Spring 2017 Condensed Matter Seminars

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

Date Speaker Organization Title
1/20 Organizational Meeting

1/27 No Seminar
2/3 Justin Wright K-State Physics CMS Current Progress on Detonation Graphene Via the 4L Chamber
2/10 Justin Maughan K-State Physics CMS

Rayleigh scattering and the internal coupling parameter for arbitrary particle shapes

2/17 Yuba Raj Dahal K-State Physics CMS Salt entropy effects on protein solubility and the Hofmeister series
2/24 Urara Hasegawa K-State Chemical Engineering Polymeric micelles for therapeutic delivery of gaseous signaling molecules
3/3 Maria Pinilla K-State Nuclear Engineering Organic Scintillator Modeling Efforts in MCNP6 and DRiFT for the NEUANCE/DANCE Detector Array
3/10 Claudia Adam K-State Physics Geology Mantle dynamics and seafloor subsidence
3/17 Maxim Yurkin Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion (ICKC), Novosibirsk, Russia The discrete dipole approximation for light-scattering simulations
3/24 Spring Break
3/31 Lianjie Xue K-State Physics CMS Comparative study of the intermolecular dynamics of imidazolium-based ionic liquids with linear and branched alkyl chains: OHD-RIKES measurements
4/7 Arjun Nepal K-State Physics CMS

One-step in situ synthesis of metal/graphene composite via controlled hydrocarbon detonation

4/14

Gobind Basnet

Osku Kemppinen

K-State Physics CMS

K-State Physics CMS

Basnet: Growth and Electron Transport in Ultralong, Gold Nanoribbons

Kemppinen: Depth information in Digital Holography

4/21 Anton Khmelnitskiy K-State Chemistry Excitonic calculations and hole-burning studies of various FMO mutants
4/28 Krishna Panta K-State Physics CMS Growth and Insulation of Conducting Polymer Fibers
5/5 Jeff Powell K-State Physics CMS

Soft X-Ray Imaging of Laser-Driven Gas-Phase Nanoparticles