Interface Enabled Technologies Seminar with Thirumalai Venky Venkatesan
Description
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Thirumalai Venky Venkatesan, professor and director of the National University of Singapore’s Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, will give a presentation entitled “Interface Enabled Technologies” on Thursday, April 18 at 11:00 a.m. in the Burton D. Morgan Center, room 121. This lecture is presented by Discovery Park and the Birck Nanotechnology Center, and is open to the public. Venkatesan will present examples of how interfaces of similar and dissimilar materials provide opportunities for new science and new applications.
Prof. T. Venkatesan is currently the Director of the Nano Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUSNNI) where he is a Professor of ECE, Physics, MSE and NGS. As the inventor of the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) process, he has more than 750 papers and 30 patents and is globally among the top one hundred physicists (ranked at 66 in 2000) in terms of his citations (more than 43,000 with a Hirsch Index of 106-Google Scholar). He is also the founder and Chairman of Neocera, a company specializing in the area of PLD and magnetic field imaging systems. Venkatesan holds BSc and MSc degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur and Kanpur Respy.) and a PhD from the City University of New York and Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ)
Contact Details
- Kayla Burke
- kbowsher@purdue.edu
- 7654966103