Events

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IRG2,

December 17 at 4PM, EII Room 3361, Susanne Stemmer "Grain Boundaries in Barium Strontium Titanate Thin Films"

IRG4,

December 14 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Stefan Nielsen "Building blocks for the investigation of earthquake rupture: what clues do we gather by comparing models and real faults ?"

IRG1,

December 8 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Nelle L. Slack "Optimization of Key Parameters for Gene Transfer: Towards a Universal Description of Transfection Efficiency"

IRG1,

December 1 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Daniel E. Morse "Counterintuitive Findings from Biomineralization, and their Applications for Control of Materials Synthesis"

IRG2,

November 22 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053, T. Wagner "Abnormal grain growth of magnetron sputtered Cu and Ni films: The influence of ion bombardment and annealing conditions"

IRG3,

November 18 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Sergey Ponomarenko "Liquid crystalline carbosilane dendrimers as a new type of intramolecular phase-separated and self-assembled nanostructure materials"

IRG1,

November 17 at 4:30PM, MRL Room 2053, Junqi Ding "Viscosity and Morphology of Synthetic Lung Surfactant Monolayer"

IRG1,

November 17 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Ed Kisak "Self-Limiting Aggregation by Controlled Ligand-Receptor Stoichiometry for Use in a Novel Drug Delivery System"

IRG4,

November 16 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Venkat Ganesan "Dynamics of two-phase fluid interfaces in random media"

IRG1,

November 10 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Craig Keller "Supported Membrane Formation - The Kinetics of Vesicle Adsorption"

IRG2,

November 8 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. C.N.R. Rao "An Approach to Understanding the Myriad of Open-Framework Metal Phosphates"

IRG2,

November 4 at 11:15AM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Alain Fuchs "Pure and Binary Mixture Adsorption Equilibria of Fluids in Zeolites: A Numerical Statistical Thermodynamics Approach"

IRG1,

November 3 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Benjamin Ohler "Myelin Membranes During Autoimmune Demyelination"

IRG2,

November 2 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Joel Schnur "Lipid Tubules and their Applications"

IRG4,

November 2 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Roman Grigoriev "Symmetry and Control of Spatially Extended Chaotic Systems"

IRG3,

October 28 at 1PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Karen I. Winey "Dynamics of Lamellar Diblock Copolymers"

IRG1,

October 27 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Mike Elbaum "Polymer physics in the cell: nuclear uptake of DNA"

IRG2,

October 22 at 11AM, EII Pavilion, Prof. Guy Ouvrard "Application of X-ray absorption spectroscopy to a better understanding of the intercalation process"

IRG3,

October 22 at 10AM, EII Pavilion, Dr. Peter Revesz "Ion Beam Analysis over the Web"

IRG1,

October 20 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Ragiv Singh "Mediation of Long-range electron transfer by magnetic bound states"

IRG4,

October 19 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Ralph Archuleta "Recent earthquakes in Turkey and Taiwan -- What can we learn from them?"

IRG1,

October 13 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Phillip Schorr "Normal and Frictional Forces Between Polymer Brushes"

IRG2,

October 11 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053, Nava Setter "Ferroelectric Pervoskites: From Nonvolatile Memories to Ultrasonic Medical Imaging"

IRG1,

October 11 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. R.B. von Dreele "Proteins and Powder Diffraction"

IRG4,

October 5 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Linda Petzold "Algorithms and Software for Dynamic Optimization with Application to Chemically Reacting Stagnation Flows"

IRG3,

September 27 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Alek Zubelewicz "Geometrically Necessary Cavitation - Another Concept to Explain Scale Effect"

IRG4,

September 21 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Dr. Tong Zhou "Velocity Correlations in Granular Materials"

IRG4,

September 14 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Chang Ryu "Effects of Chain Architecture on Fracture of Semicrystalline-Glassy Block Copolymers"

IRG4,

September 7 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Jacob Israelachvili "Tribological Studies of Rough Surfaces in Relation to Geological Sliding"

IRG2,

August 16 at 3PM, Broida Room 3033, Prof. Norbert Auner "Organosilicon Chemistry: from Molecules to Materials"

IRG1,

August 4 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Bertrand Fourcade "Ferro-vesicles and hydrodynamics"

IRG3,

July 30 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Costantino Creton "The physics and mechanics of sticky tape"

IRG2,

July 30 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Young-Uk Kwon "The Role of Rare Earth Ions on the Magnetic Properties of Layered Manganese Oxides"

IRG2,

July 29 at 1:45PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. C.N.R. Rao "Metal Nanoparticles and their Assemblies"

IRG3,

July 23 at 1:30PM, MRL Room 2053, Costantino Creton "Fracture of interfaces between semi-cristalline polymers"

IRG3,

June 30 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Kenneth R. Shull "Adhesion of Soft Materials to Rigid Surfaces: Applications of the JKR Technique"

IRG3,

June 21 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Hideaki Yokoyama "Structure and Diffusion of Asymmetric Block Copolymers"

IRG1,

June 9 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Becky Menes "Salty Surfaces"

IRG4,

June 8 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Jim Dieterich "High-stress frictional contacts: Observations and applications to earthquake models"

IRG1,

June 2 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Gerard Wong "Condensation & Self-Assembly of Biopolymer/Membrane Systems"

IRG1,

May 26 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Helmut Schiessel "Organized Condensation of Worm-like Chains"

IRG4,

May 25 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Ben Freund "Fragmentation of exploding metal cylinders - precursors to ductile fracture"

IRG2,

May 25 at 11AM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Diek Koningsberger "XAFS Spectroscopy in Catalysis Research: AXAFS and Fano Resonances"

IRG1,

May 19 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Philippe Richetti "Specific interactions between 2 surfaces confining a smectic film, a pre-smectic film and a condensed smectic droplet"

IRG3,

May 11 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Craig Silvis "Poly(hydroxyamino ethers): Novel High-barrier Thermoplastics"

IRG4,

May 11 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Glenn Fredrickson and Francois Drolet "Simulation of phase separation in polymeric systems"

IRG2,

May 5 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Devens Gust "An Artificial Photosynthetic Membrane"

IRG3,

May 4 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Christopher Gorman "Encapsulated Electroactive Molecules: Control of Electron Transfer in Redox-Active Supramolecules"

IRG4,

April 20 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Glenn Beltz "The Role of Crack Blunting in Ductile vs. Brittle Response of Cystalline Solids"

IRG1,

April 7 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Kevin W. Plaxco "Determinants of protein folding kinetics"

IRG1,

April 6 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Peter Mack "Polarized Resonant X-ray Measurement of Ferri- and Antiferro-electric Liquid-Crystal Structures"

IRG4,

April 6 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Prof. Karl Astrom "Friction: A Control Perspective"

IRG1,

March 31 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. R. Pit "Flow with Slip at the Wall for a Simple Liquid on Lyophobic Surfaces"

IRG2,

March 25 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Sang-Eon Park "CO2 Reforming over ZrO2-Supported Ni Catalyst and Photoactivation via Encapsulated-Re(I) Complexes in Molecular Sieves"

IRG3,

March 19 at 3:30PM, MRL Room 2053, Gerald Pereira "Alignment of thin diblock copolymer melts on nano-periodic surfaces"

IRG1,

March 17 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Deborah Fygenson "Unfolding: The Simplest Conformational Change"

IRG2,

March 17 at 10AM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Yong Ba "Probing Materials Structure and Dynamics by Double-resonance NMR and Multiple-quantum NMR"

IRG2,

March 16 at 3:30PM, MRL Room 2053, Luis Smith "Cation Locations and Dislocations in Zeolites"

IRG4,

March 16 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Pascal Hebraud "Flow and jamming of concentrated suspensions"

IRG3,

March 11 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Douglas Gin "Polymerizable Liquid Crystal Assemblies as a Route to Functional, Nanostructured Materials"

IRG1,

March 10 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Helen Hansma "Big toroids with little DNA and other DNA-bending problems analyzed by AFM"

IRG4,

March 9 at noon, Broida Room 6204, Stefan Nielsen "Self-similarity in rupture pulses"

IRG1,

March 3 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. R. Golestanian "Collapse of Stiff Polyelectrolytes due to Counterion Fluctuations"

IRG2,

March 3 at 10AM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Jingui Hu "Solid-state NMR studies on the Potential Biomaterial - Bacteriorhodopsin"

IRG2,

March 2 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Dieter Schaefer "Direct Characterization of Molecular Order and Dynamics in Polymers and Adsorbate Dynamics in Zeolites"

IRG2,

March 1 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Robert Haushalter "Combinatorial Materials Science"

IRG2,

February 19 at 3PM, Chemistry 4606, Jackie Y. Ying "Nanostructure Processing of Catalytic Materials"

IRG2,

February 16 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Claude A. Daul "Modelling electrode materials for Li-batteries"

IRG1,

February 10 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Jennifer Gregory "Microtubule Motility Characteristics of CENP-E, a Mitotic Kinesin Related Protein"

IRG2,

February 8 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053, Mauricio Terrones "Novel Advances in the Creation of Layered CxNy and BxCyNz Nanostructures by Self Assembly Processes"

IRG1,

February 3 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Sarah Keller "Critical mixing and red blood cell lipids"

IRG1,

January 27 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Martin Hernandez "Surface Hydrodynamics of a Freely Standing Layer of a Polymer Solution"

IRG3,

January 22 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Chang-Yeol Ryu "Structures and Dynamics of Block Copolymer Melts and Solutions"

IRG3,

January 15 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Ullrich Steiner "Surface Induced Lateral Structure Formation in Polymer Films"

IRG2,

January 14 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. C.J. Brinker "Evaporation-induced Self-assembly of Nanocomposite Films and Powders"

IRG2,

January 13 at 4PM, Chemistry 1171, Dr. Andreas Stein "Templated Syntheses of Porous Metal Oxides and Hybrid Materials"

IRG1,

January 13 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Mahn Won Kim "The thermodynamics of lipid and lipid-polymer mixtures"

IRG3,

January 11 at 2:30PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Willem Vos "Photonic band gap crystals"

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