NCNR Seminar Schedule

For the most up-to-date schedule go to "www.ncnr.nist.gov/seminars/". To schedule a seminar go to "www.ncnr.nist.gov/seminars/howto.html". Unless otherwise stated, seminars are held in Building 235, room K04B.

August 2012 ...
Date:	Thursday August 16th, 2012 at 10:45 pm
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Molecule-based Magnets: New Materials, Chemistry, and Physics for this Millennium
Speaker:	Joel S. Miller (University of Utah)
Contact:	Jeffrey Lynn
July 2012 ...
Date:	Wednesday July 18th, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Crystalline Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks: Opportunities in Energy Research
Speaker:	Mircea Dinca (MIT)
Contact:	Yun Liu
June 2012 ...
Date:	Friday June 8th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	TBA
Speaker:	Walter Kob (Universite Montpellier II, France)
Contact:	Yun Liu
May 2012 ...
Date:	Thursday May 24th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Scattering and Physical Aging in Amorphous, Intrinsically Microporous Polymers
Speaker:	Amanda McDermott (Pennsylvania State University)
Contact:	Ronald Jones
April 2012 ...
Date:	Friday April 20th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Microstructured, High-efficiency, High-Angular-Resolution Thermal Neutron Detectors and Neutron Spectrometers
Speaker:	Philip Ugorowski (Kansas State University Manhattan)
Contact:	Richard Ibberson
Date:	Monday April 9th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Fast neutron-induced fission cross section measurements for actinides and sub-actinides: results and experimental technique development
Speaker:	Alexander Laptev (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Contact:	Maynard Dewey
March 2012 ...
Date:	Thursday March 22nd, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Robust nanoporous organic cage molecules
Speaker:	Christian Doonan (University of Adelaide)
Contact:	Craig Brown
Date:	Monday March 19th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	All-atom Molecular Simulations to Probe Structure and Dynamics of Bacterial Membranes and Membrane-associated Proteins
Speaker:	Jeffery Klauda (University of Maryland)
Contact:	Ella Mihailescu
Date:	Tuesday March 13th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Polymer-assisted controllable self-assembly of inorganic nanocrystals in solution
Speaker:	Zhihong Nie (University of Maryland)
Contact:	Yun Liu
Date:	Friday March 9th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Morphology Control in Polymeric Materials: Structural Monitoring with Scattering
Speaker:	Wei Chen (Argonne National Laboratory)
Contact:	Paul Butler
February 2012 ...
Date:	Friday February 24th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes as a model rod-like colloid system
Speaker:	Ming Zheng (NIST)
Contact:	Yun Liu
Date:	Friday February 17th, 2012 at 10:30 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	The ILL - past, present and future: 2000 - 2020
Speaker:	Andrew Harrison (Institut Laue-Langevin)
Contact:	Rob Dimeo
Date:	Thursday February 16th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	pH Responsiveness of PAMAM Dendrimer - Structure and Dynamics
Speaker:	Xin Li (Indiana University)
Contact:	John Copley
Date:	Tuesday February 14th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Gas dynamics in high-luminosity polarized He-3 targets using diffusion and convection
Speaker:	Peter Dolph (University of Virginia)
Contact:	Thomas Gentile
Date:	Monday February 13th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Neutron Scattering Studies of Bulk and Confined Liquids: Understanding Glass-Formation and Applications in Environment, Energy and Drug-Delivery.
Speaker:	Suresh M. Chathoth (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Contact:	John Copley
Date:	Tuesday February 7th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	The Role of Water and/or Morphology in Ion Transport in Novel Ionomers
Speaker:	Andrew M. Herring (Colorado School of Mines)
Contact:	Daniel Hussey
January 2012 ...
Date:	Tuesday January 31st, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	RNA folding in crowded solutions
Speaker:	Duncan Kilburn (Johns Hopkins University)
Contact:	John Copley
Date:	Monday January 30th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Nature of Spin Excitations in nonsuperconducting BaFe2As2 and superconducting BaNi0.1Fe1.9As2
Speaker:	Leland Harriger (University of Tennessee)
Contact:	Jeffrey Lynn
Date:	Tuesday January 24th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Magnetic Anisotropy in Chemically Synthesized Core-Shell and Composite Nanoparticles
Speaker:	Natalie Frey Huls (NIST)
Contact:	Jeffrey Lynn
Date:	Monday January 23th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Electrochemical Studies of Fuel Cell Anode Catalysts
Speaker:	Eric D. Rus (Cornell University)
Contact:	Joseph Dura
Date:	Friday January 13th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	X-ray and neutron reflectivity and electronic properties of PCBM-poly(bromo)styrene blends and bilayers with poly(3-hexylthiophene)
Speaker:	Stuart B. Kirschner (Johns Hopkins University)
Contact:	Brian Kirby
Date:	Thursday January 12th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Quantum Critical Fluctuation in Heavy Fermion Compound Ce(Ni0.935Ni0.065)2Ge2
Speaker:	Cuihuan Wang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Contact:	Jeffrey Lynn
Date:	Tuesday January 10th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Consequences of Frustration for Order in A-site Spinel Antiferromagnets
Speaker:	G. J. MacDougall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Contact:	Jeffrey Lynn

If you are interested in giving a seminar, or if you wish to schedule a seminar, please contact Yun Liu (yunliu@nist.gov).