Week of February 3, 2013 to February 9, 2013

1. Monday, February 4, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmDr. Renee Frontiera, Seminar of Special Interest, Northwestern, "Obtaining structural snapshots of reacting molecules in real time with ultrafast vibrational and surface-enhanced spectroscopies"
      161 Noyes Lab
   2. 12:00 pmCharles Reichhardt (Los Alamos)
      ICMT Seminar: "Pattern Formation from Competing Interactions: Implications for Soft and Hard Condensed Matter Systems"
      190 ESB
   3. 4:00 pm   Materials Sciences and EngineeringBryan Wong, Sandia National Laboratories, "Energy transfer in molecular photovoltaics, carbon nanotubes, and nanowires--A first-principles perspective"
      100 MSEB
   4. 4:00 pmBryan Wong, Materials Chemistry Department, Sandia National Laboratories
      Materials Science and Engineering Colloquium
      100 Materials Science and Engineering Building

2. Tuesday, February 5, 2013

   1. 11:00 amGil Young Cho (Berkeley)
      Special ICMT Seminar: "Superconductivity of doped Weyl semimetals: finite-momentum pairing and an electronic analog of He3-A phase"
      190 ESB
   2. 4:00 pmSoft Materials Seminar
      119 Materials Science and Engineering Building

3. Wednesday, February 6, 2013

   1. 10:00 amChBE 565 Seminar of Special Interest, Dr. Ben Cosgrove, Stanford University, "A More Youthful Self-renewal: Bioengineering Solutions to Rejuvenate Dysfunctional Muscle Stem Cells in Aging"
      1000 Lincoln Hall
   2. 12:00 pm   Materials Seminar of Special InterestDr. Yogesh Surendranath, UC Berkeley, Materials Seminar of Special Interest, "Controlling Holes for Efficient Solar-to-Fuels Conversion"
      161 Noyes Lab
   3. 4:00 pmProfessor Tony Liss, Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
      Physics Colloquium, "After the Higgs'"
      141 Loomis

4. Thursday, February 7, 2013

   1. 2:00 pmChBE 565 Seminar of Special Interest, Dr. Nicholas Brunelli, Georgia Instite of Technology, "The Sub-Nanometer Length Scale: Exploring Fundamental Challenges in Aerosols & Catalysis"
      116 Roger Adams Laboratory
   2. 2:00 pmJonathan Fan, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois
      MatSE Special Seminar
      280 Materials Research Laboratory
   3. 4:00 pmHard Materials Seminar
      119 Materials Science and Engineering Building

5. Friday, February 8, 2013

   1. 1:00 pm

      Prof Sergey Frolov -
      Dept of Physics and Astronomy - University of Pittsburgh

      
      Condensed Matter Seminar: Signatures of Majorana fermions in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowire devices
      

      190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield

       
   2. 2:00 pm

      John van Noort, Physics of Life Processes, Leiden University, The Netherlands

      
      CPLC Seminar: "Unraveling chromatin structure using single molecule force spectroscopy"
      464 Loomis
   3. 3:30 pmSophia Rudorf, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
      MatSE Special Seminar
      280 Materials Research Laboratory