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SPEAKERS SCHEDULE

February 2006
as of February 24
Wed., Feb. 1
1:00 pm
Mason 107
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Photon Emission Microscopy of CMOS Integrated Circuits"
Dr. Stanislav Polonsky
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Host: Prof. Daniel Prober
 
Wed., Feb. 1
4:00 pm
Mason 211
Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Protein Engineering Via Incorporation of Nonnatural Amino Acids"
Prof. Inchan Kwon
Department of Chemical Engineering
Caltech

Refreshments at 3:30 pm, Mason Mezzanine
Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech
Thurs., Feb. 2
1:00 pm
Sloane
Physics Lab 52
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Vortex Lattices and Vortex Liquids in Atomic Bose Gases"
Prof. Nigel Cooper
University of Cambridge, UK
Host: Prof. Steven M. Girvin
Mon., Feb. 6
11:00 am
Becton
Faculty Lounge
Special Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Dynamic Pathways for Viral Capsid Assembly"
Dr. Michael Hagan
Department of Chemistry
University of California at Berkeley
Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech
Wed., Feb. 8
11:00 am
Becton
Faculty Lounge
(new location)
 
Department of Biomedical Engineering Research Seminar:
"Polymer Drugs and Micropatterned Polymers for Biomedical Applications"
Prof. Kathryn Uhrich
Department of Chemistry
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ
Host: Prof. Mark Saltzman
Wed., Feb. 8
1:00 pm
Mason 107
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"A Fermion Interferometer Operated as a Transistor"
Dr. Bernard Yurke
Bell Laboratories
Lucent Technologies
Host: Prof. Steven Girvin
Wed., Feb. 8
2:30 pm
Mason 107
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Particle Shape and Dynamics of Granular Matter"
Prof. Arshad Kudrolli
Department of Physics
Clark University

Refreshments at 2:15 pm
Host: Prof. Corey O'Hern
Wed., Feb. 8
4:00 pm
Mason 21
Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer Blends into Nonregular Device-Oriented Structures"
Prof. Mark Stoykovich
Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Refreshments at 3:30 pm, Mason Mezzanine
Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech
Fri., Feb. 10
 11:00
Becton
Faculty Lounge
Special Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Directed Self-Assembly of Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers - Microstructural Control of Functional Materials"
Prof. Chinedum Osuji
Department of Physics
Harvard University
Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech
Tues., Feb. 14
4:00 pm
Mason 107
Graduate Student Seminar:
"Neural Testing of Mixed-Signal/RF Circuits"
Haralampos Stratigopoulos
Electrical Engineering

Refreshments at 3:45 pm
Adviser: Prof. Yiorgos Makris
Wed., Feb. 15
1:00 pm
Mason 107
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Tailoring the Nanometer-Scale Structure and Properties of Dilute Semiconductor Alloys
Prof. Rachel Goldman
University of Michigan
Host: Prof. Mark Reed
Wed., Feb. 15
2:30 pm
Mason 107
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar:
"Carbon Capture and Storage for Sustained Access to Fossil Carbon"
Prof. Klaus S. Lackner
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Columbia University
Host:  Prof. Alessandro Gomez
Wed., Feb. 15
 4:00 pm
Mason 211 
Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Pulling, Squeezing, and Heating Biomolecules: What Happens and Why We Do It"
Dr. Thomas Knotts
Chemical & Biological Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Refreshments at 3:30 pm, Mason Mezzanine
Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech
Thurs., Feb. 16 10:00 am
Becton 4th floor alcove
Special Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Collective Effects in Transport through Single-molecule Devices"
Prof. Jens Koch
Free University of Berlin
Host: Prof. Steven M. Girvin
Thurs., Feb. 16 1:00 pm
Sloane
Physics Lab 52
Computer Engineering Seminar:
"High Temperature Metals and Insulators"
Dr. Vadim Oganesyan
Physics Department
Yale University
Host: Prof. Steven M. Girvin
Thurs., Feb. 16
4:00 pm
Watson 500
Computer Engineering Seminar:
"ICs at Light Speed: Merging VLSI with Photonics"
Prof. Alyssa Apsel
Cornell University
Host Prof. Eugenio Culurciello
Fri., Feb. 17
9:30 am
Becton
4th floor alcove
Special Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Superconducting Tunnel Junction X-ray Spectrometers for Synchrotron Science," or "The Chemistry of Dilute Samples"
Dr. Stephan Friedrich
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Host: Prof. Daniel Prober
Fri., Feb. 17
4:00 pm
Dunham
5th Floor Conference Room
Center for System Science Seminar:
"Hidden Markov Models for Molecular Motors"
Prof. Frederick J. Sigworth
Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and Biomedical Engineering
Yale University
Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra
Mon., Feb. 20
 4:00 pm
315 Cedar Street Hope 216
Yale School of Medicine Interdepartmental Program in Vascular Biology and Transplantation:
"Exploration of Collagen Mimetic Peptide’s Affinity to Natural Collagen for Sustained Drug Delivery and Scaffold Functionalization"
Prof. Michael Yu
Materials Science and Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Host: Prof. Mark Saltzman
Wed., Feb. 22
4:00 pm
Watson 500
Computer Engineering Seminar:
"Neuromorphic Vision Systems"
Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Johns Hopkins University
Host: Prof. Eugenio Culurciello
Wed., Feb. 22
 4:00 pm
Mason 211
 
Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Membrane Aeration, Biofilms, and Membrane Bioreactors"
Prof. Michael J. Semmens
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Minnesota

Refreshments at 3:30 pm, Mason mezzanine
Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech
Wed., Feb. 22
 1:00 pm
Sloane
Physics Lab 52
Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"The Ehrenfest Time and Quantum Interference"
Prof. Saar Rahav
Cornell University
Host: Prof. A. Douglas Stone
Thurs., Feb. 23 1:00 pm
Sloane
Physics Lab 52
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar:
"Ultracold Atoms and Bose-Einstein Condensates in Storage Rings and Optical Cavities
Subhadeep Gupta
University of California at Berkeley
Host: Prof. David DeMille

Fri., Feb. 24
4:00 pm
Dunham
5th Floor Conference Room

Center for System Science Seminar:
"Modeling and Control in Cancer Genomics"
Prof. Aniruddha Datta
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A & M University
Host: Prof. Kumpati Narendra
Fri., Feb. 24
1:00 pm
Becton
4th floor alcove
  
Special Solid State and Optics Seminar:
"Building Disk Drives with Electron Beam Nanolithography"
Dr. Michael Rooks
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY
 
Mon., Feb. 27
 11:00 am
 Becton
Faculty Lounge
Special Chemical Engineering Seminar:
"Towards Atomic-Resolution Nanofabrication: Multi-scale Modeling of Carbon Nanotube Atomic Force Microscopy Processes"
Dr. Santiago D. Solares
Department of Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Host: Prof. Menachem Elimelech
Mon., Feb. 27
2:30 pm
Mason 107
Special Mechanical Engineering Seminar: "Nanoelectromechanical System-Mechanical Devices to Study Nanoscale Physics, Weigh Molecules, and Sniff Nerve Gas"
Dr. Hong Tang
Department of Physics
California Institute of Technology
Host: Prof. Udo Schwarz
Mon., Feb. 27 4:00 pm
Mason 107
Monday Evening Seminar:
"Ferroelectric Field Effect Study of Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Doped Manganites"
Xia Hong
Department of Electrical Engineering
Yale University

Refreshments at 3:30 pm
Adviser: Prof. Charles Ahn

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