang Xu, Army Research Laboratory

2/28/19
Glenn Daehn, The Ohio State University

3/7/19
Robert Carpick, University of Pennsylvania

3/21/19
Sudipta Seal, University of Central Florida

3/28/19
SungWoo Nam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

4/4/19
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley

4/11/19
Xiaofeng Qian, Texas A&M University

4/18/19
David Srolovitz, University of Pennsylvania

4/25/19
Reza Mirzaeifar, Virginia Tech

Fall 2018

8/23/18
Hanyu Zhu, Rice University

8/30/18
Sergio Kapusta, Rice University

9/6/18
Aditya Mohite, Rice University

9/13/18
Ghanashyam Acharya, Baylor College of Medicine

9/20/18
Peter J. Boul, Aramco

10/4/18
Sudarsanam Suresh Babu, University of Tennessee

10/11/18
Seth Marder, Georgia Tech

10/18/18
Eric Chason, Brown University

10/25/18
Paul Sheehan, DARPA BTO

11/1/18
Geoff Wehmeyer, Rice University

11/8/18
Robert Lambeth, Army Research Lab

11/15/18
Pura Jena, Virginia Commonwealth University

11/29/18
Laszlo B. Kish, Texas A&M Univeristy

Spring 2018

1/11/18
Sergio Kapusta, Rice University

1/18/18
Mark Griep, Army Research Laboratory

1/25/18
Peter Voorhees, Northwestern University

2/1/18
Shinya Hayami, Kumamoto University

2/15/18
Justin Kennemur, Florida State University

2/22/18
Jennifer Dionne, Stanford University

3/1/18
Katherine Mirica, Dartmouth College

3/8/18
Jonathan Claussen, Iowa State University

3/22/18
Daniel P. Abraham, Argonne National Laboratory

3/29/18
Qian Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

4/5/18
Wonbong Choi, University of North Texas

4/12/18
Srikanth Patala, North Carolina State University

4/19/18
Judy Jeevarajan, Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

Fall 2017

8/24/17
Sergio Kapusta, Rice University

9/7/17
Sergio Kapusta, Rice University

9/14/17
Palash Bharadwaj, Rice University

9/21/17
Haleh Ardebili, University of Houston

9/28/17
Zhifeng Ren, University of Houston

10/5/17
Avetik R. Harutyunyan, Honda Research Institute USA Inc.

10/12/17
Eilaf Egap, Rice University

10/19/17
Patrick Sullivan, Oceanit

10/26/17
Priya Vashishta, University of Southern California

11/2/17
Vinod Menon, City University of New York

11/9/17
Alain Karma, Northeastern University

11/16/17
Brian Schuster, Army Research Laboratory

11/30/17
Eric L. Christiansen, NASA

Spring 2017

1/12/17
Sergio Kapusta, Rice University

1/19/17
Sergio Kapusta, Rice University

1/26/17
Michael Demkowicz, Texas A&M University

2/2/17
Gang Bao, Rice University

2/16/17
Wah Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine

2/23/17
David Bourell, University of Texas

3/2/17
Richard James, University of Minnesota

3/9/17
Susumu Saito, Tokyo Institute of Technology

3/16/17
Mauricio Terrones, Penn State University

3/20/17
Konstantin Novoselov, The University of Manchester

3/30/17
William Chueh, Stanford University

4/6/17
Ralph Nuzzo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

4/13/17
Uwe Bergmann, Stanford PULSE Institute

Fall 2016

8/25/16
Zack Cordero, Rice University

9/1/16
Eilaf Egap, Emory University

9/8/16
Jongseung Yoon, University of Southern California

9/15/16
Derrick Whiting, Weatherford Laboratories

9/22/16
Shyue Ping Ong, University of California, San Diego

9/29/16
Jesse Tice, Northrop Grumman

10/6/16
Vinod Veedu, Oceanit

10/13/16
Jordi Cabana, University of Illinois at Chicago

10/20/16
Robert Hurt, Brown University

10/27/16
Vinayak P. Dravid, Northwestern University

11/3/16
Sergio Kapusta, Rice University

11/10/16
Ling Li, Harvard University

11/17/16
Akos Kukovecz, University of Szeged

12/1/16
Amit Shyam, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Spring 2016

1/14/16
Arumugsm Marithiram, University of Texas

1/21/16
David Williams, The Ohio State University

1/28/16
Satish Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology

2/4/16
Li Shi, University of Texas

2/11/16
Brian Sheldon, Brown University

2/18/16
Yuris Dzenis, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

2/25/16
Nitin Chopra, SABIC Technology Center

3/10/16
Sergio Kapusta, Rice University

3/17/16
Delia Milliron, University of Texas

3/24/16
Yan Yao, University of Houston

4/7/16
Mark Hersam, Northwestern University

4/14/16
Srini Krishnamurthy, SRI International

4/21/16
Rowan Leary, University of Cambridge

Fall 2015

9/3/15
Ajit Roy, AFRL

9/10/15
John Biggins, Cambridge University

9/17/15
Shuo Chen, University of Texas

9/24/15
Aditya Mohite, Los Alamos National Laboratory

10/1/15
Luigi Colombo, University of Texas - Dallas

10/8/15
Jill Millstone, University of Pittsburg

10/15/15
Ming Tang, Rice University

10/22/15
Mohammad Naraghi, Texas A&M University

10/29/15
Yong - Wei Zhang, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

11/5/15
Marcos Pimenta, Federal de Minas Gerias University, Brazil

11/12/15
James Warren, National Institute of Standards & Technology

11/19/15
Konya Zoltan, University of Szeged

12/3/15
Charles Sykes, Tufts University

Spring 2015

1/15/15
Miguel Yacaman, University of Texas - San Antonio

1/22/15
Alessandro Grattoni, Houston Methodist Research Institute

2/9/15
Lijie Ci, Shandong University

2/26/15
Moneesh Upmanyu, Northeastern University

3/12/15
Carl Mesters, Shell

3/19/15
Shashi Karna, ARL

3/26/15
Valery Khabashesku, Baker Hughes

4/9/15
Kaustav Banerjee, University of California - Santa Barbara

4/16/15
Bingqing Wei, University of Delaware

4/23/15
Jian Luo, University of California - San Diego

5/4/15
Zack Cordero, MIT