UCLA Henry Samueli School
of Engineering and Applied Science Announces Inaugural Nippon
Sheet Glass Lecture
John D. Mackenzie, Member of the National
Academy of Engineering and Founding Editor of the Journal
of Non-Crystalline Solids to Deliver Talk
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and
Applied Science will hold its inaugural Nippon Sheet Glass Lecture
on Friday, June 3, beginning at 10:30 am in the Penthouse, 8500
Boelter Hall. The newly announced annual lecture seeks to honor
individuals who are world-renowned for their research in materials
science and engineering.
Nippon Sheet Glass representative Dr. Hiroaki
Yamamoto, Dean Vijay K. Dhir, Professor John D. Mackenzie and Professor Bruce Dunn. |
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Hosted by the Department of Materials Science
and Engineering, the inaugural talk will be delivered by Professor
John D. Mackenzie, the first holder of the UCLA Nippon Sheet Glass
Company Chair. Mackenzie, who held the post from its inception
in 1990 until 2003, will discuss “Pre-2000 Nanotechnotechnologies
Based On Glass Science.”
During the lecture, Mackenzie will examine successful
industrial businesses utilizing nanosize particles within glassy
matrices prior to 2000, looking at the discoveries of photochromic
glasses, porous glass and aerogels, semiconductor colored glasses,
vycor glasses, and transparent glass-ceramics. Other, more recent
laboratory advances in the field such as organic-inorganic hybrids
also will be discussed.
Mackenzie has been a member of the National Academy
of Engineering for more than 25 years. Prior to joining UCLA,
he served as a research Fellow at Princeton University and an
I.C.I. Fellow at Cambridge University in England. He also worked
as a Research Scientist at the General Electric Research Laboratory
and as a professor of materials science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute. Mackenzie is the founding editor of the Journal of
Non-Crystalline Solids, and served as editor-in-chief until 1989.
He has garnered the Meyer Award and Toledo Award of the American
Ceramic Society, among many other awards and honors throughout
his career. Mackenzie received a B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry
at London University, England.
The Nippon Sheet Glass Company Chair is devoted
to the field of ceramics and glass science, an area of vital interest
to the continued progress and development of electronics, computer
and aerospace technologies. UCLA Professor Bruce Dunn is the current
holder of the Chair and was appointed in April 2003.
The Nippon Sheet Glass Company was established
in 1918. Its headquarters are located in Osaka, Japan. The company
produces flat and safety glass, fine glass, electronic products
for hard disk drives and telecom equipment and automotive products.
For more information about the event,
please contact professor Bruce Dunn at bdunn@ucla.edu,
or via telephone at 310.825.1519.
To attend, RSVP to Mitch Moore at mitch@ea.ucla.edu
or 310.825.5534
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