lunch lectures
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| The ISIS Lunch
Seminar Series provides an opportunity for ISIS members to
get up to speed with the recent work of other ISIS members. Two
lunch seminars are held each academic quarter. These are informal
research presentations, punctuated by discussion, and are open to ISIS
students, postdocs, and faculty. |
DATE .......................... |
TIME &
LOCATION .......................... |
LECTURE INFORMATION ....................................................  |
February 7, 2008 |
12:00 pm 2201 NS2 |
Professor
Alexei A. Maradudin Department of Physics & Astronomy Title: Structured surfaces as optical metamaterials Abstract: If a metamaterial can be defined as a deliberately structured material that possesses physical properties that are not possible in naturally occurring materials, surely deliberately structured surfaces that possess optical properties not found in naturally occurring surfaces can be considered to be optical metamaterials. Such surfaces can be periodically or randomly structured. Indeed, in the past few years, interest has arisen in optical science in structured surfaces designed to display desirable optical properties that planar surfaces do not possess. After a brief description of such surfaces and their properties, I will describe approaches developed recently by my colleagues and myself to the design of one-and two-dimensional random or deterministic rough surfaces that scatter or transmit light to produce fields that possess specified angular, coherence, spatial, or wavelength properties. In addition I will present a surface structure that produces the negative refraction of a surface plasmon polariton. Finally, I will show how the average over the ensemble of realizations of the surface profile function used in the design of randomly rough surfaces with specified scattering/transmission properties can be replaced in the theory and in experiments by the illumination of a single realization of the random surface by a broadband source. |
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TIME & LOCATION |
LECTURE INFORMATION |
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December 13, 2007 |
12:00 pm 1201 Nat Sci II |
Professor D.L. Mills Department of Physics & Astronomy Title: Collective Plasmons and Their Influence on the Optical Response of Metallic Nanostructures Abstract: The presentation will be begin with an elementary discussiom of the origin of the very large enhanced electromagnetic fields often invoked to explain surface enhance Raman scattering (SERS) along with a review of other mechanics which enter. Then we disuss recent studies of the influence of collective plasmons by Ping Chu |
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October 4, 2007 |
12:00 pm 1201 Nat Sci II |
Professor
Benny
Gerber Department of Chemistry Title: New Chemistry of the Noble Gases: From Novel Molecules to Crystals and Polymers |
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July 19, 2007 |
11:45 am 1201 Nat Sci II |
Professor John
C.
Hemminger Dean and Professor of Chemistry Title: An Update from the Hemminger Group: From Nano-plasmonics to the liquid/vapor interface |
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May 24, 2007 |
11:45 am 1201 Nat Sci II |
Professor Szu-Wen Wang Dept. of Chemical Eng. & Materials Science Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Title: Protein Self-Assembly on Membrane Interfaces |
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March 1, 2007 |
11:45 am 1201 Nat Sci II |
Professor
Ken
Janda Department of Chemistry Title: Hydrate-Clathrates: crystalline nano-cages |
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February 8, 2007 |
11:45 am 1201 Nat Sci II |
Professor Ruqian Wu Department of Physics and Astronomy Title: Applications of density functional approach to problems in nanoscience and chemistry |
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May 11, 2005 |
11:45 am NS II 1201 |
Professor Michael
Dennin Department of Physics and Astronomy Title: Is jamming a phase transition: Experiments in flowing foam |
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| October 21, 2005 | 11:45 am 4135 FRH |
Professor Peter
Burke Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Title: RF properties of carbon nantoubes |
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| November 18, 2005 | 12:00
pm NS II 2201 |
Professor
Douglas Tobias Department of Chemistry Title: Ions at the Air-water Interface
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February 23, 2006 |
12:00 pm NS II 2201 |
Professor
Peter
Taborek Department of Physics and Astronomy Title: Wetting, Drops, and Pinch-off in super and normal fluids
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March 9, 2006 |
12:00 pm NS II 2201 |
Professor Regina
Ragan Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Title: Self-assembled nanostructures-understanding kinetic and thermodynamic driving forces.
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| June 8, 2006 | 11:45 am NS II 2201 |
Professor
Zhibin
Guan Department of Chemistry Title: Soft Materials Synthesis: from Nano- to Biomaterials
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October 19, 2006 |
12:00 pm NS II 1201 |
Professor
Phil
Collins Department of Physics and Astronomy Title: Scaffolding Carbon Nanotubes into Single-Molecule Circuitry |
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November 30, 2006 |
12:00 pm
NS II 1201 |
Professor
Zuzanna
Siwy Department of Physics and Astronomy Title: Biological Sensors Based on Single Nanopores with Stochastic Transport Characteristics |
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