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Past Seminars 07/08

A listing of past seminars run by or relevant to LCN in the academic year 2007/08.
(sorted by date - most recent first, please scroll as necessary).

  • 09/10/2008 - 10:00, Dr Art Ramirez (LGS - Bell Labs Innovations), Electronics based on Crystalline Organic Semiconductors [more], Location: G02, Materials Department, Imperial College
  • 08/10/2008 - 16:00, Professor Sumio Iijima (Meijo University, Japan), The 17 year old carbon nanotubes [more], Location: Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre, 25 Gordon Street, UCL
  • 07/10/2008 - 13:00, Professor Sumio Iijima (Meijo University, Japan), Atomic structures of carbon nanotubes and related materials [abstract], Location: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL
  • 01/10/2008 - 13:00, Professor Michel Van Hove (City University of Hong Kong), Nanostructure from scanning tunneling microscopy and low-energy electron diffraction: C60 on Cu(111) [abstract], Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL24/09/2008 - 15:00, Dr Matthew Turner (The University of Warwick), Sickle hemogolbin fibers - self assembly, interactions, growth and deploymerisation [abstract], Location: Room G08, Roberts Building, UCL
  • 24/09/2008 - 13:00, Dr Chris Pickard (The University of St Andrews), Ammonium Amide - a surprise from random searching [abstract], Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • 10/09/2008 - 13:00, Professor Wolf-Dieter Schneider (EPFL, Switzerland), Low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy at the single atom scale [abstract], Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • 09/09/2008 - 11:30, Dr John Morton (St John's College, Oxford), Solid state quantum memory with 31P in silicon: electron spin coherence beyond a second [abstract], Location: Room E1, Physics, UCL
  • 26/6/2008 - 11:30, Dr James Owen, (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Nanoline Templating: Self-Assembly of Atomic-scale Nanostructures on Si(001) [abstract], Location: Room E1, Physics, UCL
  • 17/06/2008 - 14:00, Dr Akira Ohtomo, (Tohoku University, Japan) Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture, High-mobility electron gas at polar oxide heterointerfaces [event programme], Location: Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre, 25 Gordon Street, UCL
  • 11/06/2008 - 13:00, Professor John Venables, (Arizona State University), Surface processes at the nanoscale: how crystals meet the outside world [abstract], Location: Maths 500, 25 Gordon Street, UCL
  • 10/06/2008 - 14:00, Dr Mauro Ferrari, (University of Texas, USA), Nanotechnology in Medicine - A view from the trenches [profile], Location: Drayton Ricardo Lecture Theatre, Drayton Ricardo House, Gordon Street [map]
  • 05/06/2008- 14:00 Prof Sudipta Seal, (University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA), Modulating the Chemistry in rare-earth nanostructures for Biomedical Applications, Location: Room G20, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College
  • 04/06/2008 - 13:00, Dr Jochen Guck, (University of Cambridge), Biophotonics - Shedding new light  on biological cells [abstract], Location: Maths 500, 25 Gordon Street, UCL
  • 28/05/2008 - 13:00, Professor David Ritchie, (University of Cambridge), Quantum light sources fabricated from III-V semiconductors [abstract], Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • 20/05/2008 - 13:00, Dr Bruce Normand, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland), Monopoles and Deconfined Spinons in Pyrochlore Antiferromagnets [abstract], Location: A1 Physics, UCL
  • 21/05/2008 - 13:00, Dr Mike Evans, (University of Leeds), Complex fluids under shear: theories and experiements [abstract], Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • 21/05/2008 - 14:00, Dr Jacques Jupille, (Institute of Nanosciences Paris), Stabilisation of polar oxide orientations [abstract], Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • 16/05/2008 - 13:00, Dr Markus Müller, (Harvard University, USA), Nernst Effect and Magnetohydrodynamics near Quantum Criticality in Superconductors, Graphene and Black Holes, Location: A1 Physics, UCL
  • 14/05/2008 - 13:00, Dr Alison Lloyd, (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL), Models for studying cell size and cell state in mammalian cells [abstract], Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • 13/05/2008 - 13:00, Ernesto E. Marinero, (Hitachi San Jose Research Centre), Magnetic and Semiconductor Nanostructures for Ultra High Density Magnetic Recording [abstract]
  • 07/05/2008 - 13:00, Dr Andrej Vilfan,  (J  Stefan Institute, Ljubljana), Myosin V - a biological nanomachine [abstract]. Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • Seminar Series - 12 Feb - 29 Apr 2008, TEM Lectures. Open to LCN members. Location: Imperial College. [schedule]
  • 30/04/2008 - 13:00, Professor Dudley Williams, (University of Cambridge), Antibiotics to Enzymes - How do they Work? Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • 23/04/2008 - 13:00, Dr Sander Otte, (Leiden University), The Kondo Effect of a Single Atom with Large Spin [abstract]. Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • 16/04/2008 - 1300, Dr Brian Robertson (Imperial College London), Global approaches to TB biology [abstract]. Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • 09/04/2008 - 13:00, Oleg Mitrofanov (LCN, UCL)   Understanding elecdtronic transport in organic semiconductors [abstract]. Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • 02/04/2008 - 13:00, Liming Ying, Imperial College London, Applications of Nanopipette in Bionanotechnology. Location: Room 1.02, Malet Place Engineering Building, UCL
  • 19/03/2008 - 13:00, Joachim Spatz (Heidelberg and MPI Stuttgart), Cell Function Regulated by Contacts with Nano-Digital Interfaces. Location: Anatomy Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre, UCL
  • 17/03/2008 - 13:00, Steven Prawer (University of Melbourne), Quantum information processing in diamond. Location: Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, UCL
  • 12/03/2008 - 13:00, Jeremy O’Brien (Bristol University), Quantum information science with photons on a chip [abstract]. Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • 11/03/2008 - 11:30, Gavin Morley (UCL/LCN), Coherent control of polarized spin qubits [abstract]. Location: Room E1, Physics Building, UCL
  • 27/02/2008 - 16:00, Inaugural Lecture - Professor Ian Robinson, Location: Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre, UCL
  • 20/02/2008 - 13:00, Maria Sushko (LCN, UCL), Physics of Nanomechanical Sensing - bridging experiment and theory [abstract]. Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • 13/02/2008 - 13:00, Andrew Ferguson (University of Cambridge), Quantum dots and radio-frequency electrometers in silicon [abstract]. Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry, UCL
  • 13/02/2008 - 17:30, Inaugural Lecture - Professor Mike Finnis Location: Imperial College
  • 06/02/2008 - 13:00, Andrea Jimenez-Dalmaroni, Experimental and theoretical study of mitotic spindle orientation, Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, UCL
  • 30/01/2008, 13:00, Professor Maciej Gutowski (Heriot-Watt University) will present recent results on designing materials for hydrogen storage. Location: Room 1.02, Malet Place Engineering Building Room, UCL
  • 30/01/2008, 14:00, Dr Cyrus Hirjibehedin (LCN, UCL), Probing Magnetic Nanostructures at the Atomic Scale. Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry Building, UCL
  • 23/01/2008 - 1300. Professor Mervyn Miles (University of Bristol), From ultrafast AFM to the Holographic Assembler. Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry Building, UCL
  • 22/01/2008 - 1315. Professor Geoffrey Ozin (University of Toronto, UCL Chemistry and LCN), Intelligent colour [more] Location: Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, UCL
  • 18/01/2008 - 1600. Dr Chris Kay (UCL), Applications of ESR in materials science. Location: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Chemistry Building, UCL
  • 16/01/2008 - 1300. Dr Sean Barrett (Imperial College, London), Introduction to measurement based quantum computing [abstract]. Location: Ramsay Lecture Theare, Chemistry Building, UCL
  • 07/01/2008 - 13:00, Prof John Hamel (University of Waterloo, Canada), Phononic Band Gap Phenomenon and Technology: Implications for Microwave Acoustics, Radio Frequency MEMS, and Nano-Acoustics. Location: LCN Visualisation Suite, UCL
  • 12/12/2007 - 13:00, Prof Lesley Cohen, (LCN and Imperial College), Detecting spin. Location: Room A1, Physics Building, UCL
  • 10/12/2007 - 13:00, Prof Tsuyoshi Kimura (Osaka University), Spiral magnets as magnetically-induced ferroelectrics [abstract] Location: Room D103, 25 Gordon Street, UCL
  • 4/12/2007 - 11:00, Neil Holmes (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA), The problem of phase transitions in dynamic experiments on solid. Location: Room E7, Physics, UCL
  • 30/11/207 - 13:00, Prof Eugene Kotomin (MPI, Stuttgart and University of Latvia), First principles calculations of LaMnO3  doped with Sr and application for fuel cells [abstract] Location: Chadwick Lecture Theatre, Chadwick Building, UCL
  • 30/11/2007 - 15:00, Dr Ji-Seon Kim (Imperial College), Organic semiconductor interfaces for molecular electronics [abstract] Location: Room E7 Physics, UCL
  • 28 /11/2007 - 13:00, Dr Bill Allison (University of Cambridge), Collective behaviour in the dynamics of strongly interacting adsorbates
    Location: Room A1, Physics Building, UCL
  • 21/11/2007 - 13:00, Prof Bernhard Keimer (MPI, Stuttgart), Oxide interfaces: a new era of correlated-electron physics [abstract] Location: Room A1, Physics Building, UCL
  • 20/11/2007 - 11:00, Dr Ali Alavi (University of Cambridge), Electron correlation via path counting [abstract]. Location: Room E7, Physics Building, UCL
  • 19/11/2007 - 13:00, Prof Martin Greven (Geballe Laboratory, USA), Recent neutron scattering studies of the high-temperature superconductors Nd2-xCexCuO4+δ and HgBa2CuO4+δ [abstract]. Location: Room D103, 25 Gordon Street, UCL
  • 14/11/2007 - 16:30, Prof Jan Michael Rost (MPI, Dresden). Location: Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre, UCL
  • 09/11/2007 - 13:00, Prof Masaru Tsukada (Waseda University), Recent progress on theory of SPM and nano-link structure [abstract]. Location: Ricardo Lecture Theatre, Drayton House, UCL
  • 31/10/2007 - 19:00, Professor Russell Cowburn (Professor of Nanotechnology, Imperial College), New spin for old memories - the nanotechnology of magnetic materials - booking and payment required. [Further information] [Booking and payment form] Location: Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College
  • 31/10/2007 - 13:00, Prof Maurice Skolnick (University of Sheffield),
    Nuclear spins in quantum dots. Location: Room A1, Physics Building, UCL
  • 24/10/2007 - 13:00, Dr Martin Howard (John Innes Centre), Fluctuations in reaction-diffusion systems: modelling concentration gradients inside single cell, Location: Room A1, Physics Building, UCL
  • 17/10/2007 - 16:30, Bragg Lecture - Dr Don Eigler (IBM Almaden Research Centre), The Small Frontier [full event programme] Location: Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre, UCL
  • 16/10/2007 - 11:00, Dr Jean-Marc Costantini (CEA/Saclay, France), Damage induced in yttria-stabilized zirconia by charged particle irradiations [abstract], Location: Room E7, Physics Building, UCL
  • 15/10/2007 - 13:00, Dr Don Eigler (IBM Almaden Research Centre), Classical Computation in Quantum Structures: A Long Road to an Uncertain Future [abstract], Location: Cruciform Building, Lecture Theatre 2 (LT2), UCL
  • 10/10/2007 - 13:00, Guillaume Charras (LCN, UCL Physiology), Life and times of a cellular bleb. Location: Room A1, Physics Building, UCL
  • 10/10/2007 - 15:00, Bourke Lecture Symposium "Experiment and Theory in Nanoscience" - Prof Ivan Parkin (UCL) and Prof George Schatz (Northwestern University) followed by a wine reception . [full event programme] Location: Chemistry Lecture Theatre, Chemistry Department, UCL
  • 03/10/2007 - 13:00, Roderich Moessner (Oxford), Magnetic monopoles in spin ice, Location: Room A1, Physics Building, UCL
  • 28/09/2007 - 18:00, Dr. Takashi Matsuura (London Centre for Nanotechnology), Nanotechnology Today: Britain and Japan (presentation in Japanese). [event programme], Location: Daiwa Foundation Japan House, 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1 4QP
  • 26/09/2007 - 13:00, Roberto D'Agosta (UC San Diego), New approaches to transport in nanoscale systems: the role of temperature, Location: Room A1, Physics Building, UCL
  • 21/09/2007 - 14:00, Dr Rachel Oliver (University of Cambridge), Indium gallium nitride: Light emitting diodes and beyond  [abstract] Location: E7, Ground Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 14/09/2007 - 12:00, Professor Alex Gurevich (Florida State University), Current-induced interband phase textures and the limit of the upper critical field in two-gap superconductors [abstract] Location: B1004, Physics Department, Imperial College
  • 11/09/2007 - 14:00, Professor Kurt Stokbro (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), First principles modelling of the electrical properties of nanoscale devices [abstract] Location: Chadwick Lecture Theatre, Basement, Chadwick Building, UCL
  • 07/09/2007 - 12:00, Professor Vitalij Pecharsky (Iowa State University, USA), Advanced magnetocaloric materials: What does the future hold? [abstract] Location: B1004, Physics Department, Imperial College
  • 28/08/2007 - 14:00, Professor Enge Wang (Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science, China), What controls the evolution of surface-based nanostructures?  Insights from computer simulation [abstract], Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 15/08/2007 - 13:00, Professor Geoffrey Ozin (University of Toronto, Canada), P-Ink and Elast-Ink from Lab to Market [abstract], Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 09/08/2007 - 14:00, Professor Stuart Solin (Washington University in St Louis, USA), EXX phenomena in semiconductor-metal hybrid structures [abstract], Location: Room G.02, Department of Materials , Imperial College
  • 01/08/2007 - 13:00, Marta Ramos (University of Minho, Portugal), Modelling Polymer - LED Functioning, Location: Room E7, Ground Floor, Physics Building, UCL
  • 01/08/2007 - 13:00, Rob Robinson (ANSTO, Australia), The new OPAL Research Reactor in Sydney Australia, its instruments and recent progress, Location: Room A1, Top Floor, Physics Building, UCL