Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Zoology effects of nutrients and food webs on lake ecosystems -- land use and phosphorus inputs to freshwaters; littoral ecology -- microcontaminant cycling -- large-scale experiments -- ecosystem modeling
Industrial and Systems Engineering Design and manufacturing with an emphasis on multistage production systems convertibility, scalability, and diagnosability, ramp-up time, and variation reductions; integration of statistical and evolutionary computational methods with engineering models for system diagnosability and self-healing analysis; sensing systems/networks in manufacturing; and reconfigurable/reusable assembly systems; Lean Healtcare.
Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program
Electrical and Computer Engineering Biotechnology: DNA synthesis, DNA microarrays, oligomer synthesis, synthetic biology, DNA arrays, stem cells, and gene synthesis -- Nanotechnology: nanostructure fabrications, processing, and patterning -- Lithography: Optical lithography, electron beam lithography, extreme ultraviolet lithography, modeling, masks, and imaging -- Optics: Modeling, design, analysis, systems and components, lithography, and imaging theory -- Semiconductors: Fabrication, process modeling, and process design -- X-rays: Optics, modeling, synchrotron radiation, applications to imaging, microscopy, lithography, and spectroscopy
Center for NanoTechnology, Genome Center, Materials Science Program
Materials Science and Engineering The use of cluster/site approximation for alloy phases to calculate multicomponent phase diagrams and coherent inter-phase and anti-phase boundary energies. -- High-temperature materials beyond the nickel based superalloys, a combined computational/experimental approach. -- Calculated multicomponent phase diagram as a tool to identify alloys as potential bulk amorphous materials as well as to study their phase transformation. -- Fundamental approaches to design of new structural magnesium alloys. -- Novel nanostructures of MTJ’s obtained by selective oxidation to study their interfacial structure, chemistry and properties. -- Intermixing at the atomic scales in multilayered nanostructures of M1/M2 when they are immiscible in bulk form -- Phase transformation of metastable disordered phases in the thin-film forms to their stable antiferromagnetic state as applied to spin valve systems. -- The growth of silicide nanowires as related the stability of the rare earth silicides
Materials Science Program
Mechanical Engineering Materials science and processing of composites from wood or other natural fibers and plastics -- Microstructural influences on composite performance -- Durability of wood-plastic composites -- Cellulose nanocomposites -- Composites from recycled materials
Forest Products Laboratory
Electrical and Computer Engineering analog and digital control theory -- robust control of high bandwidth systems -- singular perturbation theory -- singular dynamical systems
Electrical and Computer Engineering reconfigurable computer architectures -- automated design and operating system support for reconfigurable computing -- systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) -- VLSI computer aided design
Conrad, John R. - Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Emeritus
