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2007-2008

11/30/2007
241 Compton
3:45 Coffee
4:00 Lecture
Multidimensional Nucleation from Vapor Mixtures and Polymer Solutions
Richard Flagan
Department of Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
(Hosted by P. Biswas joint with Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering)
11/19/2007
241 Compton
3:45 Coffee
4:00 Lecture
Noise as a Probe of Disordered States in Oxides
Michael B. Weissman
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Hosted by P. Gibbons, joint with Condensed Matter/Materials and Biological Physics)

2006-2007

10/9/2006
241 Compton
3:45 Coffee
4:00 Lecture
Pattern Formation in Nanoscopic Metal Films
Ramki Kalayanaraman
Department of Physics
Washington University in St. Louis
(Hosted by K. Kelton, joint with Condensed Matter and Materials)
10/19/2006
311 McMillen
3:45 Coffee
4:00 Lecture
Ferromagnetic Metal/Compound Semiconductor Heterostructures: Growth, Interfacial Reactions and Spin Injection
Chris Palmstrøm
Departments Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Minnesota
(Hosted by S. Hayes, joint with Chemistry)
10/23/2006
241 Compton
3:45 Coffee
4:00 Lecture
Probing Structure and Bonding in Hydrogen-Storage Materials by Combined Neutron-Scattering Techniques and First-Principles Calculations
Terry J. Udovic
Center for Neutron Research
National Institute of Standards and Technology
(Hosted by M. Conradi, joint with Condensed Matter and Materials)
11/10/2006
Whittaker Hall, Auditorium, Room 100
4:00 Lecture
Rational Design of Bioactive Materials
Michael R. Caplan
Harrington Department of Bioengineering
Arizona State University
(Hosted by Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, joint with Department of Biomedical Engineering)
12/01/2006
Lopata Hall, Room 101
11:00 Lecture
The Design of Nanoscale Therapeutics and Nanostructured Materials
Ravi Kane
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(Hosted by Pratim Biswas, joint with EEC)
12/15/2006
Whitaker Hall, Auditorium, Room 100
4:00 Lecture, Happy Hour to follow
Poking and Sealing Holes: Interactions of Antimicrobial Peptides and Poloxamers with Lipid Membranes
Ka Yee C. Lee
Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
(Hosted by Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, joint with BME)
01/17/2007
3:30 Coffee, Compton 245
4:00 Lecture, Crow 204
Unconventional Magnetism and Dynamic Generation of Spin-Orbit Coupling
Conjun Wu
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
(Hosted by A. Carlsson, joint with Physics)
01/24/2007
3:30 Coffee, Compton 245
4:00 Lecture, Crow 204
Orbital Magnetization in Periodic Solids
Timo Thonhauser
Department of Materials Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Hosted by A. Carlsson, joint with Physics)
01/31/2007
3:30 Coffee, Compton 245
4:00 Lecture, Crow 204
A Unified View on Charge Fractionalization
Alexander Seidel
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL
(Hosted by A. Carlsson, joint with Physics)
02/07/2007
3:30 Coffee, Compton 245
4:00 Lecture, Crow 204
Nuclear Spin Dynamics in Solids: Implications of Microscopic Chaos
Boris Fine
Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(Hosted by A. Carlsson, joint with Physics)
02/09/2007
Cupples II, Room 217
2:00 pm Lecture
Nanostructured Materials for Solar Energy harvesting
Julia W. P. Hsu
Sandia National Laboratories
(Hosted by Stuart Solin and Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, joint with EEC)
02/12/2007
3:30 Coffee, Compton 245
4:00 Lecture, Crow 201
Mapping the Braiding Properties of Non-Abelian Fractional Quantum Hall Liquids
Emil Prodan
Princeton Center for Complex Materials, Princeton University
(Hosted by A. Carlsson, joint with Physics)
02/15/2007
2:30 Lecture, Cupples II, Room 100
Nanostructured Materials for Efficient Energy Harvesting and Storage
Guozhong Cao
Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, University of Washington
(Joint with Physics, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)
02/19/2007
3:30 Coffee, Compton 245
4:00 Lecture, Crow 201
First Principles Investigation of Magnetic Ferroelectrics
Claude Ederer
Department of Physics, Columbia University
(Hosted by A. Carlsson, joint with Physics)
02/21/2007
3:30 Coffee, Compton 245
4:00 Lecture, Crow 204
Molecular Driving Forces in Templated Self-Assembly
Je-Luen Li
Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
(Hosted by A. Carlsson, joint with Physics)
02/23/2007
2:00 Lecture, Lopata 101
Mechanical Response of Pyramidal Truss Core Sandwich Panels
Hilary Bart-Smith
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Virginia
(Joint with Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)
03/02/2007
241 Compton
3:45 pm coffee
4:00 pm Lecture
Fabrication of Metal Nanoparticle Composites by Ion Implantation-based Methods and the Nonlinear Optical Property
Naoki Kishimoto
Quantum Beam Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
(Hosted by R. Kalyanaraman, joint with CMMBP)
03/23/2007
Cupples II Rm. 100
2:00 pm Lecture
Design of Stable Nanocrystalline Alloys for Coating Applications
Christopher A. Schuh
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(joint with Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Civil Engineering)
03/30/2007
101 Lopata
11:00 AM Lecture
Putting Nanostructures to Work for Biomedical Research
Younan Xia
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
(joint with Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering)
04/27/2007
241 Compton
3:45 PM Coffee
4:00 PM Lecture
Disorder and Dissipation in the Microwave Conductivity Spectra of Carbon Nanotube and Silicon Nanowire Arrays
Mark Lee
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
(Hosted by S. Solin, joint with Physics)

2005-2006

10/28/2005
311 McMillen
3:00 Lecture
Mesostructured Metal Oxides
Thomas J. Pinnavaia
Department of Chemistry,
Michigan State University
(hosted by W. E. Buhro and S. Solin; seminar joint with Chemistry.)
10/24/2005
241 Compton
3:45 Coffee
4:00 Lecture
Engineered Nanoparticles for Targeted Applications
Sudipta Seal
University of Central Florida
1/20/2006
Lopata 101
2:00 Lecture
3:00 Refreshments
Applications and Implications of Nanomaterials: Challenges for Environmental Engineers
Mark Wiesner
Rice University
(Seminar joint with Environmental Engineering Science.)
4/24/2006
241 Compton
3:45 Coffee
4:00 Lecture
The Role of the Nanoscale in Nanocatalysis
Sokrates T. Pantelides
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Vanderbilt University

2004-2005

10/25/2004
311 McMillan Labs
3:45 Coffee
4:00 Lecture
(Beer and chips reception after lecture)
Molecular Electronics: An Electrical Engineer's Perspective
David B. Janes
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and The Birck Nanotechnology Center
Purdue University
11/15/04
Coffee: 9:45 AM, 241 Compton
Lecture: 10:00 AM, 241 Compton
The University of Hawaii FEL and Generation of Intrinsic Excitations of Solids in the THz Region
William Yen
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University Of Georgia
4/8/2005
101 Lopata
11:00 AM
R. Lee Penn
Department of Chemistry,
University of Minnesota
5/6/2005
241 Compton
Coffee: 2:45 PM
Lecture: 3:00 PM
Mechanisms and Effects of Microbial Metal Reduction
Tyrone L. Daulton
Director, Marine Geosciences - Electron Microscopy Facility
Physicist and Senior Electron Microscopist
Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Geosciences Division Stennis Space Center, MS
(Hosted by S. Solin)
5/9/2005
311 McMillen Labs
Coffee: 3:45 PM
Lecture: 4:00 PM
The Birth and Infancy of Self-Mending Plastics
Fred Wudl
Department of Chemistry
University Of California, Los Angeles
(Hosted by K. Wooley)
 

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