September 2004

Around DMSE

CNN has interviewed Prof. Darrell Irvine for "New Explorers," a program that profiles young innovators who will shape the technology that affects all our lives. Anna Bershteyn, a Course 3 junior, was one of the students filmed in the Irvine Lab. Details about the program's air date will be posted as soon as they are received.

Personnel

Amanda Tat has accepted the position of Fiscal Officer for ChemE, DMSE, CBE and Archaeology effective September 13. Amanda comes to us from MIT's Office of Sponsored Programs, where she has worked as a Contract Administrator over the past year. Amanda was the Fiscal Officer for Chemistry prior to joining OSP, and has also worked in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science and the Center for Materials Science and Engineering. Amanda's office will be located in ASO 8-328, and she will be reachable at 253-2848 or atat@mit.edu. Amanda will devote two days per week assisting OSP during the transition in the month of September, and will join us full time effective October 1. Please welcome Amanda to her new role!

Melanie Straight has accepted the position of Assistant Fiscal Officer in RLE, and will be leaving her position as Fiscal Assistant in ASO effective October 12. While we are all extremely sorry to lose Melanie, this is a wonderful promotional opportunity for her, and we all wish her the best in her new position.

Resources

The Pauling File: Inorganic Materials Database and Design System-Binaries Edition is now available in the Science Library. TO USE the Pauling File, go to the computer to the left of the Science reference desk (as you are facing the reference desk). There is an icon on the desk top for the Pauling File. A user manual is located on the ready reference shelves behind the reference desk.

What is the Pauling File? The Pauling File is a comprehensive source of thermodynamic, crystal structure, powder diffraction and physical property data for binary systems. It covers all inorganic ordered solid state materials and consists of:

• Constitution Data (Binary Phase Diagrams)
• Crystallographic structure, including lattice parameters, structure types, viewable atom positions, etc.
• Diffraction Data and Patterns, including 'inferred' patterns from crystal structure data
• Physical Properties of binary crystalline materials

It includes:

• 8,000 binary phase diagrams, both evaluated and as-published
• 28,000 data sets of crystallography and structure data, describing 10,000 different phases
• 3,000 published and 27,000 computed powder patterns
• 17,300 physical property data sets, including about 43,000 data entries

If you have questions about this product, or any library service, just ask!

Opportunities

MISTI orientation meetings are taking place during the week of Sept. 13. Several Course 3 students participated last year in internship programs in China, France, Germany, India, Italy and Japan. They hope to recruit an exciting group of students for 2005!

Combine your major with an exciting 3-12 months internship abroad in CHINA, FRANCE, GERMANY, INDIA, ITALY, JAPAN, MEXICO and SINGAPORE! All expenses covered! Open to all students (undergraduates, graduates, graduating students) and postdocs in any field. Come to our Orientation Meetings, meet returning interns, and have pizza with us.

JAPAN: Tuesday, Sept. 14, 5:30-7:00pm, Bush Room (10-105), Contact: dreichert@mit.edu

CHINA & SINGAPORE: Thursday, Sept. 16, 5:30-7:00pm, CIS 7th floor conference room (E38-714), Contact: seang@mit.edu

GERMANY: Tuesday, Sept. 21, 5:00-7:00pm, CIS 7th floor conference room (E38-714), Contact: sberka@mit.edu

FRANCE: Wednesday, Sept. 22, 5:30-7:00pm, CIS 7th floor conference room (E38-714), Contact: sferrari@mit.edu

INDIA: Thursday, Sept. 30, 5:30-7:00pm, CIS 7th floor conference room (E38-714), Contact: amitria@mit.edu

ITALY: Wednesday, Oct. 6, 5:30-7:00pm, CIS 7th floor conference room (E38-714), Contact: ssferza@mit.edu

MEXICO: Monday, Nov. 1, 5:30-7:00pm, CIS 7th floor conference room (E38-714), Contact: kirkcald@mit.edu

Materials Science and Engineering students who paricipated in internship experiences in 2004 are:

FRANCE: Naomi Kohen '04, Institut Pasteur, Paris; Ana Ramos '04, CEA Saclay (Paris) and
Study Abroad, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6); Ellen Siem G, CNRS, Luminy (Marseille); Neil Jenkins, PhD '03, Study Abroad, College des Ingenieurs, Paris; Suelin Chen G, Study Abroad, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (Paris)

GERMANY: Catarina Bjelkengren '06, Merck, Darmstadt

INDIA: Sajan Saini, PhD '04, DaimlerChrysler, Bangalore

JAPAN: Nduka Enemchukwu '05, Hitachi Chemical; Kasetta Coleman '04, Hitachi Ltd., Ibaraki; Jamie Mak '03, Asahi Kasei, Shizuoka

Events

Ceramic Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Linn Hobbs; American Ceramics Society New England Section, Tuesday, September 21, MIT Faculty Club. Career Forum: 4:00 pm; Registration/Cocktails: 6:00 pm; Dinner: 7:00 pm; Technical Program: 8:00 pm.

MIT Professor and Member of ACerS National Board of Directors, Dr. Hobbs will provide an overview of the areas of research presently underway at MIT. Dr. Hobbs will precede this discussion with an introduction, speaking as a member of the Board of Directors for the American Ceramic Society. Prof. Hobbs' research activities center on characterization, using electron microscopy and diffraction methods, of atomic and extended defect structures and microstructures of inorganic non-metals introduced by radiation, implantation, or chemically driven compositional change. He will also survey the work of other faculty and students. MIT students who are interested in ceramics are invited to a career forum at 4:00. The objective is to provide those students with an opportunity to meet with members and sponsors to learn more about what ACerS does and the institutions it represents (or about past experiences and associations). The forum will take place before the dinner. Students will also be given an opportunity to present posters describing their research. Additional information will be
provided, as it is determined how many members and students will take part. Registration for the meeting will be capped at 60, so register ASAP!
Location: MIT Faculty Club, 6th Floor. RSVP to Robert J. Sayre. There is a fee for dinner.

Professor Tuller, DMSE, and Professor Kawada, Tohoku University, present the MIT-Tohoku Joint Workshop on Nanoscience in Energy Technology With Emphasis on Transport and Reactions in or on Solids September 27-28, 2004.

The collaboration of MIT with Tohoku University is announced through this joint workshop; you are invited to join in this exchange. Please download the flyer (pdf) for more information. If you would like to contribute to the workshop with your work, you can still apply for presenting a poster. Please be sure to register by September 20, 2004, if you would like to participate in the workshop. The location will be annouced when registered. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Anja Bieberle-HŸtter, Dr. sc. techn. Crystal Physics & Electroceramics Laboratory, Rm. 13-3130 Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA Phone: 617 253 5002.

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