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Seminar Series

Spring 2005

Thursdays, 10:30 AM - 12 Noon (unless otherwise noted)
LRSM Auditorium

Refreshments at 10:00 AM

January 10, 10:30 AM

Dr. Ali Javey, Stanford University
“Carbon Nanotube Electronics”

 

January 13, 10:30 AM

Dr. Joerg Rottler, Princeton University
“Point Defect Dynamics in Irradiated Metals”

 

January 18, 10:30 AM

Dr. Erik B. Svedberg, Seagate Technology
“The “Trilemma” of Data Storage”

 

January 20, 10:30 AM

Dr. Robert Rudd, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab.
“The Biomechanics of Protein-Ligand Binding:  Force Spectroscopy and Computer Modeling”

 

January 24, 10:30 AM

Dr. Ritesh Agarwal, Harvard University
“Single Nanowire Laser Optics and Optoelectronics”

 

January 27, 10:30 AM

Dr. Masahiro Ishigami, University of Maryland 
“Electronic Properties of sp2-bonded Nanoscale Materials”

 

February 3, 10:30 AM

Dr. John Torkelson, Director, ChE, MSE, MRSEC Director, Northwestern
“Impact of Nanoconfinement on Polymeric Glass Formers: The Distributions of Glass Transition Temperatures and Physical aging Across Thin Polymer Films and Within Nanocomposites”

 

February 10, 10:30 AM

Dr. Wei Lu, Harvard
“One-Dimensional Transport in Nanowire Hetrostructures”

 

February 14, 10:30 AM

Dr. Yiying Wu, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
“Title TBA”

 

February 17, 10:30 AM

Dr. 0leg Myrasov, Seagate
“Magnetic Alloy Nano-Structures: Interactions and Properties”

 

February 24, 10:30 AM

Christopher Chen, Penn BE
“Cell biology using micropatterned surfaces”

 

March 3, 10:30 AM

Dr. Bruce Dunn, UCLA
“ Bio-Hybrid Materials:  Designing Sol-Gel Materials with Biochemical Properties”

 

March 17, 10:30 AM

Dr. Subash C. Singhal, Battelle Fellow and Director, Fuel Cells
Pacific Norhwest National Laboratory
“ Materials Challenges in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells”

 

March 31, 10:30 AM

Dr. Dafni Bika, Merck & Co., Inc.
“ A Study of Pharmaceutical Granules:  Structure and Strength of Solid Bridges Between Particles and Their Influence on Tabletting”

 

April 4, 10:30 AM

Dr. Alejandro Strachan, Los Alamos National Laboratory
“Atomistic and Mesoscale Modeling of the Mechanical and Chemical Behavior of Materials”

 

April 4, Noon

Dr. Sergei Kalinin, Oak Ridge National Lab.
“A Biased View on the Nanoworld: From Perovskits to Proteins”

 

April 7, 10:30 AM

Dr. Joseph Bringley, Eastman Kodak
“Precision Nanoscale Assembly of Particle Shape and Surface: 100 Years of Particle Engineering at Eastman Kodak”

 

April 11, 11:00 AM

Dr. Adrian Sutton, Imperial College
“Current-Induced Forces in Metallic Nanowires”

 

April 14, 10:30 AM

Dr. Joanna Aizenberg, Lucent
“Bio-Inspired Approaches to Crystal Engineering”
 

May 13, 11:00 AM

Dr. Erik Hobbie, NIST
“Carbon Nanotubes as Soft Matter”
 

May 19, 11:00 AM

Dr. Yuh-Lin Wang
Director, Institute of Atomic
“Nanostructure on Surfaces: from 2d magic-clustes to ordered anodic alumina nanochannels”
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Past Seminars
Fall 2004
Spring 2004

Fall 2003
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