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2011 Seminars

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Saturday, January 8, 2011 (All day) Advances in Nuclear Radiation Detectors and Technologies for Rare Isotope Science Miscellaneous (Other) Fiber Optic Auditorium, Rutgers Busch Campus
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 10:00am Meet Dr. Barbara Mittleman, Director of Public-Private Partnerships at NIH Barbara Mittleman, Director of Public-Private Partnerships-NIH Miscellaneous (Other) Life Sciences Auditorium
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 11:00am Engineering Artificial Proteins: Controlling Selectivity and Supramolecular Assemblies Jin Montclare, Polytechnic Institute of NYU Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR Auditorium
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 1:30pm How 2p Topological Defects Couple the Intra-unit-cell and Striped Broken Electronic Symmetries of the Cuprate Pseudogap States J. C. Seamus Davis, Cornell Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 12:00pm Seeing Electrons in Two-Dimensions: Optical Spectroscopy of Graphene Tony F. Heinz, Columbia U. Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Chem. 260
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 11:00am Pathways to More Efficient Organic Solar Cells: what we can learn by watching electrons move in real time John Asbury, Pennsylvania State U. Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR Auditorium
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 10:20am Atmospheric Organic Nanoparticles: Importance, Challenges and Progress Lea Hildebrandt, Carnegie Mellon U. Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (CBE) Fiber Optic Auditorium
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 12:00pm Visualizing Surface States of Topological Insulators with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Pedram Roushan, Princeton U. Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Chem. 260
Friday, January 28, 2011 - 11:00am CANCELLED---Microstructural Evolution in ZrB2, ZrC and HfB2 –based UHTCs at Extreme Temperatures William E. Lee, Director, Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK Miscellaneous (Other) CCR 201
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 11:00am Programmable Self-Assembly of Peptides on Multiple Length Scales Vikas Nanda, Rutgers CABM and RWJMS-UMDNJ Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR-Auditorium
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 12:00pm Fabrication and Characterization of Porous Ceramics with Hierarchical Porosity Cekdar Vakifahmetoglu, Rutgers MSE Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 1:30pm Giant flavor-Hall effect in Dirac materials Dimitry Abanin, Princeton U. Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 10:30am Nanoporous Gold: Fabrication, Characterization, and Biomedical Applications Erkin Seker, Harvard Medical School Biomedical Engineering (BME) BME Room 122
Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 12:00pm Molecularly-Sculpted Nanostructures, Assemblies and Interfaces for Applications Ganpati Ramanath, RPI Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Chem. 260
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 11:00am Hydrogen: Our Efforts Towards its Activation, Cleavage, Generation, and Storage Balaji Jagirdar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR-Auditorium
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 12:10pm Two-dimensional Nanomaterials Goki Eda, Imperial College, London, UK Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 1:30pm New possibilities for condensed matter science at the Neutron Spallation Georg Ehlers, Oak Ridge National Lab Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 10:20am Bottom-up Control of Materials and Morphology for Solar Energy Conversion Kevin Sivula, Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (CBE) Fiber Optic Auditorium
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 11:00am Fundamentals and applications of monodisperse carbon nanomaterials Mark C. Hersam, Northwestern U. Miscellaneous (Other) CCR 201
Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 12:00pm Nano is More than Size: The Role of Geometry in the Electronic Structure of Carbon Nanostructures Vincent Crespi, Penn State U. Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Chem. 260
Friday, February 11, 2011 - 12:30pm Bioenergy Larry Walker, Cornell U. Miscellaneous (Other) Foran Hall Room 138A, Cook Campus
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 10:30am Process Research and Green Chemistry: A Natural Partnership Demonstrated in the Sitagliptin and Aprepitant Manufacturing Processes Ulf Dolling, Process Research (retired), Merck Research Labs Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR-Auditorium
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 11:30am Process Research and Green Chemistry: A Natural Partnership Demonstrated in the Sitagliptin and Aprepitant Manufacturing Processes Edward Grabowski (retired) Merck Research Labs Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR-Auditorium
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 12:10pm New Possibilities for Understanding Complex Metal Hydrides via Synchrotron X-ray studies: Making Synchrotron X-ray Characterization relevant to the Hydrogen Economy Tabbetha Dobbins, Grambling State U. and Louisiana Tech/Visiting Prof. at Rowan U. Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 1:30pm Atomic-scale Views of Complex Materials Abhay Pasupathy, Columbia U. Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 12:00pm Heterogeneous Photoinduced Electron Transfer: New Systems and Methods Piotr Piotrowiak, RU Newark Chemistry Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Chem. 260
Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 1:30pm Transport in Networks of Josephson Junctions Sergey Syzranov, RUHR U., Germany Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 12:30pm Elucidation of protein-protein interactions using nanobiology and super-resolution microscopy Tijana Talisman, National Institute of Health Physics and Astronomy (PHYS) Hill Center, Room 260
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 11:00am Integrating surfaces with organic chemistry applied to dynamic studies of cell behavior and the development of biomaterials for cell tissue engineering Muhammad N. Yousaf, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR-Auditorium
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 1:30pm Type-1.5" superconductivity in multiband and layered systems Egor Babaev, UMass, Amherst Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 12:00pm Synthetic High-pressure Chemistry with Periodic Mesostructures Kai Landskron Catalysis Seminars Chem. 260
Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 6:00pm Rutgers Engineering: Dean’s Distinguished Lecture and Reception Anthony F. Rauseo, FullCell Energy Miscellaneous (Other) Life Sciences Auditorium
Friday, February 25, 2011 - 12:30pm Engineering Self-processing Plants for Biofuels Binzhang Shen, Agrivda Miscellaneous (Other) Foran Hall Room 138A, Cook Campus
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 12:10pm Global Opportunities in Advanced Materials for Entrepreneurs Ganesh Skandan, NEI Corp Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 1:30pm Making Multifunctional Oxide Heterostructures Atom by Atom Chang-Beom Eom, U. of Wisconsin Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - 3:30pm Laser Based Nanomanufacturing of Electronics and Energy Systems Costas Grigoropoulos, U. of California, Berkley Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Eng. B120
Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 12:00pm Visualizing Surface States of Topological Insulators with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Pedram Roushan, Princeton U. Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Chem. 260
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 1:30pm Biofabrication: Interfacing Biology with Microfluidics Xiaolong Luo, U. of Maryland Biomedical Engineering (BME) BME Auditorium
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 11:00am Biomolecules as building blocks for directing the structure and function of new materials Nathaniel Rosi, U. of Pittsburgh Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR-Auditorium
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 12:10pm New Synthesis and Sintering Methods in Materials Research Olivia Graeve, Alfred U. Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 1:30pm Electronic liquid crystal correlations in the pseudogap states of high Tc superconductors Eun-Ah Kim, Cornell U. Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 3:30pm Dimensionality Reduction in Control and Coordination of the Human Hand Zhi-Hong Mao, U. of Pittsburgh Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Eng. B120
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 5:00pm What Merck Seeks in a Licensing Partner: An Insider's Perspective Susan Rohrer, Merck Center for Innovative Ventures of Emerging Technologies (CIVET) Biomedical Engineering Bldg., Room 106
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 1:30pm The Weakly Coupled Pfaffian as a Type I Quantum Hall Liquid Boris Spivak, Washington State U. Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 8:30am Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York-2011 Spring Symposium Catalysis Seminars Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 11:00am Stable carbenes and related species: Powerful tools in organic and inorganic chemistry Guy Bertrand, U. of California, Riverside Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR-Auditorium
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 11:30am Molecular Modulation of Solar Cells Limits and Opportunities David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science Catalysis Seminars Life Sciences Auditorium
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 10:00am Information Processing and Sensing with Photonic Crystal Microcavities in SOI Philippe M. Fauchet, U. of Rochester Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) CoRE Building, First Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 3:30pm Molecular Physics of Electrical Double Layers in Supercapacitors Rui Qiao, Clemson U. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Eng. B120
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 8:30am Twenty-Fifth Annual Symposium of the Laboratory for Surface Modification Andrew Rappe, U. Pennsylvania, Rudolf Trump, IBM Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Fiber Optic Auditorium
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 12:10pm Silicon-on-Insulator Technology: Engineering Optimized Substrates for Electronics, Photonics, and MEMS George K Celler, IAMDN, MSE Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 1:30pm Electronic Transport in Novel Low Dimensional Materials Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 3:30pm Mixing Fluids and Arranging Particles Using Microfluidics Nadiae Aubry, Carnegie Mellon Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Eng. B120
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 12:00pm Order Phenomena and Interaction at Metal-Organic Interfaces Achim Scholl, U. of Wurzburg, Germany Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Chem. 260
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 2:00pm Strain Mapping in Engineering Materials by Synchrotron X-ray Tomography Nikolaos Baimpas, U. of Oxford Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Friday, April 1, 2011 - 2:30pm Assessment and Sustainable Design of Algal Biofuels and Novel Arsenic Sorbent Through Green Chemistry and Engineering Julie Zimmerman, Yale U. School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) Environmental & Natural resource Sciences Bldg., 14 College Farm Rd., New Brunswick, NJ
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 10:00am Taming Light and Electrons with Metamaterials Nader Engheta, U. of Pennsylvania Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) CoRE Building, First Floor Lecture Hall
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 11:00am Toward more efficient photocathode for dye-sensitized solar cells Yiying Wu, Ohio State U. Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR-Auditorium
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 12:10pm Resonant Optical Antenna Effects in Organic Semiconductors Deirdre O'Carroll, Rutgers MSE Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 1:30pm Neutron Scattering studies of iron arsenide superconductors Pengcheng Dai, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville/Oak Ridge National Lab Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 2:00pm Defense Research Seminar Series James Zheng, Ph.D. Miscellaneous (Other) CoRE Building, Board Room 701
Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 12:00pm Bio-Inspired Electro-Photonic Structure for Organic and Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Rene Lopez, UNC Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Chem. 260
Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 5:00pm Pharmaceutical Research and Biotechnology Development: Industrial & Academic Integration Francis Kern, Daiichi Sankyo Center for Innovative Ventures of Emerging Technologies (CIVET) Biomedical Engineering Bldg., Room 102
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 11:00am Ultrafast time resolved studies of reactive intermediates Matthew Platx, Ohio State U. Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR-Auditorium
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 1:30pm Topological Superconductors and Crystalline Insulators Fu Liang, Harvard University Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Friday, April 15, 2011 (All day) Malcolm G. McLaren Distinguished Lecture Symposium J. Fajardo, G. Lu, C. Haines, P. Foy, G. H. Sigel Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Fiber Optic Auditorium
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 12:10pm Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Reactive Capillary Flow Edmund B. Webb III, Lehigh U. Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 1:30pm High-field transport experiments on topological insulators Bi2Te3 and Bi2SeTe2 N. P. Ong, Princeton University Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 3:30pm Clean Energy Generation: Combustion with Hydrogen Turbines Sumantra Acharya, NSF Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Eng. B120
Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 12:00pm Atomic-Resolution Chemical Analysis in Aberration-Corrected Analytical Electron Microscopy Masashi Watanabe, Lehigh U. Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Chem. 260
Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 1:30pm Anomalous Noise in the Pseudogap Regime of YBCO films Vlad Orlyanchik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 11:00am Synthesis and Applications of FePt and Their Composite Nanoparticles Shouheng Sun, Brown U. Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR-Auditorium
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 1:30pm Tuning superconductivity and magnetism by structure manipulation in intermetallic iron-pnictides Johnpierre Paglione, U. of Maryland Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 3:30pm CANCELLED-Recent Progress in Acoustic Metamaterials research CANCELLED: C-T Sun, Purdue U. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Eng. B120
Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 12:00pm Design and Synthesis of Materials for Energy Applications Peter Khalifah, SUNY-Stony Brook Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Chem. 260
Saturday, April 30, 2011 (All day) Rutgers Day 2011 Miscellaneous (Other) All Campuses
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 12:10pm Solid-State NMR Applications in Surface Chemistry: Advances in Environmental and Materials Science Karl T. Mueller, Penn State U. Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 8:30am Sixth Annual Energy Symposium Marilyn Brown (School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology), Alexander Glaser (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International affairs and the Dept. of MAE), Ralph Izzo (Chairman, CEO, PSE&G Power), Nate Lewis (California Institute of Tech.), Robert Schmidt (Div. of Biological Science, U. of California, San Diego) Rutgers Energy Institute Fiber Optic Auditorium
Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 10:45am Pt-based alloys niche: high temperature and aggressive environments Lesley Cornish, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) CCR 201
Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 12:00pm The Enabling and Disrupting Influence of Interfaces in Nano Systems Dawn Bonnell, U. of Pennsylvania Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Chem. 260
Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 1:30pm Anomalous Noise in the Pseudogap Regime of YBCO films, Vladimir Orlyanchik, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 12:00pm Uncovering Hidden Magnetic Phases in Manganites and Heterogeneous Spin Dynamics with X-Rays Dario Arena, National Synchrotron Light Source, BNL Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Chem. 260
Friday, May 13, 2011 - 10:00am Oxidative Coupling: Chemistry between Two Nucleophiles Aiwen Lei, Wuhan U., China Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR 231
Friday, May 20, 2011 - 11:00am Janus-faced influence of the Hund's rule coupling: strong electronic correlations in materials far from a Mott insulator Luca de' Medici, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay, France Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin W112
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 12:00pm Surface fabrication of new membrane protein architectures for excitation energy capture and transfer C. Neil Hunter, Rutgers Energy Institute Life Sciences Auditorium
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 (All day) 2nd Annual International Summer Symposium: Biofuels and Bioenergy: Technologies to "Drive" the Globe-June 7-8 2011 Miscellaneous (Other) Cook Campus Center, Multipurpose Rooms A, B, C (59 Biel Road, Cook Campus)
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 10:00am Basic Research Opportunities - ONR Michael E. Kassner, Director of Office of Research (Discovery & Invention) Office of the VP for Research and Graduate & Professional Education CoRE Building, Board Room 701
Friday, August 5, 2011 - 11:00am Exploring the Dynamics of Five-Membered Aromatic Molecules on a Hexagonal Lattice: A Helium Spin-Echo Study Barbara A. J. Lechner, Cavendish Laboratories Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) NPL 201 (Nanophysics Lab)
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 - 1:00pm Seminar: An Insider’s View of the FY 2012 DOD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Bruce LaMattina, Director of Defense Research Relations Office of the VP for Research and Graduate & Professional Education CoRE Board Room, (Room 701)
Friday, August 12, 2011 - 10:00am The Development and Policy of Renewable Energy in China Ribo Huang, PhD, President, Guangxi Academy of Sciences Miscellaneous (Other) Foran Hall, Room 138A, 59 Dudley Road, Cook Campus
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 11:00am Organic Solar Energy Research at Addis Ababa University Teketel Yohannes, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices, and Nanotechnology (IAMDN) Chem. 140
Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 12:00pm Ferroelectric Surface Chemistry: A First-Principles Study of the PbTiO3 Surface Kevin Garrity Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Chem. 260
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 10:00am Defense Research Seminar: Critical Issues and Trends in Integrated Computational Methods for Rapid Flexible Manufacturing Richard R. Barto, PhD Office of the VP for Research and Graduate & Professional Education McLaren Center For Ceramic Research 607 Taylor Road – Room 201 – Busch Campus
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 11:00am Direct Entry to Erythronlolides via a macrocyclic bis[allene] Lawrence Williams, RU CCB Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR Auditorium
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 1:30pm TBD Kristjan Haule Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 10:00am Defense Research Seminar: Demystifying DoD Research Funding Dev Palmer, Ph.D., Program Manager, ARL Army Research Office Office of the VP for Research and Graduate & Professional Education CoRE Building, Board Room 701
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 12:00pm Graphene Oxide/Graphene Manish Chhowalla Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Graphene Oxide/Graphene
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 11:00am Multifunctional Nanostructured Materials: From Rational and New Synthetic Methods to their Potential Applications in Catalysis, Medicine and Solar Cells Tewodros Asefa, RU CCB Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) WR Auditorium
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 1:30pm Evidence for dislocations in solid helium and dislocation-vibration model describing the supersolid behavior of He-4. Izumi Iwasa, University of Kanagawa Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin 385
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 (All day) SECOND ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM/ Jun John Xu Energy Storage Colloquium Jonah Erlebacher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD • ChunshengWang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD • Steven Greenbaum, City College of New York, New York, NY • Mali Balasubramanian, Advanced Photon Source, ANL, Chicago, IL • Gaurav Jain, Medtronic, Inc., New Jersey Miscellaneous (Other) Fiber Optic Auditorium
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 12:00pm Nanoparticle-Molecular Imaging David Bell, Harvard University Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) CHEM 260
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 11:00am Impact of a nanoscopic environment on the nature of water" Nancy Levinger, Colorado State University. Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Wright Rieman Auditorium
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 12:10pm Welcome Graduate Director/GSA Officers Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 1:30pm New PbTiO3 based superlattices with exceptional properties Matthew Dawber, SUNY Stony Brook Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin 385
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 1:30pm Nanoscale Engineering of Epitaxial Metal Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures X. X. Xi, Department of Physics, Temple University Physics and Astronomy (PHYS) Serin 385
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 3:00pm Electron Correlation in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Dr. Lous E. Brus, Columbia University/AT&T Bell Labs Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 12:00pm Bio-Nano Hybrids for Chemical Detection Charles Johnson, Penn State University Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) CHEM 260
Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 5:00pm Pharmaceutical Research and Biotechnology Development: Industrial and Academic Integration Reza Razavi, Foundation Venture Capital Group Center for Innovative Ventures of Emerging Technologies (CIVET) Biomedical Engineering Auditorium
Friday, October 7, 2011 - 3:30pm Searching for Reaction Mechanisms with Computational Methods Odile Eisenstein Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Wright Rieman, Rm. 260
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 11:00am Controlling Materials Properties through Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Polymers and Nanoparticles Dr. So-Jung Park, University of Pennsylvania. Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Wright Rieman Auditorium
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 12:10pm New Control Techniques for Material Properties Measurement and Mapping Using Scanning Probe Microscope Profssor Qingze, Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace, Rutgers University Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 1:30pm Harnessing octahedral connectivity in perovskite oxides for the design of multifunctional ferroelectrics James M Rondinelli, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin 385
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 10:30am The Future of Nuclear Power with PSEG Power William Levis Rutgers Energy Institute Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, 33 Livingston Ave
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 12:00pm Baekeland Award Symposium (in honor of Peidong Yang, University of California, Berkeley) Charles Leiber, Harvard Tom Mallouk, PSU. Galen Stucky, UCSB Omar Yaghi, UCLA Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Fiber Optics Auditorium
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 4:45pm A Possible Partial Solution to the Mystery of the Great Pyramids of Egypt M. W. Barsoum, MSE, Drexel University Physics and Astronomy (PHYS) PLH
Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 12:00pm Progress in Integration of Silicon Nanophotonics with CMOS Solomon Assefa, IBM Yorktown Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) CHEM 260
Friday, October 14, 2011 - 10:00am MEMS-Enabled Tunable Photonic Crystals and Their Applications Jeong-Bong (JB) Lee, University of Texas, Dallas Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) CoRE 301
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 11:00am Structural Analysis of Calcium Regulation in Muscle by NMR Spectroscopy: from Understanding to Control Dr. Gianluigi Veglia, University of Minnesota Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Wright Rieman Auditorium
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 11:00am ORAU - Value Through Partnerships Steve Roberts, ORAU Office of the VP for Research and Graduate & Professional Education CoRE, 7th fl, Board Room
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 1:30pm Electron Dynamics in Cuprates: From Spin Waves to Stripes John Hill, Brookhaven National Lab Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin 385
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 5:00pm Spatially Resolved Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy: A Tool for Atomic Level Electronic Structure Characterization Philip Batson, Rutgers University Physics and Astronomy (PHYS) Serin 385 E
Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 12:00pm Structural Effects on the Quantum Conductance and Mechanical Deformation of Atomic-Size Metal Nanowires Maureen Lagos, IAMDN, Physics, MSE - Rutgers University Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) CHEM 260
Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 1:30pm Correlated ν=0 quantum Hall states in monolayer and bilayer graphene Maxim Kharitonov, Rutgers University Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin 385
Monday, October 24, 2011 - 12:00pm IAMDN Special Seminar: Concepts in Thin-Film Photovoltaics Alan E. Delahoy, Formerly Vice President, Research & Development, New Millennium Solar Equipment Corp Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices, and Nanotechnology (IAMDN) CCR 201 (McLaren/MSE Building)
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 11:00am Multifunctional Molecule-based Materials: From chemical design to complex (nano?) structures José Ramón Galán-Mascarós, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ),Tarragona (Spain) Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Wright Rieman Auditorium
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 12:10pm Fluorinated Melting Gels for Hydrophobic Coatings Andrei Jitianu, Lehman College Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 1:30pm Bose-Einstein Condensation in quantum magnets Vivien Zapf, National High Magnetic Field Lab, Los Alamos National Lab Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin 385
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 5:00pm Scanning Probe Microscopy Studies of Nanoscale Phenomena Weida Wu, Rutgers University Physics and Astronomy (PHYS) Serin 385 E
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 10:00am The Data and Compute-Driven Transformation of Modern Science Edward Seidel, National Science Foundation Office of the Vice President of Research and Economic Development Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 12:00pm Negative Electromagnetic Radiation Pressure Henri Lezec, NIST, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) CHEM 260
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 9:30am Overview of Research Funding Office of the VP for Research and Graduate & Professional Education CAIT Auditorium
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 10:00am Chemical Functionalization of Hydrogen-Terminated Silicon Surfaces for Energy and Sensing Applications Yves Chabal, UT Dallas Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices, and Nanotechnology (IAMDN) CCR 201
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 3:30pm Iron catalyzed C-H bond functionalization Dr. Theodore Betley, Harvard University Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Wright Rieman, Rm. 260
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 11:00am Molecular Associations, Transport, and Anisotropy in Nanostructured Soft Materials Louis Madsen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Wright Rieman Auditorium
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 11:45am Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: Localized Plasmons in the Service of Chemical Sensing Oded Rabin, MSE, University of Maryland Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 1:30pm Nano-imaging with optical antennas: domain order in complex oxides Markus Raschke, U. Colorado, Boulder Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin 385
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 10:00am Silicon Photonics and Photonic Crystals: Device Engineering and Physics Understanding Wei Jiang, Rutgers University Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Computing and Research Building (CoRE)
Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 5:00pm Early Stage Drug Discovery and Partnering with Academia: A new model Henri Lichenstein Center for Innovative Ventures of Emerging Technologies (CIVET) Biomedical Engineering building Room 102
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 11:00am Dirhodium Catalysis for Highly Selective Synthesis Michael Doyle, University of Maryland Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Wright Rieman Auditorium
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 11:45am Fan the Flame with Water: Current Ignition, Front Propagation and Mutliple Steady States in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel (PEM) Cells Jay Benziger, Chemical Engineering, Princeton University Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 1:30pm Emergent Phenomena at Oxide Interfaces Harold Y Hwang, Stanford University Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin 385
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 10:00am Carbon Nanotubes in Organic Photovoltaics Zivayi Chiguvare, U. of Witwatersrand Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices, and Nanotechnology (IAMDN) CCR 101
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 10:00am Nanocarbon Scaffolds for Efficient Energy Conversion and Storage Cary L. Pint, Extreme Tech. Research Group, Intel Labs, Santa Clara, CA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Eng. B223
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 12:00pm Surface and Grain Boundary Scattering in Nanometric Cu Films: A Quantitative Analysis Including Twin Boundaries Katayun (Katy) Barmak, Columbia University Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Chem. 260
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 11:00am The Hydrogen Economy: Are We There Yet? Michael Heinekey, University of Washington. Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Wright Rieman Auditorium
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 11:45am Electrode Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Shriram Ramanathan, MSE, Harvard University Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 12:00pm Structural Surface Modifications of TiO2 Mathias Batzill, University of South Florida Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) CHEM 260
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 12:30pm Defense Research Seminar Series Lee Ann Young, Applied Research Associates Office of the Vice President of Research and Economic Development Computing & Research Bldg (CoRE)
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 3:00pm Extrinsic Effects in Organic Semiconductors: Impact of Photo-doping and Dielectric Semiconductor Interface on Performance and Morphology Ashok Maliakal, LGS Innovations Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices, and Nanotechnology (IAMDN) CCR 101
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 3:30pm Exploring the Chemistry of Sulfur Jimmy Wu, Dartmouth College Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Chemistry Wright-Rieman Building, Room 260
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 11:00am Decade in Cobalt Catalysis: The Best is yet to come! Gerhard Hilt, Philipps-Universität Marburg Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Chemistry Wright-Rieman Building, Room 260
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 10:00am Next Generation over-100-nm NIR Fluorescence Bioimaging Dr. Kohei Soga, Associate Professor, Center for Technologies against Cancer, Tokyo University of Sciences, Chiba, Japan Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) McLaren/CCR conference room 201
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 3:30pm Foundations of theoretical seismology within continum mechanics Michael Slawinski, Memorial University, Canada Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Engineering, Rm B120
Thursday, December 1, 2011 (All day) mHealthcon Center for Innovative Ventures of Emerging Technologies (CIVET) Rutgers’ College Avenue Campus Student Center
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 12:00pm Biorefinery - A Design Tool for Chemicals, Soft Materials and Organic/Inorganic Hybrids George John, City College of the City University of New York Catalysis Seminars Chemistry Wright-Rieman Building, Room 260
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 5:00pm Creative Approaches to Innovation John Crombie, J&J Ethicon Center for Innovative Ventures of Emerging Technologies (CIVET) Biomedical Engineering Building, Room 102
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 9:15am NSF/CISE Director Dr. Farnam Jahanian visiting Rutgers on Dec 2, 2011 Farnam Jahanian, NSF Office of the Vice President of Research and Economic Development CoRE 7th Floor Boardroom 701, Busch Campus
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 3:30pm Synthetic and Chemical Biological Studies of the Diazofluorene Antitumor Antibiotics Seth Herzon, Yale University Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Wright Rieman, Rm. 260
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 11:00am Environmentally Friendly Organic Synthesis Using Bismuth(III) Compounds Ram Mohan, Illinois Wesleyan University Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Wright Rieman, Rm 260
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 11:45am Sodium conducting ceramic electrolytes for sodium battery systems Dunbar Birnie, MSE, Rutgers University Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 1:30pm World of Spinels: Interplay between charge, orbital and spin T. Saha-Dasgupta, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin 385
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 2:00pm Early Stage Funding Opportunities Marc Eichenberger, Allied Minds; Reza Rezavi, Foundation Venture Capital Group, LLC; Adam Greenspan, University City Science Center;Mario Casabona, Jumpstart NJ Angel Network Office of the Vice President of Research and Economic Development Fiber Optics Auditorium
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 5:00pm Atomically Engineered Topological Insulators Seongshik Oh, Rutgers University Physics and Astronomy (PHYS) Serin 385E
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 10:00am Nanoporous Metal: Game Changers for Green Innovation Takeshi Fujita, Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University, Japan Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 3:30pm The Self Propulsion of Colloidal Particles Charles Maldarelli, City College of New York Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Engineering, Rm. B120
Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 12:00pm LSM Seminar -TBA Richard Osgood, Columbia University Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) Wright Reiman, Rm 260
Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 12:00pm Universality of conductivity in interacting graphene Vieri Mastropietro, Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata" Miscellaneous (Other) Hill 705
Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 1:30pm Dualities and Dimensional Reduction in Topological Quantum Order and Processing of Quantum Information Emilio Cobanera, Indiana University Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin 385
Friday, December 9, 2011 - 3:30pm A Unified Vision of Synthesis Based on Stereospecific Reagent Controlled Homologation Paul Blakemore, Oregon State University Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Wright Reiman, Rm 260
Monday, December 12, 2011 - 1:30pm When quantum waves crash upon eldritch shores: Splash statistics in disordered media, and correlated fronts far from equilibrium Matthew S. Foster, Rutgers University Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 10:00am Probing Heat Carriers for Power Generation and Heat Management Applications Anastassios Mavrokefalos, MIT Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Engineering Building, Rm B223
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 1:30pm Complexity of the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm Itay Hen, University of California, Santa Cruz Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 1:00pm Mapping the Environmental Fitness Landscape of a Synthetic Gene Circuit Gabor Balazsi, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center Miscellaneous (Other) Hill Center, Room 260 (Busch Campus)
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 12:15pm Superefficient Electron Transfer through 310-Helical Peptides Flavio Maran, U. of Padova Italy Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) CCR 201
Friday, December 16, 2011 - 1:30pm Condensed Matter Seminar -TBA Saurabh Maiti, University of Wisconsin, Madison Physics - Condensed Matter (PHYS-CM) Serin E385
Friday, December 16, 2011 - 3:30pm Organoselenium Adventures Spencer Knapp, Rutgers University Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Wright Reiman, Rm 260