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MSI Director’s Statement of Inclusion and Diversity

6/15/2020   The Materials Science Institute (MSI) strives to be a welcoming place to all people. We categorically condemn systematic, institutionalized racism and the acts of state violence which have targeted the people of color in our community and in communities throughout this nation; violence which serves

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Scott Waitukaitis Abstract

Scott Waitukaitis Leiden University, The Netherlands Title:  Rabbits, Planets, Volcanoes, Dust Devils:  The Surprising Physics of Granular Tribocharging Abstract: If you shuffle your feet across a carpet and touch a doorknob, you might get shocked.  This is tribocharging–the transfer of electrical charge between different materials.  Although it

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Sara Mason Abstract

Fundamental Insights about Al Nanoclusters and Mineral Surfaces from Density Functional Theory   Sara Mason Professor of Chemistry University of Iowa   Adsorption reactions between aqueous and solid phases influence contaminant transport and fate, and are also fundamentally related to technological applications such as batteries and heterogeneous

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The Parallel Recursion Project

  Welcome to the Parallel Recursion Project Page. Please skip to the  Introduction for more information. The figure shows the magnitudes and distribution of the components of  the 100th transformation vector (tridiagonal basis vector) for a two-dimensional square lattice. The x-y plane in the figure corresponds to

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Wolfram Arnold Research Page

Thanks for your interest in my research page. As almost anything on the web, this is a page under construction; please forgive the crude format. Parallel Recursion Project Web Page Publications and Theses Arnold, W., Haydock, R., A Parallel, Object-Oriented Implementation of the Dynamic Recursion Method (link

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Undergraduate

University of Oregon undergraduates interested in materials science or performing research in an MSI-related lab should review the research pages of MSI faculty and email the appropriate faculty requesting information about any available undergraduate research openings. Summer Research Programs: Spend your summer at the University of Oregon

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