2008 Seminars

Date & Time Title Speaker Location
Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:00pm First-principles approaches for a quantitative description of organic semiconductors: from electronic and optical properties to film growth Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl, Chair of Atomistic Modelling and Design of Materials, Department Materials Physics, University of Leoben, Franz-Josef-Straße 18, A-8700 Leoben Chem. 260
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:00am Towards Elucidating the Role of the Probe in Single Molecule Experiments in Supercooled Liquids Laura Kaufman, Asst. Professor, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University Chem. 260
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 9:00am MODERN TRENDS IN NANOSCIENCE Princeton University, SYMPOSIUM in Honor of Giacinto Scoles Princeton University
Monday, December 15, 2008 10:00am Capturing Spin Dancing in Magnetic Nanostructures Dr. Xuemei May Cheng, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory CCR 201, (McLaren Center for Ceramic Research Bldg.)
Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:00pm Quantitative Characterization and Rational Design of DNA Biointerfaces Dmitri Petrovykh, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC Chem. 260
Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:00am I. Synthesis of a Low-Coordinate Binuclear Iron(II) Sulfide and its Reactivity Towards Nitrogenase-relevant Substrates. II. Giant Multishell CdSe Quantum Dots: Nonblinking and Robust Quantum-dot Fluorophores for Applications in Biology Javier Vela, Los Alamos National Laboratory Chem. 260 (WL)
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:20am Evaluation and Modeling of Coating Uniformity of Pharmaceutical Solid Dosage Forms Richard Turton, West Virginia University BME 122
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 12:10pm Characterization of nano-bio-materials Jonah Erlebacher, Johns Hopkins University CCR 201
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 10:20am Bubble and Droplet Motion in Yield Stress Fluids Morton M. Denn, City College of New York BME 122
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 12:10pm Nanomaterials for Defense Applications Chris Haines, Picatinny Arsenal CCR 201
Monday, December 1, 2008 4:00pm "The Theory of Mind" Mechanism and Social Impairment in Autism Alan Leslie, Rutgers Psychology Fiber Optics Auditorium
Monday, December 1, 2008 1:30pm Microenvironments for Engineering Embryonic Stem Cell Fates Sean Palecek, University of Wisconsin BME 102
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 10:20am Molecular Systems Biology: Building Bridges Through Multiscale Modeling and High-Performance Computing Ravi Radhakrishnan, University of Pennsylvania BME 122
Monday, November 24, 2008 1:30pm Tissue Engineering & the Challenges of Imitating Nature Gordana Novakovic, Columbia U. BME 102
Friday, November 21, 2008 10:20am Progress in the Structural Characterization of Advanced Nanoporous Materials Matthias Thommes, Quantachrome Corporation Room 122, BME
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:00pm Radiocarbon Dating Rick Fairbanks, Rutgers Geological Sciences Wright Chemistry Auditorium
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:10pm ZnS nano particles by chemical routes Chekesha Liddell, Cornell University CCR 201
Monday, November 17, 2008 3:00pm Which materials to design better Li-based storage systems for a "Green Energy Society" Jean-Marie TARASCON, Laboratoire de Réactivité et Chimie des Solides, Université de Picardie Jules Verne CNRS Amiens, France Fiber Optics Auditorium
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 3:30pm Direct Flame Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Titanium-Oxide Thin Films Hai Wang, Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California Eng. Room B120
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:30pm The Path to Predicting Charge-Carrier Mobilities in Organic Semiconductors: Description of the Charge Transport Parameters Jean-Luc Bredas, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology Room 385E Serin Physics Lab
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:10pm Phase-field crystal modeling of deformations and phase transformations at the nanoscale Mikko Haataja, Princeton University CCR 201
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:00am The dark energy of proteins: Conformational entropy and its contribution to molecular recognition by proteins Joshua Wand Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Monday, November 10, 2008 10:00am Green vs Red Uses of Solar David Faiman, Chair, Dept. of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics Fiber Optics Auditorium
Friday, November 7, 2008 1:30pm Synthesis and Novel Properties of Si/Ge Nanowires S. Tom Picraux Institute for Advanced Materials and Devices
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 3:30pm Carbon Nanotube Nanofluidics Olgica Bakajin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Eng. Room B120
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 1:30pm Coulomb Impurity in Graphene Dmitry Novikov, Yale University Room 385E Serin Physics Lab
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 12:10pm Surface Modification within Glass and Polymer Microfluidic Channels Shaurya Prakash, Rutgers Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering CCR 201
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 11:40am CCB Colloquium Judy Riffle, Virginia Tech. WL-Aud
Monday, November 3, 2008 4:00pm The New Humanities: Reimagining the Future in the Wake of the Digital Revolution Richard Miller, English Dept Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:00pm Electrochemically Programmed Release of Biomolecules and Nanoparticles Peter C. Searson, Johns Hopkins Univ., Institute for NanoBio Technology Chem. 260
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:45pm Bringing Order to Chaotic Hearts Alain Karma, Northeastern University Physics Lecture Hall
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:30pm Microfluidics and micro-PIV Steve Wereley, Purdue University, Mechanical Engineering Engineering Building, Room B120
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:20am Elucidating the Control Mechanism for DNA Damage Repair with the p53-Mdm2 System: Single Cell Data Analysis and Ensemble Modeling Babatunde A. Ogunnaike, Univ.of Delaware, Chemical Engineering Dept. Fiber Optics Auditorium
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:00am The 9th New Jersey Symposium on Biomaterials Science and Regenerative Medicine 70 speakers Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Brunswick, NJ
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:30pm New insights into fatigue cracking, strain localization, and real battery electrochemistry from in situ high energy x-ray diffraction. Mark Croft, Rutgers University, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy Room 385E Serin Physics Lab
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:10pm Renewable Polymer Nanocomposites with Optimal Mechanical Properties Yvonne A. Akpalu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute CCR 201
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:00am Design Principles for Cytokine-Regulating Biomaterials Newell Washburn, Carnegie Mellon University WL-Aud
Monday, October 27, 2008 8:00am Symposium on Carbon Capture and Sequestration Several Cook Campus Center, Rutgers University
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:30pm Optoelectric Micro/Nano Particle Manipulation Steve Wereley, Purdue University Eng. Room B120
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:30pm Breaking the Tyranny of Copper: The Emergence of a New Generation of High-Tc Superconductors Based on Iron David Mandrus, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Room 385E Serin Physics Lab
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:10pm Taking Materials Innovation to the Marketplace Faruq Marikar, Nanobiz, LLC CCR 201
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:00am How Can a Chemical System Act Purposefully? Bridging between Life and Non-Life Addy Pross, Ben Gurion University WL-Aud
Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:00pm TEM/STEM Imaging and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy Frederic Cosandey, Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University Chem. 260
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:45pm DNA Looping: Theory and Experiment Phil Nelson, University of Pennsylvania Physics Lecture Hall
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:30pm Exploring the Metal-Insulator Transition in VO2 Nanoparticles Richard Haglund, Vanderbilt University Serin 385
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:10pm Carbon Nanotubes Grown by Chemical Vapour Deposition: A Catalyst Activation Study Cecilia Mattevi, Rutgers MS&E/University of Padua CCR 201
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:00am Massive Assembly of Carbon Nanotube/Nanowire-based Nano-Platforms for Biological Detection and Signal Measurements: Biomolecules, Membrane Proteins, and Cells" Dr. Seunghun Hong, Seoul National University WL-Aud
Friday, October 10, 2008 10:20am Microtubule Self-Assembly: Social Interaction at the Nanoscale David J. Odde, Univ. of Minnesota BME Room 122
Thursday, October 9, 2008 12:00pm The Science and Applications in Making Diamond Slippery, Non-Sticking, and Wear-Resistant Robert W. Carpick, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Nanotechnology Institute Chem. 260
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 1:30pm Interferometry of Electrons and Laughlin Quasiparticles Vladimir Goldman, Stony Brook 385E Serin Lab
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 11:00am Development of Homogeneous Catalysts for the Conversion of C-H Bonds Brent Gunnoe, North Carolina State University WL-Aud
Monday, October 6, 2008 4:00pm Human Emissions of Particles to the Stratosphere from Geoengineering or Nuclear Winter: A Bad and a Very Bad Idea Alan Robock, Rutgers Dept. of Environmental Sciences Fiber Optics Auditorium
Friday, October 3, 2008 3:00pm Organic Seminar Jovica Badjic, Ohio State U. WL-260
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 10:20am Experimental Studies and Molecular Simulations of the Transport of Mixtures Through Nanoporous Membranes Theodore T. Tsotsis, University of Southern California BME 122
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:30pm Two steps into the paradigm of all graphene electronics: The effect of substrates and a method to "draw" graphene channels Jorge Sofo, Penn State Serin 385
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 12:10pm Nanomaterials for Defense Applications Christopher Haines, Army Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) CCR 201
Monday, September 29, 2008 1:30pm Porous Nanocrystalline Membranes for Porous Nanocrystalline Membranes James McGrath, U. Rochester BME 102
Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:00pm What Surface Science Can Tell Us About Chemical Sensors Roger G. Tobin, Tufts University Rm 260 Wright-Rieman Chemistry
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:45pm Sox and Drugs: Baseball, Steroids and Physics Roger G. Tobin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University Physics Lecture Hall
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:30pm Resonant Atomic Gases Leo Radzihovsky, University of Colorado, Boulder Serin Room 385E
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:10pm NanoMaterials-based Transparent Conductors James V. Guiheen, Honeywell, Inc. CCR 201
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:00am Porous materials from self-assembling cyclic ureas Linda Shimizu, U. of South Carolina WL-Aud
Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:00pm The Nanoscale Deposition and Organization of Polymers using Heatable AFM Cantilevers Paul E. Sheehan, Naval Research Laboratory Rm 260 Wright-Rieman Chemistry
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:45pm New Superfluid States of Fermionic Matter in and out of Equilibrium Emil Yuzbashyan, Center for Materials Theory Physics Lecture Hall
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:30pm Pairing, magnetism and transport in strongly-interacting ultracold fermionic atoms David Huse, Princeton University Room 385E
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:10pm Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Eric H. Jordan, University of Connecticut CCR 201
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:00am CCB Colloquium Maurice Brookhart, U. of NC Chapel Hill WL-Aud
Monday, September 15, 2008 1:30pm Computational Systems Bioengineering: From Molecules to Networks to Cells Jie Liang, U. Illinois, Chicago BME 102
Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:30pm Organic single crystal transistors for high-performance organic electronics Prof. Jun Takeya, Osaka University CCR 201
Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:00pm Incorporating Boron into Polymers: From Luminescent Materials to Block-Copolymer Nanostructures Frieder Jaekle, Rutgers Newark Chemistry Chem 260
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:45pm Predicting and Understanding Correlated Electron Materials: A Computational Approach Kristjan Haule, Center for Materials Theory Department of Physics & Astronomy Physics Lecture Hall
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 1:30pm Probing the Upper Limit of Non-classical Rotational Inertia in Solid Helium4 John Reppy, Cornell University 385E Serin Physics Lab
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 12:10pm The Mystery of the Great Pyramids of Egypt: A Partial Solution Michel W. Barsoum, Drexel University CCR 201
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 11:00am New methods and results for probing the conformational changes in the earliest stages of amyloid formation David Talaga, Rutgers Chemistry WL-Aud
Thursday, September 4, 2008 12:00pm Atomic spin state selectivity in Auger Photo Electron Coincidence Spectroscopy (APECS): a tool for the investigation of local magnetism Giovanni Stefani, CNISM and Dipartimento di Fisica Universita’ Roma Tre Chem 260
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 1:30pm Noise, Dissipation and Entanglement in Closed Quantum Systems Lev Ioffe, Rutgers Physics Serin 385
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:30pm Scientific Synergy: Synthesis, Reactors and Detection Dr. Paul Bentley, MagnetoOrganics, LLC Geology Rm. 231
Friday, August 8, 2008 11:00am Time-resolved spectroscopy of excitonic states in metal-oxide nanostructures, conjugated polymers, and organic molecular crystals Hikmat Najafov, Physics Dept., Lehigh University CCR 201
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:30am Plasma Wave Electronics THz Detectors Dmitry B. Veksler, Adviser: Prof. M. S. Shur, Department of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute CCR Room 201
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:30am Microstructure and Texture analysis of Thin Films Dr. Rao Karavadi, Lehigh University CCR Room 201
Monday, June 16, 2008 4:45pm Competing Disorder and Coulomb Interaction Effects in Graphene Matthew Foster, Columbia University Serin E385
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:00pm Chiral Recognition via Intermeshing Triple-Helical Molecules in a Crystalline Supramolecular Array: A Tale of Aromatic-Aromatic Interactions Robert Glaser, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel WL-260 (Chemistry)
Monday, May 19, 2008 1:30pm Wide bandgap material research at KTH in Kista/Stockholm Margaret Linnarsson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm Sweden NPL 201
Friday, May 16, 2008 12:00pm Experiments on the exchange-correlation hole in solids Juergen Kirschner, Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Germany Chem 260
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 4:45pm Phase Competition in Complex Oxides by Design Craig Fennie, Plano Prize Winner Physics Lecture Hall
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 11:00am The Importance of Questioning Scientific Assumptions: Some Lessons from F Element Chemistry William J. Evans, University of California, Irvine WL-Aud (Chemistry)
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 9:30am Molecular Biophysics Minisymposium Professor Gregory A. Petsko, Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor Fiber Optics Auditorium and Busch Campus Center
Monday, May 5, 2008 1:30pm Mass Transport and Micro/Nanofluidics for Biosensing Deyu Li, Vanderbilt University BME-102
Friday, May 2, 2008 9:30am Celebration of Undergraduate Achievement Jean Day Lecture Presentation Life Sciences Bldg. and Wright-Lab Auditorium
Thursday, May 1, 2008 1:30pm WEB seminar: Nanophotonics: from Plasmon Physics to Cancer Therapy Naomi Halas, Rice University http://www.nclt.us/conferencing_connections.htm
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:30pm Photon localization and Dicke superradiance : a crossover to small world Eric Akkermans, Technion, Haifa, Israel and Applied Physics, Yale University Serin 385 (Physics)
Friday, April 25, 2008 11:00am Fiber Assisted Wireless for Broadband Access Networks Nicholas Madamopoulos, City College of CUNY ECE Room 240
Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:00pm Multiple Exciton Generation in Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Novel Molecules: Applications to Third Generation Solar Photon Conversion Arthur Nozik, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Chem. 260
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:20am Role of Inter-Nanoparticle Forces in Nanoparticle Assembly Mustafa Akbulut, Princeton University Room 601, CoRE Building
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:30pm The Heavy Fermion Coherence Scale Zachary Fisk, University of California, Irvine Room 385E, Serin Physics Lab
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:10pm Atomically-controlled Oxide-Metamaterials Seongshik Oh, Physics and Astronomy Department CCR 201
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:00am Nanoscale Pyramids: A Multifunctional Plasmonic System Teri Odom, Northwestern University WL-Aud-Chem
Monday, April 21, 2008 8:00am Rutgers Energy Institute Third Annual Energy Symposium Third Annual Energy Symposium Fiber Optics Auditorium, Busch Campus
Friday, April 18, 2008 11:00am Bandwidth Efficient Modulation in Communication Networks / Wireless Photogrammetric Testbed for Plume Volume Measurement Moncef Benjamin Tayahi, University of Nevada-Reno EE240 (Electrical Engineering)
Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:00pm Making Contact to Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Dr. Paul Lane, Optical Sciences Division, Naval Research Laboratory Chem 260
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:00am Spin-Singlet Atoms in Molecules: I. Electrochemical Potential Equalization Raymond T. Tung, Brooklyn College, CUNY CCR Room 201
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:30pm The Fermi Surface of High Temperature Super Conductors Louis Taillefer, Sherbrooke Univrsity Serin E385 (Physics)
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:10pm Ceramics and Glasses: Why do they break? George D. Quinn, NIST CCR 201
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:00am Novel Polymers, Novel Scaffolds -- A Framework for Tissue Engineering Buddy Ratner, University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB) BME-102 (Auditorium)
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 8:30am The Climate Ahead: Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources one-day symposium Rutgers Student Center
Monday, April 14, 2008 1:00pm Thermodynamic Process Synthesis, Using Simple Thermodynamic Tools to Assess and Design Processes David Glasser, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 601 CoRE
Friday, April 11, 2008 2:30pm Every Cloud Has A Quicksilver Lining: The Environmental Chemistry Of Mercury Charles Driscoll, Syracuse University Alampi Room, Marine and Coastal Sciences
Friday, April 11, 2008 1:30pm MGM Symposium Professor Carlo Pantano to Present the 2008 McLaren Lecture Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:00pm Surface Activation of Inorganic and Organic Biomaterials Jefferey Schwartz, Princeton University Chem. 260
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 1:30pm Supersolidity and Disorder Sebastian Balibar, ENS Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France Serin E385
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 11:00am RF Assisted Spin Transfer Switching in GMR Nanostructures Sylvia Florez, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose, CA EE-240 (Electrical Engineering)
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 11:00am Searching for High-Valent Iron-Oxo Transients in the Laboratory and in the Cytochrome P450 Enzymes Martin Newcomb, University of Illinois-Chicago WL-Aud
Monday, April 7, 2008 1:30pm Bioengineering the Immune System: From Stem Cells to Vaccines Krish Roy, University of Texas-Austin BME-102
Friday, April 4, 2008 10:30am Inhibition of hydrogen adsorption on uranium surfaces by traces of water vapor Noah Shamir, NRC-Negev, Israel Chem. 260
Thursday, April 3, 2008 11:00am Raman Spectroscopy of Graphene and Doped Graphene Andrea C. Ferrari, University of Cambridge CCR 201
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 10:20am The Scientific Detection of Forgery in Paintings Jehane Ragai, American University in Cairo, Egypt Room 601, CoRE Building
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 12:10pm Load Bearing Implants Using Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS) Amit Bandyopadhyay, Washington State University CCR 201
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 11:00am From Coordination Polymers to Hydrogen Bonded Networks Christoph Janiak, Universitat Freiburg WL-Auditorium
Monday, March 31, 2008 4:45pm Quantum interference effects in graphene Konstantin Kechedzhi, Lancaster University Serin E385
Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:30pm Preserving the coherence of spin qubits in silicon Stephen Lyon, Princeton University Serin E385
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 11:00am Fatty Acid Amides as Gelators and Templates for Novel Soft Nanomatl Design Santanu Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore Chem-WL Aud
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:30pm Imaging Magnetic Surfaces with Atomic Resolution Matthias Bode, Argonne National Laboratory Serin E385
Monday, March 24, 2008 1:30pm Nanostructured Probes for Gene Detection in Living Cells Gang Bao, Georgia Institute of Technology BME-102
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:00am Tunable Molecular Beams: A New Frontier in Vacuum Deposition of Organic Semiconductors Aram Amassian, Cornell University CCR 201
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:00am Quantitative Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy at Atomic-Scale K. Andre Mkhoyan, Cornell University CCR 201
Friday, March 14, 2008 2:00pm Resonator-Based CMOS Compatible Thermo-optic Filters and Electro-optic Modulators Douglas M. Gill, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories CCR 201
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:10pm Characterization and optimization of microbial fuel cells for sustainable wastewater treatment Kartik Chandran, Columbia University CCR 201
Friday, March 7, 2008 1:30pm Intrinsic Bipolar Carrier e-/h+ Layer on Clean Surface of Insulating BaTi03 Yukio Watanabe, Kyushu University Room 385E Serin Physics Lab
Friday, March 7, 2008 1:30pm Engineering Functional Human Microvessels In Vitro Joe Y. Tien, Boston University BME 301
Friday, March 7, 2008 10:30am First Principles Investigations on the Interface between Electrode and Electrolyte Timo Jacob, Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Germany Chem. 260
Friday, March 7, 2008 10:20am Benign Synthesis, Size Control, and Assembly of Silica Nanoparticles: A New Paradigm for Dispersed Particle, Porous Thin Film, and Gel Applications Mark A. Snyder, University of Minnesota Room 116, BME
Thursday, March 6, 2008 1:30pm Dynamic correlations in the two-channel Kondo model:a numerical renormalization group study seen against symmetries Anna Toth, TU Budapest Serin E385
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 4:45pm Breaking the Protein Amino Acid Code (aka the Code of Life) Jim Phillips, Rutgers University Physics lecture Hall
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 1:30pm The Anderson-Mott Transition for the disordered Hubbard Model in 2d M.E. Pezzoli, SISSA, Italy Serin E385
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 1:30pm Nonequilibrium Quantum Phase Transitions Aditi Mitra, NYU Serin E385
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 11:00am Donor-Acceptor Interfaces in Molecular Semiconductors: STM/STS Insights Janice Reutt-Robey, University of Maryland Chem-WL Aud
Monday, March 3, 2008 1:30pm Nanoprobes for Integrated Imaging and Therapy of Cancer Rebekah Drezek, Rice University BME-102
Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:00pm Surface modification for improved organic electronic devices Steven L. Bernasek, Princeton University Chem 260
Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:00am Workshop on NanoEnergetics at Rutgers Sponsored by Army Research Office and Rutgers University Biomedical Engineering Building
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:30pm The Physics of Constraints in Low Dimensional Systems David Schmeltzer, CUNY Serin E385
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:00pm Nanoscale Bioceramics in Bone Implants and Protein Delivery Susmita Bose, Washington State University CCR 201
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:00am Selectivity Control in Enantionselective Hydroformylation Clark Landis, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chem-WL Aud
Monday, February 25, 2008 4:00pm Small Length Scale Studies of Fractional Quantum Hall States and their Potential Use in Topological Quantum Computation Robert Willett, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent Serin E385
Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:00pm Growth Strategies for Oxide Heteroepitaxy on Silicon by ALD Brian G. Willis, University of Delaware Chem. 260
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:45pm Atomic Resolution Studies of an Unusual Effect: The Influence of Metal Adatoms in Chemisorption on Metals John T. Yates, Jr., University of Virginia Physics Lecture Hall
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:30pm Intrinsic and Extrinsic Limits of Charge Carrier Mobility in Graphene Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland College Park Serin E385
Monday, February 18, 2008 4:00pm The role of high mobility MBE in the discovery of new semiconductor physics Loren Pfeiffer, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent Serin Physics E385
Monday, February 18, 2008 1:30pm Tissue Engineering and the Challenges of Imitating Nature Gordana V. Novakovic, Columbia University BME-102
Friday, February 15, 2008 8:30am Twenty-Second Annual Symposium of the Laboratory for Surface Modification Twenty Second Annual LSM Symposium Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:00pm Examining the fractional quantum Hall effect in nanostructures: towards confining non-Abelian quantum Hall states Michael J. Manfra, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent Chem 260
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:30pm The Supersolid Phase of Matter Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich Room 385E Serin Physics Lab
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:00pm Synthetically Tuned Luminophoric Materials: 3D Displays, Solar Energy Conversion, and Beyond Stefan Bernhard, Princeton University CCR 201
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:00am Aggregation, Dynamics and Interactions of Amyloid-b peptide Chunyu Wang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute WL-Aud
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 4:45pm Materials with Strong Electronic Correlations: Solid-state physics from an Atomic Viewpoint Antoine Georges, Ecole Polytechnique, France Physics Lecture Hall
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 10:00am Spontaneous Superlattice Formation in Nanorods through Partial Cation Exchange Richard Robinson CCR 201
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 1:30pm Stability of Bose Einstein Condensates of Hot Magnons in Yttrium Iron Garnett Sasha Burin, Tulane University Room 385E Serin Physics Lab
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 11:00am Diazirines, Diazirinone, and Dihalocarbenes Robert Moss, Rutgers Chemistry & Chemical Biology WL-Aud
Monday, February 4, 2008 1:30pm Microtubules and Motors: Mechanisms of Mitosis David Odde, University of Minnesota BME-102
Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:00pm Stacking interactions and the Twist of DNA Valentino Cooper, Physics Department Chem. 260
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:30pm High-Performance, High-Precision Computing in Math, Physics and Engineering David H. Bailey, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Engineering Room B-120
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:00am Polymer micelles as nanocarriers for drugs and imaging agents Tatiana Bronich, University of Nebraska Medical Center WL-Aud
Friday, January 25, 2008 3:00pm Open Forum - Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices and Nanotechnology meet our newest faculty members and hear about their science and engineering directions Fiber Optics Auditorium
Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:00pm Ferroelectric Oxide Surfaces: Cutting Edge Chemistry Andrew Rappe, University of Pennsylvania Chem 260
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:00pm Soft Materials: Tales of Granularity discussion with academic and industry experts The New York Academy of Sciences, New York
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:30pm Novel Magnetism in New Heavy Electron Compounds Meigan Aronson, Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory Room 385E Serin Physics Lab
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:00am Terahertz Biospectroscopy, Modeling and Imaging Edwin J. Heilweil, National Institute of Standards and Technology WL-Aud
Monday, January 21, 2008 11:00am Synthetic Chemistry for Functional Materials William Dichtel, University of California, Los Angeles WL-Aud
Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:00pm Living in the Nano-World Hosted by: Mildred Dresselhaus, Professor, MIT The New York Academy of Sciences
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:30pm Zero-Temperature Magnetic Transition in an Easy-Axis Kondo Lattice Model Jian-Xin Zhu, Los Alamos National Laboratory Room 385E
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 11:00am Nanocrystal Synthesis and Nanocrystal Superlattices Stephen O’Brien, Columbia University WL-Aud
Monday, January 7, 2008 Nano-mechanical deformation and kinking non-linear elastic behavior of hexagonal materials Sandip Basu, Advisor: Prof. Michel W. Barsoumm, Drexel University CCR 101
Thursday, January 3, 2008 2:00pm Self-Assembly Based Nucleic Acids Dage Liu, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison CCR 101