2009

December 9-11, 2010 ((Save the date))
Celebrate!
Plenty of Room: 50 Years and Beyond—a Celebration of Feynman's Vision for Nanotechnology

KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
December 3, 2009
Stefan Hell, scientific member of the Max Planck Society and a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, where he currently leads the Department of NanoBiophotonics.
10:00-11:00 am, 153 Noyes

KNI-MDL Seminar
Monday, November 30, 2009
Join us for talks given by Philip Feng, Staff Scientist in Condensed Matter Physics at Caltech (Nanowire Electromechanical Devices and Systems – Technology and Applications), and Xenia Amashukeli, Senior Engineer from JPL (RF-Powered Aqueous Universal Microfluidic Biomarker Extraction (µEX) for Identification of Chemical Signatures of Life in the Solar System). Informal reception to follow.
4 pm in 125 Steele Lab

KNI-MDL Seminar
Monday, November 2, 2009
Join us for talks on opto- and micro- fluidics, given by Changhuei Yang, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, at Caltech (Inducing Limited Transparency in Tissues by Time-Reversing Light) and Peter Willis from JPL. Informal reception to follow. s
4 pm, 125 Steele Lab

KNI-MDL Seminar
Monday, August 3, 2009
This month's speakers will be Steve Padin, Senior Research Associate at Caltech, talk title "CCAT—Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope," and Sander Weinrab, Principal Scientist, JPL and Faculty Associate, Caltech EE Department, talk title "Future Arrays for Radio Astronomy and Space Communications." This joint seminar series is hosted by the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech and the Microdevices Lab at JPL.
4 pm, 125 Steele Lab

The KNI-MDL Seminar
June 1, 2009
Karl Forster, GALEX Science operations team lead
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer: Six years and 25000 square degrees of Ultraviolet science from sealed tube microchannel plate detectors
Shouleh Nikzad, researcher and head of the Nanoscience and Advanced Detector Arrays Group at JPL
Bandstructure Engineering using Molecular Beam Epitaxy in Back illuminated Silicon arrays for High performance imaging in UV-Optical-NIR
4 pm in 125 Steele Lab

KNI-MDL Seminar
Monday, May 4, 2009
This month's speakers will be Julia R. Greer, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering, and Karl Yee, Senior Member of Engineering Staff, Nano and Micro Systems (NAMS). This joint seminar series is hosted by the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech and the Microdevices Lab at JPL.
4 pm, 125 Steel Lab

KNI Nanoscience Colloquia Series
April 14, 2009
W.E. Moerner, Harry S. Mosher Professor, Chemistry and Applied Physics, Stanford University
Single-Molecule Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging
4:00-5:00 pm, Beckman Institute auditoriu

KNI-MDL Seminar
April 6, 2009
This month's topic is "Tunable Detectors" featuring Douglas Bell, Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Deidre O'Carroll, Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Physics, at Caltech. 4 pm in 125 Steele Lab, with an informal reception to follow.

KNI Colloquia Series
January 28, 2009
Paula T. Hammond, Bayer Chair Professor and Executive Officer, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Layer-by-Layer Approaches to New Functional Materials: from Biomaterials to Electrochemistry
Companion Tutorial: January 29, 2009, Controlling assembly, disassembly and exchange in responsive polyelectrolyte multilayers, 9:30 am, 153 Noyes