Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
M. Lisa Manning
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics, Syracuse University
“How Do Biological Tissues Program Rigidity Transitions (and can we make materials do that, too)?”
October 18, 2024
Symposium Honoring David Weitz
Recipient of The Franklin Institute 2024 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
APRIL 17, 2024
University of Pennsylvania
Session I (Andrea Liu, Chair): Paul Chaikin, John Crocker, Douglas Durian, Daeyeon Lee
Symposium Honoring David Weitz
Recipient of The Franklin Institute 2024 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
APRIL 17, 2024
University of Pennsylvania
Session II (Philip Nelson, Chair): Chinedum Osuji, Eleni Katifori, Arnold Mathijssen
Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Margaret Gardel
Horace B. Horton Professor, Physics and Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
“Active & Adaptive Matter Driving Cell Dynamics”
September 25, 2023
Franklin Institute Award Lecture
Philip Kim
Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard University
“Stacking van der Waals Atomic Layers: Quest for New Quantum Materials”
April 27, 2023
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Dmitri N. Basov
Higgins Professor and Chair of Physics, Columbia University
“Shedding Nano-Light on Quantum Materials”
April 3, 2023
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Nadya Mason
Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Designing Superconductivity: Using nanostructures to manipulate interactions in a complex system”
February 21, 2019
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Emilio Mendez
Director of Energy Science and Technology, Brookhaven National Laboratory
and Professor of Physics, Stony Brook University
“Confinement & Tunneling, Pillars of Nanoscience”
February 14, 2017
The 2016 Robert Maddin Lecture in Materials Science
Robert J. Cava
Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University
“Finding New Electronic Materials”
April 28, 2016
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Michael L. Klein
Laura H Carnell Professor of Science Temple University
“SOFT MATERIALS: Physics to Physiology via Computation”
March 24, 2015
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science
Alan J. Heeger
Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 2000
Department of Physics & Department of Materials
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Plastic Solar Cells: Coherence & Uncertainty in Nano-structured Materials”
November 12, 2013