Award Ceremony

 2022 Award:    

 2020  and 2021 Awards did not take place due to COVID Restrictions.   

 2019 Award:    

 2018 Award:     

Agenda Gareth Thomas Award Symposium 2018

Date: 16 November 2018

Location: Cymer Conference Room, UCSD

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8:30 - 8:35                                  Prof. Parbhakar Bandaru         Professor of Materials Science & Engineering. Department Chair. University of CA,                                                        San Diego

                                                    Word of Welcome 

8:45 - 8:55                                  Dr. Kenneth Kubarych               UCB/MSE M.S. 1974 PhD -- Solar Turbines Inc. a Caterpillar Company, retired.                                                             Introduction Award,history,introduction of the Best Presentation Award

Session-chair   8:55-10:35         Prof. Mehmet Sarikaya

8:55 - 9:20                                 Prof. Subhash Mahajan            Distinguished Professor and Special Adviser to the Chancellor, Dept. Mat Sci and                                                                                                            Eng, University of California, Davis            

                                                  Self-assembled nanostructures in mixed III-V epitaxial layers and their influence on devices

9:20 - 9:35                                  Dr. Ruijuan Xu                            Postdoctoral research at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. GT Materials Excellence                                                                                                        Award Winner 2016     

                                                    Understanding Orientation-dependent Dielectric and Ferroelectric Properties in Ferroelectric Thin Films  

9:35 - 9:45                                  Max Poschmann                         nominee UCB 2018

                                                    Strain-induced variant selection in titanium alloys

9:45 - 9:55                                  Yijun Xie,                                     nominee UCSD 2018

                                                    Preparation Polydopamine Spheres for ultrasound contrast agents

9:55-10:20                                 Prof. Caroline Sunyong Lee, Dept. MatSci and ChemEng, School of Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, S-                                                         Korea

                                                  Introducing multi-layer interface structure driven artificial photosynthesis system

10:20-10:35                               Dr. Shiteng Zhao, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, GT Materials Excellence Award                                                           winner 2017

Break 

Session Chair    11:00-12:00     Prof. Prabhakar Bandaru

11:00 - 11:10                              Tyler Harington,                      nominee UCSD 2018        

                                                   Exploring High-Entropy Ceramics                                                                                                      

11:10 - 11:20                              Sahar Saremi                       nominee UCSB 2018

11:20 - 11:45                               Prof. Ramesh Ramamoorthy, Prof. MatSci and Engineering Dept. Physics, University of California, Berkeley         

                                                    Study of defect-structure-property-relations in ferroelectric thin films

11:45 - 12:00                                Prof. Steven E Naleway          GT  Mat Excellence Award winner  2015  Assistant Professor, Department of                                                                                                                 Mechanical Engineering University of Utah

                                                    Bio-inspired freeze casting through extrinsic control

Lunchbreak

Session-chair 13:30 -14:45         Prof. Ramesh Ramamoorthy

13:30 - 13:45                               Dr. Maarten de Jong, Materials Engineer at SpaceX Los Angeles, CA GT Materials Excellence Award winner 2015                                                         Title to come...

13:45 - 13:55                                Justin Ondry,                          nominee UCB   2018

                                                      Dynamics and removal pathway of edge dislocations in imperfectly attached nanocrystal pairs; towards                                                          design rules for orientated attachment                                         

13:55 - 14:05                                 Hongjie Hu,                           nominee UCSD 2018           

                                                      Stretchable ultrasonic device for 3D imaging on complex surfaces and non-invasive deep tissue                                                                      monitoring

14:05-  14:45                                 Dr. Eric N Hahn                     GT  Mat Excellence Award winner  2016   Postdoc Research Associate Los Alamos                                                                                                        National Laboratory

                                                       Leveraging large-scale molecular dynamics simulations to inform microstructurally-award damage                                                                   models

14:20 - 14:45                                  Prof. George T Gray, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dynamic Materials Properties, Testing, and Modeling, NM                                                           Developing a pathway to microstructure-aware predictive capability for the dynamic response of                                                                       materials

Break

Session chair    15:10-16:15    Prof. Daryl Chrzan

15:10 - 15:20                                   Zezhou Li,                             nominee UCSD 2018                   

                                                        Shear localization of advanced structural materials                

15:20 - 15:35                                   Dr.  Dohyun Kim                    GT  Mat Excellence Award winner  2017, Postdoc Stanford                                                                                                Nanoparticle dynamics and its implications for catalysis

15:35 - 16:00                                  Prof. Mehmet Sarikaya, Prof. MatSci and Engineering, Adjunct Prof ChemEng, Adjunct Prof. Oral health,                                                                       University of Washington, Seattle                                

                                                       Materials Science, Biology, and Artificial Intelligence

Absent Nominees for the GT Materials Excellence Award 2018 

                                                        Thomas Pekin for UCB nominated by Prof. Andrew Minor

                                                        Zhenbin Wang for UCSD nominated by Prof. Shyue Ping Ong

16:00-16:30                                     Announcement Gareth Thomas Materials Excellence Award winners and Best Presentation Award Ceremony

16:30-18:00                                     Award Reception

 2017 Award:     

Agenda Gareth Thomas Award Symposium, Date: 1

7 November 2017

Location: Heyns-room Faculty Club,University of California, Berkeley,CA

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12:30 - 12:35                                  Prof.Dr Mark Asta                  Professor of Materials Science & Engineering. Department Chair. University of CA, Berkeley

                                                   Welcome word  

12:35 - 12:45                                  Prof Dr Marc A Meyers           Distinguished Professor of Materials ScienceDepts. of Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. and Nanoengineering

                                                                                                       Materials Science and Engineering Program -UCSD             

                                                       Introduction Award,history,introduction of the Best Presentation Award

Session-chair   12:45-1:55             Dr Greg Kusinski

12:45 - 13:05                                  Dr Tony Tomsia                       Senior Scientist, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), University of California

                                                       Bioinspired Materials and How They Will Change Our Lives

13:05 - 13:25                                  Dr Maarten de Jong               GT  Mat Excellence Award winner  2015        Materials Engineer at SpaceX - Los Angeles Greater Area /CA

13:25 - 13:40                                  Tarah Sullivan                         nominee UCSD 2017

13:40 - 13:55                                  Shishir Pandya                       nominee UCB    2017

Break 

13:55 - 14:10

Session chair   14:10-15:45            Prof Marc A Meyers

14:10 - 14:30                                   Prof Dr Andy M Minor         Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Scientist and 

                                                                                            Director of National Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, LBL Berkeley,CA

                                                    New modes of electron microscopy for materials science enabled by fast direct electron detector                                                                                                      

14:30 - 14:45                                   Shiteng Zhao                       nominee UCSD 2017

14:45 - 15:00                                   Dohyung Kim                       nominee UCB    2017 

15:00 - 15:15                                   Dr  Steven E Naleway          GT  Mat Excellence Award winner  2015  Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Utah

                                                    Bio-inspired materials through freeze casting

15:15 - 15:30                                   Atsunori Tanaka                   nominee UCSD 2017

15:30 - 15:45                                   Yanwei Lum                         nominee UCB   201                                        

Break

15:45 - 16:00

Session-chair 16:00 -17:20         Dr Tony Tomsia

16:00 - 16:20                               Dr Greg Kusinski              Regulatory Affairs Senior Advisor, Technology Strategy and Acceptance, Chevron North America Exploration and 

                                                                                              Production Company  Houston,TX

                                                    Creating Value and Standardizing Technology in a Competitive World through Collaboration 

16:20-  16:35                                   Rachel Traylor                      nominee UCB 2017

16:35 - 16:50                                  Jayoung Kim                         nominee UCSD 2017

16:50 - 17:05                                  Dr Eric N Hahn                      GT  Mat Excellence Award winner  2016   Postdoc Research Associate Los Alamos National Laboratory; Materials Science in                                         

                                                                                   Radiation and Dynamics Extremes ;Radiation and Dynamics Extremes

                                             Non-Equilibrium Simulations of Defects and Damage Evolution in Shocked Tantalum                

17:05 - 17:20                                   Dr  Ruijuan Xu                       GT  Mat Excellence Award winner  2016   PhD graduate student Dept Material Science and Engineering UCB

                                                       Tunable, Multi-state Switching in Ferroelectric Thin Films

17:20 -  17:30                                  Prof Marc Meyers and Prof Mark Asta                                

                                                        Award Presentations  of GT materials Excellence Award 2017 and  GT Best Presentation Award 2017

17:30 -  18:30                                  Reception

2016 Award:    

2015 Award: