All Events

Tuesday, May 26—Engineering myelination in vitro by Daniela Espinosa-Hoyos, PhD candidate, Chemical Engineering

Thursday, May 28—Perovskite quantum dots as potentially scalable quantum light emitters by Hendrik Utzat, Postdoctoral Associate, Chemistry

Join virtually via Zoom.

This talk presents two high-performance THz chips based on 2D coherently-coupled active antenna arrays: a high-power 1-THz radiator array on SiGe and a sensitive 240-GHz heterodyne receiver array on CMOS, for high-spatial-resolution high-SNR sensing applications.

Delivered by Dr. Zhi Hu.
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.

Join the webinar.

Tuesday, May 19—External field effects on defects in functional oxides: Experiments and simulations by Yen-Ting Chi, PhD candidate, Materials Science & Engineering

Thursday, May 21—Pushing the efficiency limit of lead halide perovskite solar cells by Jason Yoo, PhD candidate, Chemistry

Join virtually via Zoom.

Tuesday, May 12—Hybridized magnons in van der Waals antiferromagnets and circuit quantum electrodynamics by Justin Tony Hou, PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Thursday, May 14—Nanoscale phenomena during evaporation of saline drops: Salt patterns & crystal ejection by Samantha McBride, Mechanical Engineering PhD '19

Join virtually via Zoom.

Join us for a virtual tool talk with Attolight to learn about advancements in time-resolved quantitative cathodoluminescence spectroscopy.

Thursday, May 7, 2020
1 pm – 2 pm EST

Attendees can join and participate via Zoom.
Meeting ID# 860986455. 

Tuesday, May 5—Development of an artificial spiking neuron using superconducting nanowires by Emily Toomey, PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Thursday, May 7—2D-material-enabled multifunctional mid-IR optoelectronics by Skylar Deckoff-Jones, PhD candidate, Materials Science & Engineering

Join virtually via Zoom.

The Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar Series, organized by the Research Laboratory of Electronics and the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, will host Professor Jelena Vuckovic from Stanford University for a virtual talk on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 12:00 PM.

Department of Mechanical Engineering's International Colloquia on Thermal Innovations (InnoTherm) series

Arun Majumdar, Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor at Stanford University will give a talk on the five grand challenges in thermal science and engineering for deep decarbonization. The talk will be followed by a panel discussion with: Arun Majumdar, Stanford University; Ravi Prasher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Asegun Henry, MIT.

10 a.m. – 11 a.m. EST
Join virtually via Zoom.

Tuesday, Apr. 28—Commercializing a new nanofiltration technology: Pressure, concentration, and rejection by Brendan Smith, Postdoctoral Associate, Materials Science & Engineering

Join virtually via Zoom.

Tuesday, Apr. 21—Sensing presence in virtual reality by Yuwei Li, PhD candidate and Marwa AlAlawi, Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering

Thursday, Apr. 23—Seeing superlattices: Imaging hidden moiré periods at the nanoisland-2D material interface using 4D scanning transmission electron microscopy by Kate Reidy, PhD candidate, Materials Science & Engineering

Join virtually via Zoom.