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 1:00 pm, in Building 67, Room 3111 unless otherwise noted.
Asterisks [**] denote talks in the Distinguished Lecture Series.
Seminar Speakers and Dates
January 31, 2012 - Peter M. Goodwin, CINT on "Time-Resolved Super-Resolution Imaging of Biomolecular Processes in Two and Three Dimensions"
January 24, 2012 - Kislon Voitchovsky, EPFL on " At the interface: complex liquid organization and ionic effects."
January 17, 2012 - Zack Gainsforth, Space Sciences Laboratory, UCB on "A nanoscale view of the solar system."
December 13, 2011 - TBD.
December 6, 2011 - TBD.
November 29, 2011 - Professor Zhigang Chen, Department of Physics, San Francisco State University.
November 11, 2011 - TBD.
November 15, 2011 - Dr. Walter Paxton, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories.
November 8, 2011 - Professor Ana Claudia Arlas, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley.
October 31, 2011 - Dr. Shadi Dayeh, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory on "Synthesis and Defect Control in Bandgap Engineered Ge/Si Nanowire Devices."
**October 25, 2011 - Professor Charles Lieber, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University on "Nanowires: Current & Future Opportunities in Energy & Life Sciences."
**October 11, 2011 - Professor Paul Hansma, Department of Physics, UC Santa Barbara on "From Nanoscience Research to Clinical Applications: Bone."
**October 4, 2011 - Professor Allan MacDonald, Department of Physics, UT Austin on "Interfaces between Physics and Chemistry and between Semiconductor and Particle Physics in Two-Dimensional Carbon." NOTE: Lecture begins at 2:30pm.
**September 27, 2011 - Professor Bert Meijer, Department of Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Holland on "Non-Covalent Synthesis of Functional Supramolecular Systems."
**September 20, 2011 - Professor Caroline Ross, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT on "Templated Block Copolymers for Nanolithography."
September 13, 2011 - Dr. Steven Whitelam, Staff Scientist, Molecular Foundry Theory of Nanostructured Materials Facility on "Predicting Pathways and Yields of Nanoscale Self-assembly."
**September 6, 2011 - Professor Peter Schultz, The Scripps Research Institute on "Synthesis at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology: From Stem Cells to the Genetic Code."
August 30, 2011 - Dr. Bruce Bunker, Sandia National Laboratories on Self-Assembly, Programmed Assembly, and Active Assemblies.
August 9, 2011 - Yuegang Sun, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory on Nucleation Engineering for Controlled Nanoparticle Synthesis.
August 2, 2011 - Dr. Colin L. Freeman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom on The role of the Surface in Controlling Molecular Interactions.
July 19, 2011 - Professor Laurie Gower, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida on Biomimetic Synthesis of Organic-Inorganic Composites Mimicking the Nanostructure of Bones, Teeth, and Sea Shells.
July 12, 2011 - Professor Jhih-Wei Chu, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley.
June 28, 2011 - Jessy Rivest, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley on Nanoparticle Photovoltaics: The case of Cu2S-CdS.
June 21, 2011 - Dr. Shenda Baker, Synedgen, Inc. on Copolymers at Interfaces: Big Molecules and Kinetic Traps.
June 14, 2011 - Dr. Asanga Padmaperuma, Applied Materials Science Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on Materials Design Concepts for Efficient Blue OLEDs: A joint Theoretical and Experimental Study.
June 7, 2011 - Professor Bruce Clemons, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University.
May 27, 2011 - [Friday Seminar - 9:30 am] Dr. Harlan Byker, Pleotint, LLC on The Colorful Chemistry of Chromogenics.
May 27, 2011 - [Friday Seminar - 9:30 am] Dr. Harlan Byker, Pleotint, LLC on The Colorful Chemistry of Chromogenics.
May 24, 2011 - Professor Tian-Ling Ren, Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, China, and Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford on New Material Based Devices.
May 18, 2011 - [Wednesday Seminar] Kenneth L. Knappenberger, Jr., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University on Structure-Specific Nanoscale Photodynamics.
May 17, 2011 - Distinguished Professor Margaret Murnane, JILA at University of Colorado on Attosecond Light and Science - Bright High Harmonic X-Rays at 8Å.
May 10, 2011 - Professor Regina Ragan, UC Irvine on Thermodynamics and Chemistry: Old Tools to Address Current Challenges.
May 3, 2011 - Dr. Jaume Gazquez, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (currently at ICMAB-CSIC, Spain) on Spin State Mapping with Atomic Resolution.
April 26, 2011 - No speaker due to MRS meeting
April 19, 2011 - Professor Daniel Gamelin, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington on Dopants and Charge Carriers in Colloidal II-VI Semiconductor Nanocrystals.
April 12, 2011 - Prof. Zhibin Guan, Department of Chemistry, UC Irvine on Combine Weak and Strong Molecular Forces for Designing Dynamic Polymers
April 5, 2011 - Professor Archita Patnaik, Indian Institute of Technology Madras on Structured Interfaces of Functional Amphiphiles: Intramolecular Electronic Communication in Oriented Assemblies.
March 29, 2011 - Professor Oded Hod, Tel Aviv University on Stacking and Registry Effects in Layered Materials: The Case of Hexagonal Boron Nitride and Beyond.
**March 22, 2011 - CANCELLED due to inclement weather.
March 15, 2011 - Dr. Kevin McCarty, Material Physics Department, Sandia National Lab on Mechanisms of Graphene Growth on Metals.
March 8, 2011 - Bill Shelander, Tech Transfer Business Development Specialist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab on "Start ups, Opportunities, and Entrepreneurial Awareness."
March 1, 2011 - Rosie Alvarez (CIO), D. Adam Stone (Deputy CIO) and Charlie Verboom (Lead for Collaboration Tools) of LBNL on Technology for Science: An Overview of Tools from IT.
**February 22, 2011 - Professor Allan MacDonald, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin. [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66 - Auditorium]
**February 15, 2011 - Professor Louis Brus, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University. [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66 - Auditorium]
**February 8, 2011 - Professor David Awschalom, Department of Physics, UC Santa Barbara on "Engaging Spins in Semiconductors for Quantum Information Processing.” [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66 - Auditorium]
February 1, 2011 - Dr. Danny Perez, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory on "Bridging the Timescale Gap Between Simulations and Experiments Using Accelerated Molecular Dynamics."
**January 26, 2011 - Professor Harold Craighead, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University on "Nanostructures for Biological Investigations." [Special Wednesday Distinguished Lecture, Bldg. 66 - Auditorium]
January 18, 2011 - Professor Steven Lenhert, Department of Biological Science and Integrative Nanoscience Institute, The Florida State University on Functional Lipid Nanostructures Assembled by Dip-Pen Nanolithography.
January 11, 2011 - No Seminar due to MSD DOE review.
January 4, 2011 - No speaker.
December 7, 2010 - Professor Young-wook Jun, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, UC San Francisco on Nanocrystal Molecules as Probes for Single Biomolecule Imaging.
November 30, 2010 - Professor Robert Glaeser, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley, and Physical Biosciences Division, Berkeley Lab.
November 23, 2010 - Professor Alan Fuchs, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno.
November 16, 2010 - Professor Sarah Tolbert, Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Physical Chemistry, and member, California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA.
November 9, 2010 - Professor Alex Katz, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley on Calixarene-Bound Metal Clusters: Controlling Electronics, Accessibility, and Catalysis on Metal Surfaces Using Organic Ligands.
**November 2, 2010 - Professor Emily Carter, Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University on "Quantum Mechanics Based Design Concepts for Improved Materials for Energy Applications." [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66 - Auditorium]
**October 26, 2010 - Professor Paul S. Weiss, California NanoSystems Institute and Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Materials Science & Engineering, UCLA on "New Dimensions in Patterning: Placement and Metrology of Chemical Functionality at All Scales." [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66 - Auditorium]
**October 19, 2010 - Professor Joanna Aizenberg, Departments of Materials Science and Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Faculty of Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering on "Actuated 'Spiny' Surfaces à la Echinoderms: En Route for Adaptive Materials." [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66 - Auditorium]
October 12, 2010 - Dr. Elaine DiMasi, Brookhaven National Laboratory on "Mineralization at the Organic Interface - Insights and Advances from in-situ Techniques."
October 5, 2010 - Professor Sue A. Carter, Department of Physics, UC Santa Cruz.
September 28, 2010 - Professor Massoud Kaviany, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, University of Michigan on "Tuning Phonons in Molecular Foundry."
**September 21, 2010 - Dr. Hongjie Dai, J.G. Jackson-C.J Wood Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University on "Novel Materials Based on Carbon." [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66 - Auditorium]
September 14, 2010 - Dr. Benjamin Gilbert, Staff Scientist, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Lab on "Nanosecond Time-Resolved X-ray Spectroscopy Studies of Photoinitated Electron Transfer to Iron Oxide Nanoparticles."
**September 7, 2010 - Professor Alice Ting, Department of Chemistry, MIT on "Molecular Engineering of Fluorescent Reporters for Cellular Imaging, and Applications to Neuroscience." [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66 - Auditorium]
August 31, 2010 - Dr. Yuegang Zhang, Staff Scientist, Molecular Foundry Inorganic Nanostructures Facility.
August 24, 2010 - Dr. Alex Weber-Bargioni, Molecular Foundry Postdoctoral Fellow on "Manipulating Light at the Nanometer Scale."
August 17, 2010 - Due to Foundry events, there will be no seminar this week.
August 10, 2010 - Due to Foundry events, there will be no seminar this week.
August 3, 2010 - Dr. Stephen Fahy, University College Cork, Ireland and Pulse Center, Stanford University on "Alloy Scattering in Semiconductors: Calculations from First Principles."
July 27, 2010 - Dr. Michael Bartl, Asst. Professor, Department of Chemistry, Adjunct Asst. Professor, Department of Physics, University of Utah on "Bioinspired Photonic Band Gap Crystals at Visible Frequencies."
July 20, 2010 - Professor Matthias Wuttig, Department of Physics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany on "Phase Change Materials: A Challenge for Our Understanding of the Amorphous and Crystalline State."
June 29, 2010 - Professor Leeor Kronik, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel on "Theoretical Spectroscopy of Organic Semiconductors: Challenges and Progress."
June 22, 2010 - Jim DeYoreo, Deputy Director for Research, Molecular Foundry on "What Happens to Crystals When Thermodynamics Breaks Down?"
June 15, 2010 - Paul Alivisatos, Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
June 8, 2010 - Dr. Justin Lee Mynar, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley on "Self-healing Supramolecular Hydrogels: Strength in Numbers."
June 1, 2010 - Dr. Jan Seidel, Materials Sciences Division of LBL and Department of Physics, UC Berkeley on "Domain Wall Functionality in a Complex Oxide: BiFeo3."
May 25, 2010 - Dr. Jeff Urban, Staff Scientist, Inorganic Nanostructures Facility of The Molecular Foundry on "Thermoelectric and Optical Energy Conversion at the Nanoscale: the Large Impact of Small Interfaces."
May 18, 2010 - Dr. Trevor Willey, Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on "The Electronic Structure and Self-Assembly of Diamondoids."
May 11, 2010 - Dr. Ming Chen, Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization on "Engineered Polymers by the RAFT Method," [Note location: Bldg. 66-Auditorium].
**May 4, 2010 - Sharon Glotzer, Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan on "Assembly Engineering." [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66-Auditorium]. Watch a video (1 hr., 6 min.) of Professor Glotzer's lecture.
April 27, 2010 - Professor Richard Kaner, UCLA Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Materials Sciences and Engineering.
April 20, 2010 - Professor James H. Dickerson, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University on "Nanoparticle Deposition via Electrophoresis."
[Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Distinguished Lecture by Professor Harry Atwater has been cancelled]
April 13, 2010 - Paul Adams, Acting Director, Physical Biosciences Division at LBL and Adjunct Professor of UC Berkeley's Department of Engineering.
April 6, 2010 - Jan Seidel, Advanced Light Source. [Cancelled]
March 30, 2010 - Dr. Jonathan Lee, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on "Manipulation of Mineral Crystallization and Nanocrystal Properties with Small Organic Molecules."
March 23, 2010 - Vincent Rotello, Professor of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts on "Nanoparticles in Biology: Engineering the Interface for Delivery and Sensing."
March 16, 2010 - Lorenzo Berti, Assistant Research Chemist, Department of Internal Medicine, UC Davis Health System.
March 9, 2010 - Nitash Balsara, Professor of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley on "Batteries and Carbon Cycle 2.o."
**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 - Eunice Lee, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley on "Plasmonics-enabled On-Demand Gene Silencing."
**February 16, 2010 - Professor Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Department of Chemistry and Director, Center for Integrated Nanosystems, Northwestern University on "Mechanostereochemistry." [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66-Auditorium].
February 9, 2010 - Dr. Olav Hellwig, Research Staff Member, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
**February 2, 2010 - Frances Ross, Manager, Nanoscale Materials Analysis Department, IBM Watson Research Center on "Nanowire Growth, Phase Transformations and Interface Formation Observed through in situ Electron Microscopy". [Distinguished Lecture Series, Bldg. 66-Auditorium]
January 26, 2010 - Review of new equipment at The Molecular Foundry.
**January 19, 2010 - Professor Harold Craighead, Departments of Engineering and Applied & Engineering Physics, and 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 on "Universal Gelation of Particles with Short-ranged Attraction."
January 5, 2010 - Stephen Selkowitz, Building Technologies Department, Berkeley Lab on "Reducing Carbon Emissions and Global Warming with More Efficient Buildings: Nanometer Solutions that Generate Gigaton Impacts."
December 15, 2009 - Mark J. Schnitzer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Departments of Biology and Applied Physics, Stanford University on "Of Mice, Men, and Microscopes: Watching the Brain Dynamics of Motor Control at the Cellular Scale in Behaving Subjects."
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."
