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 E100.

July 2009 ...
Date:	Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at NIST
Speakers:	Robert Celotta, Director, CNST Lloyd Whitman, Deputy Director, CNST James Alexander Liddle, Nanofabrication Research Group Leader Vincent Luciani, NanoFab Group Leader Jabez McClelland, Electron Physics Group Leader Nikolai Zhitenev, Energy Research Group Leader
Contact:	Joe Dura
Date:	Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Novel Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Storage via Hydrogen Spillover and Hydrogen Trapping
Speaker:	Angela Lueking (Penn State University)
Contact:	Yun Liu
Date:	Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Phase Behavior in Asymmetrical Ternary Blends of Polyolefins
Speaker:	Alisyn Nedoma (U. of California Berkeley)
Contact:	Andrew Jackson
Date:	Tuesday, July 28st, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Present Status on Development of Neutron Radiography Techniques for Fuel Cell Researches in Kobe University
Speaker:	Nobuyuki Takenaka (Kobe University)
Contact:	Dan Hussey
August 2009 ...
Date:	Friday, August 14th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Renewable Polylactide / Polymerized Soybean Oil Blends Compatibilized by Block Copolymers
Speaker:	Megan Robertson (University of Minnesota)
Date:	Thursday, August 20th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Work towards high-throughput and high-resolution synchrotron powder diffraction data collection and medium-throughput crystallographic analysis
Speaker:	Brian Toby (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab)
Contact:	Judy Stalick
Date:	Friday, August 21th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Powder diffraction studies of lightweight hydrogen storage materials
Speaker:	WIF David (ISIS, U of Oxford)
Contact:	Craig Brown
Date:	Thursday, August 27th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Slow hydrogen diffusion in potassium-intercalated graphite studied by quasielastic neutron scattering
Speaker:	Justin Purewal (Cal Tech)
Contact:	Craig Brown
September 2009 ...
Date:	Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Collective motions and anharmonicity in protein terahertz response
Speaker:	Andrea Markelz (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
Contact:	Susan Krueger
Date:	Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	New Approaches to and Applications of Neutron Interferometry
Speaker:	David M Cory (MIT)
Contact:	Muhammad Arif
October 2009 ...
Date:	Friday, October 2nd, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	X-ray and Neutron Experiments in High Magnetic Fields
Speaker:	Hiroyuki Nojiri (Tohoku University)
Contact:	Dan Dender
Date:	Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Local structure studies in systems with first and second order Jahn-Teller distortions
Speaker:	Ram Sesahdri (University at California)
Contact:	Efrain Rodriguez
November 2009 ...
Date:	Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Neutron Imaging Study at Peking University
Speaker:	GUO Zhiyu (Peking University)
Contact:	Dan Hussey
Date:	Friday, November 13th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Digital Synthesis: A pathway to new materials and novel collective states
Speaker:	Anand Bhattacharya (Argonne National Lab)
Contact:	Brian Kirby
Date:	Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Neutron Scattering Studies of Low Dimensional Magnets: DMACuCl3 and LiMPO4 (M=Co,Mn)
Speaker:	Wei Tian (Ames Lab)
Contact:	Jeff Lynn
Date:	Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	3He Spin-Filter Optically Pumped by Metastability-Exchange Method in High-Flux Neutron Beam
Speaker:	A.K. Petukhov (ILL, Grenoble, France)
Contact:	Thomas Gentile
December 2009 ...
Date:	Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Magnetic and electric field effects on the magnetic and charge order in a multiferroic LuFe2O4
Speaker:	Jinsheng Wen (Brookhaven National Lab)
Contact:	Peter Gehring
Date:	Monday, December 14th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	title to be announced
Speaker:	Cuihuan Wang (University of California-Irvine)
Contact:	Jeff Lynn
March 2010 ...
Date:	Friday, March 26th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Magnetic Structures and Spin Dynamics in the RE2PdSi3 systems
Speaker:	Tang Fei (Technical University Dresden)
Contact:	Jeff Lynn

If you are interested in giving a seminar, or if you wish to schedule a seminar, please contact Boualem Hammouda (hammouda@nist.gov).