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Seminars

“The Bright Future of Mid-Infrared Photonics”

DATE: April 23, 2009
TIME: 10:00AM
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Laurent Diehl, Ph.D., School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

“Systems Biology Driven Technologies to Assess Cancer Heterogeneity”

DATE: April 21, 2009
TIME: 10:30 AM
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Rong Fan, Ph.D., NanoSystems Biology Cancer Center (NSBCC), Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

“Semiconductor Nanowires: Properties, Integration and Applications for Electronics, Sensors and Energy Harvesting”

DATE: April 17, 2009
TIME: 9:30 AM
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Zhiyong Fan, Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

“Life and Death in the Nanoworld”

DATE: April 14, 2009
TIME: 10:00 AM
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER: Georg E. Fantner, Ph.D., Biomolecular Material Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Controlling lipid membranes for biotechnological understanding and application”

DATE: April 10, 2009
TIME:  1:30 PM
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Vernita Gordon, Ph.D., Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Active Plasmonics for Optical Communication, Photovoltaics and Sensing Applications”

DATE: April 8, 2009
TIME:  1:30 PM
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Domenico Pacifici, Ph.D., Thomas J. Watson Laboratories of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology

"Optoelectronic Nanoscale Probes of Individual Carbon Nanotubes”

DATE: April 7, 2009
TIME:  10:00 AM
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Yaqiong Xu, Ph.D., Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University

“Control of nonlinear optics at the few-cycle limit for access to new optical science”

DATE: April 3, 2009
TIME:  10:30 AM
PLACE:  Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Jeffrey Moses, Ph.D. , Research Laboratory of Electronics
Optics and Quantum Electronics Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Design of Biocompatible Nanoparticles for Molecular Imaging of Single Living Cells”

DATE: February 16, 2009
TIME:  11:00 AM
PLACE:  Barus Holleyl, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Prof. X. Nancy Xu,, Associate Professor in Bioanalytical, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Bionanotechnology, Bionanomaterials,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Old Dominion University

“DNA: Not Merely theSecret of Life”

DATE: Friday, December 12, 2008
TIME:  4:00 PM
PLACE:  MacMillan Hall, Room 115
SPEAKER:  Prof. Ned Seeman, Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Chemistry, New York University

“Ion channels – there’s no excitement without them”

DATE:  Wednesday, December 10, 2008
TIME:    12:00 PM
PLACE: Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:   Prof. Diane Lipscombe, Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University

“The Mysterious Buckyball Project: Fruitflies on Nanoparticles”

DATE:  Wednesday, November 19, 2008
TIME:  4:00 PM
PLACE: Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:   Prof. David Rand,  Professor of Biology, Brown University

“Mechanochemically Active Polymeric Materials”

DATE:  Thursday, November 6, 2008
TIME:  4:30 PM
PLACE:  Barus & Holley, Room 168
SPEAKER: Prof. Nancy SottosDonald B. Willett Professor of Engineering
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Energy Harvesting in Nanofluidic Structures Using Electrokinetics and Hydrodynamic Slip”

DATE:  Wednesday, October 29, 2008
TIME:  4:00 PM
PLACE: Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER:  Prof.  Derek Stein, Assistant Professor of Physics, Brown University

“Magnetic QCA: From Devices to Circuits to Architectures (and back!)”

DATE: Thursday, October 2, 2008
TIME: 12:00 p.m.
PLACE: Barus Holley, Room 190
SPEAKER: Prof. Michael Niemier, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame,

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“Exploring the Bio-Nano Interface for Recognition and Assembly of Electronic Materials”

Date:      February 26, 2008
Speaker:   Dr. Jenifer Cha, IBM Almaden Research Center


“Geometry and Symmetry in Photonics and Material Science”

Date:    February 25, 2008
Speaker:   Dr. Weining Man, Department of Physics, New York University


“Programmable Spectral Design and the Binary Supergrating and Tubulogenesis, Cystogenesis and Polycystic Kidney Disease

Date:    February 19, 2008
Speaker:   Dr. Daniel Levner, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital


“High_Quality Optical Resonators and their Applications ”

Date:   February 18, 2008
Speaker:   Dr. Juraj Topolancik, The Rowland Institute, Harvard University


“Silicon Spintronics”

Date:    February 14, 2008
Speaker:   Professor Ian Applebaum, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware


“Advanced Electronic Materials from Prganic Semiconductors to Carbon Nanotubes ”

Date:    February 15, 2008
Speaker:   Dr. Michael S. Arnold, University of Michigan


“Nanostructuring for Energy Conversion: Transparent and Catalytic Carbon Nanotube Films”

Date:    February 13, 2008
Speaker:   Dr. Jessika E. Trancik, Santa Fe Institute


“Micro-Engineering Osmotic Stresses in Colloidal Dispersions and Synthetic Trees”

Date:  February 13, 2008
Speaker:  Dr. Abraham Strook, Assistant Professor, Cornell University


“Multifunctional and Biological Scaffolds for Energy Applications ”

Date:    February 12, 2008
Speaker:   Dr. Ki Tae Nam, The Molecular Foundary, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratoty


“Quick-changing Camouflage in Octopus and Squid: potential biomimetic and biophotonic applications in engineering and materials science”

Date:     December 12, 2007
Speaker:   Roger Hanlon, Senior Scientist, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA


“Novel Properties: Speculations on Nanotechnology in Architecture”

Date:    November 28, 2007
Speaker: Dr. Peter Yeadon, Architect, New York City and Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R. I.


“Engineering of Carbon Nanotube Architectures”

Date:     November 26, 2007
Speaker: Dr. Pulickel M. Ajuyan, Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering, Materials Science and Nanotechnology Rice University, Houston, TX


“Profiling Chemical Microdomains in Extracellular Space”

Date:    September 21, 2007
Speaker:   Dr. Peter J. S. Smith, Director, BioCurrents Research Center (NIH:NCRR); Senior Scientist & Director, Program in Molecular Physiology at the Molecular Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA