Meeting Locations and Directions

• May 9: Student Night -- "Materials and Money: The U.S. Mint", plus poster sessions with UMD/UVA/VaTech students and local science fair winners

  • Julie Barker, U.S. Mint

• April 11: Burgess Award Night -- "Energy Concentrating Phenomena: from Sonoluminescence To Crystal Fusion"

• Seth Putterman, UCLA

• ALSO: A short presentation by Bill Mitchell, Executive Director of Retired Scientists, Engineers, & Technicians (ReSET)

• March 21: "Advances and Trends in Bioceramics"

• Dr. Gary Fischman, Director, National Materials Advisory Board & Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design, The National Academies

• February 21: "Science and Statecraft: A New Partnership?"

• Alex King, Purdue University and 2005-06 Jefferson Science Fellow, US Department of State

• January 10: "Marine Corrosion: Challenges and Progress"

• Keith Lucas, Naval Research Laboratory

• December 13: "The Preservation of the Collections and the Monumental Buildings at the Smithsonian Institution"

• Marion F. Mecklenburg, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education

• November 8: "From Microscopes to Accelerators: The Infrastructure for Research"

• Dr. Timothy Meyer, National Research Council

• October 11: "New Materials to Meet Global Energy Demands"

• Dr. Bhakta B. Rath, Naval Research Laboratory and President, ASM International

• September 20: Tour: The NTSB Academy and TWA Flight 800 Reconstruction