The Molecular Foundry Seminars
The Molecular Foundry is proud to present the Foundry Seminar Series and the Distinguished Lecture Series. Both offer compelling research and information for those who investigate at the nanoscale.
Seminars occur at 1:30 pm, in Building 67, Room 3111 unless otherwise noted.
Asterisks [**] denote talks in the Distinguished Lecture Series.
Seminar Speakers and Dates
**April 20, 2010 - Harry Atwater, Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology on "Plasmonics: Photons at the Nanoscale Yield Physics, Metamaterials and Devices." [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66-Auditorium]
April 13, 2010 - TBD.
April 6, 2010 - TBD.
March 30, 2010 - TBD.
March 23, 2010 - TBD.
March 16, 2010 - TBD.
March 9, 2010 - TBD.
**March 2, 2010 - Shuguang Zhang, Associate Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering, MIT on "Designer Self-assembling Peptide Nanomaterials." [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66-Auditorium]
February 23, 2010 - TBD.
**February 16, 2010 - Professor Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Department of Chemistry and Director, Center for Integrated Nanosystems, Northwestern University. [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66-Auditorium]
February 9, 2010 - Jonathan Lee, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
**February 2, 2010 - Frances Ross, Manager, Nanoscale Materials Analysis Department, IBM Watson Research Center. [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66-Auditorium]
January 26, 2010 - Jan Seidel, LBNL Advanced Materials Lab.
**January 19, 2010 - Professor Harold Craighead, Departments Engineering and Applied & Engineering Physics, Director of the Nanobiotechnology Center, Cornell University on "Nanofluidic Devices for Individual Molecule Analysis." [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66-Auditorium]
January 12, 2010 - Peter Lu, Department of Physics, Harvard University.
January 5, 2010 - Eunice Lee, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley.
December 15, 2009 - Mark J. Schnitzer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Departments of Biology and Applied Physics, Stanford University on "Imaging Cellular Function by One- and Two-photon Fluorescence Microscopy in Awake Behaving Animals."
December 8, 2009 - Kristie Koski, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona on "Nanoparticle Stress Sensors and the Effects of Pressure and Size Scale on Atomic Structure."
November 24, 2009 - Professor Matthew Francis, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley.
November 17, 2009 - Rebecca Dylla-Spears, Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley on "Target Sequence Detection Method for Single DNA Molecules via Extension Flow at a Stagnation Point."
November 10, 2009 - Dr. Helmut Schift, Paul Scherrer Institute, Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnology.
November 3, 2009 - Farid El Gabaly, Materials Physics Department, Sandia National Laboratories on "In-situ Ambient-pressure XPS Studies of Working Solid-oxide Fuel Cells." [Previous speaker cancelled.]
October 27, 2009 - Professor Kenneth Shea, Department of Chemisty, UC Irvine on "Plastic Antibodies: Recent Advances in Synthetic Receptors for Biological Macromolecules."
October 20, 2009 - Professor Bill Casey, Departments of Chemisty and Geology, UC Davis on "Reaction of Oxides in Water at the Molecular Scale."
