Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Events for October
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Lyman L. Handy Colloquium Series
Thu, Oct 14, 2010 @ 12:45 PM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Thomas F. Kuech,
Talk Title: Nanopatterned Semiconductors to Achieve New Functionality
Series: Lyman L. Handy Colloquium Series
Abstract: There has been a tremendous body of research into the development of nanoscale objects and materials. While these materials exhibit unique properties on their own, the technological development of these materials requires their integration into existing and evolving device and materials platforms. Wafer-scale processing and uniformity of materials, and hence device, properties are required. A self-assembled block co-polymer (BCP) approach to nanoscale patterning, which offers rapid and cost-effective full wafer patterning at the 20-nm length scale, is finding applications in the wafer-scale development of nanoscale structures. This talk will deal with several new applications of this approach used to achieve improvements in heteroepitaxial growth of large lattice mismatched materials and the formation of uniform nanostructured device structures, such as Quantum Dots for laser applications.
Host: Professor Dapkus
More Info: http://chems.usc.edu/academics/10-11/l-10-14-10.htmLocation: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
Event Link: http://chems.usc.edu/academics/10-11/l-10-14-10.htm
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Computing with Words
Fri, Oct 22, 2010 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. LoftiZadeh, Professor and Director of the Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
Abstract: Computing with Words (CW or CWW) is a system of computation which offers an important capability that traditional systems of computation do not haveâa capability to compute with information described in a natural language. In the main, CW is concerned with solution of problems which are stated in a natural language. The importance of CW derives from the fact that much of human knowledge is perception-based and is described in a natural language.
CW has important applications to decision analysis, question-answering systems, system modeling, specification and optimization, and mechanization of natural language understanding. Basically, CW opens the door to a wide-ranging enlargement of the role of natural languages in scientific theories.
Biography: LOTFI A. ZADEH is an alumnus of the University of Tehran, MIT and Columbia University. His earlier work was concerned in the main with systems analysis, decision analysis and information systems. His current research is focused on fuzzy logic, computing with words and soft computing, which is a coalition of fuzzy logic, neurocomputing, evolutionary computing, probabilistic computing and parts of machine learning. Lotfi Zadeh is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM, AAAI, and IFSA. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Academy of Sciences, Korean Academy of Science & Technology, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the International Academy of Systems Studies, Moscow and the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of many medals and awards as well as twenty âfive honorary doctorates. He has published extensively on a wide variety of subjects relating to the conception, design and analysis of information/intelligent systems, and is serving on the editorial boards of over seventy journals.
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Host: The Center for Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies (CiSoft.usc.edu) and the Center for Geothermal Studies (CGS.usc.edu) jointly host
Location: Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Hall (of Philosophy) (MHP) - Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
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Distinguished Lecture Series
Thu, Oct 28, 2010 @ 12:45 PM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Jane P. Chang, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of California - Los Angeles
Talk Title: Synthesis and Integration of Multifunctional Oxide Materials
Abstract: The demand of engineering metal oxide thin films at an atomic level has grown immensely due to their versatile applications in numerous technologically advanced fields including microelectronics, optoelectronics, photonics, spintronics, energy storage devices and sensors. In this talk, I will discuss current research advances in atomic layer deposition for synthesizing multicomponent and multifunction metal oxides with tailored electronic, chemical, interfacial, thermal properties and microstructures. Specifically, I will highlight our most recent research on the engineering of oxide thin films and their patterning, for their applications in high speed electronics, optoelectronics and energy storage devices.
Biography: Dr. Jane P. Chang is a Professor and the William F. Seyer Chair in Materials Electrochemistry in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UCLA. She is also the Associate Dean of Research and Physical Resources at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at UCLA. She received her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1993, and her M.S. and Ph. D. degrees, both in Chemical Engineering, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995 and 1998, respectively. She was a postdoctoral member of technical staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, from 1998 to 1999, prior to joining UCLA.
Her research focuses on the synthesis and chemical processing of novel and multifunctional materials, atomistic understanding of solid state interfaces, and their applications in microelectronics, optoelectronics, microsensors, and energy storage devices. Specifically, her research group studies the synthesis of metal oxide thin films and nanostructures with tailored electronic, chemical, and thermal properties by novel atomic layer controlled thermal, radical, and plasma enhanced deposition techniques and hydrothermal processing, develops highly selective plasma etching processes for patterning nano-metered thin films, designs and develops micro chemical sensors and engineers the multi-component oxide materials needed in various energy storage devices. In addition, her research group integrates the experimental and first-principle theoretical approaches to elucidate the fundamental physical and chemical origins of superior material and electronic properties.
She is the author of more than 80 journal publications, including a book and a book chapter, holds 4 U.S. patents, and has given more than 100 invited presentations at many international conferences, academic institutions, and industry throughout the world. She received the Faculty Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation in 2000, a Chancellorâs Career Development Award from UCLA in 2000, the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Navel Research in 2003, and the AVS Peter Mark Award in 2005. She also received the TRW Excellence in Teaching Award in 2002 and the Professor of the Year Award from the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at UCLA in 2003, 2004, and 2009.
Host: Gupta
More Info: http://chems.usc.edu/academics/10-11/d-10-28-10.htmLocation: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
Event Link: http://chems.usc.edu/academics/10-11/d-10-28-10.htm