Fiscal Year 2011/2012

Seminar Title:  Silver Nanoparticle Structure‐Property
Relationships for Environmental Health and Safety Studies

Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM
Place: Barus & Holley, Room 631
Speaker: Robert MacCuspie, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Sponsored by IMNI

Seminar Title:  Functionalized Nanocarbons:  Nanofluidics, Electronics and Self-Assembly

Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Time: 4:30 PM
Place: Barus & Holley, Room 190
Speaker: Petr Kral, The University of Illinois at Chicago 
Sponsored by IMNI

Seminar Title:  Detecting and Manipulating single Molecules with STM

Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012
Time: 3:30 PM Refreshments/4:00 PM Seminar
Place:  MacMillan Hall, Room 117
Speaker: President Jianguo Hou, University of Science and Technology of China
Co-sponsored by IMNI and the Year of China

A Step Up to Self-Assembly 

Date: Monday, March 5, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM Colloquium
            3:30 PM Refreshments
Place: Barus & Holley, Room 166
Speaker: Provost Enge Wang, Peking University, China
Sponsored by IMNI, the Department of Physics and Year of China

Funneling Photons:  Two Parts Nature & One Part Material Science

Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Time: 4:15PM
Place: Barus & Holley, Room 190
Speaker: Barry D. Bruce, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville 
Sponsored by the University of Rhode Island and hosted by IMNI

Graphene-based and Graphene-derived Materials

Date: Friday, December 2, 2011
Time: 3:00 PM
Place: Barus & Holley, Room 190
Speaker: Rodney Ruoff, The University of Texas at Austin
Sponsored by IMNI

In Vivo Nano-Molecular Imaging of Cancer

Date: Friday, November 11, 2011
Time: 3:00 PM
Place: Barus & Holley, Room 190
Speaker: Keon Wook Kang, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine & Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Sponsored by IMNI

Defect Evolution in Nanocrystals and Graphenes

Date: Monday, October 24, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: MacMillan Hall, Room 115 
Speaker: President Wei Yang, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Sponsored by IMNI

Carbon-based Nano Materials for Efficient Energy Conversion

Date: October 11, 2011
Time: 4:00PM 
Place: MacMillian Hall, Room 115
Speaker: Xinhe Bao, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sponsored by IMNI