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December 2017 ...

Date: Tuesday December 19th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Cryogenic Cooling of the Cold Moderators at the European Spallation Source
Speaker:

John Jums (European Spallation Source, Sweden)

Contact: Robert Williams
  
Date: Wednesday December 6th, 2017 at 2:00 pm
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Nano-Segregation of Binary Liquids Induced by Nanoscale confinement
Speaker:

Ramona Mhanna (Johns Hopkins University)

Contact: Kathleen Weigandt
  
  

October 2017 ...

Date: Thursday October 19th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: βNMR studies of surfaces, interfaces, thin films and heterostructures
Speaker:

Iain McKenzie (Centre for Molecular and Materials Science, TRIUMF and Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Contact: Alex Grutter
  
Date: Friday October 6th, 2017 at 2:00 pm
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Polarized 3He neutron spin filter for inelastic spectrometer POLANO in J-PARC and neutron lifetime measurements in J-PARC
Speaker:

Takashi Ino (Neutron Science Laboratory, KEK, Japan)

Contact: Wangchun Chen
  
Date: Friday October 6th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Characterisation of Colloidal Particle Assemblies by Cross-Correlation Light Scattering and Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy
Speaker:

Frank Scheffold (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

Contact: Yun Liu
  
Date: Tuesday October 3rd, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: The neutron spin echo spectrometer J-NSE: the past and the future
Speaker:

Olaf Holderer (Jülich Center for Neutron Science, Germany)

Contact: Antonio Faraone
  
  

September 2017 ...

Date: Thursday September 28th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Watching reactions take place at the atomic scale (and learning from them)
Speaker:

Neeraj Sharma (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Contact: Craig Brown
  
Date: Monday September 18th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: C. neoformans polysaccharide capsule and melanin: two major virulence factors
Speaker:

Raghav Vij (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

Contact: Susana C. Marujo Teixeira
  
  

August 2017 ...

Date: Wednesday August 30th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: A new perspective on the antioxidant vitamin E
Speaker:

Drew Marquardt (University of Windsor, Canada)

Contact: Elizabeth Kelley
  
Date: Wednesday August 23rd, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: CELLULOSE ASSOCIATION IN SOLUTION
Speaker:

Ulf Olsson (University of Lund, Sweden)

Contact: Yun Liu
  
Date: Tuesday August 22nd, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: An Instrument-Concept for Dynamics of Complex (Bio-) System from Elastic Scattering
Speaker:

Antonio Benedetto (University College Dublin, Ireland and Paul Sherrer Institute, Switzerland)

Contact: Antonio Faraone
  
Date: Monday August 21st, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Physical and Chemical Gels for Finely Controlled Cleaning of Cultural Heritage
Speaker:

Piero Baglioni (University of Florence, Italy)

Contact: Antonio Faraone
  
Date: Friday August 18th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Micromagnetic Modeling and Development of Magnetoelastic Materials
Speaker:

Tony Barra (University of California, Los Angeles)

Contact: Brian Kirby
  
Date: Friday August 11th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04
Title: An Exploration of Future Options for the NCNR Neutron Source
Speaker:

Thomas H. Newton and Robert E. Williams (NIST Center for Neutron Research)

Contact: Thomas H. Newton
  
Date: Wednesday August 2nd, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Multiscale Computational Chemistry and Physics: Design of 2D and 3D Materials for Applications to Energy Conversion/Storage
Speaker:

Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes (Florida State University)

Contact: Craig Brown
  
  

June 2017 ...

Date: Tuesday June 13th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Is RPW8.2, a Broad-Spectrum Resistance Protein in Arabidopsis, Phosphorylated?
Speaker:

Harley King (University of Maryland College Park)

Contact: Kathryn Krycka
  
Date: Friday June 9th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04A
Title: Implications of high concentrations in biological systems
Speaker:

Thomas Laue (Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire)

Contact: Yun Liu
  
  

May 2017 ...

Date: Tuesday May 11th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: VISION and VirtuES: High throughput Inelastic Neutron Scattering Spectrometer with dedicated computer modeling resources
Speaker:

Anibal J (Timmy) Ramirez-Cuesta (Chemical and Engineering Materials Division, NScD, ORNL)

Contact: Craig Brown
  
  

April 2017 ...

Date: Tuesday April 18th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Twisting the Neutron Wavefunction
Speaker:

Charles W. Clark (Joint Quantum Institute, NIST)

Contact: Robert Dimeo
  
Date: Monday April 10th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Possible advances in backscattering spectroscopy
Speaker:

Andreas Magerl (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany)

Contact: Dan Neumann
  
Date: Tuesday April 4th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: 60 years of neutrons at Garching - what's new?
Speaker:

Winfried Petry (Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) and Physics Department, Technical University of Munich)

Contact: Robert Dimeo
  
  

March 2017 ...

Date: Friday March 24th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Development and understanding of high anisotropy materials for magnetic recording media and spintronics
Speaker:

Patrick Quarterman (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota)

Contact: Michelle Jamer
  
Date: Friday March 10th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Opportunities at the Berkeley Center for Structural Biology at the Advanced Light Source
Speaker:

Marc Allaire (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Contact: Yimin Mao
  
Date: Wednesday March 1st, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Metal-organic frameworks as a platform for understanding molecular-scale thermal transport phenomena
Speaker:

Christopher E. Wilmer (Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh)

Contact: Craig Brown
  
  

February 2017 ...

Date: Friday February 24th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room E100
Title: Framework materials for efficient harvest, conversion and transport of solar and electrochemical energy
Speaker:

Fernando J. Uribe-Romo (Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida)

Contact: Craig Brown
  
Date: Thursday February 16th, 2017 at 10:30 am
Place: Building 221, Room A366
Title: Bringing X-ray Absorption Spectroscopies to the Benchtop
Speaker:

Gerald T. Seidler (Physics Department, University of Washington)

Contact: John Sieber@nist.gov
  
  

January 2017 ...

Date: Thursday January 12th, 2017 at 10:45 am
Place: Building 235, Room K04B
Title: Unearthing the Power of Small-Angle Neutron Scattering for Molecular Rheology of Polymers
Speaker:

Yangyang Wang (Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Contact: Yun Liu
  

If you are interested in giving a seminar, or if you wish to schedule a seminar, please contact Antonio Faraone (afaraone@nist.gov).


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