Low-Q Seminar Series

A friendly fortnightly forum for the open discussion of recent instrumental developments and thought-provoking research using SANS, Reflectometry and Neutron Spin-Echo Spectroscopy.

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Upcoming Talks

Previous Talks
Date	Location	Speaker	Title
2013
Jan 29th	K-04B	Hao Shen (Univ. of Delaware)	Small Angle Neutron Scattering on Polymer-Based Solar Cells
Jan 23rd	E100	Amit Vaish	Development and Characterization of Biofunctionalized Interfaces for Specific Capture of Transmembrane Proteins
Jan 4th	E100	Paul Durfee (Univ. of New Mexico)	Biodistribution of Mesoprous Silica Nanoparticles
2012
Dec 12th	E100	Matthew Wasbrough and Brian Maranville	Preliminary ideas about NICE for SANS and Reflectometry
Nov 28th	E100	Michael Hore	Understanding gold nanorod dispersion in polymer melts using SANS and polymer field theory
Nov 7th	E100	Katie Weigandt	Structure-Function Relationships of Self-Assembled Fibrillar Gels
Oct 26th	E100	Doug Godfrin	SANS shear cell development and applications
Oct 10th	E100	Nick Clark	The Biophysical, Biochemical and Structural Characterization of Poly[ADP-ribose] Polymerase-1 [PARP-1] and its Complexes with DNA-Damage Models and Chromatin Substrates
Sep 12th	E100	Max Watson	Viscous Dissipation In Lipid Bilayers and Implications for Neutron Spin-Echo Spectroscopy
Aug 29th	E100	Beth Stadler (Univ. of Minnesota)	3D Close-packed Magnetic Arrays
Aug 15th	E100	Brian Kirby	Depth resolved magnetometry of graded anisotropy nanostructures
Aug 1st	E100	Jeff Krzywon	RheoSANS Capabilities at the NCNR
July 19th	E100	Antonio Farone	NSE Study of the Coherent Dynamics of a Typical Fragile Glass-Former, meta-Toluidine.
June 6th	E100	Michael Dimitriou	Perfluorocarbon functionality in block copolymers: control of surface composition and structure.
May. 23rd	K-04B	Nestor Valadez Perez	Phase behaviour of colloidal model systems with attractive short-ranged interactions
May. 9th	E100	Susan Krueger	SANS Studies of Proteins in the Solid State: Insights into Protein Crowding and Cold Denaturation?
Apr. 18th	E100	Hailiang Zhang	Improving X-ray Structures of Large and Uneven B-factors by An Anisotropic Sharpening Method
Mar. 19th	E100	Mathieu Doucet (Oak Ridge)	MANTID Data analysis Project
Mar. 14th	E100	Joe Dura	Solid-electrolyte interface in lithium ion batteries
Mar. 5th	K-04B	Wangchun Chen	Update of SANS polarization analysis using a 3He spin analyzer
Feb. 15th	E100	Katie Sarachan	Structural Studies of the SMN-Gemin2 complex
Feb. 1st	E100	Matt Wasbrough	Nanostructured hydrogel films for encapsulation and release
2011
Nov. 16th	E100	John Barker	2D Anger Scintillation Detector for vSANS : Review of Existing Technology
Nov. 9th	E100	Andrew Jackson	Water Uptake in Polymer Electrolyte Membranes
Feb. 23rd	E100	Meg Sobkowicz	Structural Study of Polymer-Fullerene Solutions for Organic Photovoltaics using SANS
Feb. 9th	E100	John Barker	VSANS Technical Update
Jan. 26th	K04	Ron Jones	nSoft : Advancing Neutron-based Measurements for Soft Materials Manufacturing
Jan. 12th	E100	Charlie Glinka	VSANS Project Update
2010
Dec. 14th	K04	Xin Li	Prospect of Spin-Echo Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SESANS) in Soft Matter Characterization
Nov. 17th	E100	Andrew Jackson	ICE for SANS Scientists
Oct. 20th	K121	Aaron Eberle	Saving the World with Nanoparticle Aggregation
Sep. 29th	E100	Nina Verdal	Structure and Dynamics of LiBH4 Confined in a Carbon Aerogel
Sep. 1st	E100	Cameron Neylon	SANS 2.0 - Scattering in the Age of the Internet
Aug. 19th	E100	Matthew Wasbrough	Mesostructured Polymer/Surfactant Hydrogel Films for Encapsulation and Release
Aug. 2nd	E100	Daeyeon Lee	All-Nanoparticle Thin Films Based on Layer-by-Layer Assembly
Jul. 21st	E100	Ron Jones	Rotational SANS: Reflection, Transmission, and everything in between
Jul. 7th	E100	Bulent Akgun	Stubborn Brushes
Jun. 9th	E100	Michihiro Nagao	Dynamics in Surfactant Membranes
May. 25th	E100	Wangchun Chen	Development of SANS polarization analysis
Apr. 15th	E100	Sumit Garg	Dynamics of Cholesterol Exchange
Apr. 7th	E100	Jeff Krzywon	Proposal for a Standardized Sample Environment Communications Protocol
Apr. 1st	E100	Chaitanya Mudivarthi	Deciphering the origin of magnetostriction in Fe-Ga alloys
Mar. 17th	E100	Frank Heinrich	A self-consistent 1D composition-space model for biological structures
Mar. 3rd	E100	Duncan McGillivray	Got Milk? : Food Science Down Under
Feb. 17th	E100	Chris Roberts	Protein Assembly and Stability
Feb. 3rd	E100	Aaron Eberle	Nanostructure and rheology of nanoparticle gels and suspensions
Jan. 20th	E100	Sang Hak Shin	Phase behavior of poly (ethylene oxide) in ethanol/ water mixtures
2009
Dec. 2nd	E100	Hirsh Nanda	Structure and Function of Membrane Bound Proteins Characterized by Neutron Reflectivity
Nov. 18th	E100	John Barker	Options for a polarizing device for NG7-SANS
Oct. 22nd	E100	Steve Kline	Experiment Planning and Data Simulation Tools for SANS and USANS
Sept. 30th	E100	Kathryn Krycka	Magnetic Canting within Fe3O4 Nanoparticles in High Fields
Sept. 3rd	E100	Brian Maranville	A Magikal Mystery Tour
Aug. 19th	E100	John Barker	TOF SANS at Reactors: the D33 concept ... is it worth it ???
Aug. 12th	E100	Yun Liu	Lyzosyme Clusters in Concentrated Solutions Studied by SANS and Spin-Echo
July 29th	E100	Jiang Du	Aggregation of alpha-Chymotrypsinogen Protein in Solution
July 15th	E100	Susan Krueger	Flexible structure modeling software for flexible proteins
July 1st	E100	Charlie Glinka and David Mildner	A Coherent View of Incoherent Scattering
June 10th	E100	Ken Rubinson	Almost simple geometric models for SANS
June 3rd	E100	Frank Heinrich	Monte Carlo Resampling of Neutron Reflectometry Data: from tiny program to factotum
Fri. May 1st 10:30	E100	Boualem Hammouda	A New Guinier-Porod Model
Apr. 16th 15:00	E100	Paul Butler	Self assembled phases in mixed lipid systems
Apr. 8th	E100	Andrew, Cedric and Jeff	Handling ICE practically
Fri. Mar. 13th 14:30	E100	Andrea Hamill	Controlling Protein Conformation with Light through the Use of Photoresponsive Surfactants
Mar. 4th	E100	John Barker	Abel, Fourier and Hankel : Transformations between SANS, SESANS and real space
Feb. 18th	E100	Steve Kline	Surprising solubilization of a micelle gel
Jan. 14th	E100	Mike Martin	Interactions in ICE: a SANS Project
2008
Dec. 17th	E100	Yumi Ijiri (Oberlin College)	Magnetic correlations and structures in iron oxide nanoparticles
Dec. 5th	E100	Yun Liu	Counterion association and intra-structural change of a dendrimer in aqueous solutions
Nov. 19th	E100	Daniel Phelan	Fascinating results from ferroelectric relaxors
Nov. 5th	E100	Jeff Krzywon	LabVIEW Control of SANS Sample Environment
Oct. 15th	E100	Mark Laver	Contrasting studies of the vortex lattice in YBCO and Nb
Thurs. Oct. 2nd	E100	Ben Ueland	HoMnO3 -- remarkable things in a multiferroic manganite
Sept. 10th	E100	Charlie Glinka	TISANE at the NCNR: Current status and future prospects
Aug. 20th	E100 3pm   3.30pm	Lionel Porcar (ILL) Stephen King (ISIS)	SANS across the pond
Aug. 13th	E100	John Barker	An esoteric examination of backgrounds
Aug. 6th	E100	John Barker	Update on the VSANS venture
July 23rd	E100	Matthew Glazer	Triplet correlations in weakly disordered arrays of flux lines
July 9th	E100	Andrew Jackson	Measuring HIPE : Emulsions and the ancient quest to understand packing
June 25th	Summer School (no seminar)
June 11th	E100	He Cheng	Re-examination of the Structure of Tetrahydrofuran Water Solution
May 7th	E100	Lionel Porcar and/or Ursula Perez-Salas	Non-ideal mixing of lipids
April 30th	E100	David Mildner	Magnesium fluoride as a thermal neutron filter
April 16th	E100	Matthieu Doucet	How to write custom analysis with DANSE software
April 2nd	Trailer	Steve Kline	Polymerized surfactants and variations
March 19th	Trailer	Boualem Hammouda	SANS modelling
March 5th	Trailer	Kathryn Krycka	Polarized SANS studies of magnetic correlations in magnetite nanoparticles
Feb. 27th	Trailer	Paul Butler	Understanding the microstructure of sunscreens

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