Missouri Chapter Web page Links:

Missouri Chapter of Keramos Homepage

Membership List/ Phone List

Pictures

Other Links:

National Keramos Homepage

UMR ACerS/NICE Homepage

UMR Ceramic Engineering Homepage

UMR Homepage

Seminar Schedule

All Seminars are held in McNutt 204 at 3:30pm.

Refreshments are served at 3:25pm.

Open to all interested students, staff, and faculty.

The links under Abstract Information are to a PDF document containing
the speaker's bio and abstract information.

Winter 2004

Date	Speaker, Affiliation	Abstract Information	Committee Contact
January 15	Dr. Richard Brow, UMR - Cer Eng	Department Meeting PDF Link	Vanderspiegel
January 22	Dr. C. John Brannon, Bingham McHale LLP	Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks PDF Link	Vanderspiegel
January 29	Dr. William Fahrenholtz, UMR - Cer Eng	Processing & Characterization of ZrB2-Based Ultra-High Temp. Monolithic & Fibrous Monolithic Ceramics PDF File	Zimmermann
February 5	Dr. Kent Peaslee, UMR - Met Eng	Ceramic Solutions to Steel Casting Problems PDF File	Vanderspiegel
Feb. 12	Xiao-Dong Zhou, UMR- Cer Eng	Research on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells , Challenges and Opportunities for the Ceramic Scientists	Zimmermann
Feb. 19	Dr. Thomas Mason, Northwestern University	Defect Chemistry & Properties of Transparent Conducting Oxides PDF Link	Vanderspiegel
Feb. 26	No Seminar	Phone-A-Thon	Phone-A-Thon
March 4	Dr. Victor Greenhut, Rutgers & NICE	Direct Ceramic Metal Joining: Strong Bonds Word Link	Vanderspiegel
March 11	No Seminar	Spring Recess	Spring Recess
March 18	Dr. Robert Schwartz, UMR - Cer Eng		Zimmermann
March 25	Dr. Kai-tek Wan, UMR - Mech. Eng.	Multi-scale Mechanical Modeling from a Single Cell to a Multi-cell Aggregate PDF Link	Vanderspiegel
April 1	No Seminar	Spring Break	Spring Break
April 8	Outstanding Alumni & Honorary Keramos Member	Spring Banquet Presentations	Zimmermann
April 15	Student Poster Session	Preview for Annual Meeting	Vanderspiegel
April 22	Dr. Dieter Wolf, Argonne Nat. Lab.	Computer Simulation of Material Phenomena	Zimmermann
April 29	Dr. Mehmet Sarikaya, University of Washington	Molecular Biomimetics Approach to Materials Synthesis Word Link	Vanderspiegel
May 6	Senior Design Groups	Senior Design Presentations	Zimmermann

Fall 2003

Date	Speaker, Affiliation	Abstract Information
August 28	Dr. Richard Brow, UMR - Cer Eng	Department Meeting PDF Link
Sept. 4	Bill Davis, UMR - Cer Eng/Eng Mgt	Dr. Moore Memorial Seminar
Sept. 11	Lea-Ann Morton, UMR - COC	Taking Steps to Enhance Your Career! PDF Link
Sept. 18	Dr. Rajiv Mishra, UMR - Met Eng	Nanotechology
Sept. 25	Dr. Charles Lakeman, TPL Inc.	Soft Lithography: Making the Business Case for New Technology PDF Link
Oct. 2	No Seminar	Student Council Free Day
Oct. 9	Albert Vanderspiegel, USG	Commissioning and Starting up of a Gypsum Plant PDF Link
Oct. 16	Dr. Trudy Kriven, U of Illinois	Structural Ceramics Word Link
Oct. 23	Dr. Ajay Misra, NASA	Ceramic Programs at NASA Glenn Word Link
Oct. 30	Dr. Kathryn Logan, ACerS President	ACerS, Is There Something for Students? PDF Link
Nov. 6	Dr. Lokeswarappa Dharani, UMR - ME/AE/EM	Fracture Mechanics of Monolithic & Laminated Glass Under Impact & Blast Loading PDF Link
Nov. 13	Royce Vessell, Vessell Mineral Products	What Are You Going to Do With Your Life? PDF Link
Nov. 20	Igor Kosacki, Oak Ridge	Nanoscaled Oxides Thin Films For Energy Conversion PDF Link
Nov. 27	No Seminar	Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 3	Ronald Loehman, Sandia	Glass-Metal, Ceramic-Metal Bonding PDF Link
Dec. 11	Senior Design Groups	Senior Design Presentations

Natalie Vanderspiegel (nnvander@umr.edu) and Jim Zimmermann (jwztyf@umr.edu) are responsible for arranging all speakers. Please contact them if you are interested in speaking at UMR.