2005 Seminars

Date & Time Title Speaker Location
Tue, 12/13/2005 11:00am New Polymeric Materials Designed for Nucleic Acid Delivery Theresa Reineke, University of Cincinnati Wright Chemistry Auditorium
Tue, 12/13/2005 11:00am Optical Properties of Nanostructured and Amorphous Carbon Materials Dr. Giovanni Fanchini, MS&E, Rutgers University Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thu, 12/08/2005 9:00am Small World in Motion -Low-Energy Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Surface Dynamics Dr. Peter W. Sutter, Facility Leader - Proximal Probe Microscopy, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory -
Tue, 12/06/2005 11:00am Surface Enhancement Raman Scattering for Medical Diagnostics Dr. Andrei Jitianu, MS&E, Rutgers University Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thu, 12/01/2005 12:00pm Atomic Layer Deposition and Interface Engineering for Metal Oxide/Semiconductor and Nanowire Structures Paul McIntyre, Stanford Univ. 260 Wright Chemistry
Tue, 11/29/2005 1:30pm Spintronics without magnets: Spin-optics and Diffuse emission Arcadi Shehter, Weizmann, Israel 385 Serin Physics
Tue, 11/29/2005 11:00am An Atomic-Scale View of Transition Metal Oxide Surfaces Ulrike Diebold, Tulane, New Orleans Fiber Optics Auditorium
Tue, 11/29/2005 11:00am Synthesis and Assembly of Thermo-responsive Giant Polymer Vesicles for Cold-Controlled Release Prof. Shu Yang, U. Penn Wright-Rieman Chemistry Auditorium
Tue, 11/22/2005 1:30pm Investigating Coherence with Josephson Phase Qubits Ray Simmonds, NIST, Boulder 385 Serin Physics
Mon, 11/21/2005 8:30am Commercializing Nanotechnology in Energy Storage & Conversion - Busch Campus Center
Thu, 11/17/2005 12:00pm An Adaptive Chemistry Scheme to Model Reactive Flows Marianthi Ierapetritou, Chemical & Biochemical Eng., Rutgers Room 260, Wright-Rieman Chemistry Laboratory
Tue, 11/15/2005 1:30pm Magnetic Surprises on a Triangular Lattice Collin Broholm, Johns Hopkins Serin 385E
Tue, 11/15/2005 11:00am Photocatalytic Nano-composites Prof. Wolfgang Sigmund, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Fiber Optics Auditorium
Fri, 11/11/2005 11:00am Self-Assembly of Spherical Colloids into Complex Structures Prof. Younan Xia, Univ. of Washington Wright Lab Auditorium
Tue, 11/08/2005 1:30pm Solid State Quantum Computation: from Physical Gates to Architectures Jacob Taylor, Harvard University Serin 385E
Tue, 11/08/2005 11:00am Scale Your Enthusiasm Prof. Stephen O'Brien, Columbia University, New York, NY Fiber Optics Auditorium
Fri, 11/04/2005 12:00pm CVD growth of carbon nanotubes John Robertson, Department of Engineering, Cambridge, UK Serin Conference Room E385
Wed, 11/02/2005 4:30pm Transportation Energy and Environmental Concerns Eric Larson, Princeton Environmental Institute Phys. Lect. Hall
Tue, 11/01/2005 1:30pm Quantum shock waves: hydrodynamic instabilities in degenerate Fermi gas Paul Wiegmann, University of Chicago Serin 385
Mon, 10/31/2005 12:00pm The Future of Stem Cell Research in New Jersey Congressman Rush Holt Fiber Optic Auditorium, Busch Campus
Thu, 10/27/2005 12:00pm Nanoscale Material Interfaces for Cellular and Matrix Bioengineering Prabhas Moghe, Depts. of Biomedical Eng., and Chemical & Biochemical Eng., Rutgers Room 260, WR-Chemistry Lab
Wed, 10/26/2005 10:30am The IBM Josephson junction qubit David DiVincenzo, IBM Serin 385
Tue, 10/25/2005 1:00pm Bending the quantum Hall effect: Novel 1D metallic and insulating states Dr. Matthew Grayson, Walter Schottky Institute, Munich, Germany Serin 385
Tue, 10/25/2005 11:00am Molecular Container Chemistry Ralf Warmuth, Chemistry, Rutgers Wright Chemistry Auditorium
Tue, 10/18/2005 11:00am Biomimetics Prof. Paul Calvert, U. Mass-Dartmouth, MA Fiber Optics Auditorium
Tue, 10/18/2005 9:00am High-temperature superfluidity in an ultracold Fermi gas Martin Zwierlein, MIT -
Thu, 10/13/2005 12:00pm Hydrogen bonds and dielectric properties of water Roberto Car, Chemistry and PRISM, Princeton University Room 260, WR Chemistry Laboratory
Tue, 10/11/2005 9:00am Desperately seeking spin liquids and fractionalized states Patrick Lee MIT -
Thu, 10/06/2005 12:00pm Charge Transport in Molecular Monolayers, Multilayers, and Thin Films Cherie R. Kagan, IBM-T.J. Watson Room 260, Wright-Rieman Chemistry Laboratory
Mon, 10/03/2005 3:30pm Microelectronics, nanopatterning and their relation to model catalysis Dr. Mike Yan, UC Berkeley NPL conference room
Thu, 09/29/2005 12:00pm Nanocatalysis at Brookhaven Alex Harris, Chair, Dept. of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory Room 260, Wright-Rieman Chemistry Laboratory
Tue, 09/27/2005 11:00am Chemical/Biological Routes to Nanoelectronic Devices Prof. Anand Jagota, Lehigh University Fiber Optics Auditorium
Tue, 09/27/2005 11:00am Probing Molecular and Nanoscale Materials with FRET and FRAP: Nano Loops and Tubes Prof. Douglas English, Delaware Wright Chemistry Auditorium
Tue, 09/27/2005 9:00am Spin incoherent effects in momentum resolved tunneling and transport in Luttinger liquids Gregory A. Fiete, KITP, Santa Barbara -
Thu, 09/22/2005 12:00pm A theoretical study of the surface chemistry of atomic layer deposition and organic functionalization of semiconductors Charles B. Musgrave, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University Wright Chemistry Labs 260
Tue, 09/20/2005 1:30pm Charge Stripes and Superconductivity in Hole-doped Cuprates John Tranquada, Brookhaven Serin 385
Tue, 09/20/2005 11:00am Cemented Carbide Sintering: Constitutive Modelling and Microstructural Evolution Dr. Anders Petersson, MS&E, Rutgers Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thu, 09/15/2005 9:00am Regionally specific hyperfine polarization of Rb atoms in the vicinity (~10e-5 cm) of Pyrex glass surfaces Zhen Wu, Department of Physics Rutgers-Newark -
Tue, 09/13/2005 1:30pm Controlled Manipulation of Individual Magnetic Flux Quanta Jennifer Hoffman, Harvard Serin Physics 385
Tue, 09/13/2005 11:00am PolymerDrugs, Polymeric Micelles and Micropatterned Polymers: Designing Polymers for Biomedical Applications Kathryn Uhrich Wright Chemistry Auditorium
Mon, 09/12/2005 9:00am New seminars - -
Mon, 08/29/2005 12:00pm Measurement of Small Size Effects at Metal/Nanostructure Schottky contacts Jon P. Pelz, Ohio State University Serin Third Floor Seminar Room – 385E
Mon, 07/11/2005 1:30pm Synthesis and Applications of Rare Earth Nanomaterials Guang-Yan Hong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China Chemistry 260
Tue, 07/05/2005 3:00pm Integrated surface engineering and diagnostics for new materials functionality: examples from microelectronics and biotechnology Mariano Anderle, ITC-IRST, Trente, Italy Chemistry 260
Wed, 06/15/2005 2:00pm Syntheses of Ordered Non-Silica Mesoporous Materials Dongyuan Zhao, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai Chemistry, Room 260
Thu, 06/02/2005 12:00pm Local field confinement at metallic nanostructures: optical antennas for ultrahigh resolution microscopy and spectroscopy Markus B. Raschke, Max-Born-Institut, Berlin Room 260, Wright-Rieman Chemistry Laboratory
Mon, 05/30/2005 9:00am Summer seminars - -
Mon, 05/23/2005 9:00am MARM - Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society - Rutgers Busch Campus
Thu, 05/19/2005 11:00am Shining Light on Interfaces Mohsen S Yeganeh, ExxonMobil Chemistry 260
Wed, 05/18/2005 12:00pm The outer surface, ultra-thin layers and contacts studied by LEIS Hidde H. Brongersma, Calipso, The Netherlands Serin Physics 385E
Tue, 05/10/2005 1:00pm Suppression of Quantum Effects by Metallic Environment Francisco(Paco) Guinea, Boston University Serin 385
Tue, 05/03/2005 9:00am Fermi Gas with Feshbach Resonant Interactions Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado -
Thu, 04/28/2005 12:00pm Low-Temperature Preparation and Manipulation of Nanoparticles and Their Surfaces Mike Steigerwald, Columbia Room 260, Wright-Rieman Chemistry
Fri, 04/22/2005 9:00am The Development of the Catalytic Converter at Corning Irwin Lachman, Ceramic Assoc. of New Jersey, McLaren Lecture Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thu, 04/21/2005 12:00pm Quasicrystals as Templates for Aperiodic Films Renee D. Diehl, Penn State University, Department of Physics Room 260, Wright-Rieman Chemistry Laboratory
Tue, 04/19/2005 11:30am - Dr. Meilin Liu, Georgia Tech Fiber Optics Auditorium
Tue, 04/19/2005 9:00am Peudofermion Dynamical Theory: Short Description and Preliminary Applications Jose M. P. Carmelo, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
Thu, 04/14/2005 12:00pm What Photoemission Can Tell Us About High-K Dielectrics Bob Opila, University of Delaware Room 260, WRL
Wed, 04/13/2005 10:00am A Multi-Scale study of the creation and the properties of defects in SiO2 Nicolas Richard, CEA-DIF/DCRE/SEIM, Bruyères-le-Châtel, France Serin Room E385
Tue, 04/12/2005 1:30pm Studies of Nanostructured Catalysts with Single -Atom Sensitivity Albina Y. Borisevich, ORNL NPL 201
Mon, 04/11/2005 2:00pm Traps in Inorganic and Organic Semiconductors Narasimhan Srinivasan (Ph.D., expected May 2005, SUNY at Stony Brook) Electrical Engineering Building, EE240
Mon, 04/11/2005 10:00am Atomic Scale Simulation of the Atomic Layer Deposition of High-k Films on Silicon: a Multi-Scale Approach Alain Estève, LAAS-CNRS Toulouse, France Serin Third Floor Seminar Room E385
Thu, 04/07/2005 12:00pm Promises of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: fact or fiction? Co-Sponsored by the Rutgers Chapter of Sigma XI Talat Rahman, Kansas State University Room 260 Wright-Rieman Labs
Wed, 04/06/2005 11:00am The Intersection between Scanning Probe Microscopy, Materials Science, and Biology Dr. Sergei V. Kalinin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory CCR 201
Wed, 04/06/2005 8:30am Greater Garden State Nanotechnology Alliance Meeting - Fiber Optics Auditorium
Tue, 04/05/2005 9:00am Spin Waves in Superconducting Ferromagnets Vitaly Braude, Hebrew University -
Mon, 04/04/2005 11:30am Down Scaling in Piezoelectrics and Polar Materials: Microdevices, Nanofabrication, Small Features and Size Effects Prof. Nava Setter, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, Lausanne CCR 201
Thu, 03/31/2005 12:00pm Modeling Structure Formation in Surface Alloys: Rh/Ag(001) Lyle Roelofs, Colgate University, Physics & Astronomy Department Room 260, WRL
Wed, 03/30/2005 4:30pm - Congressman Rush Holt Physics Lecture Hall
Tue, 03/22/2005 11:30am Photovoltaics Dr. Elena Galoppini of Rutgers-Newark Fiber Optics Auditorium
Fri, 03/18/2005 11:30am - Shriram Ramanathan, Stanford Fiber Optics Auditorium
Wed, 03/16/2005 11:30am Chemistry at the Nanoscale: From Synthesis to Potential Teddy Asefa, McGill University Fiber Optics Auditorium
Tue, 03/15/2005 1:00pm The Electron Glass in a Switchable Mirror: Relaxation, Aging and Universality Minhyea Lee, Princeton University Serin 385E
Mon, 03/14/2005 11:30am Nanostructures with Controlled Shapes and Properties Yugang Sun, U. Illinois Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thu, 03/10/2005 12:00pm Breaking Chemical Bonds in Molecules and Materials: Theoretical Methods and Physical Insight Emily A. Carter, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University Room 260 WRL
Tue, 03/08/2005 1:00pm Numerical Renormalization-Group Approach to the Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Quantum Impurity Problems Frithjof B. Anders, Bremen University, Department of Physics Serin Third Floor Seminar Room 385E
Tue, 03/08/2005 11:30am Laser Processing of Electrochemical Materials for Micropower Generation Prof. Craig Arnold of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thu, 03/03/2005 9:00am NINETEENTH ANNUAL LSM SYMPOSIUM Several throughout the day Fiber Optics Auditorium, Busch Campus
Wed, 03/02/2005 11:30am Tunable Porous Silicon Photonic Bandgap Structures Ms. Sharon Weiss, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester Fiber Optics Auditorium
Tue, 03/01/2005 1:00pm Nonlinear Optical Probing of Ferroic and Multiferroic Domain Structures Venkatraman Gopalan, Penn. State University Room 385E, Serin Third Floor Seminar Room
Tue, 03/01/2005 11:30am Polyhedral and Conical Nanocrystals of Graphite Ms. Svetlana Dimovski of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thu, 02/24/2005 9:00am Why tea makes your teeth squeak and you should never suck lemons: Nanomechanics, chemistry and structure at the interface between dental enamel and saliva Adrian Mann, Dept. of Ceramic & Materials Engineering and Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University -
Tue, 02/22/2005 1:00pm Patterns of Domains and Domain Walls in the Microwave-Induced :Zero-Resistance State" of Two-Dimensional Electron Systems Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University Serin Third Floor Seminar Room 385E
Tue, 02/22/2005 11:30am Non-Oxide Glasses Doped with Rare-Earth Ions Dr. Jong Heo of Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea Fiber Optics Auditorium
Mon, 02/21/2005 11:30am Spin injection from ferromagnets into semiconductors: interface effects and spin relaxation Dr. Christoph Adelmann, University of Minnesota Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thu, 02/17/2005 9:00am Element-Specific Magnetization Dynamics in the GHz Range: Examining Fundamental Magnetic Relaxation Processes in Engineered Magnetic Materials by Time-Resolved XMCD Dario Alejandro Arena, Ph.D., National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Lab Room 260, Wright-Rieman Chemistry
Tue, 02/15/2005 1:00pm String Compactification as a Mesoscopic System Michael Douglas, Rutgers University Serin 385E
Tue, 02/15/2005 11:30am Organic Electronic Materials for Low-Cost Solar Energy Conversion Dr. Jiangeng Xue of Global Photonic Energy, Ewing, NJ Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thu, 02/10/2005 12:00pm The Stability of The Cubic Phase (C.) in Ce1-xZrxO2-y Nanocrystals Siu-Wai Chan, Program of Materials Science & Engineering Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University Room 260, WRL
Thu, 02/10/2005 10:00am Nanostructures and the Proximity Effect Ivan K. Schuller, UCSD Fiber Optics Auditorium
Tue, 02/08/2005 1:00pm Coexistence of Superconductivity and Magnetism in Electron-doped Magnetic Superconductor Sm1.85Ce0.15CuO4 Ruslan Prozorov, University of South Carolina Room 385E Serin
Tue, 02/08/2005 11:30am Neutron Scattering Methods for Materials Characterization: Investigation of the Structure and Dynamics of Clathrate Hydrates Camille Y. Jones, NIST, Center for Neutron Research Fiber Optics Auditorium
Tue, 02/08/2005 11:00am Phase Transitions and Nucleation in Nanoscale Systems Prof. Alexander V. Neimark Wright-Rieman Chemistry Auditorium
Thu, 02/03/2005 12:00pm Calculated Structural and Electronic Properties of Functionalized Metal Oxide Surfaces and Nanocrystals Petter Persson, Uppsala University, Sweden Room 260, WRL
Tue, 02/01/2005 11:30am A Study of GaN and CdTe by Electron Microscopy Techniques Dr. Eva Campo, Lehigh University Fiber Optics Auditorium
Tue, 02/01/2005 1:00am Dephasing of superconducting Qubit Joakim Bergli, Princeton University 385E Serin
Sat, 01/29/2005 1:30pm When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It - Yogi Berra's Guide to the Quantum World Professor R. Shankar, Yale University Physics Lecture Hall, Busch Campus
Thu, 01/27/2005 12:00pm Atomic-scale artificial heterostructures grown by pulsed laser deposition Ho Nyung Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Room 260, WR Chemistry
Thu, 01/27/2005 10:00am Exceptional Photonic and Optoelectronic Properties through Molecular Design and Controlled Self-Assembly Alex K-Y. Jen, Boeing-Johnson Chair Professor Fiber Optics Auditorium
Tue, 01/25/2005 1:00pm Interaction Corrections to Transport in Disordered Metals: Quantum Kinetic Equation and the Wiedemann-Franz Law Gianluigi Catelani, Columbia University Serin Third Floor Seminar Room 385E
Tue, 01/25/2005 11:30am Problems and Solutions in Organic/Flexible Electronics Dr. Ashok Maliakal, Lucent - Bell Labs Fiber Optics Auditorium
Tue, 01/25/2005 11:00am Surface science from the nanometer to the kilometer range Prof. Ted Madey, Rutgers University Chemistry Auditorium
Fri, 01/21/2005 1:00pm Transport calculations for single molecules based on density functional theory Ferdinand Evers, Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe, Germany Geology, WRL, Rm 339
Fri, 01/21/2005 12:00pm TBA Siu-Wai Chan, Program of Materials Science & Engineering Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University Room 260, WR Chemistry
Thu, 01/20/2005 12:00pm Nanoscale Dynamics at Electrochemical Interfaces Prof. Eric Borguet, Department of Chemistry, Temple University 260 Chemistry
Wed, 01/05/2005 9:00am Winter Break - -