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Seminars

Materials Research Lectures 2003-2004

Fall 2003-04

October 8, 2003
Guy Ouvrard, CNRS Nantes
X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Lithium Battery Materials

October 15, 2003
William A. Goddard, Caltech
First Principles Simulations of Nanoscale Materials Technology

October 22,
2003
Albert Polman, FOM Institute
Plasmons, Excitons, and 4f Shells in Nanophotonic Integrated Circuits

October 29,
2003
Jim Gimzewski
, UCLA
Aspects of Nanoscience: Molecular STM at 4K, Cell Sonics, and Art

November 5, 2003
Susan Trolier-McKinstry
, Penn State University
Ferroelectric Thin Films

November 12, 2003
James de Yoreo
, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Molecular Adhesion, Recognition, and Manipulation at Hard-soft Interfaces

November 19, 2003
Ramamoorty Ramesh
, University of Maryland

Multiferroic Materials

November 20, 2003
(Special Seminar)
Ulrich Goesele
, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany
Ordered Nanopore Arrays (and related stuff)

November 26, 2003
Darrell Schlom
, Penn State
Epitaxial Oxide Heterostructures

Winter 2003-04

January 7, 2004
Caroline A. Ross, MIT
Properties of Magnetic Nanostructures - Rings, Bars and Dots

January 14, 2004

Jeff Snyder, JPL
Materials Chemistry & Physics for Thermoelectric Power Generation & Cooling

January 21, 2004

Wim Bras
Rotational Behaviour of Smectic Liquid Crystals in Magnetic Fields


January 28, 2004
Giulia Galli, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Computational Design of Nanostructures and Nanostructured Materials

February 4, 2004
Reinhold Dauskardt, Stanford University
Adhesion and Mechanical Reliability of Thin-film Device Structures: New Material and Length Scale Challenges

February 11, 2004
Alan Heeger, U.C. Santa Barbara
"Gene Sensors": Detection of Specific Targeted Sequences on DNA

February 18, 2004
Vicki Colvin, RiCE University
Wet/Dry Nanomaterials: Exploiting and Understanding Nanoscale Structures in Biological Systems

February 25, 2004
Jennifer Lewis, University of Illinois
Direct-write Assembly of 3-D Periodic Structures From Colloidal and Organic Inks

March 10, 2004
Peidong Yang, University California Berkeley
Nanowire Synthesis and Properties

March 11, 2004 (Special Seminar)
Regina Ragan, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Self-Assembled Nanostructure: Using Thermodynamic and Kinetic Driving Forces to Fabricate Nanosture Arrays
3:00 pm, Refreshments at 2:45 pm in 113 Spalding

Spring 2003-04

April 7, 2004
Arthur F. Voter, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Methods

June 9, 2004
Markus Gahleitner, Christelle Grein and Kshama Motha, PO Development, Borealis GmbH, Linz/Austria
Elisabeth Ingolic, Center for Electron Microscopy, Graz/Austria
Crystallisation and Mechanics of Polypropylene Composites with Micro- and Nanofillers

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