Conferences, Seminars
and Special Programs

The Friday Nano Seminar Series meets in 155 Donner Lab every week during this spring semester at 2 pm. It's open to the public, and can be taken for 1-unit credit as NSE 298.001

Details for Sring Semester 2009 events, including the seminar talks, are on the new interactive network calendar--

click on--> BNNI Events Calendar

If clicking on the link above doesn't work, paste this address into your browser: http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/BNNI.html

Last year, during the spring 2008 semester, we had these distinguished speakers:

• Date	Speaker	Topic
  01/25	Rachel Segalman UC Berkeley Chem Engin	Controlling Structure and Properties in Conjugated Polymers
  02/01	David Attwood UC Berkeley EECS	Nanoscale Imaging and Patterning with Soft X-Rays and EUV Radiation
  02/08	Jeff Long UC Berkeley Chemistry	Directed Assembly of Metal-Cyanide Cluster Magnets
  02/15	Jay Groves UC Berkeley Chemistry	Creating Spatial Mutations in Living Cells by Solid-state Nanofabrication
  02/22	Alessandra Lanzara UC Berkeley Physics	Electronic Properties of Dirac Fermions in Epitaxial Graphene
  02/29	Lin-Wang Wang LBNL Comp. Research	Ab-initio Calculations for Electronic and Optical Properties of Nanostructures
  03/07	Phil Geissler UC Berkeley Chemistry	Dynamics of Organization at the Nanometer Scale
  03/14	Carolyn Bertozzi UC Berkeley Chemistry	Nanoscale Engineering of Bio/Material Interfaces
  03/18	Jeff Wu Georgia Tech Engin Stats	TBD Note: 60 Evans 4pm, co-sponsored by Statistics
  03/21	Younan Xia Washington Univ St.L.; Biomed Engineering	Putting Nanostructures to Work for Biomedical Research
  03/28	Spring Break	What carbon footprint? Warming is good!
  04/04	Jeff Neaton LBNL Molecular Foundry	Understanding Charge Transport in Single-Molecule Circuits
  04/11	Jim Schuck LBNL Molecular Foundry	Nano-optics: Beating Diffraction One Bowtie at a Time
  04/18	Daryl Chrzan UC Berkeley MSE	Large Melting Point Hysteresis of Ge Nanocrystals Embedded in Silica
  04/25	Andrew Cleland UC Santa Barbara Physics	Electrical Circuits that Control and Manipulate Single Photons
  05/02	Omar Yaghi UC Los Angeles Chemistry	TBD
  05/09	Tsu-Jae King Liu UC Berkeley EECS	Sustaining the Silicon Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities

The Berkeley Nanotechnology Club is Cal's student organization for those interested in all things nano, click BNC for more info

Use the key word 'nano' when searching the campus event calendar to find even more research talks!

A variety of special seminars will be listed here often--for more info, join the NanoNews mailing list by sending a note to <nanoinstitute@lists.berkeley.edu>

More items will be added to this page reqularly! This version posted 2/2009