Spitzer Lecture

The keynote lecture in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science is named for William Spitzer, a former chair of the Department of Materials Science.

Spitzer did outstanding work in solid-state physics, particularly focusing on how it affected the optical and electronic properties of semiconductor materials. He was an influential academic administrator with lasting impact on USC as a department chair, dean and provost.  He chaired a university committee that produced the “Spitzer Profile,” a widely copied procedure for determining faculty load.

2012 Speaker

Mark A. Reed
Yale University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics
February 2, 2012
"Integrated Bioelectric Systems"
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 Past Speakers
 

	2011 Harry Atwater Howard Hughes Professor, Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science California Institute of Technology "New Photonic Material Designs for Solar Energy Conversion" Learn More>>
	2010 Sumio Iijima Meijo University "Challenge to Seeing Atomic Structures of Nano-materials with Electron Microscopy" Learn More>>
	2009 GePorge M. Whitesides Simple Bioanalytical SystemsDepartment of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University"Simple Bioanalytical Systems"Learn More >>
	2008 Angela Belcheer "From Nature and back again... Giving new life to materials for energy, electronics and the environment" Learn More >>

2007 Jim Heath (inaugural lecture) "Nanosystems Biology and New Technologies for in vitro and in vivo Diagnostics of Cancer" Learn More >>