Fiscal Year 2007-2008

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