Spitzer Lecture

The keynote lecture in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science has been named for William Spitzer, a former chair of the materials science department.

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. A university committee that he chaired produced the “Spitzer Profile,” a widely copied procedure for determining faculty load.

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2008 Speaker

Angela Belcheer
From Nature and back again... Giving new life to materials for energy, electronics and the environmentLearn More >>

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Past Speakers

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