Seminars & Events Archive

Seminars 2009

Two-dimensional Electron Gases in Ultra-pure GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructures

Friday, November 13, 2009
Stefan Schmult, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany

Visualizing the Nanoscale Electronic Landscape of the Cuprates

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Eric Hudson, MIT

Molecular Imaging Assays of Biochemistry Provide the Means to Therapeutically Manage the Biology of Disease in Patients

Monday, November 9, 2009
Michael Phelps, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles

Interacting Anyons in Topological Quantum Liquids

Friday, October 30, 2009
Simon Trebst, Microsoft Research / Station Q, UCSB

Nanowires for Spintronics: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Friday, October 16, 2009
Nitin Samarth, Penn State University

Tunable Nanoengineered Surfaces for Microfluidics and Energy

Friday, June 5, 2009
Evelyn Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Molecular Programming with DNA

Friday, May 29, 2009
Erik Winfree, California Institute of Technology

Nonlinear Synchronization and Phase Control at RF and Optical Frequencies

Friday, May 22, 2009
Hossein Hashemi, University of Southern California

Ion Transport Through Nanopores: From Living Cells to Diodes and Transistors

Friday, May 15, 2009
Zuzanna Siwy, UC Irvine

Thin-Film Encapsulation for High-Stability MEMS

Friday, May 8, 2009
Matt Hopcroft, UC Berkeley

Analysis of the Nucleic Acid Hybridization Chain Reaction

Friday, May 1, 2009
Victor Beck, CalTech

Nanopores and Nanofluidics for Single DNA Studies

Friday April 17, 2009
Derek Stein, Brown University

Synthetic DNA stabilizes few-atom Ag nanoclusters with sequence-dependent fluorescence

Friday, March 13, 2009
Patrick O'Neill, UC Santa Barbara

Inertial Microfluidics: Controlling cells and particles at the microscale

Friday, March 6, 2009
Dino DiCarlo, UC Los Angeles

Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Electron Transporting Layers and their Role in Improved Charge Injection in Polymer LEDs

Friday, February 27, 2009
Corey Hoven, UC Santa Barbara

Stability and Performance of Wafer-scale Thin-film Encapsulated MEMS Resonators

Friday, February 20, 2009
Bongsang Kim, Stanford University

Emulating the Dynamics of a Quantum Spin Using a Superconducting Phase Qudit

Friday, February 13, 2009
Matt Neeley, UC Santa Barbara

Excited-State Spectroscopy and Control of Single Spins in Diamond

Friday, February 6, 2009
Greg Fuchs, UC Santa Barbara

Fluidics on the nanoscale for Lab-on-a Chip applications

Friday, January 23, 2009
Jan Eijkel, Twente University, the Netherlands

Surprising Features of Nano-scale Electrokinetic Transport

Friday, January 16, 2009
Aditya Khair, UC Santa Barbara

Seminars 2008

Single Ion-Channel Recordings using Glass Nanopore Membranes

Friday, December 12, 2008
Ryan White, UC Santa Barbara

Mechanical sensitivity in hair cells of the inner ear

Friday, December 5, 2008
Dolores Bozovic, UC Los Angeles

Magnetostatic Spin Waves in Ferromagnetic Wires

Friday, November 21, 2008
Alexander Kozhanov, UC Santa Barbara

An All Optical Method for Achieving Strong Coupling Between Single Quantum Dots and Photonic Crystal Nanocavities

Friday, November 14, 2008
Susanna Thon, UC Santa Barbara

Learning How to Speak RNA for Synthetic Biology and Nano-medicine

Friday, November 7, 2008
Luc Jaeger, UC Santa Barbara

Electron Spins and Wavefunctions in One-Dimensional GaAs-AlGaAs Heterostructures

Monday, November 3, 2008
Sir Michael Pepper, Cambridge University

A Microfluidic Mixer Optimized for Non-Equilibrium Single-Molecule Measurements

Friday, October 31, 2008
Shawn Pfeil, UC Santa Barbara

Bio-Inspired, Smart, Multiscale Interfacial Materials

Friday, October 24, 2008
Fan Xia
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC Santa Barbara

Supramolecular Nano-Materials and Lithography

Friday, October 10, 2008
Francesco Stellaci
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology