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Seminars & Events
Upcoming Events
Future CFN seminars and events have either not been scheduled or have not been entered into the Events Database. Past EventsSee also: Past Center for Functional Nanomaterials Workshops Monday, September 22, 2008 "Polymer Layered Silicate Nanocomposites: Structure, Morphology and Properties" Pranav Nawani, State University of New York at Stony Brook Hosted by Oleg Gang 10:00 AM, Bldg. 735, Conf Rm B Monday, September 15, 2008 "Silicon Carbide Nanocones and Heterostructures Induced by Released Iron Catalysis" Hosted by Yimei Zhu 10:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm A Monday, September 15, 2008 "Self-Organization and Characterization of Porphyrinic Nanoparticles, and New Catalytic Oxidation by Nanoparticles of Iron Tetra-pentafluorophenyl Porphyrin" Gabriela Maria Smeureanu, Hunter College of City University of New York Hosted by Daniel van der Lelie 1:30 PM, Bldg. 735, Conf Rm B Monday, September 8, 2008 "High Resolution Microscopy Analysis of Precipitation Phases in Al-Cu-Mg Alloys" Libor Kovarik, Ohio State University Hosted by Yimei Zhu 10:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm A Thursday, August 28, 2008 "f-electron Systems from the GW Perspective: Applications to Lanthanide Oxides" Hong Jiang, Fritz-Haber-Institut Hosted by Mark Hybertsen 10:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm. B Thursday, August 14, 2008 "Evolutionary Technologies... One Lab's Journey From CMOS to MEMS" Linus Fetter, Bell Laboratories Hosted by Aaron Stein 11:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm B Friday, August 8, 2008 "DNA-conjugated Metal Nanoparticle for Bioanalytics, Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics" Wolfgang Fritzsche, Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) Hosted by Oleg Gang 10:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm B Tuesday, August 5, 2008 "DNA Beyond Biology" Dmytro Nykypanchuk, CFN - BNL Hosted by Oleg Gang 10:00 AM, CFN - Bldg. 735 - Conf. Rm. B Thursday, July 31, 2008 "Using Single-molecular Approaches for Studying DNA-protein Complexes and DNA 4-way Junctions" Mikhail Karymov, University of Nebraska Hosted by Oleg Gang 10:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf. Rm. B Monday, July 14, 2008 "Characterization of Semiconductor Nanowires by Scanning Probe Techniques" Jon Allen, Northwestern University Hosted by Charles Black 11:00 AM, Bldg 735, Conference Room A Friday, July 11, 2008 "Scanning Probe Microscopy of Adsorbates on Insulating Films: First Steps Towards a Modular Molecular Logic" Gerhard Meyer, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Hosted by Percy Zahl 10:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm B Monday, July 7, 2008 "Low Loss EELS Imaging of Irradiation Sensitive Materials" Sergey Yakovlev, Stevens Institute of Technology Hosted by Yimei Zhu 10:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf. Rm. B Thursday, June 5, 2008 "Control Synthesis of Nanostructured Metals Toward Optical and Catalytic Applications" Hsing-Lin Wang, Los Alamos National Laboratory Hosted by Mircea Cotlet 10:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm B Thursday, May 15, 2008 "Morphology Control of Lithographically Patternable Diblock Copolymer by Solvent Annealing" Joan (Katy) Bosworth, Cornell University Hosted by Chuck Black 11:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm B Monday, April 28, 2008 "Nanoscale Hydrodynamics and Its Application to Generation and Control of Nanojets: An Atomic View from Molecular Dynamics Simulations" Wei Kang, Georgia Institute of Technology Hosted by Mark Hybertsen 9:30 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm B Tuesday, April 22, 2008 "Electron Dynamics at Surfaces" Pedro Echenique, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales and Centro Mixto UPV/CSIC and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) - San Sebastian Hosted by Emilio Mendez 11:00 AM, CFN 2nd Floor Seminar Room Wednesday, April 16, 2008 "Correlation and van der Waals Energies in ACFD Formalism with Thomas-Fermi-von Weizsacker Approximation" Viet Nguyen, International School for Advanced Studies Hosted by Mark Hybertsen 10:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf. Rm. A Tuesday, April 15, 2008 "Nanobio Materials, Signal Transduction and Biological Sensing: From Pathogen Detection to Medical Diagnostics" Basil Swanson, Los Alamos National Laboratory Hosted by Mircea Cotlet 1:00 PM, Bldg. 735 - Conf. Rm. B Monday, March 17, 2008 "Role of strained surface structure in the growth of Ge quantum dots" Yasunori Fujikawa, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University Hosted by Jurek Sadowski 11:00 AM, Bldg 735, Conference Room A Thursday, March 6, 2008 "Electron Transfer Energetics from First Pinciples" Qin Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hosted by Mark Hybertsen 10:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf. Rm. A Wednesday, January 30, 2008 "Nanocrystals Prepared by Modern Materials Chemistry Methods" Stephen O'Brien, Columbia University Hosted by Emilio Mendez 1:45 PM, CFN - 2nd Floor Seminar Room Monday, January 28, 2008 "Simulation in an Industrial Context: From Molecules to Nationwide Optical Networks" Christopher White, Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs Hosted by Mark Hybertsen 1:30 PM, Bldg. 735 - Conf. Rm. B Thursday, January 24, 2008 "Optical Studies of Energy Transfer in Single-walled" Daniel Milkie, University of Pennsylvania Hosted by Chuck Black 11:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf. Rm. B Tuesday, January 22, 2008 "Understanding Materials' Functionality Via Study of Nanoscaled Structure and Defects" Jiaqing He, Brookhaven National Laboratory Hosted by Yimei Zhu 10:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf. Rm. B Friday, January 18, 2008 "TEM Study on Ferroelectric Materials" Dong Su, Arizona State University Hosted by Yimei Zhu 10:00 AM, Bldg. 735, Conf. Rm. B Monday, January 14, 2008 "CFN User Town Hall Meeting" 1:00 PM, CFN Large Conference Room Monday, January 14, 2008 "Functional Nanomaterials: Advanced Characterization by TEM/STEM Methods and Developing of New Imaging Methods with Nanoscale Resolution Sensitivity" Steve Volkov, Brookhaven National Laboratory Hosted by Yimei Zhu 11:00 AM, Bldg. 735, Conf. Rm. B Monday, January 7, 2008 "STEM Analysis of Perovskite Vanadates and Comet Materials" Miaofang Chi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Hosted by Yimei Zhu 11:00 AM, Bldg. 735, Conference Rm. A Monday, December 17, 2007 "Structural, Chemical, and Optical Perspectives on Interfaces with Ultrathin Crystalline and Amorphous Oxide Layers" Martin Couillard, Cornell University Hosted by Yimei Zhu 10:00 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf. Rm. B Friday, December 7, 2007 "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Carbon Nanotubes Interfaced with Silicon Surfaces" Peter Albrecht, Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho Hosted by Eli Sutter 9:30 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conf. Rm. B Monday, December 3, 2007 "In Situ Analytical Electron Microscopy: Integrated Characterization, Synthesis and Testing MicroLab for Nano Era" Vladimir Oleshko, Intel Corporation, Chandler, Arizona Hosted by Yimei Zhu 10:30 AM, Bldg. 735, Conf. Rm. B Tuesday, November 20, 2007 "High Resolution Electron Microscopy Characterization of SOFCs and Novel Electro-Catalyst Nanoparticles" Maxime Jean Francois Guinel, Case Western Reserve University Hosted by Yimei Zhu 9:30 AM, Bldg. 735 - Conference Room B Wednesday, November 7, 2007 "Advanced Electron Microscopy in Materials Physics Workshop" Hosted by Yimei Zhu 8:30 AM, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Bldg. 735 Thursday, November 1, 2007 "Controlled Radical Polymerization as a Tool for the Preparation of Nanomaterials" Robert Grubbs, Dartmouth College Hosted by Chuck Black 11:00 AM, Chemistry, Bldg. 555, Rm. 300 Friday, October 12, 2007 "Boron Nitride Nanotubes: Recent Breakthroughs and Challenges" Dmitri Golberg, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Hosted by Weiqiang Han 1:30 PM, CFN Conference Rm. A, Bldg. 735 Thursday, October 4, 2007 "The Role of Excitonic Effects in Quasi-1D Systems" Deborah Prezzi, University of Modena Hosted by Mark Hybertsen 11:00 AM, Bldg. 735, Conference Room A Friday, September 21, 2007 "Ultrafast Dynamics of Nanoaggregates" Martin Aeschlimann, University of Kaiserslautern Hosted by Peter Sutter 10:30 AM, Chemistry, Bldg 555, Room 300 Wednesday, August 1, 2007 "Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of the High-Temperature Superconductor YBa2Cu3O7" Joseph Ngai, University of Toronto Hosted by Peter Sutter 9:30 AM, Chemistry, Bldg 555, Room 300 Friday, July 27, 2007 "On Copolymer Mesophases Under Confinement: Theory to the Rescue" Kirill Katsov, University of California, Santa Barbara Hosted by Mark Hybertsen 9:00 AM, Bldg. 555, Room 300 Friday, July 13, 2007 "LT-STM for imaging, manipulation, molecule identification and spectroscopy" Danda Acharya, University of Ohio Hosted by Peter Sutter 9:30 AM, Bldg 555, Room 300 Thursday, July 12, 2007 "Atomic Precision in Nano-Electronics" Douglas Strachan, University of Pennsylvania Hosted by Chuck Black 1:00 PM, Bldg. 480 conference room Monday, July 9, 2007 "Structural and Transport Properties of Directly Assembled Nanowires" Birol Ozturk, Oklahoma State University / Department of Physics Hosted by Peter Sutter 9:30 AM, Bldg 555, Room 300 Thursday, June 28, 2007 "Transmission Line Impedance of Carbon Nanotube Thin Films for Chemical Sensing" Gokhan Esen, University of Maryland, College Park Hosted by Peter Sutter 9:30 AM, Chemistry Bldg. Third Floor Conf. Rm. 300 Thursday, June 28, 2007 "Integrated nano photonic and electronic materials for energy conversion applications" Yasha Yi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hosted by Chuck Black 11:00 AM, Bldg. 555, Rm. 300 Monday, June 25, 2007 "Part I: Synthesis of Inorganic Nanocrystal-Coated Nanowires via biomineralization technique; Part II: Synthesis of New Magnetic Nanoparticles for Ultra-sensitive Molecular Imaging" Lingtao Yu, Harvard Medical School Hosted by Bill Sherman 1:00 PM, Bldg. 555, Room 300 Monday, June 18, 2007 "Bioengineering of Protein Nanotubes and Protein-Nanomaterial Composites" Thilak Kumara Mudalige, Western Michigan University Hosted by Bill Sherman 10:30 AM, Bldg. 555, Rm. 300 Thursday, June 14, 2007 "Photodetectors with Undepleted Absorption Region and MOSFETs with InAs Channel Material" Ning Li, Yale University and Lightspin Technologies Hosted by Chuck Black 10:00 AM, Bldg. 555, Room 300 Tuesday, June 5, 2007 "Thermal Dephasing in the Laughlin Quasiparticle Interferometer" Fernando E. Camino, SUNY at Stony Brook Hosted by John Warren 9:30 AM, Bldg. 555, Room 300 Thursday, May 24, 2007 "Designing Multifunctional Binary Nanocomposites for Direct Energy Conversion Applications" Jeffrey Urban, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Hosted by Chuck Black 9:30 AM, Bldg. 555, Rm. 300 Thursday, May 24, 2007 "Efficient ab-initio Calculation of Anomalous Hall Conductivity Using Wannier Interpolation" Xinjie Wang, Rutgers University Hosted by Mark Hybertsen 11:00 AM, Bldg. 555, Rm. 300 Monday, May 21, 2007 "NSLS and CFN Joint Users' Meeting" 7:30 AM, All Berkner Hall Friday, May 18, 2007 "Soft Nanomaterials Templated Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles: Applications of Self-assembled Systems in Biology and Materials" Praveen Vemula, City College of New York Hosted by Bill Sherman 1:00 AM, Chemistry - Bldg. 555, Rm. 300 Wednesday, May 16, 2007 "Theoretical Studies in Heterogeneous Catalysis and Electrocatalysis" Ping Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory Hosted by Mark Hybertsen 10:30 AM, Chemistry Department, Room 300 Monday, May 7, 2007 "Mass Diffusion on Surfaces in Real Time: From Equilibrium Step Fluctuations to Surface Evolution Driven by Energetic Ion Beams" Wacek Swiech, Center for Microanalysis of Materials / Frederick-Seitz Materials Research Laboratory / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hosted by Peter Sutter 11:00 AM, Chemistry, Bldg 555, Room 300 Tuesday, May 1, 2007 "Time-Resolved Photoemission Microscopy" Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf, University of Duisburg-Essen Hosted by Percy Zahl 10:00 AM, Bldg 555, Room 300 Thursday, April 26, 2007 "Advanced Spectroscopy of Biological and Physical Nanosystems" Chandran Sabanayagam, University of Maryland School of Medicine Hosted by Oleg Gang 1:30 AM, Bldg. 480 Conference Room Tuesday, April 10, 2007 "Long-Range Interactions and Local Structure of Functional Materials from First Principles: Ferroelectric Superlattices and Nucleic Acids" Valentino Cooper, Rutgers University Hosted by Mark Hybertsen 1:30 PM, Biology Seminar Room, Bldg. 463 Tuesday, March 20, 2007 "Computational Studies of Energy Transduction in Biological Systems" Ana Damjanovic, National Institutes of Health Hosted by Mark Hybertsen 10:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry Department, Bldg. 555 Monday, March 19, 2007 "Visualizing and gaining vision: imaging insights into RNA interference function" Svitlana Berezhna, Scripps Research Institute, LaJolla, CA Hosted by Elaine Dimasi 10:00 AM, Conference Room Bldg. 480 Monday, March 19, 2007 "Time Resolved Optical Spectroscopy of Nanomaterials" Marc Achermann, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Hosted by Charles Black 1:00 PM, Bldg. 480 Conference Room Thursday, March 15, 2007 "Real-time LEEM (low-energy electron microscopy) of the nucleation and growth of thin organic films" Jerzy T. Sadowski, Tohoku University Hosted by Peter Sutter 1:00 PM, Rm. 300, Chemistry, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, February 28, 2007 "Optical Characterization of Quantum Dots and Biomolecules on Single Molecule Level" Anton Malko, Los Alamos National Laboratory Hosted by Elaine Dimasi 9:30 AM, Conference Room, Bldg. 480 Thursday, February 22, 2007 "Optical interrogation and manipulation of single biomolecules and molecular complexes" Lori Goldner, National Institute of Standards and Technology, MD Hosted by Oleg Gang 10:00 AM, Conference Room, Bldg. 480 Wednesday, February 21, 2007 "Physics of Viruses: Genomic Code Meets Electrostatics" Vladimir Belyi, University of Massachusetts Hosted by Mark Hybertsen 3:00 PM, Room 300, Chemistry Department, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, February 20, 2007 "Single-Molecule Confocal Microscopy for Studying Conformational Changes of Light-Harvesting Complex in the Photosynthetic Membrane" Duohai Pan, Beckman Institute at UIUC Hosted by Oleg Gang 10:00 AM, Rm. 300, Bldg. 555 Thursday, February 15, 2007 "Self-assembly of Nanoparticles by Molecular Recognition" Sudhanshu Srivastava, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Hosted by William Sherman 10:30 AM, Rm. 300, Bldg. 555 Friday, February 9, 2007 "Theoretical Studies of Growth Processes and Electronic Properties of Nanostructures on Surfaces" Yina Mo, Department of Physics, Harvard University Hosted by Mark Hybertsen 9:30 AM, Chemistry Department, Bldg. 355, Room 300 Wednesday, January 24, 2007 "Designing Multifunctional Binary Nanocomposites for Direct Energy Conversion Applications" Jeffrey Urban, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Hosted by Chuck Black 9:30 AM, Bldg. 555, Rm. 300 Wednesday, January 17, 2007 "NSLS/CFN Users Meeting" 1:00 AM, Berkner Hall Auditorium Tuesday, January 9, 2007 "Gallium nitride nanowires: Polar surface controlled growth, ohmic contact patterning by focused ion beam induced direct Pt deposition; variable range hopping, and resonant electromechanical properties" Chang-Yong Nam, University of Pennsylvania Hosted by Charles Black 11:00 AM, Room 300, Chemistry, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, December 20, 2006 "Polymer Brushes in Block Copolymer Single Crystals and Viruses" Huiming Xiong, University of Akron Hosted by Oleg Gang 10:00 AM, Bldg. 480 Conference Room Thursday, December 7, 2006 "Engineering Novel Mesoscopic Structures Using DNA-Programmed Colloidal Self-Assembly" Anthony Kim, University of Pennsylvania Hosted by Oleg Gang 10:00 AM, Rm. 300 - Bldg. 555 Chemistry Dept. Thursday, November 30, 2006 "Energy Dissipation in Single Multichromophoric Dendrimers" Mircea Cotlet, Los Alamos National Lab Hosted by Oleg Gang 10:30 AM, Chemistry Third Floor Conf. Rm. 300 Wednesday, November 29, 2006 "Biofunctionalization and Detection of Magentic Nanoparticles" Glenn Held, IBM Watson Research Center Hosted by Oleg Gang 10:30 AM, Room 300, Bldg. 555 Chemistry Tuesday, November 28, 2006 "Structural and Electronic Properties of DNA-Templated Nanomaterials" Hector Becerril, Brigham Young University Hosted by Bill Sherman 10:00 AM, Chemistry Third Floor Conf. Rm. 300 Friday, November 17, 2006 "Modeling Grain Boundaries, Defects and Interfaces in Complex Ceramics" Wai-Yim Ching, University of Missouri - Kansas City Hosted by Yimei Zhu 11:00 AM, Bldg. 480 Conference Room Monday, October 16, 2006 "Model Studies of Complex Catalytic Interfaces" Will Medlin, University of Colorado Hosted by Peter Sutter 10:00 AM, Chemistry Bldg. - Third Floor Conf. Rm. 300 Thursday, October 12, 2006 "DFT Studies of the 13C NMR Shifts of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Magic Metal –(C60)2 Clusters and NMTO Wannier-like Functions for Solids" Eva Zurek, Max Planck Institut for Festkorperforshung 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, October 10, 2006 "Scanning Probe Study of Single-electron Charging in Semiconductors" Irma Kuljanishvili, Michigan State University Hosted by Peter Sutter 10:00 AM, Bldg. 480 Conference Room Tuesday, October 10, 2006 "Electronic and Structural Properties of Organic Thin Films" Alberto Morgante, Laboratorio TASC-INFM, Trieste, & University of Trieste Hosted by Laura Lewis 1:30 PM, Bldg. 480 Conference Room Monday, October 9, 2006 "Nanoscale Spectroscopy with Optical Antennas" Neil Anderson, University of Rochester Hosted by Oleg Gang 10:00 AM, Materials Science Building 480 Seminar Room Monday, October 2, 2006 "Three Dimensional Materials Characterization at Atomic Resolution and Single Atom Sensitivity Using Aberration-Corrected STEM" Klaus van Benthem, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Hosted by Yimei Zhu 10:00 AM, Chemistry, Rm. 300, Bldg. 555 Friday, September 29, 2006 "My Electron Microscopic History: An Overview of My Work in Analytical Electron Microscopy" Christoph Mitterbauer, University of California, Davis Hosted by Yimei Zhu 9:30 AM, Conference Room, Bldg. 480 Monday, September 25, 2006 "Atomic-Scale Science with Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy" Andre Mkhoyan, Cornell University Hosted by Yimei Zhu 9:30 AM, Materials Science Bldg. 480 Seminar Room Friday, September 22, 2006 "Measuring the Interaction Force Between DNAs in Solution" Xiangyun Qiu, Cornell University Hosted by Oleg Gang 9:30 AM, Chemistry Third Floor Conference Rm. 300 Monday, September 18, 2006 "Computational Tools for Nanostructure Modeling" John W. Mintmire, Oklahoma State University Hosted by Phil Allen 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, July 24, 2006 "Catalyst design via nanostructuring - potential and limitations" Johannes Lercher, Technical University of Munich Hosted by Doon Gibbs 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, July 21, 2006 "Magnetism at the Nanoscale: A Voyeur's Tale" Daniel Dahlberg, University of Minnesota Hosted by Yimei Zhu 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, July 17, 2006 "Developing Novel Synthetic Biomaterials" Sergey Paramonov, Rice University Hosted by Oleg Gang 10:00 AM, Biology Seminar Room, Bldg. 463 Thursday, June 22, 2006 "Tunable Magnetic Thermal Hysteresis for Transition Metal/Rare Earth Multilayers/Alloys and its Application in Magnetic Recording" Sezen Demirtas, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Hosted by Laura H. Lewis 11:00 AM, Materials Science - Bldg. 480 Seminar Room Thursday, June 15, 2006 "The new PEEM at the Swiss Light Source" Christoff Quitmann, Swiss Light Source Hosted by Chris Jacobsen 1:00 PM, Seminar Room, Bldg. 725 Tuesday, May 23, 2006 "Self-Assembled Soft Nanomaterials from Renewable Resources" George John, City College of the City University of New York Hosted by Oleg Gang 2:30 PM, Chemistry Bldg. Third Floor Conference Room 300 Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:30 AM, Berkner Hall Monday, May 15, 2006 "2006 Joint NSLS and CFN Users' Meeting" 8:30 AM, Berkner Hall Wednesday, May 10, 2006 "Combinatorial Methods for Materials: What's New Since Edison?" Eric Amis, NIST Hosted by Doon Gibbs 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, May 10, 2006 "Theoretical Studies of Light Harvesting Proteins" Ana Damjanovic, National Institutes of Health Hosted by Oleg Gang 9:45 AM, Chemistry Bldg. - Third Floor Conference Room 300 Tuesday, May 9, 2006 "Growth, Surface Structure and Morphology of Semiconductor Nano-Structures" Subhashis Gangopadhyay, University of Bremen Hosted by Eli Sutter 10:00 AM, Chemistry Building - Third Floor Conference Room 3 Thursday, May 4, 2006 "A Simple Route to Highly Ordered Nanostructured Materials" Thomas Russell, Univeristy of Massachusetts Hosted by Doon Gibbs 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, April 28, 2006 "Digital Synthesis of Manganites: An Example of Emergent Phases at Ordered Interfaces" Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Laboratory Hosted by Laura H. Lewis 11:00 AM, Materials Science Bldg. 480 Seminar Room Monday, April 17, 2006 "Chemistry at Surfaces: From Self-Assembled Monolayers to Ceramic Thin Films" Chaim Sukenik, Bar Illan University Hosted by Benjamin Ocko 1:30 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, April 12, 2006 "Synthesis and Surface Restructuring on the Nanoscale during Reaction" Cynthia Friend, Harvard University Hosted by Doon Gibbs 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, April 10, 2006 "Cross Sectional Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy (XSTM/S) of delta-doping layers and Quantum Wells in GaAs" Roberto Duca, Carnegie Mellon University Hosted by Eli Sutter 2:30 PM, Chemistry Third Floor Conference Room 300 Monday, April 10, 2006 "Transport in Nanoscale Systems: Emerging Phenomena" Na Sai, University of California, Santa Barbara Hosted by Jim Davenport 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, April 3, 2006 "Planned Surface Structures via Wetting-Driven Self-Assembly on Monolayer Template Patterns" Jacob Sagiv and Rivka Maoz, Weizmann Institute of Science Hosted by Benjamin Ocko 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, March 31, 2006 "Directing Assembly at the Bio-Inorganic Interface: From Biomineralization to Bio-Inspired Materials Synthesis" Jim DeYoreo, Lawrence Livermore National lab Hosted by Oleg Gang 9:30 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, March 30, 2006 "Strategies for Controlled Assembly at the Nanoscale" Federico Rosei, Universite du Quebec Hosted by Eli Sutter 10:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, March 28, 2006 "Fabrication and Measurements of Electrical Properties of One-Dimensional Nanostructures with Near Atomic Resolution" Lian-Mao Peng, Peking University Hosted by Yimei Zhu 10:00 AM, Materials Science Bldg. 480 Seminar Room Thursday, March 23, 2006 "New Perspectives in Electron Tunneling and Tunneling Magnetoresistance" Bill Butler, University of Alabama Hosted by Laura H. Lewis 3:30 PM, Chemistry Third Floor Conference Rm. 300 Friday, March 17, 2006 "Imaging Chemical Reactions on Surfaces" Andreas Klust, Harvard University Hosted by Peter Sutter 10:00 AM, Chemistry Third Floor Conference Rm. 300 Tuesday, March 7, 2006 "First-Principles Study of Weak Intermolecular Forces" Je-Luen Li, Princeton University Hosted by Jim Davenport 11:00 AM, Chemistry Third Floor Conference Room 300 Wednesday, March 1, 2006 "Synthesis of Metal and Alloy Nanostructures for Magnetic and Catalytic Application" Xiaowei Teng, University of Rochester Hosted by Weiqiang Han 11:00 AM, Chemistry Bldg. Conference Room 300 Wednesday, March 1, 2006 "Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Condensed-Phase and Nanoscale Systems Using the Multiscale Coarse-Graining Method" Sergey Izvekov, University of Utah Hosted by Jim Davenport 1:30 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, February 27, 2006 "Cell Infection Mediated by Virus Nanoarrays" Clifton Shen, Northwestern University Hosted by Oleg Gang 10:00 AM, Chemistry Bldg. Third Floor Conference Rm. 300 Wednesday, January 25, 2006 "Modeling bilayer membrane fusion: Think different" Kirill Katsov, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California at Santa Barbara Hosted by Jim Davenport and Oleg Gang 10:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, January 4, 2006 "Heterogeneous Catalyst Modeling and Screening from First Principles" Jeff Greeley, Technical University of Denmark Hosted by Jim Davenport 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, December 9, 2005 "Designing Nano Structured Carbon for Future Energy Applications" Saikat Talapatra, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Hosted by Laura H. Lewis 10:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, December 6, 2005 "Mapping Water Reactivity at Oxide Surfaces" Jorge Sofo, Pennsylvania State University Hosted by Wei Ku 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, December 1, 2005 "Impurity Doping in Oxide Grain Boundaries" James Buban, University of Tokyo Hosted by Robert Klie 2:00 PM, Conference Room, Bldg. 480 Monday, November 21, 2005 "Exploring Electronic States and Electronic Coupling Metal - Organic Molecule Interfaces" Mark Hybertsen, Columbia University Hosted by Jim Davenport 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, November 18, 2005 "Size Effects in the Deformation of Metals" Cynthia Volkert, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Hosted by Bob Hwang 10:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 "Advancing the Frontiers of Quantum Mechanical Simulations for Complex Biological Systems and with Higher Accuracy" Weitao Yang, Duke University Hosted by Wei Ku 9:30 AM, Chemistry Bldg. Third Floor Conf. Rm. 300 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 "Nanocrystal Biosensors for Quantitative Biodetection and Biomedical Applications" Jeeseong Hwang, Optical Technology Division, Physics Laboratory, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD Hosted by Oleg Gang 11:00 AM, Room 300, Bldg. 555 Monday, November 7, 2005 "Selective Growth of 1-D Nanostructures: Applications in Shadow Lithography and Aligned Carbon Nanotube Membranes" Nitin Chopra, University of Kentucky 9:30 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, November 7, 2005 "Quantitative Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Visualizing Internal Movements of the Ribosome with FRET and Microsecond Mixing for Fast Reaction Kinetics" Zigurts (Ziggy) Majumdar, University of Illinois Hosted by Oleg Gang 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, November 3, 2005 "Promotion of H2 Sorption at Al-Ti Alloy Surfaces in Alanate H Storage Materials" Roland Stumpf, Sandia National Labs Hosted by Bob Hwang 9:30 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, October 26, 2005 "DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life" Nadrian Seeman, New York University Hosted by Oleg Gang 1:30 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, October 26, 2005 "Small is Different: Emergent Physics and Chemistry in the Nonscalable Regime" Uzi Landman, Georgia Institute of Technology Hosted by Jim Davenport 3:00 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, October 17, 2005 "Colloids + DNA: From Morphological Diversity to Programmable Self-Assembly" Alexei Tkachenko, University of Michigan Hosted by OLEG GANG 1:30 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Thursday, October 13, 2005 "Scanning Probe Techniques in Molecular and Device Scale Transport" Nilay Pradhan, Yale University Hosted by Peter Sutter 2:00 PM, Chemistry Building, Third Floor Conf. Rm. 300 Monday, September 12, 2005 "Modified Silicon Substrates - From Atomic Adsorbates to Highly-Ordered Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Arrays" Jan Ingo Flege, University of Bremen Hosted by Peter Sutter 1:30 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, June 13, 2005 "Advances in DNA Nanotechnology: From New Design Techniques to Constructing the First Nanorobot" William Sherman, New York University Hosted by Oleg Gang 1:30 PM, Chemistry Bldg., Third Floor Conference Room 300 Thursday, June 9, 2005 "Nanocatalyst Design: From Single Crystals to Nanoparticles" Vojislav Stamenkovic, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Hosted by Bob Hwang 1:30 PM, Chemistry Bldg. Third Floor Conference Room 300 Thursday, June 2, 2005 "A First-Principles Analysis of AG Sintering Mechanisms Over Alumina" Randall Meyer, University of Virginia Hosted by Bob Hwang 9:30 AM, Chemistry Bldg. First Floor, Room 101 Wednesday, May 11, 2005 "Semiconductor Nanoparticles and Nanowires" Dmitri Talapin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Hosted by Bob Hwang 10:00 AM, Chemistry Bldg., Third Floor Conference Room 300 Wednesday, May 11, 2005 "Nanoparticles as Building Blocks for Ordered Metamaterials with Controllable Level of Complexity" Elena Shevchenko, Columbia University and T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Hosted by Bob Hwang 1:30 PM, Chemistry Bldg., Third Floor Conference Room 300 Tuesday, May 10, 2005 "Catalysis by Au and Au-Pd: Structure of the Active Site" Mingshu Chen, Texas A&M University Hosted by Bob Hwang 1:30 PM, Chemistry Building, Third Floor Conference Room 30 Friday, May 6, 2005 "Microscopic Investigation of Charge Trapping in Pentacene" Eric Muller, Cornell University Hosted by Peter Sutter 10:00 AM, Chemistry Bldg., Third Floor Conference Room 300 Wednesday, May 4, 2005 "Experimental Catalysis at the Nanoscale - The Application of Novel Synthetic Strategies for Fundamental Studies of Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts" Peter Faguy, Admamede Hosted by Bob Hwang 10:00 AM, Chemistry Bldg., Third Floor Conference Room 300 Friday, April 15, 2005 "Homo-and-Hetero-Nuclear Correlation Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy; Applications to Heterogeneous Catalysts and Nanoscale Materials" Marek Pruski, Ames Laboratory Hosted by Bob Hwang 10:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, April 11, 2005 "Molecular Structure of Ruthenium Dioxide/Water Interface" Yuriy Tolmachev, Kent State University Hosted by Bob Hwang 9:30 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, April 5, 2005 "Applications of Imaging Techniques in Heterogeneous Catalysis - From Non-linear Dynamics of Chemical Reactions to Parallel High-Throughput Studies" Jochen Lauterbach, University of Delaware Hosted by Bob Hwang 1:30 PM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, April 4, 2005 "Study of Surface Reactions on the Atomic Scale with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy" SangHoon Kim, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Hosted by Peter Sutter 1:30 PM, Chemistry Bldg., Third Floor Conference Room 300 Friday, March 11, 2005 "Catalysis at Three-Phase Boundaries: CO Oxidation at Au/TiO2 and Pt02/Pt" Bjork Hammer, University of Aarhus 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, March 7, 2005 "Opportunities in Nanomagnetism" Samuel Bader, Argonne National Laboratory Hosted by Bob Hwang 9:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, March 1, 2005 "The Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles into Morphologically Controlled Nano-Architectures" Mathew Maye, SUNY - Binghamton Hosted by Oleg Gang 11:00 AM, Chemistry Dept. Third Floor Conference Room 300 Monday, February 28, 2005 "Applications of Imaging Techniques in Heterogeneous Catalysis - From Non-Linear Dynamics of Chemical Reactions to Parallel High-Throughput Studies" Jochen Lauterbach, University of Delaware Hosted by Robert Hwang 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Tuesday, January 18, 2005 "Magnetism on Small Spatial Scales: What We Can Learn Using X-ray Microscopy" Greg Denbeaux, College of Nanoscale and Engineering, SUNY, Albany Hosted by Chris Jacobsen 10:30 AM, Seminar Room, Bldg. 725 Tuesday, December 14, 2004 "Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Advanced Dielectrics" Igor Levin, Ceramics Division, NIST 10:30 AM, Seminar Room, Bldg. 725 Thursday, December 9, 2004 "First-Principles Methods in Heterogeneous Catalysis: From Resolving Mechanistic Puzzles to Identifying Promising Catalysts" Manos Mavrikakis, University of Wisconsin 11:00 AM, Biology Seminar Room, Bldg. 463 Thursday, November 4, 2004 "The Application of Microscopy to the Development of Information Storage Materials" Amanda Petford-Long, University of Oxford 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, October 25, 2004 "In-situ Observation of Elastic Strain on Phase Transformation of Nanoscale Pb Inclusions Embedded in Al Matrix" Lihua Zhang, Lawrence Berkeley Lab 9:30 AM, Materials Science Bldg. 480 - Seminar Room Monday, September 13, 2004 "Towards Controlled Nano Patterning" Percy Zahl, IBM 10:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Friday, May 7, 2004 "In situ Electron Microscopy Observtions of the Growth of Nanostructures" Frances Ross, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Monday, April 26, 2004 "The Magnetostatic Problem in Magnetic Nanostructures - Old and New Results" George Rowlands, University of Warwick 11:00 AM, Bldg. 480 - conference room Wednesday, April 21, 2004 "Microfluidics in vivo and in Fabricated Channels" Molly Frame, Stony Brook University 10:00 AM, Chemistry Bldg. 555 Third Floor Conf. Rm. 300 Friday, March 5, 2004 "Botton-Up Meets Top-Down - A Novel Approach Towards 3-D Optical Devices by Nanostructures" R. Houbertz, Fraunhofer ISC 11:00 AM, Chemistry Dept., Third Floor Conf. Room 300 Monday, November 24, 2003 "Metal-Insulator Transition in Quantum Wells" Igor Altfeder, Harvard University 11:00 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, November 19, 2003 "Molecular and Mesoscale Self-Assembly: Strategies for Design of Functional Systems" Mila Boncheva, Harvard University 9:30 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555 Wednesday, November 5, 2003 ""Universality in Heterogeneous Catalysis"" J.K. Norskov, Center for Atomic-Scale Materials Physics, Technical University of Denmark 9:30 AM, Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555
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