Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/24/2018
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Steeler's Fellowship Club
Registration – 5:30 – 6:30 P.M.
Dinner – 6:30 P.M.
Presentation – 7:30 P.M.
NOTE: Steeler’s Fellowship Club is located at 126 W. Bern Street Reading, on the corner of Bern and Pear Streets.
Meal (served buffet style)
Appetizers:
– chilled garlic-basil shrimp with cocktail sauce
– assorted cheese tray, crisps, pepperoni, soppressata
Dinner:
– Jo’s lively tossed salad with balsamic vinaigrette
– fresh bread assortment, butter
– Tuscan lemon chicken
– baked salmon filets
– baked stuffed shells with herb ricotta blend
SPEAKER: Christopher Marvel
Chris Marvel is a post-doctoral research associate at Lehigh University and specializes in grain boundary science and characterization. He graduated Lehigh with a BS ’12 and PhD ‘16 in Materials Science and Engineering. His dissertation research, under advisement of Martin Harmer, focused on nanocrystalline thermal stability of metals and included a specialization in aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy. During his time at Lehigh, Chris has been awarded the IMS Jacquet-Lucas and George L. Kehl awards for excellence in metallography, the ACerS Roland B. Snow award for best in show ceramographic at MS&T, and the Acta Materialia student award for his scientific contributions to the field of materials science as a graduate student. Chris’ current research focuses on stability and mechanical performance of high entropy alloys, grain boundary design of boron-based armor ceramics, and anti-thermal behavior of metals and ceramics. Chris now serves as an executive member in Lehigh Valley’s ASM chapter and as a member in the ASM Emerging Young Professionals Committee.
ABSTRACT:
Nano-human Interface Initiative
Modern technology has enabled researchers to collect large amounts of data by improving scientific instrumentation, but, it has not necessarily enabled faster scientific discovery. The Nano/Human Interface Initiative, which has been granted $3M by Lehigh University, seeks to transform how we conduct scientific research of nanoscale physical interfaces by bringing together physical, cognitive, and data scientists to optimize human machine interfaces for tools of scientific discovery. As an example, electron microscopes were developed in the 1930’s and they now have the capability to analyze materials on the atomic-scale. Unfortunately, and growing with the complexity of the instruments, these multi million-dollar microscopes are becoming more difficult to master and still require manual and tedious human interactions to load the sample, align the instrument, and collect the necessary data. Now is the time to adapt the way in which humans interact or “communicate” with scientific instruments, such as an electron microscope, to accelerate scientific discovery in the data-rich world in which we live in today. But, before we simply force new methods towards how data is collected and presented, we must understand the limitations of human cognition, which is limited in its ability visualize, analyze, and interpret big data. Ultimately, the tools that generate terabytes of information need to be coupled with analytical tools that organize and display data in effective ways such that the human mind can effectively select and categorize relevant features of the data to support scientific reasoning and inquiry. This brief overview will summarize the new research underway at Lehigh University in its mission to revolution nano/human interfaces to accelerate scientific discovery.
DEADLINE: Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
COST: $30 ($20 for students and retirees, cost includes beer and soda)