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December...

Date:Monday, December 9, 2002, 10:45am
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker: Ella Mihailescu
Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Title: Amhiphilic Membranes: Structure and Dynamics as Revealed by Neutron Scattering
Contact:Susan Krueger x 6734
 
 

November...

Date:Wednesday, November 20 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker: Dr. Anna Llobet-Megias, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: Magnetism and superconductivity in the family of heavy fermion CeMIn5.
Contact:Jeff Lynn ext. 6246
 
 
Date:Tuesday, November 19, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker: Daniela Russo, University of California Berkeley
Title: Hydration water dynamics of a completely hydrophobic oligo-peptide
Contact:John Copley X 5133
 
 
Date:November 18, 2002 at 10:30 AM
Location:Administration Building, Lecture Room A.
Speaker: Taner Yildirim, 2001-2002 Sigma Xi Young Scientist Award
Title: Prediction and Characterization of Materials Properties from First Principles
Contact:Magdalena Navarro, 301-975-2310,
mnavarro@nist.gov
http://www.nist.gov/sigmaxi
 
 
Date:Thursday, November 14, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker: Bjorgvin Hjorvarsson, University of Uppsala
Title: Playing with dimensionality: Magnetic and structural phase transitions
Contact:Terry Udovic X 6241
 
 
Date:Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker: Adam Pivovar, NIST
Title: Neutron scattering: a tool for investigating physical, chemical and biological functions of materials
Contact:Dan Neumann X 5250
 
 
Date:Thursday, November 7, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Thomas Proffen, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: Getting more from your diffraction pattern: the atomic pair distribution function
Contact:Inmaculada Peral X 6235
 
 

October...

Date:Monday, October 28, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Andreas Kreyssig, Technische Universitat Dresden
Title:Magnetic Order, Magneto-elastic Effects and Diffuse Neutron Scattering in TbNi2B2C
Contact: Jeff Lynn, X6246
 
 
Date:Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Tom Fornek, Argonne
Title:Instrument Engineering Challenges on the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) Project
Contact: David Mildner, X6366
 
 
Date:Tuesday, October 15, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Madeleine Msall, Bowdoin College
Title:Phonon Optics, or, How to Control Non-equilibrium Heat Flow in Solids
Contact:Zema Chowdhuri X4404
 
 
Date:Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Ben Burton, Ceramics Division, NIST
Title:First-Principles Based Studies of Relaxor Ferroelectrics; Cation Ordering and Electrical Properties
Contact:Julie Borchers X6597
 
 

September...

Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 1:30-4:30 pm
Title: Conceptual design for the high intensity cold neutron spectrometer, MACS
Speaker: Paul Brand, Collin Broholm, Timothy Pike, and Jack Rush
 
 

August...

 
Date:Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Daniel R. Hines, M.S. Senior Research Associate employer: NEC Research Institute
Title:Extraordinary Magnetoresistance : Application to Read-Head Sensors for Ultra High Density Magnetic Recording
Contact:Dan Dender X6225
 
 
Date:Thursday, August 22, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Andrey Zheludev, Oakridge National Laboratory
Title:Do Longitudinal Magnons Exist in Weakly-Coupled Quantum Spin Chains: A Spin-Acrobatics Experiment
Contact:Julie Borchers X6597
 
 
Date:Friday, August 9, 2002 at 1:30 PM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Dr. Roberto Accorsi
Department of Radiology -- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia -- Philadelphia, PA Dr.
Title:Design of Near-Field Coded Aperture Camera For High-Resolution Gamma-Ray Imaging
Contact:George Lamaze ext 6202
 
 

July...

 
Date:Wednesday, July 31, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Vanessa Peterson from ANSTO
Title:Rietveld Refinement of Cement Clinker
Contact:Dan Neumann X5252
 
 
Date:Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Roger Pynn, University of California at Santa Barbara/Los Alamos
Title:Enhancing Reflectometry and SANS using Neutron Spin Echo
Contact:Julie Borchers X6597
 
 
Date:Tuesday, July 16, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Tanya Riseman, NIST Center for Neutron Research
Title:Maximum Entropy Method in an Inverse Problem and Error Analysis of the Results
Contact:Julie Borchers X6597
 
 
Date:Monday, July 15, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Young-Soo Seo from SUNY at Stony Brook
Title:Confinement Effects of Polystyrene Thin Films on Silicon Brush Like Behavior
Contact:Sushil Satija, x5250
 
 
 
Date:Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Jorge Iniguez from Physics Department, Rutgers University
Title:First principles modeling of ferroelectric perovskites
Contact:Taner Yildirim, ext 6228
 
 
Date:Tuesday, July 9, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Tom Irving, Illinois Institute of Technology
Title:Biological Fiber Diffraction and Scattering at the Advanced Photon Source
Contact:Susan Krueger X6734
 
 
Date:Tuesday, July 2, 2002 at 2 PM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Leo D. Cussen (ANSTO)
Title:Optimising neutron scattering instruments for measurements
Contact:Jeff Lynn, ext 6246
 
 

June...

 
Date:Monday, June 17, 2002
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:David Black, Accenture
Title:IT Security: Black Hats and White Hats
Contact:Nick Rosov, ext 5254
 
 

May...

 
Date:Friday, May 31, 2002 at 10:45 PM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Norbert Marcel Nemes from the University of Pennsylvania
Title: Electronic Properties of Alkali-Fullerides and Alkali Doped SWNT
Contact:Taner Yildirim extension 6228
 
 
Date:Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 10:45 PM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Yanxia Xie - University of California at Berkeley
Title:Investigating Textures in Eclogite, Plagioclase and Ancient Coins
Contact:Dan Neumann x5252
 
 
Date:Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 10:45 PM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Karl Gross (Sandia National Lab)
Title:New Materials for Light-Weight Hydrogen Storage
Contact:Terry Udovic, x6241
 
Date:Monday, May 13, 2002 at 2:00 PM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Stephen Fitzgerald, Oberlin College
Title:Quantum Dynamics of H2 in Solid C60
Contact:Julie Borchers X6597
 

April...

 
Date:Friday, April 19, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker: Robert Withnall, University of Greenwich
Title:Applications of Raman Spectroscopy to Biological and Solid State Chemistry
Contact:Craig Brown, EXT 5134
 
 
Date:Thursday, April 18, 2002 at 2:00 PM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker: Thomas Sangrey, Physics Department, Wesleyan University
Title:Thermodynamic Properties of the Low-dimensional Magnet : Sr3CuIr1-xPtxO6
Contact:Jeff Lynn, EXT 6246
 
Date:Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Patrick Gallagher, NIST Center for Neutron Research
Title:Highlights from the recent NCNR shutdown
Contact:Julie Borchers EXT 6597
 
Date:Monday, April 8, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Jason Gardner, National Research Council of Canada
Title: Magnetic Studies of the Spin Liquid and Spin Ice Pyrochlores
Contact:Jeff Lynn, EXT 6246
 
 

March...

 
Date:Monday, March 25, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Darren Goossens, ANSTO, Australia
Title:Diffuse Scattering and dISoRdeR
Contact:Jeff Lynn, EXT 6246
 
Date:Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Alexander Smirnow, Kapitza Institute, Russia
Title:Investigation of defects in spin-gap magnets
Contact:Julie Borchers, EXT 6597
 
Date:Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Andreas Bill, Paul Scherrer Institute
Title:Exchange Springs and Hysteresis Loop- An Analytical Approach
Contact:Kevin O'Donovan, EXT 8380
 
Date:Thursday, March 7, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Liang Guo, The Pennsylvania State University
Title:Micellar Structure Changes in Aqueous Mixtures of Nonionic Surfactants
Contact:Nick Rosov, EXT 5254
 
Date:Thursday, March 7, 2002 at 1:45 PM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Professor Sossina M. Haile Materials Science, California Institute of Technology
Title:The Science and Technology of Oxyanion-Based Superprotonic Conductors
Contact:Brian Toby, EXT 4297
 

February ...

 
Date:Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Inmaculada Peral, University of Delaware
Title:Structure Study in Some Urea Inclusion Compounds by Diffraction Experiments
Contact:John Copley, EXT 5133
 
Date:Monday, February 11, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Roger Miller, Department of Physics, University of British Columbia
Title:Shrinking cores, Magnetic Vortices, and the Kramer-Pesch Effect: What Muon Spin Rotation has taught us about superconductors
Contact:Jeff Lynn, EXT 6246
 

January ...

 
Date:Wednesday, January 30, 2002 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Alfred Carasso, Mathematical and Computational Sciences, NIST
Title:Direct Blind Deconvolution and Levy Probability Densities
Contact:Rob Dimeo, EXT 8135
 
Date:Monday, January 28, 2002 at 2:00 PM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:Dr. Zahid Hasan, Department of Physics, Princeton University
Title: Correlated Electrons: Missing Spectroscopies
Contact:Jeff Lynn, EXT 6246
 
Date:Wednesday, January 9, 2001 at 10:45 AM
Location:E100, Large Conference Room
Speaker:S -H. Lee, University of Maryland
Title:Protectorate in a Geometrically Frustrated Antiferromagnet
A Tribute to Laughlin and Pines
Contact:Julie Borchers, EXT 6597
 

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