Seminars

The MBSE Seminar Series occurs weekly during the fall semester only. In fall 2026, seminars will be on Mondays from 2-3 p.m.(refreshments served at 1:45 p.m.) in Social Science & Management Building (SSM), room 104 in person only. 

If you want to be included in the MBSE Seminar distribution list, please contact Beth Nowadnick.

MBSE Seminar Schedule Fall 2026

Aug. 31

"Technology development from concept to scale up"

Ali Emamjomeh, Lytx

 

Sept. 14

"Leveraging soft and liquid-like surfaces for drop wetting and microparticle adhesion"

Jonathan Pham, University of Cincinnati

 

Sept. 21

MinHwan Lee, UC Merced

 

Sept. 28

Maria Garcia Lopez-Arias, UC Merced

 

Oct. 5

Hui Cai, UC Merced

 

Oct. 12

MBSE Students - Metzli Montero and TBD

 

Oct. 19

Electronic materials

Zakaria Al Balushi, UC Berkeley

 

Oct. 26

Morgan Hawker, Fresno State

 

Nov. 2

Quantum materials

Qi Song, UC Irvine

 

Nov. 9

Aleksandr Noy, LLNL

 

Nov. 16

 

Ceramics

Gurpreet Singh, Kansas State

 

Nov. 23

Career journey

Hua Zeng, Micron Technology

 

Nov. 30

Future energy

Michael Stadermann LLNL

 

Dec. 7

Batteries

Ling Fei, University of Louisiana at Lafayette