ENCOMM Schedule

Autumn Quarter 2008

3 October	Chris Hammel, Director	Leadoff Meeting
10 October	Chris Hammel, Director
17 October	Steve Ringel, ECE, Physics and MS&E	Photovoltaics Research at OSU
24 October	Roberto Myers, MS&E and ECE
31 October	TBD
7 November	TBD
14 November	TBD
21 November	TBD
28 November	NO Meeting, Thanksgiving Holiday
5 December	TBD

28 March	Chris Hammel, Dept. of Physics	Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC's)
4 April	Henk Verweij, Dept. of MSE	Discussion Session on magnetic properties of granular materials (powders, (sintered) compacts)
11 Aprill	EFRC Discussions
18 April	Guest: Jim Beatty, Dept. of Physics (Astroparticle)	Astroparticle Detection Needs and Opportunities
25April	PVIC Graduate Students	Group Presentation
2 May	DOE EFRC discussion	Propose EFRC topics/teams
9 May	Guest Speaker: David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel	Molecular Electronics: From Simple Alkyls to Proteins
16 May	DOE EFRC discussion	Propose EFRC topics/teams
23 May	J.-C. Zhao, Materials Science & Eng	New ENCOMM Member: Overview of Research
30 May	Cancelled for MRSEC RSV Panel Review

This quarter begins meetings focusing on group funding opportunities

11 January	S. Ringel, J. Volakis, Chris Hammel	Block Funding I: DOD MURI Program
18 January	No meeting	MLK holiday weekend
25 January	*Hosted by IMR in E525 Scott Lab*	Henk Verweij: NSF IGERT Forum
1 February	Facility Info	Bob Davis, Nanotech West Denis Pelekhov, ENCOMM Nanosystems Lab
8 February	Jos Heremans, Mech Eng	New results: Breakthrough in thermoelectric materials
15 February	No Meeting
22 February	Chris Hammel, Dept of Physics	Spatially resolved FMR and iron filled carbon nanotubes
29 February	Gunjan Agarwal, Biomedical Eng	Introduction to Research
7 March	No Meeting

28 September	Kick Off Meeting
5 October	No Meeting	Dave Rigney retirement celebration
12 October	Susan Olesik, Chemistry	Carbon and Polymer Materials for Micro and Nanoscale Applications
19 October	Hendrik Verweij, Matls Sci & Eng	Inorganic Membranes: Promises and Challenges
26 October	Derek Hansford, Biomedical Engineering	Polymer-Ceramic Electro-Magnetic Composites for RF/Microwave Antennas and Circuits
2 November	Michael Poirier, Physics	Assembling, Pulling and Visualizing Biological Nanostructures
9 November	Prabir Dutta, Chemistry	Development of Harsh Environment NO_x Sensors
16 November	No Meeting
30 November	No Meeting

5 January	Organizational Meeting	Equipment Selection
12 January	John W. Wilkins, Physics	Can You Trust Electronic Structure Calculations?
19 January	No Meeting
26 January	Mohit Randeria, Physics	Theory of Scanning Tunneling and Photoemission Spectroscopies of Strongly Correlated Materials
2 February	Interdisciplinary Research Group Meetings	IRGs meet individually to develop Thrusts
9 February	Four IRG Mini-Presentations	Four Ten Minute Presentations
16 February	Individual IRG Meetings	IRGs meet individually to develop Thrusts
23 February	Individual IRG Meetings	IRGs meet individually to develop Thrusts
2 March	No Meeting
9 March	March Meeting APS--No Meeting
16 March	No Meeting
23 March	Spring Break
30 March	Nanostructures IRG Presentation
6 April	First Anniversary ENCOMM meeting/Reception for Deans
13 April	SPIN IRG Presentation
20 April	Oxides IRG Presentation
27 April	Organic/Inorganic IRG Presentation
4 May	Organizational Meeting
11 May	No Meeting
18 May	TBD
25 May	Wu Lu, ECE	Preliminary Results on Biosensing & Gas Chemical Sensing Based on III-Nitride Materials
1 June	Terry L. Gustafson, Chemistry	TBD
8 June	Dr. Andrew Stollenwerk, SUNY-Albany	Spin Transport and Structural Properties of Transition-Metal/Semiconductor Interfaces

22 September	Organizational Meeting	Discuss and define meeting schedule and format
29 September	Thomas Lemberger, Physics	Growth and Properties of Cuprate Superconducting Films
6 October	Zeke Johnston-Halperin Physics	Controlling structural, electronic, and magnetic properties at nanometer length scales
13 October	Pat Woodward, Chemistry	Multiferroic Materials: Chemical Design Principles
20 October	Paul R. Berger, ECE & Physics	Organic-based semiconductors and materials for quantum functional circuitry, flexible circuitry and foldable photovoltaics: their chemistry, physics, materials science and electrical engineering
27 October	Julia S. Meyer, Physics	Interaction effects in quasi-1d electron transport
3 November	R. Sooryakumar, Physics	Recent Advances in Magneto-Electronics
17 November	Steven Ringel, ECE & Physics	Quantified Detection of Deep Defect States in Wide Bandgap AlGaN and GaN with Nanometer Resolution
1 December	Joseph Heremans, Mech Eng	Thermomagnetic Transport in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
8 December	Organizational Meeting	Focused Research Team Presentations and Equipment Selection
19 December	Organizational Meeting	Equipment Selection

31 March	Chris Hammel, Physics & ECE	Understanding High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Ferromagnet
7 April	Yiying Wu, Chemistry	A general method towards complex metal oxide nanostructures and their photovoltaic applications
14 April	Nandini Trivedi, Physics	Multifunctional Materials and Imaging: Insights from computer simulations
21 April	Jonathan Pelz, Physics	Measurement and modeling of nm-scale electronic properties at buried interfaces
28 April	Fengyuan Yang, Physics	Spin Transport in nanoscale metallic and semiconductor magnetoelectronic devices
5 May	Malcolm Chisholm, Chemistry	Control of Electronic Coupling Between Dinuclear Metal Centers: Molecular Rheostats and Switches
12 May	Jovica Badjic, Chemistry	Measurement and modeling of nm-scale electronic properties at buried interfaces
19 May	Nitin Padture, Matls Sci & Eng	Novel 1-D and 2-D Nanostructures of Functional Oxides
2 June	Leonard Brillson, ECE & Physics	Recent Advances in Spectroscopy of Electronic Materials Surfaces and Interfaces

20, 27 January	Rick McCreery, Chemistry	Bistable Molecular junctions as potential low volatility memory
3 February	James Coe, Chemistry	Surface Plasmons and the Extraordinary Infrared Transmission of Metallic Arrays with Subwavelength Holes
10 February	Arthur J. Epstein, Physics	Strong Effects of Weak Magnetic Fields in Organic Semiconductors
24 February	David G. Stroud, Physics	Introduction to Nanoplasmonics
3 March	Jay Gupta, Physics	Frontiers in spectroscopy with the scanning tunneling microscope