Westin Arlington Getaway, Virginia The goal of the 2014 Professional Development Workshop in Ceramics is to enhance the

career development of the next generation of future leaders in ceramic materials research and education. Three early-career faculty recently awarded NSF CAREER grants from the Ceramics Program in the Division of Materials Research are the focus of the workshop.

September 4th and 5th, 2014

Sponsored by NSF DMR 1440400

Contact Person: Dr. Shirley Meng NanoEngineering, UC San Diego

858 822 4247 shirleymeng@ucsd.edu

2014 Professional Development Workshop in Ceramics

Schedule for the first day of the workshop, September 4th, 2014.

Time Activity Description 8:30 am Continental Breakfast Informal discussions and networking 9:00 am Welcome Remarks PI Meng 9.10am Introduction Ceramics program director Dr. Madsen 9.30am NSF Sustainability Overview Dr.Gregory Rorrer 9:45 am Morning break

10:15 am Session 1 Panel I

Dr. Dillon: Individual heterojunction nanowires and their performance as photocatalysts

12:15 pm Lunch On site lunch for discussions and networking 1:30 pm ENG IIP Dr. Shashank Division of Industrial Innovation & Partnerships

(ENG/IIP) 2:00 pm Session II

Panel II Xueyan Song: Engineering the energy interconversion properties of

oxide thermoelectric materials 4:00 pm Afternoon Break 4:15 pm Other Faculty Discussion on the future direction of ceramics research 6:15 pm End of formal sessions 6:30 pm Dinner Onsite dinner for informal discussions and networking

Schedule for the second day of the workshop, September 5th, 2014.

Time Activity Description 8:00 am Continental Breakfast Informal discussions and networking 9:00 am DMR Overview Dr. Mary Galvin (Subject to change)

10:00 am Session III Panel III

Liping Huang: Examining the role of elasticity in strengthening glasses by in situ light scattering

12.00pm Lunch On site lunch for discussions and networking 1:30 pm Session IV Materials Genome Initiative 2:30 pm Adjourn

Three NSF CAREER awardees in Ceramics Program: Dr. Shen Dillon is an Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Shen received his Bachelor’s degree and Doctorate of Philosophy in Materials Science and Engineering from Lehigh University in 2002 and 2007. Following his graduation in 2007, Dr. Dillon went to work as a Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University and Visiting Professor at Lehigh University. At Carnegie Mellon, the focus of his work was three-dimensional characterization of microstructures in order to obtain data critical to understanding microstructural evolution. Shen spent the 2008 academic year as a Visiting Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on materials for energy storage, before joining UIUC as a faculty member. As part of his CAREER program, Shen will quantitatively establish relationships between properties of individual heterojunction nanowires and their performance as photocatalysts. His approach includes in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to quantify the rate of photocatalytic gas evolution at individual nanostructures, ex-situ characterization to extend the structural and chemical information, and electrical measurements to obtain photoconductivity and relaxation data. This work will help to optimize high-efficiency, low-cost heterojunction photocatalysts that might lead toward new approaches to enhancing photocatalytic efficiency and new experimental methods for studying photochemistry at the nanometer scale. Dr. Xueyan Song is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of West Virginia University, Morgantown. Dr. Song received her Ph.D. from Zhejiang University China. She did her postdoctoral research in Departemento de Engenharia de Materiais, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal and became a research associate in University of Wisconsin Madison in 2003. Xueyan’s CAREER project aims to optimize, through nanoscale engineering approaches, the energy interconversion properties of the p-type oxide thermoelectric materials. Her approach includes doping of the lattice to enhance the electrical transport properties as well as the simultaneous insertion of nanoscale-sized inclusions to reduce the thermal conductivity. This research ultimately will serve to improve thermoelectric materials for waste heat recovery. Dr. Liping Huang is an assistant professor in the Department Materials Science and Engineering in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Huang received her Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2004, did her postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan and North Carolina State University before joining the faculty at RPI in 2008. She won the Norbert J. Kreidl Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a student by the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society, in 2003. Dr. Huang has published many articles and given numerous lectures at conferences and symposia. Dr. Huang’s CAREER program has proposed new concepts that use a combination of experimental and computational approaches to examine the role of elasticity in strengthening glasses. Ultimately her work may prove useful in the design of tailored glasses, and benefits may derive from her development of a structural probe for understanding materials under extreme conditions.