7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.     

Breakfast

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Session II – Grain Growth I

(Chair: Greg Rohrer)

9:00 a.m. – 9:20  a.m.

Carl Krill (Ulm University)

Probing the sociology of grain growth: Cyril Stanley Smith, German beer and microstructural mapping in 4D

9:20 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.

Jeffrey Rickman (Lehigh Univeristy)

Parsing Abnormal Grain Growth
 

9:40 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Tony Rollett (Carnegie Mellon University)

How Grain Boundary Transitions Sustain Abnormal Growth

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Discussion

10:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.

Session II Continued- Grain Growth II

(Chair: Tony Rollett)

10:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.

Elizabeth Holm (Carnegie Mellon University)

Network models for predicting rare microstructural events

10:50 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.

Michael Hoffmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Grain growth transitions in perovskites: What do we know? What is important? What are we still missing? Where should we go to?

11:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Discussion

11:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.

Five  Minute Poster Preview I - (Chair: Chris Schuh- MIT)

12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Session III – Nanograin Stability (Chair: Reiner Kirchman)

1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.     

Chris Schuh (MIT)

Thermodynamically stabilized nanostructures: nanoduplex alloys

1:50 p.m. – 2:10 p.m.

Chris Marvel  (Lehigh University)

The Influence of Contamination on the Thermal and Phase Stability of Nanocrystalline Ni-W Alloys

2:10 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.        

Kris Darling (Army Research Lab)

Microstructure and mechanical properties of bulk nanostructured Cu–Ta alloys consolidated by equal channel angular extrusion

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Discussion

3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Coffee

Session IV- Interface Diffusion and Transformations

(Chair: Michael Hoffmann)

3:15 p.m. – 3:35 p.m.

Patrick Cantwell (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)

Grain Boundary Complexion TTT Diagrams

3:35 p.m. – 3:55 p.m.

Shen Dillon (University of Illinois Urbana)

The effect of grain boundary complexions on grain boundary transport

3:55 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Jian Luo  (University of California San Diego)

From Understanding Complexions in Binary Alloys to Stabilizing Nanoalloys Using “High-Entropy Grain Boundary Complexions”

4:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Discussion

4:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Poster Viewing Session I

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Dinner

7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.     

Breakfast

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Session V – Tailoring Interfaces for Electronic Applications

(Chair: Steve Garofalini)

9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.

Ming Tang (Rice University)

Tailoring the Morphological Evolution of Interfaces in Lithium Battery Electrode Materials

9:20 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.

Ed Webb (Lehigh University)

Atomic Scale Exploration of Intercalation and Diffusion in Graphite Grain Boundaries

9:40 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Steve McIntosh (Lehigh University)

Insights into Oxygen Anion Transport in Layered Oxides via In-Situ Powder Neutron Diffraction

10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.

Greg Ferguson (Lehigh University)

Studies of a Thermodynamically Unstable Oxide: Thin Films of Gold Oxide and Its Use in Selective Surface Chemistry

10:20 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Discussion

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

Coffee

11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Five Minute Poster Preview Session II

12:00 p.m. – 1:10 p.m.

Lunch

1:10 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Session VI- Solid/Liquid Surface Interactions (Chair: Ed Webb)

1:10 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Jim Gilchrist (Lehigh University)

Large-area nanoparticle films by continuous automated Langmuir-Blodgett assembly and deposition

1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.

Joelle Frechette  (John Hopkins University)

Large out-of-contact elastohydrodynamic deformation due to lubrication forces
 

1:50 p.m. – 2:10 p.m.

Steve Garofalini (Rutgers University)
The Water/Glass Interface: Affect on Structure, Dissolution, and Proton Transport
 

2 :10 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Discussion

2:30 p.m. -2:45 p.m.

Coffee

2:45p.m. - 4:05 p.m.

Session VII –Insights from First Principles Calculations
(Chair: Jeff Rickman)

2:45 p.m. – 3:05 p.m.

Michael Widom (Carnegie Mellon University)

Bismuth and tungsten impurities in nickel

3:05 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.

Heather Jaeger (Lehigh University)

Simulating electronic processes in molecular materials
 

3:25 p.m.-3:45 p.m.

Andrew Rappe (University of Pennsylvania)

Interfaces between polar domains in oxides: Dynamics and Functionality
 

3:45 p.m. -4:05 p.m.

Discussion

4:05 p.m. -4:30 p.m.

Coffee

4:30 p.m. -6:00 p.m.

Poster Viewing Session II

6:00 p.m. -7:00 p.m.

Cocktail Hour
 

7:00 p.m. -10:00 p.m.

Conference Dinner and Special Entertainment

7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast

9:00 a.m. – 10:10 p.m.

Session VIII – Corundum Conundrums

(Chair: Martin Harmer)

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Arthur Heuer (Case Western Reserve University)

Al₂O₃ is a Wide-Band Gap Semiconductor: A Half Century of Myopia!
 

9:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.

Helen Chan (Lehigh University)

Nanoscale Metal-Ceramic Matrix Composites by Reduction of Mixed Oxides

9:50 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.

Discussion

10:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.

Session IX – Mechanical Behavior
(Chair: Rick Vinci)
 

10:10 a.m. -10:30 a.m.

Tim Rupert (University of California Irvine)

Using amorphous complexions to tailor the mechanical behavior of nanostructured metals

10:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.

Rick Vinci (Lehigh University)

Fracture testing inside an SEM

10:50 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.

Reiner Kirchheim (Institut für Materialphysik Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Chemomechanical effects on the separation of interfaces occurring during fracture
 

11:10 a.m. -11:30 a.m.

Brandon Krick (Lehigh University)
Ultralow Wear Polytetrafluoroethylene and Alumina Composites: The Role of Tribochemistry and Nanomechanics

11:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.

Discussion

12:10 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.

Lunch

1:20 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Session X – Architectured Materials

(Chair: Carl Krill)

1:20 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.

Nicolas Argibay (Sandia National Labs)

Correlating surface microstructure evolution to regimes of friction in metals

1:50 p.m. -2:10 p.m.

Natasha Vermaak (Lehigh University)

Exploiting interfaces in topology optimization for architectured materials

2:10 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Discussion

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Session XI – Conference Summary and General Discussion

Greg Rohrer  (Carnegie Mellon Uinversity)

3:00 p.m.

Depart