Fall 2025 Seminar Events

MSE Seminar SeriesLehigh's Department of Materials Science and Engineering presents its Fall 2025 Seminar Series.

All seminars are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in Sinclair Lab, Sincair Auditorium Room 106, unless otherwise noted below.

Zoom links, if available, will be announced closer to the date of the event.

Attendance is required of all full-time MS&E graduate students, and are also open to all visitors.

Date Speaker & Title Host/Advisor

8/28

Laura Moyer, Lehigh University
Safety Seminar

 

MSE

9/5

Lisa Fredin, Lehigh University
Computational Materials Chemistry: Predicting Excited State Evolutions and Reactivity of Complex Systems

Prof. Castro

10/3

Douglas Gouvea, Sao Paulo University
Thermodynamics of Solid-State Sintering - Contributions of Grain Boundary Energy

Prof. Castro

10/10

Ashutosh Giri, University of Rhode Island
Exceptional Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Novel Stimuli Responsive Coordination Polymers

Prof. Strandwitz

10/17

Yiquan Wu, Alfred University
Transparent Ceramic Materials: Enabling New and Multifunctional Optical and Photonic Applications

Prof. Chan

10/24

Alan Doolittle, Georgia Tech
A Solution Doping AIN Enabling a New Generation of Nitride Semiconductors

Prof. Pimpitkar
10/31

Scott Whalen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Re-ShAPEing Aluminum: A New Life for Dirty Scrap

Prof. Misiolek

11/7

Shengfeng Yang, Purdue University
Can AI Replace Physical Simulation for Predicting Materials Defect Behavior

Prof. Castro