Prof. Eckhard Quandt and Dr. Peter Finkel gave us two invited talks on Thursday Dec. 1, 2016 between 1:30~4:00pm at DA442: “Giant magnetoelectric thin film composites”, by Prof. Eckhard Quandt, Inorganic Functional Materials, Institute for Materials Science, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kiel, Germany;  and “Giant Non-Resonant Magnetoelectric Energy Conversion in Ferroics”, by Dr. Peter Finkel, Materials Science and Technology Division, Naval Research Laboratory.