Date Title Host Location 01.29.09 Thurs 4PM Nanoporous Dendrimers and Nanoelectronic Materials/Nanopore-based Studies towards DNA Sequencing/X-ray Reflectivity Studies of Surface Segregation and Freezing in Liquid Metal Alloys Venkat Balagurusamy (Brown University) Stokes 102 HSC 02.03.09 4PM Some Research Topics on Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy Xiaodong Zhang (MD Anderson Cancer Center) Su 634 S&R1 02.05.09 4PM Thurs Studying the Properties of Nano-Particles in Solutions By Probing Their Interactions Yun Liu (NIST) Cheung 634 S&R1 02.10.09 4PM High Field Science at a Synchrotron: A Novel Methodology Using Pulsed Field Magnets Zahir Islam (APS/ANL) Bassler 634 S&R1 02.12.09 4PM Thurs Repulsion and Attraction between Like-Charged DNA Helices Xiangyun Qiu (NIH) Miller 634 S&R1 02.17.09 4PM X-ray Diffraction Analysis of Organic Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold Rebecca Forrest (UH) Gunaratne 634 S&R1 02.24.094PM Optical Spectroscopy of Graphene and Carbon NanotubesFeng Wang (UC Berkeley) Peng 02.26.094PM Biological Small-Angle X-ray ScatteringDr. Jianhua Li 100 SEC 03.03.094PM A Quantum Mechanical Study of the Proton-Well in Water and Ice. Momentum Distributions and SpectroscopyChristian Burnham (UH/Physics) Reiter 634 S&R1 03.10.094PM Fluorescence Spectroscopy as a Tool to Probe Anisotropic EnvironmentsNeal Waxham (UT Health Science Center) Cheung 634 S&R1 03.17.09 No Colloquium – Spring Break/APS Meeting 03.24.09 Cosmology at the Microscopic ScalePaul Padley (Rice) Ordonez 634 S&R1 03.31.094PM NMR Studies of Protein Translocation on DNAJunji Iwahara (UTMB) Cheung 634 S&R1 04.07.094PM The Structure and Transport Properties of Proton Exchange Membranes: Experiment, Simulation and TheoryStephen Paddison (Univ. of Tennessee) Reiter 634 S&R1 04.14.09 The New View of the Earth's PlasmasphereJerry Goldstein (Southwest Research) Bering 634 S&R1 04.21.094PM Carbon Capture and StorageThomas Halsey (Exxon-Mobil) Gunaratne 634 S&R1 04.28.094PM Nanopores and Nanofluidics for Single DNA StudiesDerek Stein (Brown Univ) Peng 634 S&R1