Meeting Schedule
The L&SM Group meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 12 p.m. in the Building (LOM) 434 Conference Room
Upcoming and Past Meetings/Events:
| Date: | June 2012 |
| Speaker: | Jiayu Wang (University of Chicago) |
| Topic: | Block copolymers: From nanopatterning to cell membrane integrity Modulation |
| Date: | April 2012 |
| Speaker: | Ahmet Uysal (Northwestern University) |
| Topic: | Biomimetic crystallization under floating monolayers: Lessons from not-so-famous biominerals |
| Date: | February 2012 |
| Speaker: | Curt DeCaro (Northen Illinois University) |
| Topic: | Order in stacked lipid bilayers: The effect of substrate suppression on thermal fluctuations |
| Date: | January 2012 |
| Speaker: | Gregory Tietjen (University of Chicago) |
| Topic: | Pushing the boundaries of structural immunology: Combining advanced x-rayreflectometry analysis with MD simulation to explore a new class of immunological danger signals |
| Date: | December 2011 |
| Speaker: | Sabina Tatur (University of Illinois at Chicago) |
| Topic: | Interactions of gold nanoparticles with lipid monolayers and bilayers |
| Date: | October 2011 |
| Speaker: | Nouamane Laanait (University of Illinois at Chicago) |
| Topic: | Ion correlations at electrified soft matter interfaces |
| Date: | August 2011 |
| Speaker: | Julia Nase (Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Germany) |
| Topic: | Nucleation mechanism in gas-hydrate structures |
| Date: | July 2011 |
| Speaker: | Yeling Dai (UCSD) |
| Topic: | X-ray studies of rapidly evolving interfacial nanostructures |
| Date: | June 2011 |
| Speaker: | Peter Pershan (Harvard University) |
| Topic: | Liquid surfaces as viewed with synchrotron radiation |
| Date: | February 2011 |
| Speaker: | Jyotsana Lal (Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratories) |
| Topic: | X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy studies of dewetting polymer films |
| Date: | January 2011 |
| Speaker: | Zhang Jiang (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratories ) |
| Topic: | Dynamics on liquid surfaces: An XPCS study |
| Date: | August 2010 |
| Speaker: | Hyunjung Kim (Sogang University, Seoul, Korea) |
| Topic: | Study of nanostructure and surface dynamics by coherent x-ray scattering |
| Date: | June 2010 |
| Speaker: | Wei Bu (University of Illinois at Chicago) |
| Topic: | Ion distribution at charged air/liquid interfaces studied using surface X-ray scattering techniques |
| Date: | May 2008-May 2010 |
| Speaker: | Speakers to be added |
| Topic: | |
| Date: | April 16, 2008 |
| Speaker: | 4/16 Ursula Perez-Salas (ANL) |
| Topic: | To Be Announced |
| Date: | March 17, 2008 |
| No Meeting | |
| Date: | February 18, 2008 |
| Speaker: | Mrinmay Mukhopadhyay (NIU, department of physics)" |
| Topic: | "Structure of thin film polystyrene melts: A GISAXS study |
| Date: | January 1, 2008 |
| Speaker: | Ka Yee Lee (U of Chicago, Chemistry department) |
| Topic: | "X-ray measurements on lipid-protein interactions at interfaces" |
| Date: | December 17, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Zhang Jiang (APS 8ID) |
| Topic: | "Surface and Interfacial Dynamics of Molten Polymer Films - An XPCS Study" |
| Date: | November 19, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Pulak Dutta (Physics department, NU) |
| Topic: | "Surface structure of a dielectric liquid" |
| Date: | October 15, 2007 |
| Topic: | Preview of lectures on the LSXS school |
| Date: | August 20, 2007 -- 12pm |
| Speaker: | Ivan Kuzmenko, CMC-XOR, Argonne National Laboratory | Topic: | "Studies of solid-liquid interfaces at CMC" |
| Location: | ChemMatCARS LOM (Bldg. 434) conference room |
| Date: | April 16, 2007 |
| Speaker: | Steve Danauskas, University of Chicago |
| Topic: | "X-Ray Beam Damage of Phospholipid Monolayers Observed by an Integrated Brewster Angle Microscope, Langmuir Trough, and Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction Instrument" |
| Location: | ChemMatCARS LOM (Bldg. 434) conference room |
| Date: | February 12, 2007 |
| Topic: | General Discussion: "Organizing a school on 'Liquid Surface/Interface X-ray Scattering" for Graduate Students/Postdocs at 15-ID and 9-ID, APS, ANL" |
| Date: | October 2, 2006 |
| Topic: | General Discussion: "User Support: Hardware, Software and Wet-Ware --- Whatever it Takes" |
| Date: | July 2006 |
| Topic: | No Meeting; Most of us attending the 9th SXNS in Taiwan |
| Date: | June 19, 2006 |
| Speaker: | Dr. John Ankner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/SNS |
| Topic: | "A Liquids Reflectometer at the Spallation Neutron Source" |
| Location: | ChemMatCARS LOM (Bldg. 434) conference room |
| Date: | April 17, 2006 |
| Speaker: | Dr. Paul Fenter, Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory |
| Topic: | "Direct Imaging of Interface Hydration and Ion Distributions at < A Resolution" |
| Location: | ChemMatCARS LOM (Bldg. 434) conference room |
| Date: | March 2006 |
| Topic: | No Meeting; Go to American Physical Society Annual March Meeting |
| Date: | February 20, 2006 |
| Speaker: | Matti Meron (15ID), Ivan Kuzmenko (9ID), and Alec Sandy (8ID) (continuation from December 19, 2005) |
| Topic: | "X-ray detectors for Liquid/Soft surface scattering " |
| Location: | ChemMatCARS LOM (Bldg. 434) conference room |
| Date: | January 9, 2006 |
| Speaker: | Dr. Sean M. O'Flaherty |
| Topic: | "Grazing Incidence X-ray Scattering observations of transient structure in hybrid phospholipid and phthalocyanine Langmuir monolayers at the liquid air interface" |
| Location: | Building 223, Conf. S-105 (note: this will replace the regular monthly meeting due on January 16th, 2006) |
| Date: | December 19, 2005 |
| Speaker: | Mati Meron (15ID), Ivan Kuzmenko (9ID), Alec Sandy (8ID) |
| Topic: | "X-ray detectors for Liquid/Soft surface scattering" |
| Location: | ChemMatCARS LOM (Bldg. 434) conference room |
| Date: | November 21, 2005 |
| Topic: | No Meeting; Go to UC for a liquid interface workshop |
| Link: | http://panza.uchicago.edu/focusing05/ |
| Date: | October 17, 2005 |
| Speaker: | Oleg Shpyrko, CNM Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory |
| Topic: | "X-ray Reflectivity and Diffuse Scattering Measurements from Liquid Surfaces" |
| Location: | ChemMatCARS LOM (Bldg. 434) conference room |
| Date: | August 15, 2005 |
| Speaker: | Sunny Sinha |
| Topic: | "Some thoughts on X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy" |
| Location: | ChemMatCARS LOM (Bldg. 434) conference room |
| Date: | September 19, 2005 |
| Topic: | No Meeting; Go to APS Surface/Interface workshop on 9/9/05 and 9/9/06 |
| Date: | July 18, 2005 |
| Speaker: | Michael Sprung; Sector 8, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory |
| Topic: | "Sector 8: A Dedicated Undulator Beamline for Performing XPCS and GISAXS Studies" |
| Location: | ChemMatCARS LOM (Bldg. 434) conference room |
| Date: | June 20, 2005 |
| Speaker: | Jin Wang; Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory |
| Topic: | "Beamline 1BM Activities on Organic Thin Films and Nanocomposites" |
| Location: | ChemMatCARS LOM (Bldg. 434) conference room |
| Date: | May 5 - 6, 2005 |
| Event: | APS Users Meeting Workshop 5 |
| Speaker: | 12 invited speakers and one poster session |
| Topic: | "Scattering from Liquid Surfaces and Interfaces" |
| Location: | APS |
| Date: | April, 2005 |
| Speaker: | Ivan Kuzmenko; CMC-XOR, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory |
| Topic: | "Liquid Surface Studies at CMC-XOR" |
| Location: | ChemMatCARS LOM (Bldg. 434) conference room |
| Date: | March 14, 2005 |
| Speaker: | Binhua Lin; ChemMatCARS, University of Chicago |
| Topic: | "Liquid Surface/Interface Program at ChemMatCARS: Science, Instrumentation, and User Support" |
| Location: | ChemMatCARS LOM (Bldg. 434) conference room |
| Date: | February 14, 2005 |
| Topic: | Organization Meeting |
| Location: | ChemMatCARS LOM (Bldg. 434) conference room |