Spring 2015 Condensed Matter Seminars

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

Date Speaker Organization Title
1/23 Organizational Meeting
2/6 Santosh Aryal K-State Chemistry Polymeric Nanomedicine: A Look at Theranostics
2/13 Gurpeet Singh K-State Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering Graphene-Based Electrodes for Long-Cycle Metal-Ion Rechargeable Batteries
2/20 Will Heinson & Arjun Nepal Physics

Heinson: (Crossover from spherical particle Mie scattering to circular aperture diffraction)

Nepal: Highly Oxidized Graphene Nanosheets from the Oxidization of Detonation Carbon

2/27 Nicoleta Ploscariu & Yuli Wang Physics

Nicoleta: AFM Studies of Conformational Changes in Proteins and Peptides

Yuli: Experimental Study of Light Scattering from Arizona Road Dust

3/6 Open
3/13 Raiya Ebini & Jeff Powell Physics

Powell: Electron Dynamics in Nanoparticles Under Strong Laser Fields

Ebini: Fractal Colloidal Gel

3/20 Spring Break Physics
3/27 John Tomich K-State Biochem Bending Nature's Rules of Assembly to Build New Biomaterial with Unusual Properties
4/10 Jessica Changstrom & Subhash Paudel Physics

Changstrom: Synthesis and Digestive Ripening of Water Soluble Gold Nanoparticles

Paudel: Shear thinning in Monoclonal Antibodies

4/17 Yuba Raj Dahal & Justin Maughan Physics

Dahal: Role Of Salt In Protein Solubility

Maughan: Q-Space Analysis of Gaussian Random Spheres

4/24 Bin Liu K-State Chem. Eng. Computationally Generated Mechanism in Catalyst Design
5/1 Jeroen Roelofs K-State Biology Proteasome-specific chaperones and their role in efficient assembly of the proteasome
5/8 Pablo GuimerĂ¡ Coll Physics A Wet Chemistry Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles from Bulk Material