What: Lecture Who: Dr. Chuan-Hua Chen, Duke University When: Friday, February 1, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: Love Building Room 109 Title: From Jumping Drops to Thermal Diodes

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. Zlatan Aksamija, University of Wisconsin-Madison When: Monday, February 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Semiconductor Nanostructures for Efficient Thermo-electric Energy Conversion

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. Michael Pettes, University of Texas at Austin When: Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Thermal and Thermoelectric Transport in Low-Dimensional Carbon and Topological Insulator Materials

What: NRE 8011/8012 Seminar Who: Dr. Laura Swiler, Sandia National Laboratories When: Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: Uncertainty Analysis: Epistemic, Aleatory, or Bayes?

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. Amy Bilton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology When: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: A Modular Design Architecture for Application to Photovoltaic Reverse Osmosis Systems

What: NRE 8011/8012 Seminar Who: Dr. Bojan Petrovic, Georgia Tech, NRE When: Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: Integral Inherently Safe Light Water Reactor (I2S-LWR)

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. Li Shu, University of Toronto When: Monday, February 18, 2013 at 10:00 AM Where: TSRB Auditorium Building Room Title: Biological analogies and environmental lead-user insights as sources of ideas for conceptual design

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. Robert Jackson, Auburn University When: Monday, February 18, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Multiscale Electrical and Thermal Contact Resistance

What: NRE 8011/8012 Seminar Who: Mr. Jesson Hutchinson, Los Alamos National Laboratory When: Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: National Criticality Experiments Research Center: Capabilities and Experiments

What: GT Courtesy Listing Who: Dr. Kristen M. Donnell, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Missouri University of Science and Technology When: Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: Sustainable Education Building Room 122 Title: Applications of Microwave Nondestructive Testing to Materials Characterization