Akhlesh Lakhtakia, the Charles Godfrey Binder professor of engineering
science and mechanics, delivered an invited lecture on "Sculptured
Thin Films" at Nanomec 06, a conference on materials science and materials
mechanics at the nanoscale, held at Politecnico di Bari, Italy, from
November 19 to 23, 2006. He also organized a special session on
nanofabrication, wherein

Lawrence H. Friedman, assistant professor
of engineering science and mechanics, delivered an invited talk
entitled "Origins of Order and Disorder in Self-Assembled Epitaxial
Quantum Dots".