Spring 2008
Nanoparticle Science and Engineering (NPSE)
Seminar Series:

All seminars take place on Fridays in Walter Library Room 402 at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities - East Bank. All seminars begin with refreshments at 3:45 and the seminar is from 4:00-5:00, except the special added seminar on April 30, Wednesday, at 11:00am. To add your e-mail to the list to receive announcements and reminders about seminars, click here. There are many parking options, closest parking ramps are Washington Ave. , Church Street or Weisman garages.


February 1
Andrei G. Fedorov
Associate Professor & Woodruff Faculty Fellow
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia
Seminar: Focused Electron Beam (FEB) CVD - A New Tool for 3-D Nanomanufacturing Underlying Fundamentals,
Surprising Behavior Trends, and Promising Applications

February 15
Marc A. Hillmyer
Elmore H. Northey Professor
Chemistry Department; Polymer Chemistry; Materials Chemistry;
Organic Chemistry; Environmental Chemistry
University of Minnesota
Seminar: Block copolymers for photovoltaic applications

February 29
Cherie R. Kagan
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Seminar: Manipulating Charge Transport Through Interfacial Interactions
in Molecular and Nanoscale Materials and Devices

March 14
Y Charles Cao
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Seminar: Inorganic Nanocrystals: from Molecular Chemistry to Supramolecular Chemistry

March 28
Wayne L. Gladfelter
Institute of Technology Distinguished Professor
Inorganic Chemistry; Materials Chemistry
Chemistry Department
University of Minnesota
Seminar: Combinatorial Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) and Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) of Mixed Metal Oxide Films

April 11
Rikizo Hatakeyama
Professor
Department of Electronic Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering
Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
Seminar: Plasma Processing Creation of Nanoelectronically Functional Nanocarbons

April 25
Randy Ellingson
Senior Scientist
Center for Chemical Sciences and Biosciences National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Golden, CO 80401
Seminar: Multiple Exciton Generation in Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Enhanced Solar Energy Conversion

April 30 (Social at 10:45am, Seminar at 11:00am)
Chekesha M. Liddell
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Cornell University
Seminar Abstract available by PDF: Photonic Structures Via Non-Spherical Particle Self-Assembly

Check this site often as seminar speakers, abstracts and biographical sketches are added as available.

SPONSORED BY THE NSF INTEGRATED GRADUATE EDUCATION & RESEARCH TRAINEESHIP (IGERT) PROGRAM FOR NANOPARTICLE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

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