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Upcoming Colloquia
There are no events scheduled at this time.
Past Colloquia
- JAN8Wednesday
CFN Colloquium
Electron Videography of Soft, Biological, and Energy Materials
Qian Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wednesday, January 8, 2025, 2 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- OCT2Wednesday
CFN Colloquium
3D Integration of 2D Devices for Advanced Memory, Logic, and Bio-inspired Computing
Saptarshi Das, PhD., Pennsylvania State University
Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 2 p.m., Bldg. 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- SEP18Wednesday
CFN Colloquium
Organic modification of metals and metal oxides for selective catalysis
Will Medlin, University of Colorado
Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- JUN5Wednesday
CFN Colloquium
Pushing the limits of electron microscopy of soft materials
Enrique Gomez, Penn State University
Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 2 p.m., Bldg. 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- MAY28Tuesday
CFN Colloquium
Characterizing functional oxides and carbides in 3D with multislice electron ptychography
James LeBeau, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 3 p.m., Bldg. 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- APR18Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Metal-halide perovskite semiconductors for radiation photon sensing
Wanyi Nie, University at Buffalo
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 4 p.m., Bldg. 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- JAN11Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Nanomaterials for Engineering Complex Tissues
Helen Lu, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
Thursday, January 11, 2024, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- JUN2Friday
CFN Colloquium (in-person)
Unravel the mystery of water at electronic ground state and excitations
Xifan Wu, Temple University
Friday, June 2, 2023, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- FEB9Thursday
CFN Colloquium (in-person)
Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal via Electrochemical Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement: Opportunities for the Nanoscience Community
Matt Eisaman, Stony Brook University
Thursday, February 9, 2023, 4 p.m., Bldg. 735, 2nd-Floor Seminar Room
- MAY5Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts: Born in a Vacuum, Tested in Reactors, and Understood In Silico
E. Charles H. Sykes, Tufts University, Department of Chemistry
Thursday, May 5, 2022, 4 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- JAN6Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Uncovering Pathways for Scalable Polymer Self-Assembly
Gregory Doerk, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Thursday, January 6, 2022, 4 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- AUG6Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Atomic layer level tunneling experiments on the pairing symmetry of cuprates and Fe-based superconductors
Qi-Kun XUE, Tsinghua University
Thursday, August 6, 2020, 9 a.m., https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/ghg
- JUL2Thursday
CFN Colloquium (Virtual)
Using Machine-Learning to Enable Autonomous X-ray Scattering
Dr. Kevin Yager, Brookhaven National Lab, Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Thursday, July 2, 2020, 4 p.m., BlueJeans Event - see "more information"
- APR23Thursday
CFN Colloquium
CANCELED - Using Machine-Learning to Enable Autonomous X-ray Scattering
Kevin Yager, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Thursday, April 23, 2020, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- MAR5Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Tackling CO2 Issues by Chemical Conversion and by Reducing CO2 Emission
Jingguang Chen, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University
Thursday, March 5, 2020, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- FEB6Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Progress in Trapped Ion Quantum Computing
Prof. Jungsang Kim, Duke University
Thursday, February 6, 2020, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- JAN16Thursday
CFN Colloquium
From Materials to Quantum Devices and Back Again
Giulia Galli, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
Thursday, January 16, 2020, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, 2nd Floor Seminar Room
- DEC12Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Looking at Silicates Through the Eyes of Surface Science: A Story of Struggle, Incompatibility, Compromise, Hope, ... and Curiosities
Dr. J. Anibal Boscoboinik, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Thursday, December 12, 2019, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- SEP6Friday
CFN Colloquium
Controlling Light Matter Interactions in Layered Materials with Conventional and Topological Band Structures
Prof. Ritesh Agarwal, University of Pennsylvania
Friday, September 6, 2019, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- JUN6Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Water technologies by interface engineering
Dr. Seth B. Darling, Argonne National Laboratory
Thursday, June 6, 2019, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, 2nd Floor, Seminar Room
- MAR7Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Materials Innovation in Hybrid Nanocomposites, Nanofabrication, and Semiconductor Nanostructures by Atomic Layer Deposition
Chang-Yong Nam, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Thursday, March 7, 2019, 4 p.m., Bldg 735, CFN, Seminar Room 2nd Floor
- JAN3Thursday
CFN Colloquium
CANCELED - Fermi systems and quantum computing
Antonio Mezzacapo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Thursday, January 3, 2019, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, 2nd Floor Seminar Room
- DEC6Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Metamaterial, Metasurface and Plasmonic Optics
David Smith, Duke University
Thursday, December 6, 2018, 2 p.m., Bldg 735, CFN Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- NOV1Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Intricacies of Halide Ion Movement in Mixed Halide Lead Perovskites
Prashant Kamat, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame
Thursday, November 1, 2018, 4 p.m., Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- OCT4Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Superconducting proximity effect in two-dimensional semiconductor-superconductor structures
Javad Habani, Assistant Professor of Physics, New York University, Center for Quantum Phenomena
Thursday, October 4, 2018, 4 p.m., Bldg 735, CFN, Seminar Room 2nd Floor
- SEP6Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Safe Li-Ion Battery Electrolytes: from Aqueous Electrolytes, Nonflammable Organic Electrolytes, to Solid State Electrolytes
Chunsheng Wang, University of Maryland
Thursday, September 6, 2018, 4 p.m., Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- JUN6Wednesday
CFN Colloquium
TBD
Amy M. Heintz, Ph.D., Battelle - Advanced Materials Applications
Wednesday, June 6, 2018, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- MAY3Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Engineering coherent defects in diamond
Nathalie P. de Leon, Princeton University, Department of Electrical Engineering
Thursday, May 3, 2018, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room 2nd Floor
- MAR1Thursday
CFN Colloquium
From band gaps to bound excitons: disentangling optical transitions and localized emitters in TMDCs at nanoscale dimensions
Jim Schuck, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University
Thursday, March 1, 2018, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- FEB1Thursday
CFN Colloquium
First principles modeling of electronic excitations: From basic understanding to materials applications
Deyu Lu, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Thursday, February 1, 2018, 4 p.m., Bldg 735, CFN, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- DEC7Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Engineering functionality in colloidal semiconductor nanomaterials
Dmitri Talapin, The University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry and James Franck Institute
Thursday, December 7, 2017, 4 p.m., Bldg. 735, 2nd Floor Seminar Room
- NOV2Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Nanocomposite Coatings with Tunable Properties Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition
Jeffrey Elam, Argonne National Laboratory
Thursday, November 2, 2017, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, 2nd Floor Seminar Room
- OCT5Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Applications of Model Nanocatalysts Prepared by Size-Selected Cluster Deposition
Michael White, BNL/Stony Brook U Chemistry
Thursday, October 5, 2017, 4 p.m., Bldg. 735, Seminar Room 2nd Floor
- SEP7Thursday
CFN Colloquium
First-Principles Theory of Epitaxial Film Growth
Shangbai Zhang, Department of Physics, Applied Physics, & Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thursday, September 7, 2017, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room 2nd Floor
- JUN1Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Materials Chemistry via Electrochemistry: Electrochemical Synthesis of Semiconductor Electrodes and Catalysts for Use in Solar Energy Conversion
Kyoung-Shin Choi, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53796
Thursday, June 1, 2017, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, 2nd Floor Seminar Room
- MAY11Thursday
CFN Colloquium
TBD
TBD
Thursday, May 11, 2017, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, 2nd Floor Seminar Room
- APR27Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Darkening Pt Nanocrystals for Photocatalysis
Yugang Sun, Department of Chemistry, Temple University
Thursday, April 27, 2017, 4 p.m., CFN Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- APR6Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Catalysis at Shell - Challenges & Opportunities for Energy
Carl Mesters, Shell, Shell Technology Center in Houston
Thursday, April 6, 2017, 3 p.m., Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- MAR16Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Tricking Block Copolymers into Forming New Morphologies
Kevin Yager, CFN / BNL
Thursday, March 16, 2017, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, 2nd Floor Seminar Room
- DEC1Thursday
CFN Colloquium
The emergence of hybrid-perovskites for low-cost, high-efficiency optoelectric devices
Aditya D. Mohite, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thursday, December 1, 2016, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- NOV7Monday
CFN Colloquium
The role of chemical and steric environment of active sites on catalytic activity
Prof. Dr. Johannes A. Lercher, Department of Chemistry Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany / Institute for Integrated Catalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, Germany
Monday, November 7, 2016, 4 p.m., CFN Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- OCT6Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Crystal Microstructure and Dynamics by Bragg Coherent X-ray Diffraction
Ian Robinson, Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Thursday, October 6, 2016, 4 p.m., Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- SEP8Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Billions and Billions of molecules: Exploring chemical space for functional molecular materials
Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Thursday, September 8, 2016, 4 p.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- JUN2Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Graphene Synthesis and Devices
Dr. James Tour, Rice University
Thursday, June 2, 2016, 11 a.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- MAY19Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Manipulating Light on Chip
Michal Lipson, Columbia University, NY
Thursday, May 19, 2016, 11 a.m., CFN, Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- MAR11Friday
CFN Colloquium
2-dimensional zeolites for catalysis and separations
Michael Tsapatsis, University of Minnesota
Friday, March 11, 2016, 11 a.m., Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- FEB18Thursday
CFN Colloquium
Breakthrough water filtration membrane technology based on nanofibers
Ben Hsiao, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Co-founding Director, Innovative Global Energy Solutions Center, Director, Center for Advanced Technology in Integrated Electric Energy Systems, Stony Brook University
Thursday, February 18, 2016, 11 a.m., Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- OCT1Thursday
CFN Colloquium
In-situ XAS, TXM and RIXS experiments
Frank de Groot, Debye Institute of Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Thursday, October 1, 2015, 11 a.m., Bldg 735, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- APR17Tuesday
CFN Colloquium Series
Water at Interfaces: Adsorption, Reactions, Wetting
Miguel Salmeron, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 11 a.m., Bldg. 735 - Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- NOV8Tuesday
CFN Colloquium Series
Scale Bridging Simulations for Soft Matter – Extension to Materials for Organic Electronics
Kurt Kremer, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 11 a.m., Building 735 - Seminar Room, 2nd floor
- OCT11Tuesday
CFN Colloquium Series
Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles
Nicholas Kotov, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 11 a.m., Bldg. 735 - Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- SEP20Tuesday
CFN Colloquium
Photovoltaics Research at IBM
Supratik Guha, IBM Research
Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 11 a.m., Bldg. 735 - Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
- JAN10Monday
Monthly CFN Colloquium Series Seminar
Functional Hybrid Nanomaterials and their Applications
Ulrich Wiesner, Cornell University
Monday, January 10, 2011, 9:30 a.m., Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm A
