Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Joshua Martin, PhD

Research Physicist

NIST

Joshua Martin, PhD

Research Physicist

Coming Soon

David Clarke, PhD

Professor at Harvard School of Engineering

Harvard University

David Clarke, PhD

Professor at Harvard School of Engineering

David R. Clarke is the inaugural holder of the Extended Tarr Family Professor of Materials in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge, a B.Sc. in Applied Sciences from Sussex University and was awarded a ScD from the University of Cambridge.

A member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1999, he is also a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Ceramic Society, and received an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award in 1993.

He shared the 2008 Japanese NIMS Award for Recent Breakthroughs in Materials Science for Energy and Environment, is a Distinguished Life Member of the American Ceramic Society and was recently listed as author of one of the 11 best papers in the 110 years of publications on ceramics and glasses.

His long-term interests in materials range from the fundamentals to the applied, from ceramics to metals to semiconductors and polymers. He has published over 450 papers in areas of materials ranging from thermal barrier coatings, to dielectric elastomers to fundamentals of oxidation to microelectronics reliability and the electrical and optical properties of ZnO and GaN. 

At Harvard, he enjoys interacting with students at all levels, from teaching Freshman seminars on “Glass” and  “Materials, Energy and Society”, graduate courses in composites and deformation of materials and the new undergraduate course in SEAS on “Fundamentals of Heat Transfer”, a required course for students studying Mechanical Engineering.

He will present “Thermal Radiation Effects in Materials.”

*The above biography was originally published on https://clarke.seas.harvard.edu/people/david-r-clarke

David G. Cahill, Phd

Materials Research Laboratory

University of Illinois

David G. Cahill, Phd

Materials Research Laboratory

David Cahill is the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and co-Director of the IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the U. Illinois after earning his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Cornell University and working as a postdoctoral research associate at the IBM Watson Research Center.

He served as department head from 2010 to 2018. His research program advances physical insights on thermal transport at the nanoscale; extremes of low and high thermal conductivity; the thermal conductivity of soft matter; the thermal science of magnetic materials; and the transport of heat and mass in battery materials.

Cahill received the 2018 Innovation in Materials Characterization Award of the Materials Research Society, the 2015 Touloukian Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Klemens Award from the International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter; and is a fellow of the MRS, the American Physical Society, the AAAS, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He will present “Beam Deflection Methods and Their Application to Polymers and Fast Mapping of Thermal Conductivity and Interface Conductance.”

Speakers by Key Areas

David Clarke, PhD

Professor at Harvard School of Engineering

Harvard University

David Clarke, PhD

Professor at Harvard School of Engineering

He will present “Thermal Radiation Effects in Materials.”

*The above biography was originally published on https://clarke.seas.harvard.edu/people/david-r-clarke

David G. Cahill, Phd

Materials Research Laboratory

University of Illinois

David G. Cahill, Phd

Materials Research Laboratory

He will present “Beam Deflection Methods and Their Application to Polymers and Fast Mapping of Thermal Conductivity and Interface Conductance.”

David Landry

Thermophysics Research Manager

Thermtest

David Landry

Thermophysics Research Manager

David is the Thermophysics Research Manager at Thermtest Inc. Over his five years with Thermtest, he has worked with every transient and steady-state measurement technique offered. He spends his time making improvements to the measurement platform, from better data analysis tools and upgraded calculation algorithms to the integration of whole new methods using transient sensors.

He will present “Measurement of Layered Samples Using the Transient Plane Source” and host a workshop on “Thermoreflectance Methods”.

Hsin Wang, PhD

Research Scientist

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Hsin Wang, PhD

Research Scientist

Dr. Hsin Wang is a distinguished scientist with expertise in the thermal transport properties of materials, energy conversion materials, and energy storage materials. He has also conducted extensive research on thermal and electronic transport study of irradiated materials.

Dr. Wang has been a subject matter expert (SMB) at NASA/DOE radioisotope power system (RPS) program NextGen program and member of the review board of eMMRTG. He has served as the Annex VIII leader on thermoelectric and thermal management materials at the International Energy Agency (IEA) advanced materials for transportation (AMT) since 2010. He was the chairman of ITCC board of directors from 2007-2011, ITCC Fellow and a current BOD member. He hosted ITCC23/ITES15 in Knoxville, TN in 2003 and International Thermoelectric Conference (ICT) in Nashville in 2014. He was the board member of the International Thermoelectric Society (ITS) from 2012-2019.

He will present “Thermal Conductivity of Materials in the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs)”

John Gaskins

Co-founder & CEO

Laser Thermal

John Gaskins

Co-founder & CEO

John Gaskins is co-founder and CEO of Laser Thermal. After nearly two decades of research at the University of Virginia in nanoscale property measurements, John now leads Laser Thermal in its pursuit to bring accessible and high-throughput thermal metrology tools to industry. In addition to leading Laser Thermal, he serves on the board of trustees for GENEDGE, Virginia’s member of the NIST MEP network, which serves manufacturers across the Commonwealth. He lives in Charlottesville with his wife and two children.

*This biography was originally published on https://laserthermal.com/leadership-team/

Joshua Martin, PhD

Research Physicist

NIST

Joshua Martin, PhD

Research Physicist

Coming Soon

Lucas Lindsay, PhD

Research Scientist

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Lucas Lindsay, PhD

Research Scientist

Dr. Lucas Lindsay received a BS degree in physics from the College of Charleston in 2004. He did his PhD work on theoretical thermal transport in carbon nanostructures at Boston College and received his PhD in 2010. Following this he taught physics for two years at Christopher Newport University, then spent three years as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. He has been a research scientist in the Materials Science and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory since 2014. He received the Department of Energy Early Career Award in 2019. His general research area is the theoretical description of vibrational and transport properties of condensed matter.

He will present Unveiling the Theory of Thermal Conductivity: Insights into Phonons and Heat Transfer Mechanisms.