CNA Seminar Series
Fall 2009
September 14
Kevin Dorfman
Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
University of Minnesota
Seminar: DNA Electrophoresis in Microfabricated
Arrays
September 28
Andreas Stein
Chemistry
University of Minnesota
Seminar: Building Up and Tearing Down: Porous
Materials as Nanobrick Factories
October 12
Hrvoje Petek
Physics & Astronomy
University of Pittsburgh
Seminar: Ultrafast Photoemission Electron Microscopy:
Imaging Nonlinear Plasmonic Phenomena on the Femto/nano Scale
October 26
Dr. Matthew Pelton
Argonne National Laboratory
Seminar: Gold Nanoparticles: Enhanced Emission,
Optical Nonlinearities, and Mechanical Vibrations
November 23
Max Shtein
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
Seminar: Nano- and Giga-Scaling of Organic
Optoelectronic Devices
December 7
Russell Holmes
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Minnesota
Seminar: Novel Architectures for Enhanced Exciton
Collection in Organic Photovoltaic Cells
Spring 2010
January 25
Ralph Nuzzo
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Seminar: TBA
February 8
Andrew Cleland
Department of Physics
University of California at Santa Barbara
Seminar: TBA
February 22
TBD
March 8
TBD
March 22
TBD
April 5
TBD
April 19
Dr. Hugh Richardson
Director, Biomimetic Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Ohio University
Seminar: TBA
May 3
Teri Odom
Department of Chemistry & Materials Science and Engineering
Northwestern University
Seminar: TBA

