AMIC Annual Meeting 

Eric Nordberg, PhD (Brady Corp.)

Dr. Nordberg received his PhD in Physics from UW-Madison in conjunction with Sandia National Laboratories.  Following graduate school, Eric was a post-doctoral fellow in the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Department of Medical Physics.  Currently at Brady, he is a materials research engineer in charge of advanced technology R&D for Brady's authentication and brand protection products.

Andrew Martin (J.A. Woollam)

s"The power of spectroscopic ellipsometry"

Faculty moderators  in technical sessions

Professor Nick Abbott                                  

Session: "Biomaterials and Biotechnology"

Professor Abbott received his PhD in chemistry from MIT and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University before coming to UW Madison. He is the current Director the UW-MRSEC and his research interests include interfacial phenomena, colloid science, soft materials, biomolecular interfaces, polymers, liquid crystals and surfactants, and the hydrophobic effect.

Professor Tom Kuech                                  

Session: "Electronic Materials and Devices" 

Professor Kuech received his PhD in Applied Physics from Caltech and worked at the IBM Thomas J Watson research center before coming to UW Madison where he works on a variety of topics from solid state synthesis and nanostructure formation in semiconductors and other dielectric materials.

Professor Paul Voyles                                  

Session: "Advanced Materials Characterization" 

Professor Voyles received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked at Bell Labs before coming to UW Madison. His research interests include electron microscopy, growth structure and defects in functional materials, and nanoscale order in glassy materials.

Professor Padma Gopalan                        

Session: "Microstructured thin films and coatings"

Professor Padma Gopalan received her PhD from Cornell University and spent two years at Bell Labs before coming to UW Madison. Her research interests include

Faculty Speakers

Professor Dane Morgan                                   (Materials Science and Engineering)

"Materials Informatics Brainstorming"

Profesor Morgan received his PhD form UC Berkeley before joining UW Madison. He co-directs the Wisconsin Materials Institute with Professor Kuech and works on a wide variety of computational materials science topics. Recent awards include the Harvey Spangler award and the Vilas Associate award.