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May 13, 2010
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Eva Harth, Vanderbilt University
Title: TBD

Host: SonBinh Nguyen

Pancoe ENH - Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL

April 29, 2010
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Adrian Michael, Chevron Science Center
Title: TBD

Host: Chad Mirkin

Pancoe ENH - Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL

April 21, 2010
6:15pm - 7:30pm
 

Science Cafe
Professor Shad Thaxton
Title: Nanotechnology? Can You Translate This for Me?

Firehouse Grill
750 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL

Website: http://www.sciencecafe.northwestern.edu/

March 17, 2010
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Todd Krauss, University of Rochester
Title: TBD

Host: Emily Weiss

Pancoe ENH - Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL

March 13, 2010
9:30am - 2:00pm
 

8th Annual All Scout Nano Event
Cost is $10 per person. Includes hands-on experiments, poster presentation, and lunch with the scientists. Limit is 5 scouts per troop.

For more information please contact Mike Kleppinger, Boy Scout Troop 309 ASM (m.kleppinger@sbcglobal.net).

November 12 , 2009
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Ivan Schuller, UCSD
Title: Nanostructures: Confinement, Proximity, and Induced Phenomena

Host: Chad Mirkin

Pancoe ENH - Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL

October 29 , 2009
8:00am - 6:00pm
 

2009 IIN Symposium - Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine

Register Now
Attendance is free of charge

Hotel Orrington - Grand Ballroom
1710 Orrington Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201

 

October 26 , 2009
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Buddy Ratner, University of Washington
Title: Biocompatibility Means Biologically Compatible: the Paradigm Shifts in Healing and Regeneration

Host: Chad Mirkin

Pancoe ENH - Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL

 

September 15 , 2009
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Freddy Boey , Nanyang Tech University
Title: Biomaterials for Cardiovascular Medical Devices - the NTU Experience

Host: Chad Mirkin

Ryan Hall 4003
2190 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL

August 26, 2009
8:00am - 6:00pm
 

NSEC Annual Meeting

Pancoe ENH - Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL

May 21, 2009
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Martin Moskovits, UCSB
Title: Why Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Remains Controversial Even After 30 Years of Extensive Investigation

Host: Chad Mirkin

Pancoe ENH - Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL

April 16, 2009
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow
Title: From Polyoxometalate-based Building Blocks to Functional Nanoclusters, Frameworks and Self-Fabricating Materials

Host: Fraser Stoddart

Pancoe ENH - Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL

February 28, 2009
8:30am - 1:00pm

 

 

 

 

7th Annual All Scout Nano Event
Cost is $10 per person. Includes hands-on experiments, poster presentation, and lunch with the scientists. Limit is 5 scouts per troop.

For more information please contact Mike Kleppinger, Boy Scout Troop 309 ASM (m.kleppinger@sbcglobal.net).

February 23, 2009
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

 

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Jeffrey Zink, UCLA
Title: "Multifunctional Nanomaterials for Delivery and On-Demad Release of Anti-Cancer Drugs"

Host: Fraser Stoddart

3:00 PM, Ryan Hall 4003, Evanston Campus

January 22, 2009
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

 

 

 

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Stephen Lippard, MIT
Title: "Understanding and Improving Platinum Anticancer Drugs: Trojan Horses and Nanoscience"

Host: Chad Mirkin

Pancoe ENH - Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL

January 17, 2009
9:00am - 11:30am and 12:30pm - 3:00pm

 

 

 

 

Science Chicago

Don't miss the "Science of Small" on January 17th!

Register Now

November 20, 2008
8:00am - 7:00pm

 

International Institute for Nanotechnology 2008 Symposium

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Visit Web Site at: TBA

Hotel Orrington
Grand Ballroom
1710 Orrington Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201

 

November 5, 2008
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Muhammad Yousaf, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: "Interfacing Surface Chemistry with Cell Biology: from Microfluidic Lithography to Peptide Nanoarrays"

Host: Franz Geiger

Tech LR3
2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL

October 9, 2008
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Juan Granja, Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain
Title: "Self-Assembling α,γ-Peptide Nanotubes. A new Approach
to Functionalized Nanotubes"

Host: Chad Mirkin

Pancoe ENH - Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL

September 24, 2008
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Arun Majumdar, University of California, Berkeley
Title: “Inorganic Nanocrystal Synthesis: from Molecular to Supramolecular Chemistry”

Host: Vinayak Dravid

Tech L361
2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL

September 18, 2008
8:00am - 5:00pm

 

Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE)
Annual Meeting

Pancoe-ENH Life Sciences Pavilion, Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL

September 8-10, 2008
9:00am - 7:00pm
 

NCI Nanotechnology Alliance Investigators Meeting

Westin Hotel
909 N Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611

August 27, 2008
8:00am - 6:00pm

 

Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC)
Annual Meeting

Pancoe-ENH Life Sciences Pavilion, Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL

 

May 19, 2008
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Y. Charles Cao, University of Florida
Title: “Inorganic Nanocrystal Synthesis: from Molecular to Supramolecular Chemistry”

Host: Chad Mirkin

Pancoe-ENH, Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL

May 13, 2008
4:30pm - 6:30pm

 

Nanotechnology Town Hall Meeting

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
http://www.nsec.northwestern.edu/townhalls.htm

Abbott Auditorium, Pancoe Building
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL

Guest Speaker: Professor Fraser Stoddart


May 8, 2008
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Paul Weiss, Pennsylvania State University
Title: “Designing, Measuring and Controlling Molecular- and Supramolecular-Scale Properties for Molecular Devices”

Host: Chad Mirkin

Pancoe-ENH, Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus

May 2, 2008
8:30am - 5:00pm

 

Northwestern-Argonne Symposium
Energy - the Challenge for the 21st Century

Ryan Auditorium, Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Rd
Evanston, Illinois

Keynote Lecturer:
Steve Chu, Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lectures:
Phillip Finck, Associate Director, Idaho National Laboratory
Steve Long, Director, Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois
William Banholzer, Chief Technology Officer, Dow Chemical Company
Michael Grätzel, Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne

May 1, 2008
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Adi Eisenberg, McGill University
Title: "Block Copolymer Self-Assembly with Application & Drug Delivery and Cellular Internationalization"

Host: SonBinh Nguyen

Pancoe-ENH, Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL

April 23, 2008
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Philip Kim, Columbia University
Title: "Toward Carbon Based Electronics"

Host: Mark Hersam

Pancoe-ENH, Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL

April 17, 2008
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Ben O'Shaughnessy, Columbia University
Title: "Nature's Nanotechnology: Force Producing Machines in the Cell"

Host: Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Pancoe-ENH, Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL

April 3, 2008
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Sandra Rosenthal, Vanderbilt University
Title: "Structure-Property Relationships in Functional Quantum Dots: from Biological Imaging to White Light Solid State Lighting"

Host: Chad Mirkin

Pancoe-ENH, Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Northwestern University, Evanston Campus

February 18, 2008
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Manfred Kappes, MIT
Title: "Selected Properties of Carbon Nanostructures: from Exotic Fullerenes to Nanotubes"

Host: George Schatz

Pancoe-ENH, Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Northwestern University, Evanston Campus

January 15, 2008
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Francesco Stellacci, MIT
Title: "Supramolecular Nano-Materials and Lithography"

Host: Chad Mirkin

Pancoe-ENH, Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Northwestern University, Evanston Campus

January 8, 2008
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

Nanotechnology Town Hall Meeting

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
http://www.nsec.northwestern.edu/townhalls.htm

McCormick Tribune Center (Forum)
Northwestern University Evanston Campus
1870 Campus Drive
Evanston, Illinois

Guest Speaker: Professor Mark Ratner
Moderator: Professor Laurie Zoloth


December 19, 2007
4:30pm - 6:30pm

 

Nanotechnology Town Hall Meeting

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
http://www.nsec.northwestern.edu/townhalls.htm

Lurie Building, Hughes Auditorium
Northwestern University Chicago Campus
Feinberg School of Medicine
303 East Superior
Chicago, Illinois

Guest Speaker: Professor Chad A. Mirkin
Moderator: Professor Laurie Zoloth


December 13, 2007
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Younan Xia, Washington University
Title: "Putting Nanostructures to Work for Biomedical Research"

Host: Chad Mirkin

Pancoe-ENH, Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Northwestern University, Evanston Campus

October 24, 2007
8:30am - 7:00pm

 

International Institute for Nanotechnology
2007 Symposium


RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Visit Web Site at: http://www.iinano.org/symposium/2007/

Hotel Orrington
Grand Ballroom
1710 Orrington Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201

 

October 9-10, 2007


 

Productive Nanosystems:
Launching the Technology Roadmap

Organized by SME, Battelle, and the Foresight Nanotech Institute
Endorsed by the International Institute for Nanotechnology

Double Tree Hotel Crystal City
Arlington, Virginia

 

September 10, 2007
8:00am - 5:00pm

 

Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE)
Annual Meeting

Technological Institute, Room L-211
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL

 

August 29, 2007
8:00am - 6:00pm

 

Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC)
Annual Meeting

Pancoe-ENH Life Sciences Pavilion, Abbott Auditorium
2200 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL

 

May 24, 2007
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Ulrich Simon, RWTH Aachen University
Title:
"Size Matters! – Assembly and Electrical Properties of Low-Dimensional Gold Nanoparticle Systems"

 

May 17, 2007
3:45pm - 5:00pm


 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Douglas Philp, University of St. Andrews
Title: "In through the Out door: Designing and Harnessing Synthetic Replication Networks"


May 15 , 2007
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Gunter Schmid, University of Duisburg-Essen
Title: "The Relevance of Size and Shape of Metal Nanoclusters"

 

 

May 10 , 2007
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Steve Chou, Princeton University
Title: "Nanostructure Engineering--Path to Discovery, Innovation, and Commercialization"


May 7, 2007
3:45pm - 5:00pm


 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Jeremy Sanders, University of Cambridge
Title: "Adventures in Molecular Recognition,Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries, Supramolecular Nanotubes, and Systems Chemistry"

 


April 26, 2007
1:45pm - 3:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Roger van Zee, NIST
Title: "Energy-level Alignment of Aryl Thiols Chemisorbed on Metal Surfaces: Implications for Molecular Electronics"

April 19, 2007
3:45pm - 5:00pm

 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Albena Ivanisevic, Purdue University
Title: "Fabrication and Characterization of Biological and Chemical Architechtures on Organic and Inorganic Surfaces"


March 8, 2007
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor James Heath, Principal Investigator, California Institute of Technology's Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
Title: "NanoSystems Biology and New Technologies for in vitro and in vivo Diagnostics of Cancer "

 

February 15, 2007
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Ralph Nuzzo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: "Organizing Structure and Function at all Scales"


February 12, 2007
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Jinwoo Cheon, Yonsei University, Korea
Title: "Convergence of Inorganic Nanocrystals as Probes for Biological Systems"

 

February 8, 2007
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Dr. James Baker, Director
Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine & Biological Sciences, University of Michigan

Title: "Nanotechnology for the Advancement of Human Health"

 

January 12, 2007
3:45pm - 5:00pm

  Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Bill Jones, University of Rochester
Title: "Strong C-H and C-C Bond Cleavage Reactions Using Homogenous Transition Metal Complexes"
December 18, 2006
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
 

Tumor Cell Biology Seminar
Professor Gayle Woloschak, NU-CCNE
Title: TiO2 DNA Nanoparticles: Applications for Cancer

December 7, 2006
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Yi Lu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Nanomaterials Inspired by Biology: Dynamic Assembly of Error-Free Nanomaterials in Response to Multiple Chemical Stimuli

November 17, 2006
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

 

CCNE Grand Rounds
Dr. Michael Hawkins, Chief Medical Officer, Abraxis Bioscience
Title: The Nanoparticle Albumin Bound Drug Delivery System

October 30, 2006
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Jean Frechet, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Functional Macromolecules and Their Assemblies: From Molecular Design to Applications
October 27, 2006
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Takuzo Aida, University of Tokyo
Title: Programmed Self-Assembly for Functional Nanostructures

October 19, 2006
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Vince Rotello, University of Massacusetts, Amherst
Title: Scaffolds and Building Blocks

October 11-12, 2006  

International Institute for Nanotechnology 2006 Symposium
McCormick Auditorium, Norris University Center
1999 Campus Drive
Northwestern University, Evanston Campus

Visit Web Site at: http://www.iinano.org/symposium/2006/

October 5, 2006
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Weihong Tan, University of Florida
Title: Molecular Profiling of Cancer: A Chemical Biology Approach

September 15, 2006
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Professor Patrick Collier, California Institute of Technology
Title: Control of Biochemical Reaction Dynamics in Restricted Environments

September 12, 2006
3:45pm - 5:00pm
 

Frontiers in Nanotechnology Seminar Series
Dr. Jeff Chinn , President & CEO, Applied Microstructures
Title: An Introduction to Molecular Vapor Deposition for Surface Modification

Calendar 2005-2006