Spring 2019 Condensed Matter Seminars

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

Date Speaker Organization Title
2/1 Organizational Meeting
2/8 Farshid Jafarpour Univ. of Pennsylvania Teaching Session at 10 am
2/15 Kim Weirich Univ. of Chicago Teaching Session at 10 am
2/19 Zhiyue Lu Univ. of Chicago Teaching Session at 10 am
2/22 Daniel Charlebois Stony Brook Univ. Teaching Session at 10 am
3/1 Brandon Choi Stanford Univ. Teaching Session at 10 am
3/8 Justin Wright and Raiya Ebini K-State CMS

Wright: Producing 10kg of Graphene in 5 Days

Ebini: Light Scattering Study of Fractal Colloidal Gel time

3/15 Spring Break
3/22 Justin Maughan K-State CMS Q-space analysis of scattering by particles
3/29 Nelson Ramallo and Ramesh Giri K-State CMS

Ramallo: Salt fluctuations effects on protein binding

Giri: Generation of aerosol-particle light-scattering patterns from digital holograms

4/5 Krishna Panta and Tam Phan K-State CMS

Panta: Particles Assembly in Real Time

Phan: Trapping intermediate states in aggregate formation

4/12
4/19 Kamal Bhandari and Prakash Gautam K-State CMS

Bhandari: The Importance of Micro-structure in Biological Phase Transitions

Gautam: The light scattering study of highly absorptive hematite aggregates

4/26 Tien Phan and Shusil Sigdel K-State CMS

Phan: Multi-scale algorithm to explore the transition state of fibril nucleation

Sigdel: Dispersion and Detonation of Fine Powders

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