Fall 2017 Condensed Matter Seminars

All seminars are held at 1:30 p.m. in CW 119 unless otherwise stated.

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
8/25	Organizational Meeting
9/8	Chris Sorensen	K-State Physics	Standing on the Shoulders of Diffraction
9/15	José María Saiz Vega	Universidad de Cantabria	Nanoparticles for UV plasmonics, and other recent research topics in the University of Cantabria
9/22	James Edgar	K-State Chemistry	The Weird and Wonderful World of Boron Compounds
9/29	Matt Berg	K-State Physics	Aerosol Characterization with Digital Holography
10/6	Jeremy Schmit	K-State Physics	Folding funnels (or lack thereof) in protein aggregation
10/13	Anton Khmelmistkiy	K-State Chemistry	Energy landscape of the wild type and mutant FMO antenna from C. tepidum: low temperature high resolution spectroscopic and modeling studies
10/27	Suprem Das	K-State Industrial & Mfg Sys Engr	Enabling Graphene from Lab scale experiments Towards Industrial Applications
11/10	Bret Flanders	K-State Physics	Designing Neural Electrodes to be Fast, Small, Quiet, High Fidelity, and Bio-compatible
11/17	Aravind Suresh	K-State Chem. Eng.	Two case studies in initiated chemical vapor deposition of polymers
11/24	Thanksgiving Break
12/1	Alex Yuffa	NIST	Application of Differential Geometry to Electromagnetic Wave Phenomena and the Surprising Consequences of the Normal Derivative