Events

Past Events

2025

• November 19, 2025: Characterization Seminar: Optical Microscopy, with Mouhanad Babi (McMaster)
• November 13 and 14, 2025: MIAM Lab Tours (Biointerface Lab and MEMRG Lab)
• November 5, 2025: 2025 Materials Research Day, with keynote speaker Peter Fratzl (Max Planck Institute)
• October 16, 2025: Characterization Seminar: Advances in Ceramic Manufacturing, with Hamidreza Yazdani (NRC)
• October 9, 2025: Rebuilding Life: Bioprinting and the Next Frontier in Medicine, with Matt Kinsella (McGill) and May Griffith (UdeM)
• September 4, 2025: Characterization Seminar: Unveiling the Mysteries of the Atomic World with Bragg's Law, with Hatem Titi (McGill)
• August 28, 2025: MIAM Summer BBQ and Potluck
• August 10, 2025: MIAM on the Mountain: Hike and Tour of Mont Royal
• July 30, 2025: Bag'Al Fresco: MIAM Outdoor Bagel Hour
• May 16, 2025: MIAM Bagel Hour
• April 9, 2025: The Future, One Layer at a Time: How 3D Printing Is Changing the World, with David Juncker and Yaoyao Fiona Zhao
• April 2, 2025: Biomineralogical Signatures of Pathological Mineralization, with Lara A. Estroff
• February 28, 2025: MIAM Nanotools Seminar: From Principles to Applications: Designing Metasurfaces for Classical and Quantum Optics, with Lin Deng

2024

• December 11, 2024: Advanced Materials Seminar: New Paradigms in Surfaces: From Slippery to Liquid, with Glen McHale
• October 25, 2024: MIAM Nanotools Seminar: Architecture for Surface-Emitting Lasers with On-Demand Lasing Wavelength by Semiconductor Nanowires, with Mohammad Fazel Vafadar
• October 2, 2024: Advanced Materials Seminar: Preventing Transepithelial Implant Infections with Bio-Inspired Solutions, with Conrado Aparicio
• August 28, 2024: Advanced Materials Characterization Seminar: How to Study Soft-Matter Nanomaterials, with Tony Jin
• August 13, 2024: MIAM Student Committee and Graphos present: Attract Readers with Effective Images and Captions
• July 18, 2024: MIAM Talk: Hybrid Materials and FAST SMART, with Mark Losego and Maddalena Rostagno
• May 15, 2024: MIAM Student Committee and Graphos present: Creating Effective Poster Presentations
• May 13, 2024: MIAM Talk: Exploring Life, the Universe, and Everything: X-ray microTomography at the Canadian Light Source, with Sergey Gasilov
• March 25, 2024: Advanced Materials Characterization Seminar: Biomaterials and Geomaterials, with Kawkab Tahboub and Matthew S. Tarling
• March 15, 2024: MIAM Nanotools Seminar: From Lab to Fab, with Derrick Wong
• February 16, 2024: MIAM General Meeting
• January 18, 2024: Advanced Materials Characterization Seminar: Alexander Logozzo and Muhammad Ghufran Rafique

2023

• December 13, 2023: Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Tricks with Treats, new reports from Nanotools
• December 1, 2023: Connect Seminar by Dr. Jonny Blaker: Hierarchical nanofibre constructs for tissue regeneration
• November 15, 2023: Materials Research Day: An interdisciplinary celebration of materials research at McGill and beyond
• March 23, 2023: Connect Seminar by Prof. John Rogers (Northwestern) : "Soft Electronic and Microfluidic Systems for the Skin"
• March 6, 2023: Advanced Materials Characterization Seminar by Cameron Hastie (PhD Student) and Patricia Islas (PhD Student)
• February 22, 2023: Connect Seminar by James Mehta : "Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer at McGill"
• January 30, 2023: Advanced Materials Characterization by Anna Clouvel-Gervaiseau (Masters Student) and Jeremy Dawkins (PhD Student)

2022

• December 1, 2022: Advanced Materials Characterization Seminar by Emily Prowse (PhD Student) and Antranik Jonderian (PhD Student)
• November 18 2022: Connect Seminar by Prof. Natalie Reznikov: "If bone is the answer, then what is the question?"
• October 21, 2022: Advanced Materials Characterization Seminar by Yiwen Chen (PhD Student) and Ehsan Hamzehpoor (PhD Student)
• September 16, 2022: MIAM Meet & Greet
• May 3, 2022: Advanced Materials Charaterization Seminar by Guangyu Bao (PhD Student) and Tobias Priemel (PhD Student)
• March 11, 2022: MIAM Connect Event

2021 

• December 3, 2021: Connect Seminar by Prof. Raffaele Mezzenga (ETH Zurich) : "Liquid-Liquid Crystalline Phase Separation of Amyloid Fibrils"
• November 19, 2021: Connect Seminar by Prof. Cinzia Casiraghi (University of Manchester) : "Water based and Defect Free 2D Material Inks: from Printed Electronics to Biomedical Applications"
• October 22, 2021: Connect Seminar by Prof. Orlando Rojas (UBC): "Renewable Nanoparticles in Superstructured and Multiphase Materials"
• September 24, 2021: Connect Seminar by Prof. Xin (Harvard University): "Dynamic stability design in constrained ensemble for solid state battery applications"
• March 26, 2021: Connect Seminar by Prof Al Crosby (UMASS Amherst): "Polymer Gels for Autonomous Motion and Mesoscale Assembly"
• March 12, 2021: Connect Seminar by Prof Andre Studart (ETH Zürich): "3D printed hierarchical materials"
• February 12, 2021: Connect Seminar by Prof Peter Fratzl (Max Planck Institute): "Active Composites Grown by Plants May Inspire Sustainable Materials"
• January 22, 2021: Connect Seminar by Prof Silvia Vignolini (University of Cambridge): "Biomimetic colour engineering from nature to applications"