Tuesday, April 21, 2009
4:10 PM -
5:15 PM
Watson 104
Applied Physics Seminar
Series: Applied Physics Seminar Series
Size Matters: Mechanical Properties of Materials at the Nano-Scale
Julia Greer,
assistant professor of materials science,
Caltech,
Speaker's Bio:
Julia R. Greer received her S.B. degree in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Advanced Music Performance from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1997) and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University (2005). She has also worked at Intel Corporation in a mask micro-fabrication facility (2000-03) and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Palo Alto Research Center, PARC (2005-07), where she studied organic flexible electronics. Greer is a recipient of the Top Young Innovator under 35 Award (TR-35, 2008), the NSF CAREER award (2008), the gold Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award (2004) and American Association of University Women Fellowship (2003). She has been an assistant professor in the Materials Science department at Caltech since summer of 2007, and she is also a concert pianist, with most recent performance of Brahms Concerto No. 2 with the Redwood Symphony.
Julia R. Greer received her S.B. degree in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Advanced Music Performance from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1997) and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University (2005). She has also worked at Intel Corporation in a mask micro-fabrication facility (2000-03) and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Palo Alto Research Center, PARC (2005-07), where she studied organic flexible electronics. Greer is a recipient of the Top Young Innovator under 35 Award (TR-35, 2008), the NSF CAREER award (2008), the gold Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award (2004) and American Association of University Women Fellowship (2003). She has been an assistant professor in the Materials Science department at Caltech since summer of 2007, and she is also a concert pianist, with most recent performance of Brahms Concerto No. 2 with the Redwood Symphony.
"Size Matters: Mechanical Properties of Materials at the Nano-Scale," Julia Greer, assistant professor of materials science, Caltech.
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