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March 30 - April 5, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 11:45am, Egan 403
SPS
TBA
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
TBA
Zuowei Liu
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, April 3, 2008, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
TBA
Weiqiao Zeng
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
April 6 - 12, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
TBA
Michael Holmes
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 12:30pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
TBA
Tarec Fares
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 4:00pm, Dana 114
Physics Colloquium
TBA
Professor Mehran Kardar
MIT
Host: Professor Latika Menon
Refreshments available 3:45pm
April 13 - 19, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Fluctuation Dissipation Relation and Scaling Behavior in Glassy Polymers"
Hassan Oukris
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 12:30pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
TBA
Ismet Altunkaynak
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, April 17, 2008, 4:00pm, Dana 114
Physics Colloquium
TBA
Professor Vidya Madhavan
Physics Department, Boston College
Host: Professor Latika Menon
Refreshments available 3:45pm
March 23 - 29, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 11:45am, Egan 403
SPS
"Biomedical Optics and New York City"
Matthew Bouchard
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Self Energy Corrections for Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) in the Cuprates"
Wael Al-Sawai
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, March 27, 2008, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Polarization Studies in MbNO7"
Ashenafi Dadi
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Thursday, March 27, 2008, 4:00pm, Dana 114
Physics Colloquium
"Challenges in Complex Matter - Measurement and Dynamics"
Professor Arshad Kudrolli
Clark University
Hosts: Professors Alain Karma and Latika Menon
Refreshments available 3:45pm
March 16 - 22, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Threading into the Secret of Life"
Thaya Paramanathan
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, March 20, 2008, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Dendritic Spines Construction and Maintenance Cost"
Gina Escobar
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Thursday, March 20, 2008, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Special Physics Colloquium
"The Tragedy of Networks"
David Lazer
Harvard University
Host: Professor L. Barabási
Thursday, March 20, 2008, 4:00pm, Dana 114
Physics Colloquium
"Silicon Spintronics"
Professor Ian Appelbaum
University of Delaware
Host: Professor Don Heiman
Refreshments available 3:45pm
March 9 - 15, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 11:45am, Egan 403
SPS
"How I Met Fermi Liquid Theory on the First Night of a Warm Summer's Eve Along the Shores of the Indian Ocean"
Jesse Silverberg
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 12:30pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Sparticles at the LHC and Direct Detection of Dark Matter"
Daniel Feldman
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Saturday, March 15, 2008, 8:30am-5pm, Dana Research Center
QuarkNet Masterclass
Professor George Alverson
Physics Department
Northeastern University
http://cosm.hamptonu.edu/vlhc/doku.php?id=wiki:start:wkshp:mcwg
March 2 - 8, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008, 11:00am, Dana 114
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
"Unconventional Superconductivity and Mott Transition of Expanded A3C60
Alkali Fullerides"
Professor Erio Tosatti
SISSA, ICTP and INFM/Democritos, Trieste, Italy
Host: Dr. Bernardo Barbiellini
Refreshments available 10:45am
February 24 - March 1, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008, 1:00pm, 406 Curry Student Center
IGERT Nanomedicine Discussion Series
Dr. Christian Matthaeus
Northeastern University
Hosted by the IGERT Nanomedicine Science and Technology Program: www.igert.neu.edu.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 4:00pm, Dana 114
CIRCS
"Interaction Forces and Boundary Friction in Self-Assembled Systems"
Professor Marina Ruths
U Mass Lowell
Host: Professor Jeffrey Sokoloff
Refreshments available 3:45pm
Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 11:45am, Egan 403
SPCS
"Physics & Biotechnology"
Cynthia Bamdad
Minerva Biotechnologies
pizza will be served
Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Phase-Field Model of Strain-Induced Grain-Boundary Premelting"
Nan Wang
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 12:30pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Appearance of Universal Metallic Dispersion in a Doped Mott Insulator"
Hsin Lin
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, February 27, 2008, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Vibrational Dynamics of Heme Model Compounds"
Dr. Alex Barabanschikov
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
Thursday, February 28, 2008, 4:00pm, Dana 114
Physics Colloquium
"The Novel Nanostructures of Carbon"
Professor Mildred Dresselhaus
Institute Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics, MIT
Host: Professor Latika Menon
Refreshments available 3:45pm
February 17 - 23, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 4:00pm, Dana 114
CIRCS
"The Emergence of Form and Function in the Heart"
Professor Kit Parker
Harvard University
Host: Professor Alain Karma
Refreshments available 3:45pm
Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 11:45am, Egan 403
SPS
"Co-op at Brooks Automation"
Suketu Patel
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 11:30pm, Egan 403
SPS
"Co-op at QDVision: Nanotechnology in Action"
Spencer Morris
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Physics of Nanoplatforms and Their Applications"
Evin Gultepe
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, February 21, 2008, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"In Vivo Cortical Connectivity and Connectivity in a Cortical Slice"
Professor Armen Stepanyants
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
February 10 - 16, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 4:00pm, Dana 114
CIRCS
"Collective Oscillatory Dynamics of Motile Sperm Flagella"
Dr. Arvind Gonipath
Harvard University
Host: Professor Alain Karma
Refreshments available 3:45pm
Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 11:45am, Egan 403
SPCS
"Co-op at CERN"
Kristen Flowers
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"From the Electroweak Scale to the Planck Scale"
Professor Pran Nath
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, February 14, 2008, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Ultrafast Dynamics of NO Rebinding in HRP and its Mutant F41E"
Dr. Abdelkrim Benabbas
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
February 3 - 9, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 11:45am, Egan 403
SPCS
"Research Experiences at LBL and INFN-Pisa"
Cory Fantasia
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Thursday, February 7, 2008, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Ultrafast dynamics of NO rebinding in HRP and its mutant F41E"
Dr. Abdelkrim Benabbas
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
January 27 - February 2, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 11:45am, Egan 403
SPCS
"Electromagnetic Compatibility Testing at Harley-Davidson Motor Company"
Jamie Mettenbrink
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Thursday, January 31, 2008, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity of HTLV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein Variants"
Fei Wang
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
Thursday, January 31, 2008, 4:00pm, Egan 306
Physics Seminar
"Massively Parallel Simulations of Advanced Materials"
Professor Mark Jarrell
University of Cincinnati
Refreshments available at 3:45pm
Thursday, January 24, 2008, 4:00pm, Dana 114
Physics Colloquium
"Contact and Friction: Connecting Atomic-Scale Interactions to Macroscopic Behavior"
Professor Mark Robbins
Johns Hopkins University
Host: Professor Alain Karma
Refreshments available 3:45pm
January 20 - 26, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 4:00pm, Dana 114
CIRCS
"Does Intelligence Help or Hinder in Achieving Consensus"
Professor Sid Redner
Boston University
Host: Professor Alain Karma
Refreshments available 3:45pm
Wednesday, January 23, 2008, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Joint Graduate Journal Club / SPCS
"Human Dynamics: From Priority Setting to Human Travel Patterns"
Professor Albert-László Barabási
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, January 24, 2008, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Double- and Single-Stranded DNA Binding of Catalytic Alpha Subunit of E. Coli Replicative DNA Polymerase III"
Dr. Micah McCauley
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
Thursday, January 24, 2008, 4:00pm, Dana 114
Physics Colloquium
"Contact and Friction: Connecting Atomic-Scale Interactions to Macroscopic Behavior"
Professor Mark Robbins
Johns Hopkins University
Host: Professor Alain Karma
Refreshments available 3:45pm
January 13 - 19, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 12:00pm, Egan 406
SPS
"Adventures at Sea"
Holly Taylor
Northeastern University
pizza will be served (11:45am)
Wednesday, January 16, 2007, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Two Gap Behavior in electron and Hole Doped High-Tc Superconductors"
Tanmoy Das
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, January 17, 2008, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Salt-Dependent T7 Gene 2.5 Protein Binding to Single- and Double-stranded DNA: 1D Diffusion of Multiple Proteins on DNA"
Professor Mark Williams
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
January 6 - 12, 2008
Wednesday, January 9, 2008, 12:00pm, Egan 406
SPS
Meeting to discuss semester agenda
Hosted by Professors L. Menon, E. Barberis, and N. Israeloff
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Thursday, January 10, 2008, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Coherent Motions in Biomolecules and Their Role in Biological Reactions"
Professor Paul Champion
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
December 23 - 29, 2007
Friday, December 21, 2007, 11:00am, Dana 114
Special CIRCS
"Biophysics of Mucin Gels: Protecting the Stomach From Digesting Itself"
Professor Rama Bansil
Boston University
Host: Professor Latika Menon
Refreshments available 10:45am
December 9 - 15, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007, 1:00pm, Dana 114
Preliminary Thesis Defense
"Nanowires and Nanotubes: Thermal, Transport and Optical Properties"
Eugen Panaitescu
Physics Department
Thesis Committee: Professor Latika Menon (Advisor)
Professor Don Heiman
Professor Nathan Israeloff
Professor Alain Karma
Friday, December 14, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
TBA
Leila Shokri
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
December 2 - 8, 2007
Monday, December 3, 2007, 3:00pm, Dana 114
HEP Seminar
"MSSM-Like Models from the Heterotic String"
Akin Wingerter
Ohio State University
Host: Professor Brent Nelson
Refreshments available 2:45pm
Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Coherent Motions in Biomolecules and Their Role in Biological Reactions"
Professor Paul Champion
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Friday, December 7, 2007, 12:00pm, 322 Curry Student Center
IGERT Nanomedicine Distinguished Lecture
"Nanoparticle-based Antimicrobial Photochemotherapy in Biofilms"
Dr. Nikos Soukos
Director, Applied Molecular Photomedicine Laboratory, Forsyth Institute
Series sponsored by the IGERT Nanomedicine Science and Technology Program: www.igert.neu.edu and the Electronic Materials Research Institute
Refreshments 11:45am
Contact Rita Kaderian, r.kaderian@neu.edu for further information
Friday, December 7, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Temperature Dependent Kinetics Experiment at Repetition Rate 190 KHz"
Zhenyu Zhang
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
November 25 - December 1, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 4:00pm, Dana 114
Special High Energy Seminar
"Warped Extra Dimension Flavor & LHC Phenomenology"
Dr. Gilad Perez
SUNY/Stony Brook and Harvard University
Host: Professor Haim Goldberg
Refreshments available 3:45pm
Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Joint Graduate Journal Club / SPS
"Studying High Energy Cosmic Rays at the Pierre Auger Observatory"
Dr. Tom Paul
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Friday, November 30, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Automatic Processing of Neuronal Images"
Zlatko Vasilkoski
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
November 18 - 24, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007, 9:00am, Dana 114
Preliminary Thesis Defense
"Magnetic and Transport Properties of Novel 1 and 2 Dimensional Nanomaterials"
Adam Friedman
Physics Department
Thesis Committee: Professor Latika Menon (Advisor)
Professor Sergey Kravchenko
Professor Jeffrey Sokoloff
Professor Yung Joon Jung (Mechanical Engineering)
Monday, November 19, 2007, 3:00pm, Dana 114
HEP Seminar
"Mixed Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and the LHC"
David Tucker-Smith
Williams College
Host: Professor Brent Nelson
Refreshments available 2:45pm
No Graduate Journal Club scheduled this week
November 11 - 17, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 4:00pm, Dana 114
CIRCS
"Mathematical Challenges of Self Assembly"
Michael Brenner
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Host: Professor Armen Stepanyants
Refreshments available 3:45pm
Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 12:00pm, Egan 406
SPS
"Titania Nanotubes for Solar Hydrogen"
Christiaan Richter
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Black Holes, Neutrinos and High Energy Cosmic Rays"
Professor Haim Goldberg
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 10:00am, Dana 114
Preliminary Thesis Defense
"Physics of Nanoplatforms and Their Applications in Nanomanufacturing and Nanomedicine"
Evin Gultepe
Physics Department
Thesis Committee: Professor Srinivas Sridhar (Advisor)
Professor Latika Menon
Professor Donald Heiman
November 3 - 10, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Can Waterfalls Solve the Problem of High-Temperature Superconductivity?"
Professor Robert Markiewicz
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Friday, November 9, 2007, 12:00pm, 333 Curry Student Center
IGERT Nanomedicine Distinguished Lecture
"Early Detection, Prognosis and Customized Therapy for Breast Cancer Using Quartz Crystal Nanobalance Technology"
Dr. Susan Braunhut
Professor Biological Sciences
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Series sponsored by the IGERT Nanomedicine Science and Technology Program: www.igert.neu.edu and the Electronic Materials Research Institute
Refreshments 11:45am
Contact Rita Kaderian, r.kaderian@neu.edu for further information
October 28 - November 3, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007, 12:00pm, Egan 406
SPS
"What Do Particle Physicists Want To Know"
Professor Brent Nelson
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Wednesday, October 31, 2007, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Nanomaterials Using Porous Templates"
Professor Latika Menon
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, November 1, 2007, 4:00pm, Dana 114
Physics Colloquium
"Fingerprints of Inflation"
Richard Easther
Yale University
Host: Professor Brent Nelson
Refreshments available 3:45pm
Friday, November 2, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Lowering the Barrier to Thread Through the DNA"
Thayaparan Paramanathan
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
October 21 - 27, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 12:00pm, Egan 406
SPS
"Synchronization of Coupled Oscillators: From Clocks to Pedestrians"
Dr. Juan G. Restrepo
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 12:00pm, Dana 111
Graduate Journal Club
"Strings, Twistors and Fundamental Theory"
Professor Tomasz Taylor
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, October 25, 2007, 4:00pm, Dana 114
Thesis Defense
"Low Frequency Dynamics of Heme Proteins and heme Model Compounds Probed by Femtosecond Coherence Spectroscopy"
Flaviu Gruia
Physics Department
Thesis Committee: Professor Paul Champion (Advisor)
Professor Tim Sage
Professor Mark Williams
Friday, October 26, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Heme Structural Analysis by FCS: Doming and Ruffling Distortions"
Minoru Kubo
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
October 14 - 20, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007, 3:00pm, Dana 114
High Energy Physics Seminar
"A Method to Measure the Higgs Boson's CP and Spin"
Dr. Alex Tumanov
Rice University
Host: Professor Emanuela Barberis
Refreshments available 2:45pm
No SPS this week
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Physics at Hadron Colliders"
Professor Emanuela Barberis
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Friday, October 19, 2007, 12:00pm, Curry Student Center 320
IGERT Nanomedicine Distinguished Lecture
"Microengineering the Cellular
Environment for Tissue Engineering
and Drug Discovery"
Dr. Ali Khademhosseini
Division of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard/MIT
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Series sponsored by the IGERT Nanomedicine Science and Technology Program: www.igert.neu.edu and the Electronic Materials Research Institute
Refreshments 11:45am
Contact Rita Kaderian, r.kaderian@neu.edu for further information
Friday, October 19, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"How Does Neuron Morphology Influence the Structural Entropy of Cortical Circuits"
Tarek Fares
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
October 7 - 13, 2007
No SPS scheduled this week
Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"A Geometrical Approach to Particle Physics"
Professor Brent Nelson
Physics Department
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, October 11, 2007, 4:00pm, Dana 114
Physics Colloquium
"Silicon Lasers - An Anti-Physics Wish or Real Possibility?"
Professor Jimmy Xu
Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., '32 University Professor
Engineering and Physics
Brown University
Host: Professor Latika Menon
Refreshments available 3:45pm
Friday, October 12, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Using Atomic Force Microscopy (AMF) to Study the Protein-bound DNA Structure"
Jingyun Zhang
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
September 30 - October 6, 2007
Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 12:00pm, Egan 406
SPS
"Mechanisms of DNA Binding Determined in Optical Tweezers Experiments"
Dr. Micah McCauley
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Applications of Nanoscience"
Professor Srinivas Sridhar
Physics Department Chair
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, October 4, 2007, 4:30pm, Dana 114
Physics Colloquium
"The KATRIN Experiment and the Quest for Neutrino Mass"
Professor Joe Formaggio
MIT
Host: Professor Emanuela Barberis
Refreshments available 4:15pm
Friday, October 5, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Analysis of Micro-Architecture in Cortical Circuits"
Gina Escobar
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
September 23 - 29, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 12:00pm, Egan 406
SPS
"Nanomaterials"
Professor Latika Menon
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Nanomagnetism for Spintronics"
Professor Don Heiman
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Friday, September 28, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Is MbCN a Photolabile Species?"
Flaviu Gruia
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
September 16 -22, 2007
Wednesday, Septeber 19, 2007, 12:00pm, Egan 406
SPS
"An introduction to tracking detectors"
Professor Emanuela Barberis
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
Wednesday, Septeber 19, 2007, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Theoretical Mechanisms for Super-Lubricity: Is there a Theory that Predicts the Occurrence of Friction?"
Professor Jeffrey Sokoloff
Northeastern University
pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Thursday, September 20, 2007, 10:50am, Egan 440
Joint IEEE Magnetics Society / Physics Colloquium
"Magnetic Nanoparticles: Self-Assembly and Nanoscale Behavior"
Sara A. Majetich
Carnegie Mellon University
Refreshments available 10:40am
Hosts: Professors Vincent Harris, Laura Henderson Lewis, and Latika Menon
Friday, September 21, 2007, 12:00pm, Snell Engineering 153
IGERT Nanomedicine Distinguished Lecture
"Nanomedicine for Treating Organ Failure "
Dr. Thomas Webster
Divisions of Engineering and orthopedics
Brown University
Series sponsored by the IGERT Nanomedicine Science and Technology Program: www.igert.neu.edu and the Electronic Materials Research Institute
Refreshments 11:45am
Contact Rita Kaderian, r.kaderian@neu.edu for further information
Friday, September 21, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy (NRVS): Background and Some
Applications"
Weiqiao Zeng
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
September 9 - 15, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007, 3:00pm, Dana 114
High Energy Theory Seminar
"An Algorithmic Approach to Heterotic Compactification"
Lara Anderson
Oxford
Host: Professor Brent Nelson
Refreshments available 2:45pm
Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 12:00pm, Dana 114
Graduate Journal Club
"Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC"
Professor Brent Nelson
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/bnelson/graduatejournalclub07.htm
Friday, September 14, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Studies on Photorefractive Optics and Ultrafast Optics"
Dr. Qiang Wu
Tuft University
Pizza will be served
September 2 - 8, 2007
Tuesday, September 4, 2007, 2:00pm, Churchill 325
Physics Dept. Ice Cream Social
Welcome new students and welcome back returning students
Friday, September 7, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Femtosecond Solvation and Excited State Dynamics of Chromophores Used in Polynucleic Acids"
Dr. Karunakaran Venugopal
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
Saturday, September 8, 2007, 8:00am - 5:00pm, Marine Science Center, Nahant, MA
Annual Physics Department Clambake
Shuttlebuses will be available to and from the MBTA
Sign up sheet is in 111 Dana
Physics students free
Guests, Faculty, and staff $5 each
Contact b.najarian@neu.edu for additional information
August 26 - September 1, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007, 10:00am, West Village 102G
IGERT Nanomedicine Science and Technology Distinguished Lecture
"Amphiphilic Core-Shell Nanoparticles with Poly(ethylenimine) Shells as
Potential Gene and Drug Delivery Carriers"
Dr. Pauline Pei Li
Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Coffee available 10:45am
Friday, August 31, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
TBA
Dr. Alex Barabanschikov
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
August 19 - 25, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007, 1:00pm, Dana 114
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy on Fe-S Proteins and Nitrogenase"
Yuming Xiao
UC Davis
Pizza will be served
August 12 - 18, 2007
Friday, August 17, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Scaling Theory of Dendritic Morphology"
Prof. Armen Stepanyants
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
August 5 - 11, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Kinetics of O2 Rebinding to Myoglobin and its Mutants"
Dr. Abdelkrim Benabbas
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
July 29 - August 4, 2007
Wednesday, August 1, 2007, 2:00pm, Dana 114
Preliminary Thesis Defense
"Negative Refraction in Photonic Crystal"
Yongjian Huang
Physics Department
Thesis Committee: Professor Srinivas Sridhar (Advisor)
Professor Latika Menon
Professor Jeffrey Sokoloff
Professor Wentao Lu
Thursday, August 2, 2007, 10:00am, Egan 406
IGERT Nanomedicine Summer Seminar Series
"Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase (eNOS) Gene Therapy with Lipid/Polymer Based Nanovectors"
Luis Brito
PhD Candidate, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and IGERT Nanomedicine Trainee
Friday August 3, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Role of Carboxyl Terminus of HTLV-1 NC Protein Binding to DNA"
Fei Wang
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
July 15 - 21, 2007
Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 10:30am, West Village 106G
IGERT Nanomedicine Distinguished Lecture
"Nanomedicines: The Promise of Nanoparticles in Oral Drug Delivery "
Dr. Ravi Kumar
Nanotechnology-Drug Delivery Group, India
Department of Pharmaceutics & Center for Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)
Series sponsored by the IGERT Nanomedicine Science and Technology Program: www.igert.neu.edu
Refreshments 10:15am
Contact Rita Kaderian, r.kaderian@neu.edu for further information
Friday July 20, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Pulling Rate Dependence of the Melting Force - Mechanical Evidence for Force Induced Melting"
Dr. Micah McCauley
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
July 8 - 14, 2007
Friday July 13, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Mechanical Measurements of Single Molecule DNA 1nteractions: 1. DNA Melting and Small Molecule Interaction"
Professor Mark Williams
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
July 1 - 7, 2007
Friday July 7, 2007, 1:00pm, Egan 306
Biophysical Group Meeting
"Low Frequency Dynamics of Chloroperoxidase and Cytochrome P450 Probed by Femtosecond Coherence Spectroscopy"
Professor Paul Champion
Northeastern University
Pizza will be served
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