Stein-Bayer Lecture Series
The Chemistry Department will be hosting its annual Stein-Bayer Seminar, which is generously sponsored by the Bayer Corporation in honor of Prof. Richard Stein, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and pioneer in the field of polymer chemistry. This year’s speaker is Professor Edwin L. (Ned) Thomas, Morris Cohen Professor and Department Head, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT (http://dmse.mit.edu/faculty/faculty/elt/). His seminar, "Periodic Materials for Photonics and Phononics," will describe how a top-down, bottom-up approach, involving interference lithography and self assembly, is demonstrating good success in fabricating the requisite structures and desired properties for photonics and phononics.
Professor Thomas has many ties with UMass; he is a UMass alumnus, having received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science. He was also affiliated with UMass as the Department Head of Polymer Science and Engineering, a Professor for the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and as the Director of the Electron Microscope Central Facility, Materials Research Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Cornell University, and has received numerous scientific awards, including the Special Creativity Award of the National Science Foundation (1996 and 1988), the High Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society (1991), and the American Chemical Society Creative Polymer Chemist Award (1985). Professor Thomas has published over 350 papers, holds thirteen patents, and is coauthor of a new book, Periodic Materials and Interference Lithography: For Photonics, Phononics and Mechanics, to be published this month.
