NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) Seminar Schedule

December 2013 ...
Date:	Wednesday December 18th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Nanomaterial Templated Assembly of Protein-Based Biomaterials
Speaker:	Jacob Forstater (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Contact:	Craig Brown
Date:	Friday December 13th, 2013 at 1:30 pm
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Electrochemical Energy Storage: from materials research to battery modelling
Speaker:	Peter H.L. Notten (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Contact:	Greg Downing
Date:	Thursday December 5th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Interfacing Electrolytes with Electrodes in Li Ion Batteries
Speaker:	Kang Xu (U.S. Army Research Laboratory)
Contact:	David L. Jacobson
Date:	Wednesday December 4th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Research Challenges of Unconventional Shale Reservoirs
Speaker:	Daniel T. Georgi (Aramco Services Company)
Contact:	Yun Liu
Date:	Tuesday December 3rd, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	The influence of finite size on phase behavior
Speaker:	Max Wolff (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Contact:	Kathryn Krycka
November 2013 ...
Date:	Thursday November 21st, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	ISIS the next 30 years ....
Speaker:	Zöe Bowden (Experimental Operations, ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)
Contact:	Richard Ibberson
October 2013 ...
Date:	Friday October 25th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Battery Research in Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
Speaker:	Sang-Bok Ma (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)
Contact:	Howard Wang
Date:	Friday October 18th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Upgrade of the ILL Neutron Spin Echo instruments
Speaker:	Peter Falus (Institut Laue-Langevin, France)
Contact:	Yun Liu
September 2013 ...
Date:	Friday September 27th, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Place:	Building 235, Room K04A
Title:	Interface Magnetism in Heteroepitaxial Complex Oxide Films
Speaker:	Yaohua Liu (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory)
Contact:	Julie Borchers
Date:	Tuesday September 24th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Phonon dynamics and anharmonicity in ScF3 and SnTe
Speaker:	Chen Li (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Contact:	Jeffrey Lynn
Date:	Thursday Septermber 19th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Confinement and Processing Effects on Glassy Polymer Properties: Nanoparticles and Nanostructured Films
Speaker:	Yunlong Guo (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University)
Contact:	Paul Butler
Date:	Thursday Septermber 12th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	"Genome of Materials" could help "Materials Genome"
Speaker:	Melik Demirel (Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University)
Contact:	Bulent Akgun
Date:	Tuesday Septermber 10th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Nanoscale confinement and surface effects in energy storage and conversion systems: Structural and Dynamical Insight
Speaker:	Jose Banuelos (Chemical Science Division,ORNL)
Contact:	Paul Butler
August 2013 ...
Date:	Thursday August 29th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	A New Twist in an Old Material: Novel Magnetic States in MnSi/Si(111)
Speaker:	Ted Monchesky (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Contact:	Brian Kirby
Date:	Tuesday August 27th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Impact of Non-Covalent Interactions on Soft Matter Structure-Property Behavior: From Macro to the Single Molecule
Speaker:	Ann Fornof (3M)
Contact:	Paul Butler
Date:	Wednesday August 21st, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Enzyme triggered supramolecular self-assembly in vitro and inside living cells
Speaker:	Yuan Gao (NIH/NIST)
Contact:	Yun Liu and Jack Douglas
Date:	Monday August 12th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Advanced Electroceramic Materials: Structural Origins of Properties
Speaker:	Igor Levin (Materials Measurement Science Division, NIST)
Contact:	Jeffrey Lynn
Date:	Friday August 9th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Magnetoelastic Coupling in Iron-based Superconductors
Speaker:	Daniel Parshall (University of Colorado)
Contact:	Jeffrey Lynn
Date:	Friday August 2nd, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Investigation of structural and dynamics of polymer materials through selective deuteration
Speaker:	Kunlun Hong (Center for Nanophase Materials Science, ORNL)
Contact:	Yun Liu
July 2013 ...
Date:	Monday July 29th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Spin fluctuations & superconducting pairing in new iron-based systems
Speaker:	Alice Taylor (University of Oxford)
Contact:	Jeffrey Lynn
Date:	Wednesday July 24th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	ANSTO's OPAL Multi-purpose Research Reactor - 7 Years of Operation
Speaker:	Lubi Dimitrovski (Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation, Australia)
Contact:	Sean O'Kelly
Date:	Tuesday July 9th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	R&D Activities at HANARO
Speaker:	Young-Ki Kim (High-Flux Advanced Neutron Application Reactor, South Korea)
Contact:	Robert Williams
June 2013 ...
Date:	Wednesday June 26th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Interfacing Topological Insulators with Ferromagnets in Magnetic Heterostructures
Speaker:	Anthony Richardella (Penn State University)
Contact:	Brian Kirby
Date:	Tuesday June 25th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Characterizing self-assembled nanoparticles employed in durg delivery
Speaker:	Kazuo Sakurai(University of Kitakyushu, Japan)
Contact:	Michihiro Nagao
Date:	Thursday June 13th, 2013 at 10:45 pm
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Opportunities for Research using OPAL, the new Australian Research Reactor
Speaker:	Robert A. Robinson (Bragg Institute, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australia)
Contact:	Dan Neumann
Date:	Tuesday June 11th, 2013 at 10:45 pm
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Engineering Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework Materials for Acid Gas Separations
Speaker:	Josh A. Thompson (School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Contact:	Terry Udovic
Date:	Monday June 3rd, 2013 at 3:00 pm
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Carbon dioxide capture in amine functionalized metal-organic frameworks
Speaker:	Thomas McDonald (University of California, Berkeley)
Contact:	Craig Brown
Date:	Monday June 3rd, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Structure and Gelation Mechanism of Tough Tetra-PEG Ion Gels
Speaker:	Mitsuhiro Shibayama (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Contact:	Michihiro Nagao
May 2013 ...
Date:	Wednesday May 29th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	In-situ Powder Diffraction for Industrial Gas Separations
Speaker:	Matthew Hudson (NCNR)
Contact:	Craig Brown
Date:	Tuesday May 28th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Magnetoelastic Coupling La0.7Ca0.3MnO3//BaTiO3 Ultra-Thin Films
Speaker:	Aurora Alberca (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain)
Contact:	Brian Kirby
Date:	Friday May 17th, 2013 at 2:30 pm
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Small scale rheology for screening scarce materials
Speaker:	Eric Furst (University of Delaware)
Contact:	Yun Liu
Date:	Monday May 13th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Simulation of disordered protein ensembles
Speaker:	Jianhan Chen (Kansas State University)
Contact:	Joseph Curtis
April 2013 ...
Date:	Tuesday April 30th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Watching Energy Storage Materials in Operation: In-Situ X-ray Microscopy, Diffraction and Spectroscopy
Speaker:	Michael Toney (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory)
Contact:	Dan Neumann
Date:	Tuesday April 16th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Multiscale Nonequilibrium Simulation Methods
Speaker:	David M. Rogers (Biological and Material Sciences Center, Sandia National Laboratories)
Contact:	Bulent Akgun
Date:	Monday April 15th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Learning about Water Purification using Seeds from Trees with neutron techniques
Speaker:	Adrian R. Rennie (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Contact:	Matthew Wasbrough
Date:	Friday April 12th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Using phospholipid nanodiscs as a platform for Small-Angle Scattering based structural studies of membrane proteins
Speaker:	Lise Arleth (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Contact:	Paul Butler
March 2013 ...
Date:	Wednesday March 27th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Effect of Short-range Attraction on Aggregation, Gelation and Glass Transition of Colloidal Systems
Speaker:	Charles C. Han (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science)
Contact:	Dan Neumann
Date:	Friday March 15th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Electronic Structure and Spin Transport in CeMnNi4
Speaker:	Gour Prasad Das (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India)
Contact:	William Ratcliff
Date:	Thursday March 14th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Liquid Crystal Nanocomposites for Possible Photovoltaic Applications: Structural and Electronic Properties
Speaker:	Luz Martinez-Miranda (University of Maryland)
Contact:	Yun Liu
Date:	Monday March 11th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Transmutation of nuclear waste: Basics, Methods, Perspectives
Speaker:	Arnd Junghans (Institut für Strahlenphysik, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
Contact:	Hans Pieter Mumm
Date:	Friday March 1st, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences: Advancing Nanoscience through Strength in Research and User Support.
Speaker:	Sean Smith (CNMS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Contact:	Vivek Prabhu and Yun Liu
February 2013 ...
Date:	Wednesday February 27th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Introduction to High Performance Computing: It's not Only for Computer Scientists
Speaker:	Dwayne John (National Institute for Computational Science, Uni. of Tennessee)
Contact:	Hirsh Nanda
Date:	Thursday February 21st, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Self assembled systems and gels for the conservation of cultural heritage
Speaker:	Piero Baglioni (University of Florence, Italy)
Contact:	Yun Liu
Date:	Wednesday February 20th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Novel Emergent States in Electronic Materials
Speaker:	Nick Butch (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Contact:	Craig Brown
Date:	Wednesday February 13th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Nanostructured Catalysts for Energy Storage Application
Speaker:	Feng Jiao (University of Delaware)
Contact:	Yun Liu
Date:	Thursday February 7th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	The role of derivative lattices in the prediction of crystal structures
Speaker:	Tony Santoro (NCNR)
Contact:	Craig Brown
January 2013 ...
Date:	Thursday January 31st, 2013 at 10:45 am
Place:	Building 235, Room K04B
Title:	Heavy electrons, Charge Density Fluctuations, and Superconductivity in KNi2X2 (X = S, Se)
Speaker:	Tyrel McQueen (Johns Hopkins University)
Contact:	Craig Brown

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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