MRSEC III (2005-present) News Archive

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  Events:

• [10/31/07] Physics is Phun show: "It's Physics".

  The UMD-MRSEC is pleased work with the University of Maryland Physics Department's "Physics is Phun" Public Lecture-Demonstration Program Series. The next show in the 2007-2008 Series is entitled "It's Physics" and will be held Thursday 1 November 2007, Friday 2 November 2007, and Saturday 3 November 2007. Please see the Physics is Phun flyer for more information.



• [10/19/07] UMD-MRSEC Workshop on Multiferroics III: Thin films, devices, and novel probe approaches to multiferroic materials..

  This workshop will take place Friday, October 19, 2007 at the University of Maryland MRSEC. The workshop will feature talks and discussion of current important research issues in multiferroic materials by members of the oxides team of the NSF supported UMD-MRSEC and several outside speakers.



• [09/20/07] MRSEC Fall Business Meeting
  

  The 2007 Fall Business Meeting will be held Thrusday, September 20 at 4:15 PM. All UM-MRSEC members should plan to attend.



• [07/10/07] UMD-MRSEC Workshop on Multiferroics II.

  This workshop will take place Thursday, July 19, 2007 at the University of Maryland MRSEC. The workshop will feature talks and discussion of current important research issues in multiferroic materials by members of the oxides team of the NSF supported UMD-MRSEC and several outside speakers. The main theme will be the physics of the spin and lattice coupling in multiferroics including toroidicity. Speakers will include Sang-Wook Cheong (Rutgers), Dennis Drew (UMD), Jeff Lynn (NIST), Thomas Kaplan (MSU), Michel Kenzelmann, (Zurich), Daniel Khomskii (Köln), Maxim Mostovoy (Groningen), and Seunghun Lee (University of Virginia). In addition there will be poster sessions featuring current research activities. See the Workshop Flyer.



• [03/30/07] MRSEC and the Physics Department at Maryland Day: April 28, 2007

  Join MRSEC and the Physics Department for Maryland Day 2007. Find out more about Maryland Day and this year's activities.

  
  
• [03/12/07] MRSEC Business Meeting: Annual Progress Report
  

  The 2007 Annual Progress Report Business Meeting will be held Thrusday, April 12 at 4:00 PM. All UM-MRSEC members should plan to attend.



• [02/15/07] National Academy of Sciences Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium
  

  The National Academy of Sciences Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium will host Nanomaterials in Biology and Medicine: Promises and Perils April 10-11, 2007 in Washington, D.C. The colloquium will be structured to include researchers, postdoctoral fellows, directors of public granting agencies, and policy makers considering the societal and ethical outcomes of recent nanomaterials development. Organized by Robert Austin, this colloquium offers a discounted registration fee of $100 for graduate and postdoctoral students and features the 7th Annual Sackler Lecture (free and open to the public) by George Whitesides (Harvard University).

  See website at www.nasonline.org/Sackler_nanoprobes for program and registration information.



• [01/05/07] KidSpy^TM Workshop: "Operation Night Spy: Espionage in the Dark"
  Co-Sponsored by MRSEC & the International Spy Museum
  

  MRSEC is co-sponsoring a KidSpy^TM Workshop for ages 10-13 at the International Spy Museum on Thursday, February 22 from 7PM to 9PM. Registration and details can be found at the Spy Museum website. Or print a flyer and invite a friend!

  Operation Night Spy: The cloak of darkness is a spy’s best friend! By the light of day, spies are exposed and missions can go awry. When the sun sets and shadows emerge, espionage is the name of the game. Explore the tricks of the trade that enable spies to operate under the cover of darkness. From infrared night goggles to ultraviolet-light secret messages, young recruits will try their hand at creating and using tools that will help them spy in the shadows. With scientists from the University of Maryland by their side demonstrating cool technology and materials, mission failure will not be an option. Will KidSpy recruits see their way through? Will darkness help or hurt them? Only those with top secret access to Operation Night Spy will discover the answers to these questions.



• [01/02/07] MRSEC Co-Sponsors Wokshop: "Nonequilibrium Interface and Surface Dynamics: Theory, Experiment and Simulation from Atomistic to Continuum Scales"
  

  MRSEC is co-sponsoring a Nonequilibrium Interface and Surface Dynamics workshop, which will take place April 23 - April 27, 2007. For more information and registration procedures, please see the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM) website: http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/programs/nid07/index.htm.



• [07/10/06] Summer Programs
  MRSEC is running summer programs throughout the summer for elementary through high school students. For information about our summer programs, please see our Summer Camps page.
  Also, photos, student work, and student journals from the camps are available here.


• [03/30/06] 9^th Annual University of Maryland Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Middle School Student Science Conference
  This is the 9th conference in which selected students from MRSEC partner schools have worked with University of Maryland MRSEC researchers to develop and practice professional scientific presentations. The success of this program can be seen in the number of students who have gone on to study science and engineering in high school and college.
  This year’s students have worked extraordinarily hard on their projects. At the conference on May 2, 2006, they will be judged on the basis of content and presentation. Awards will be given to the most outstanding student/mentor partnership.
  2006 Student Science Conference Flyer
  


• [03/22/06] Nano Day: The NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) and the Maryland Nanocenter will feature the latest in nano science and technology excitement on Friday May 12. Please visit the Nano Day 2006 website for more information.


• [03/10/06] Workshop on Oxide Multiferroics. This workshop will feature talks and discussion on the current research being conducted on multiferroic materials by the oxides team of the NSF-supported UMD-MRSEC. Speakers will include Sang-Wook Cheong (Rutgers), Jeff Lynn (NIST), Daniel Khomskii (Köln), Ichiro Takeuchi (Materials), S. Ogale, and several shorter talks by graduate students, post docs, and others in the program. See the Workshop Flyer.

  MRSEC Featured:

• [11/21/05] UM-MRSEC Research featured on the covers of three journals: NanoLetters, Physical Review Letters, and Materials Today.
  
  Physical Review Letters: "Spiral Evolution in a Confined Geometry"
  
  
  Nano Letters: "Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Two-Dimensional C₆₀-ACA Intermixed Systems"
• [10/31/05] Professor Takeuchi’s review article on combinatorial materials science has appeared as a cover article in Materials Today. In the article, Takeuchi, Jochen Lauterbach of Univ. of Delaware and Michael Fasolka of NIST discuss how combinatorial and high-throughput approaches are changing the way researchers perform experiments in materials science.
  Combinatorial experimentation allows simultaneous synthesis and screening of large arrays of different materials. It dramatically accelerates the speed at which new compounds with enhanced physical properties can be identified.

  Other MRSEC News:

• [10/01/05] The UMD-MRSEC Receives Third Consecutive Award from the National Science Foundation

  The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at the University of Maryland, under the directorship of Professor Ellen Williams, has been selected for continued support through the National Science Foundation.

  Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers are supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to undertake materials research of scope and complexity that would not be feasible under traditional funding of individual research projects.

  (full press release...)