Center for the Science & Engineering of Materials @ Caltech

Materials at the Fore Third Annual Review Meeting Center for the Science & Engineering of Materials (NSF MRSEC) Julie Kornfield, Director Monday, September 15, 2003 California Institute of Technology Beckman Institute Auditorium Agenda \| Photo Gallery
Agenda
7:30 - 8:30 am	Check-in and Continental Breakfast, (Beckman Institute Courtyard)

8:30 - 9:00 am	Opening Remarks and Overview Julie Kornfield, Director

9:00 - 10:00 am Keynote Address	Nano-scale Mechanical Properties: Engineering and Biological Materials Subra Suresh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:00 - 10:20 am	IRG 1 – Steve Quake Synthesis and Assembly of Biological Macromolecules: DNA and Beyond

10:20 - 10:50 am	Break

10:50 - 11:10 am	IRG 1 – Zhen-Gang Wang Towards a Unified Theory of Gels and Glasses

11:10 - 11:30 am	IRG 2 - Reinhold Dauskardt, Stanford Fundamental Mechanisms of Deformation and Fracture in Bulk Metallic Glasses

11:30 - 12:00 pm	IRG 2 – Bill Goddard First Principle Approaches to Designing and Characterizing New Amorphous Metals Systems

12:00 - 1:30 pm	Lunch

1:30 - 1:50 pm	Exceptional Grad Student Presentation

1:50 - 2:10 pm	Seed Project: Precise Polyolefins Julie Kornfield

2:10 - 2:30 pm	Seed Project: Thermoelectric Devices Sossina Haile

2:30 - 3:00 pm	Educational Outreach Jill Andrews Bob de Groot

3:00 - 3:30 pm	Break

3:30 - 4:30 pm	Poster Session and Social Hour