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December 2014 ...

Date: Friday December 19th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Combinatorial Investigation of Rare-Earth Free Permanent Magnets and Local Control of Magnetic Anisotropy through Strain-Based Heterostructures
Speaker:

Sean Wu Fackler (University of Maryland, College Park)

Contact: Brian Kirby
  
Date: Thursday December 11th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: CHARMM Drude Polarizable MD Simulations Reproduce Solution X-ray Diffraction Patterns for B-DNA Sequences and Predict Differential Impact of the Li+, Na+, K+ and Rb+ Ions on DNA Conformational Properties
Speaker:

Alexey Sayelyev (School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland)

Contact: Joseph Curtis
  
Date: Tuesday December 9th, 2014 at 10:30 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: New concepts for guides and instruments at ESS - in particular the multi-analyser spectrometer CAMEA
Speaker:

Kim Lefmann (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Contact: Collin Broholm
  
Date: Thursday December 4th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: (Canceled) Understanding Viral Evolution and Pathogenesis using Genomics, Functional Assays, and Structural Biology Techniques
Speaker:

Karla Strucker (J. Craig Venter Institute)

Contact: Frank Heinrich
  
  

November 2014 ...

Date: Monday November 17th, 2014 at 11:00 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Extreme condition sample environment for low temperature magnetism neutron scattering experiments
Speaker:

Oleg Kirichek (ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kindom)

Contact: Yamali Hernandez
  
  

October 2014 ...

Date: Friday October 24th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Unusual Magnetism in Oxides
Speaker:

T. Venky Venkatesan (National University of Singapore)

Contact: Jeffrey Lynn
  
Date: Thursday October 23rd, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: The Physics of Stratum Corneum Lipid Membranes
Speaker:

Peter Olmsted(Department of Physics, Georgetown University)

Contact: Yun Liu
  
  

September 2014 ...

Date: Tuesday September 23rd, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Progress on the development of a polychromatic beam neutron reflectometer at the NCNR
Speaker:

Charles F. Majkrzak (NIST Center for Neutron Research)

Contact: Charles Majkrzak
  
Date: Monday September 22nd, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Secondary Structure and Nanomechanical Properties of Proteins
Speaker:

Jonathan Nickels (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Contact: Madhusudan Tyagi
  
Date: Wednesday September 3rd, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Spontaneous Curvatures of Lipid/Peptide Mixtures from Simulation
Speaker:

Richard Pastor (National Heart Lung Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health)

Contact: Yun Liu and Paul Butler
  
  

August 2014 ...

Date: Wednesday August 27th, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Neutron Brillouin Scattering by using pulsed spallation source - spin dynamics from Berry phase ferromagnet -
Speaker:

Yasuo Endoh (Institute for Materials Structure, KEK & Tohoku University, Japan)

Contact: Peter Gehring
  
Date: Friday August 22nd, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Higgs Boson Physics at the LHC
Speaker:

Chien-Peng Yuan (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University)

Contact: Jeffrey Nico
  
Date: Wednesday August 6th, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Quantum Sensors
Speaker:

Paola Cappellaro (Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT)

Contact: Michael G. Huber
  
  

July 2014 ...

Date: Thursday July 24th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Techniques for the detection and quantitative characterization of specific associations and nonspecific intermolecular interactions in concentrated macromolecular solutions
Speaker:

Allen Minton (Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute of Health)

Contact: Joseph Curtis
  
Date: Tuesday July 22, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Hierarchical Self-Assemblies of 1D Nanoparticles in Amphiphillic Molecular Systems
Speaker:

Sung-Min Choi (Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Techonology)

Contact: Yun Liu
  
  

June 2014 ...

Date: Tuesday June 10th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Aggregation in concentrated protein solutions: insights from rheology and small-angle neutron scattering
Speaker:

Maria Monica Castellanos (Pennsylvania State University)

Contact: Joseph Curtis
  
Date: Monday June 9th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: (Cancelled) Influence of Channel-Land Architecture and Diffusion Media Tortuosity on Liquid Water Content of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells
Speaker:

Jacob Lamanna (Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Tennessee)

Contact: Daniel Hussey
  
Date: Thursday June 5th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Protein-Protein Interactions and Protein Aggregation: From Scattering Experiments to Coarse-Grained Molecular Models
Speaker:

Marco Blanco (University of Delaware)

Contact: Joseph Curtis
  
  

May 2014 ...

Date: Thursday May 22nd, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: The Molecular Structure of the Liquid Ordered Phase
Speaker:

Edward Lyman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware)

Contact: Yun Liu and Paul Butler
  
Date: Friday May 16th, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Frustrated Ising Chains in SrHo2O4
Speaker:

Jiajia Wen (Johns Hopkins University)

Contact: Jeffrey Lynn
  
Date: Friday May 9th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Scattering in the Elastic and Quasi-Elastic Regimes
Speaker:

Yimin Mao (Materials Science and Engineering Department, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Contact: Paul Butler
  
Date: Thursday May 8th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Multiferroic and quantum fluctuations in single chiral langasite materials
Speaker:

Chris Stock (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)

Contact: William Ratcliff
  
Date: Friday May 2nd, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Computing the properties of the rare-earth nickelates via DFT+DMFT
Speaker:

Chris Marianetti (Columbia University)

Contact: Nicholas P. Butch
  
  

April 2014 ...

Date: Friday April 25th, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Global k-space perspective and Temperature Dependence of f-states in URu2Si2
Speaker:

Jonathan Denlinger (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Contact: Nicholas P. Butch
  
Date: Wednesday April 23th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: High-flux Prompt-Gamma Activation Analysis at FRM II, Garching
Speaker:

Zsolt Révay (Technische Universität München Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II))

Contact: Richard Lindstrom
  
Date: Friday April 18th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Exchange Bias - A Tool To Observe Unusual Magnetic Properties
Speaker:

Igor Roshchin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University)

Contact: Nicholas P. Butch
  
Date: Tuesday April 15th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Separation of magnetism and superconductivity in rare earth-doped CaFe2As2 by pressure
Speaker:

Johnpierre Paglione (Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials & Department of Physics, University of Maryland)

Contact: Jeffrey Lynn
  
  

March 2014 ...

Date: Monday March 31st, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Advanced Bulk Processing of Lightweight Materials for the Transportation Sector
Speaker:

Justin Milner (Clemson University)

Contact: Thomas Gnaeupel-Herold
  
Date: Friday March 21st, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Adsorbate-induced "Breathing" in Carbonaceous Adsorbents
Speaker:

Matthew J. Connolly (University of Missouri)

Contact: Thomas Gnaeupel-Herold
  
Date: Thursday March 13th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: A Tale of Two Kagome Magnets: From Nèel to Valence-bond Solid State
Speaker:

Kittiwit Matan (Mahidol University, Thailand)

Contact: Yang Zhao
  
Date: Tuesday March 11th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Dynamic Charge Stripes in La2-xSrxNiO4 Detected by Inelastic Neutron Scattering
Speaker:

Dmitry Reznik (University of Colorado-Boulder)

Contact: Jeffrey Lynn
  
  

February 2014 ...

Date: Monday February 24th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Looking beyond the spin-orbit Mott phase
Speaker:

Stephen Wilson (Boston College)

Contact: Jeffrey Lynn
  
Date: Friday February 21st, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Novel electronic phases and competing interactions in the heavy fermion compound URu2Si2
Speaker:

M. Brian Maple (Department of Physics and Center for Advanced Nanoscience, University of California, San Diego)

Contact: Jeffrey Lynn
  
Date: Thursday February 20th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Hard Ferromagnetic Cobalt Carbide Nanomaterials
Speaker:

Zachary Huba (Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University)

Contact: Kathryn Krycka
  
Date: Friday February 14th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Spin structures in antiferromagnetic nanoparticles
Speaker:

Erik Brok (Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark)

Contact: Kathryn Krycka
  
Date: Monday February 10th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Static and Dynamic Studies of Charge- and Strain-Mediated Magnetoelectric Coupling in Ferromagnetic / Piezoelectric Oxide Heterostructures Using Polarized Neutron Reflectometry and Transmission Electron Microscopy
Speaker:

Steven R. Spurgeon (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University)

Contact: Brian Kirby
  
Date: Thursday February 6th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Traversing the Minor-Loop Landscape with the FORC Technique
Speaker:

Dustin Gilbert (Physics Department, University of California, Davis)

Contact: Brian Kirby
  
  

January 2014 ...

Date: Monday January 27th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Hexaboride: a simple crystal structure may shed light on unsolved mysteries
Speaker:

Xiaohang Zhang (University of Maryland)

Contact: Nicholas P. Butch
  
Date: Wednesday January 15th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Neutron Interference in the Gravitational Field of a Ring Laser
Speaker:

Robert Fischetti (University of Connecticut)

Contact: Jeffrey Lynn
  
Date: Monday January 13th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Neutronics Design and Analysis of the 50 WMe Novel Modular BWR (NMR-50) with Multi-physics Simulation Code System
Speaker:

Zeyun Wu (Purdue University)

Contact: Paul Brand
  
Date: Tuesday January 7th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Magnetic freezing and collective behavior of nanostructures
Speaker:

Sayan Chandra (University of South Florida)

Contact: Kathryn Krycka
  
Date: Friday January 3rd, 2014 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Representational Analysis of Extended Disorder in Crystals from Total Scattering Data
Speaker:

James R. Neilson (Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University)

Contact: Kathryn Ross
  

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


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