Dr. Hariharan Srikanth Associate Professor Department of Physics University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave Tampa, FL 33620 Phone: (813)974-2467 Fax: (813)974-5813 mailto:sharihar@cas.usf.edu

Research Keywords: Magnetic Nanostructures, Complex Oxides, Functional Materials, Ferrofluids, Spintronics

· Honors, Awards, Significant achievements

• Summary of Professional Service activities

Welcome to the Functional Materials Laboratory @ USF

• Program committee member, publication editor for 53^rd Conf on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) (Austin, TX, Nov. 2008)
• Invited Speaker, 2008 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting (San Francisco, CA, March 2008)
• Invited Speaker, 2008 American Physical Society March Meeting (New Orleans, LA, March 2008)
• Faculty Mentor: Advanced Materials and Device Engineering REU
• Publications Editor for the 52^nd Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) (Tampa, FL, Nov. 2007)
• Invited Speaker, IUMRS – International Conference on Advanced Materials, Bangalore, India (October 2007)
• Invited Speaker, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT 07), Singapore (July 2007)
• Invited Speaker, 13^th Czech and Slovak Conference on Magnetism (CSMAG 07), Kosice, Slovakia (July 2007)
• Co-organizer of Focus Topic “Magnetic Nanostructures: Materials and Phenomena” at the 2007 APS March meeting in Denver, CO
• Invited Speaker at the 2007 TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (Feb. 2007)
• Research ‘nugget’ on magnetocaloric effect (MCE) in nanoparticles selected and featured at the NSF – CTS program website
• Program Committee Member & Publications Editor for the 10^th Joint INTERMAG/MMM conference, Baltimore, MD (Jan. 2007)
• Invited speaker at CIMTEC 2006 , Acireale, Sicily (Italy), June 2006
• Invited speaker at the 2005 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, Dec. 2005
• Program Committee member & Publications Editor for the 50^th Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) (San Jose, CA, Nov. 2005)
• Invited speaker at the Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAM-13) international conference, Singapore, Dec. 2004
• Invited speaker at Seeheim Conference on Magnetism, Seeheim, Germany (Jun-July 2004)
• Invited speaker at the IEEE NTC Quantum Device Technology Workshop, May 2004, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY (http://www.clarkson.edu/CQDT/)
• USF President’s Award for Faculty Excellence (2003)
• Faculty coordinator: NSF IGERT program on Sensory Knowledge-based Interface Science (SKINS) at USF
• Invited speaker at the 2003 APS March meeting
• Local Chair for the 2002 Magnetism & Magnetic Materials (MMM) conference

Recent news from the FML group…

· Dr. Susmita Pal joins FML as a CIFM Postdoctoral Researcher in January 2008

· Dr. Manh-Huong Phan joins FML as a Postdoctoral Researcher in December 2007

· Dr. Victorino Franco from Universidad Sevilla (Spain) visits FML in November 2007

· Dr. Pankaj Poddar (former FML member and currently a scientist at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India) visits FML (Nov-Dec. 2007)

· Hari Srikanth visited his alma mater (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) and gave a seminar in the Physics Department (October 2007)

· FML initiates research activities as part of the Army funded Center for Integrated Functional Materials (CIFM) located in the Physics Department at USF (September 2007)

· US Patent (#7268563) awarded to Srikanth and Sanders for “Measurement of point contact Andreev reflection characteristics of half metallic thin films” (September 2007)

· Melody Miner receives 2-year Graduate Research Assistantship from the Functional Multiscale Materials by Design (FMMD) Program at USF (August 2007)

· Hari Srikanth elected as Senior Member, IEEE (May 2007)

· Natalie Frey receives 2007 Summer Internship from Seagate Technology, Minneapolis MN

· Ranko Heindl graduates with Ph. D degree in Dec. 2006. Wins prestigious National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associateship to work at NIST, Boulder (CO)

· Three FML students graduate in Summer 2006! Jeff Sanders (Ph.D), Drew Rebar (M.S), Chamila Siyambalapitiya (M.S)

· James Gass receives 2006 Summer Internship from Materials Modification, Inc., Fairfax, VA

• Our research activities over the years funded by:

National Science Foundation

Department of Energy

Army Research Office

DARPA

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