Archives of NCNR Seminars - 2007

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January 2007 ...

Date:	10.45 Wednesday, 17 January 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Joining Bulk Metallic Glass Using Nanostructured Reactive Multilayer Foils
Speaker:	Jonathan Trenkle (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University)
Contact:	Thomas Gnaeupel-Herold, x 5380

February 2007 ...

Date:	10.45 Thursday, 8 February 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Guanylate Kinase Structure and Osmolyte Exclusion Studied by Neutron Scattering and Osmotic Stress
Speaker:	Christopher Stanley (NCNR and NICHD, National Institutes of Health)
Contact:	Susan Krueger, x 6734
Date:	Special Date 10.45 Friday, 9 February 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Application of neutron scattering to biological and hydrogen storage materials
Speaker:	Yun Liu (NCNR)
Contact:	Jason Gardner, x 8391
Date:	10.45 Thursday, 15 February 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Raman Scattering Study on Quantum Ferroelectric 18O-exchanged SrTiO3
Speaker:	Hiroki Taniguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Contact:	Peter Gehring, x 3946
Date:	Special Date 10.45 Wednesday, 21 February 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Insight Into The Helix-To-Coil Transition in DNA ... And More
Speaker:	Boualem Hammouda (NCNR)
Contact:	Boualem Hammouda , x 3961
Date:	Special Date 10.45 Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Magnetic Order and Spin Dynamics in (RareEarth)2PdSi3 compounds
Speaker:	Professor Michael Loewenhaupt, Technical University Dresden
Contact:	Jeff Lynn, x 6246

March 2007 ...

Date:	Date 10.45 Thursday, 15 March 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Neutrons Down Under: OPAL
Speaker:	Mohana Yethiraj, Bragg Institute, ANSTO.
Contact:	Paul Butler, x 2028

April 2007 ...

Date:	Date 10.45 Thursday, 5 April 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Ab initio structure determination from powder diffraction and Maximum entropy image reconstruction
Speaker:	Jae-Hyuk Her, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Contact:	Craig Brown, x 5134
Date:	Special Time 14.00 Thursday, 5 April 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	MISANS (Modulated Intensity Small Angle Neutron Scattering) - a new Spectrometer
Speaker:	Markus Bleuel, Argonne National Laboratory
Contact:	Dan Neumann, x 5252
Date:	Special Date 10.45 Monday, 9 April 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Momentum distribution of atoms in liquid and solid helium
Speaker:	S. Diallo, University of Delaware
Contact:	John Copley, x 5133
Date:	Special Date 10.45 Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Quasielastic and inelastic neutron-scattering (QENS and INS) experiments on concentrated-methanol aqueous solutions
Speaker:	N. de Souza, IPNS.
Contact:	John Copley, x 5133
Date:	Special Date 10.45 Friday, 20 April 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Dynamics in Soft Matter: A Neutron Scattering Study
Speaker:	M. Tyagi (San Sebastian, SPAIN)
Contact:	John Copley, x 5133
Date:	Special Date 10.45 Friday, 27 April 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Neutron Diffraction Studies of Metal Hydride Complexes
Speaker:	Muhammed Yousufuddin (University of Southern California)
Contact:	Craig Brown, x 5134

May 2007 ...

Date:	Special Date 10.45 Wednesday, 9 May 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Neutron Calorimetry using Boron Carbide Hetrojunction Diodes
Speaker:	Anthony Caruso (Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, North Dakota State University)
Contact:	Dan Neumann, x 5252
Date:	Date 10.45 Thursday, 10 May 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Phonon anomalies induced by polar nano-regions in a relaxor Ferroelectric
Speaker:	Guangyong Xu (BNL, New York)
Contact:	Peter Gehring, x 3946
Date:	Special Date 10.45 Friday, 11 May 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	High pressure hydrogen clathrate research using inelastic neutron scattering and x-ray diffraction
Speaker:	Tim Jenkins (Carnegie Institution, Washington D.C.)
Contact:	John Copley, x 5133
Date:	Date 10.45 Thursday, 17 May 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Hydrogen Storage in Microporous Coordination Solids with Exposed Metal Sites
Speaker:	J. R. Long (Dept. of Chemistry, UC Berkley)
Contact:	Mark Green, x 4297
Date:	Special Time 13.30 Friday, 18 May 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Field Induced Continuum Excitation in a 1D Quantum Paramagnet
Speaker:	Tao Hong, Johns Hopkins University
Contact:	John Copley, x 5133
Date:	Special Date 10.45 Tuesday, 22 May 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Structure and shear responses of poly(ethylene oxide)-Laponite nanocomposite hydrogels
Speaker:	Elena Loizou (NCNR, NIST)
Contact:	Paul Butler, x 2028
Date:	Date 10.45 Thursday, 31 May 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Impact of Surface Poisoning and Electrocatalysis on the Durability of Pt based Catalysts for Fuel cells
Speaker:	Vivek Murthi (Northeastern University)
Contact:	Joseph Dura, x 6251
Date:	Special Time 15.30 Thursday, 31 May 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Spin wave damping by valence fluctuations in the double layer perovskite YBaFe2O5
Speaker:	Sung Chang (Ames Laboratory)
Contact:	Jeff Lynn, x 6246

June 2007 ...

Date:	Special Date 10.45 Friday, 1 June 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Ultrathin membrane coatings - Amphiphilic graft copolymers for anti-fouling and encapsulation applications
Speaker:	Revindra Revanur (U. Mass)
Contact:	Joseph Dura, x 6251
Date:	SPECIAL Date 10.45 Thursday, 6 June 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Spectroscopic studies of ferroelectrics and polymers
Speaker:	Dr. Muhetaer Aihaiti, (Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington)
Contact:	Peter Gehring, x 3946
Date:	10.45 Thursday, 14 June 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Branching - the long and short of it
Speaker:	Gregory Beaucage (Prof. of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of Cincinnati)
Contact:	Boualem Hammouda, x 3961

July 2007 ...

Date:	10.45 Thursday, 12 July 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Structure and Dynamics at the solid-liquid interface
Speaker:	Max Wolff (Chair for solid-state physics/EP IV, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
Contact:	Sushil Satija, x 5250
Date:	10.45 Thursday, 19 July 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	D33 - A third Small Angle Neutron Scattering instrument at ILL
Speaker:	Charles Dewhurst (ILL, Grenoble, France)
Contact:	Lionel Porcar, x 5049

August 2007 ...

Date:	SPECIAL DATE 10.45 Wednesday, 8th August 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	A Biophysical Study of Clathrin
Speaker:	Matt Ferguson, (NIH and U. of Maryland)
Contact:	Boualem Hammouda, x 3961
Date:	SPECIAL DATE 10.45 Monday, 13 August 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Vortex Studies in Superconducting CeCoIn5
Speaker:	Prof. Morten Ring Eskildsen, (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame)
Contact:	Dan Neumann, x 5252
Date:	10.45 Thursday, 16 August 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Quantum Dynamics Calculations on Massively Parallel Supercomputers: Implementation and Molecular Applications
Speaker:	Wenwu Chen (NCNR)
Contact:	Paul Kienzle, x 4727
Date:	10.45 Thursday, 23 August 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Status of 3He spin-filter at the ILL
Speaker:	David Jullien (ILL, Grenoble, France)
Contact:	Tom Gentile, x 5431

September 2007 ...

Date:	10.45 Wednesday, 5 September 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Probing nanoscale structures - The SANS toolbox
Speaker:	Boualem Hammouda, (NIST Center for Neutron Research)
Contact:	Boualem Hammouda, x 3961
Date:	10.45 Thursday, 6th September 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Magnetic Fluctuations close to an Antiferromagnetic Quantum Critical point as observed in CeNi2Ge2
Speaker:	Bilal Zoghbi (Kent State University)
Contact:	Tom Gentile, x 5431

October 2007 ...

Date:	10.45am Thursday, 11th October 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Thermal Transport Properties of Zeolite Thin Films
Speaker:	Yeny Hudiono (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Contact:	Paul Butler, x 2028
Date:	SPECIAL TIME 1.30pm Thursday, 11th October 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Exchange bias studies of multiferroic materials
Speaker:	Ichiro Takeuchi (University of Maryland)
Contact:	Brian Kirby, x 8395
Date:	10.45 am Thursday, 18th October 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Prevention of Sintering During Chemical Ordering of FePt Nanoparticles.
Speaker:	Dwayne Reed (University of Alabama)
Contact:	Paul Butler, x 2028
Date:	Special TIME 2.00pm Thursday, 18th October 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Current status and future plans for neutron scattering at the 60MW CARR research reactor
Speaker:	Prof. Dongfeng Chen, CARR
Contact:	Dan Neumann, x 5252
Date:	Special Date 2.00pm Friday, 19th October 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Synchrotron X-ray Scattering Studies of Semiconductor Nanoclusters in Zeolites
Speaker:	S. C. Moss (University of Houston)
Contact:	Dan Neumann, x 5252

November 2007 ...

Date:	Special Time 10.15 Thursday, 15 November 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Anisotropy Driven Freezing Transition in a Kagome Spin Glass
Speaker:	W. Bisson (University College London)
Contact:	Mark Green, x 4297
Date:	Date 10.45 Monday, 19 November 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Neutron Scattering and the cold source at HANARO
Speaker:	Hark Rho Kim (Hanaro)
Contact:	Robert William, x 6876
Date:	Special Time 11.00 Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Small-Angle Scattering Study of Concentrated Colloidal Dispersions
Speaker:	Dong Qiu (University of Kent)
Contact:	Paul Butler, x 2028
Date:	Date 10.45 Monday, 26 November 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Frustrated and Satisfied Ground States in Pyrochlore Magnets
Speaker:	Bruce Gaulin (McMaster University)
Contact:	Jason Gardner, x 8391
Date:	Date 10.45 Thursday, 29th November 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Hydrogen Storage in Nano-porous Materials
Speaker:	Yun Liu, (UMD and NCNR)
Contact:	Dan Neumann, x 5252
December 2007 ...
Date:	Date 10.45 Monday, December 3rd 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Nanotubes at Onera
Speaker:	Loiseau, Annick (ONERA-CNRS, France)
Contact:	Taner Yildirim, x 6228
Date:	Date 10.45 Wednesday, December 12th 2007
Place:	Building 235, Room E100
Title:	Membrane-mediated mechanism of amyloid oligomer toxicity in Alzheimer's disease
Speaker:	Heinrich, Frank (Carnegie Mellon and NCNR)
Contact:	Chuck Majkrzak, x 5251

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