What: Seminar Who: Prof. Xiulin Ruan, School of Mechanical Engineering Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana When: Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 11:00 AM Where: Love Building Room 210 Title: Suppression of Electron-Phonon Coupling in Photovoltaic Nanomaterials towards Efficiency Enhancement

What: Seminar Who: Dr. Nadege Troussier, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France When: Friday, August 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM Where: MARC Building Room 114 Title: Towards PLM systems that support the emergence of product definition in engineering design

What: Mechanics of Materials Seminar Who: Dr. Karel Minnaar, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas, USA When: Friday, August 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Validation of Multi-Variable Design Equations for Strain Based Design of Gas Pipelines

What: COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar Who: Prof. Alan McGaughey, Carnegie Mellon University When: Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 3:00 PM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Phonon Transport in Semiconductor Superlattices

What: NRE/MP Seminar Who: Dr. Thomas Sutton, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory When: Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 2404 Title: The MC21 Monte Carlo Code, and its use in Comparing Models for Bound Hydrogen Scattering

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Christine Todd Whitman, CASEnergy Co-Chair, Former EPA Administrator and New Jersey Governor When: Monday, September 14, 2009 at 2:00 PM Where: Molecular Science and Engineering Building Building Room 3201A Title: Job Creation in the Nuclear Renaissance

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. Richard Tapia, Rice University When: Monday, September 14, 2009 at 3:00 PM Where: Student Services Building, Auditorium Building Room 117 Title: Math at Top Speed (Exploring and Breaking Myths in the Drag)

What: Seminar Who: Dr. Rebeccah Brown, Spine Medica LLC When: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 11:00 AM Where: MARC Building Room Auditorium Title: Working for a Start-Up: Real World Experiences

What: NRE/MP Seminar Who: Dr. Lei Zhu, GA Institute of Technology, Medical Physics When: Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 2404 Title: Toward Adaptive Radiation Therapy

What: Seminar Who: Prof. John Rose, Queen Mary University, London UK When: Friday, September 18, 2009 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Condensation in Microchannels