APhMS Special Seminar

**Refreshments outside Annenberg 105 at 2:15pm

Abstract:

Professor Chung's 50-year journey in science starts with the excitement of the first moon landing in 1969 and culminates in her 2023 election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (engineering and technology section). The journey includes studying at Caltech and MIT, switching from electrical engineering to materials science, inventing smart concrete (concrete that can sense its own condition), discovering interface-derived viscoelasticity, and making paradigm shifts in the design of thermal interface materials (for microelectronic cooling) and electromagnetic interference shielding materials (for protecting electronics). She shares the importance of broad education, the willingness to jump from one's comfort zone (a key to creativity), sustained work, and having a purpose in life.

More about the Speaker:

Chung is SUNY Distinguished Professor (President's medalist), University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. She received her B.S. degree from Caltech (being Caltech's first female engineering graduate) and her Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from MIT. She is a pioneer and international leader in the field of multifunctional structural materials (best known for her invention of smart concrete) and has authored or coauthored over 600 peer-reviewed professional journal papers and 10 books. Chung is Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of ASM International, and Fellow of American Carbon Society. She received the Pettinos Award (an international research award) from the American Carbon Society, and an Honorary Doctorate Degree from University of Alicante, Spain.