Upcoming program approved nano-related seminars

Apr 3

BME Distinguished Seminar Series with Steven Chu: What can be learned by tracking the motion of cargos due to dynein in live cells with millisecond and microsecond time resolution and sub-nanometer spatial resolution

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Wilkinson Room 021

Professor Steven Chu, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics, of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University, the 1997 Nobel Prize laureate in laser cooling and trapping of atoms and former U.S. Secretary of Energy

Apr 11

2025 Hill Lecture: A Golden Time for Nanotechnology

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FFSC 2231

Prof. Catherine Murphy, Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry, and Head, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne

Apr 16

DMI/MEMS Seminar: AI/ML in Additive Manufacturing and Polymer Synthesis for New Data and Discovery

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Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side B, room 1466

Prof Rigoberto Advincula, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee Knoxville, UT-ORNL Governor's Chair of Advanced and Nanostructured Materials

Past Seminars

2022

Mar 15

Design and synthesis of organic electronic materials

Malika Jeffries-El of Boston University

Mar 8

All-Optical Super-Resolution Imaging of Molecules in Their Nanoscale Cellular Context

Joerg Bewersdorf, Ph.D., Professor, Cell Biology and of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Mar 8

Frontiers in Nanophotonics: Enabling Technology for Optical Biosensing and Bioimaging

Hatice Altug, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Head of Bionanophotonic Systems Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Mar 8

Molecular Recognition Using Nanomechanical Photothermal Effects

Thomas Thundat, Ph.D. Professor, Empire Innovation Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Buffalo, The State University of New York Buffalo, NY

Mar 7

Nanoplasmonics Systems: From Early Cancer Diagnostics to Infectious Disease Detection

Tuan Vo-Dinh, Ph.D. R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, and Director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Duke University, Durham, NC

Mar 7

Rapid Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases Using Gold Nanoparticles

Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, Affiliate Faculty, School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA

Mar 7

Nanophotonics Biosensors for Ultrasensitive Diagnostics at the Point-of Need

Laura M. Lechuga, Ph.D. Professor, Group Leader of NanoBiosensors and Bioanalytical Applications Group, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Mar 2

MEMS/DMI Seminar: Novel Applications of 2D Materials from Wearable Health to Memory Devices and 5G/6G Switches

Deji Akinwande, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas, Austin