Graduate seminars

Research seminars (MSE-5015) are held weekly on Fridays from 11:15 a.m.–12:05 p.m. in the Holden auditorium unless otherwise listed. All are welcome to attend. Please contact Tina Rost for more information.

Fall Semester 2025

September 12

"Fundamental explorations of high-spin and low-spin transition metals in long lived change separated duties." Tzu-Ching Cheng, Virgnia Tech, MSE

September 19

"Effect of conformable coating on surface flashover in power converters at high elevation" Zac Zintak, Virgnia Tech, MSE

"AI-driven multiscale computational framework for corrosion-induced degradation of high temperature alloys." Praneeth Bachu, Virginia Tech, MSE

September 26

TBD, Matt Pietrucha and Zanya King, Photochips

October 3

"Nucleate, couple, split: solidification pathways in aluminium-based composites." Professor Ashwin Shahani, University of Michigan

October 24

TBD, Yasutaka Kuroda, Virgnia Tech, MSE

October 31

"Lanthide L-edge absorbtion spectroscopy of rare earth high-entropy oxides" Gerald Bejger, Virginia Tech, MSE

"Fundamentals of recycling with additive friction stir deposition" Hannah Glaser, Virgnia Tech, MSE

November 7

"Design and fabrication of ultra-low size, self-powered ferroelectric-based sensors" Dr. Kathleen Coleman, Army Research Laboratory

November 14

"Nondestructive microstructural characterization across material systems and processing conditions." Professor Andrea Arguelles, Penn State University

November 21

"Interfacial photo-gating of graphene field effect transistors (GFET) for photosensory biomolecular and gas detection" Kinley Koch, Virginia Tech, MSE

"Metamaterials application for USAF cloaking technologies." Frank Medina, Virginia Tech, MSE

December 5

"Modeling microstructure evolution for radiation induced segregation of an FeCr alloy on a dislocation loop." Chris Garza, Virginia Tech, MSE