The Office of the Vice President for Research hosts a regular Nano@Wayne seminar series that is open to the public.  The seminars are held at WSU’s Welcome Center auditorium located at the corner of Woodward and Warren.  Parking is available in Parking Structure #3 for $3.50.  For directions, please visit http://campusmap.wayne.edu/?map=parking.

All seminars begin at 2:30 p.m. Upcoming seminars include:

February 19, 2008:  Dr. James Hone, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY.  “Electrical, Mechanical and Optical Studies of Carbon Nanotubes with Known Chirality.”

March 4, 2008:  Dr. Steven Yalisove, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.  Presentation topic forthcoming.

March 18, 2008:  Dr. William E. Buhro, Professor of Chemistry, Associate Director - Center for Materials Innovation, George E. Pake Professor in Arts and Sciences, Washington University - St. Louis, MO; Associate Editor, Chemistry of Materials.  Presentation topic forthcoming.

April 1, 2008: Dr. Gerard “Jerry” Lutty, G. Edward and erG. Britton Durell Professor of Opthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.  Presentation topic forthcoming.

April 15, 2008:  Dr. Alan Hudson, Professor of Immunology & Microbiology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University.  Presentation topic forthcoming.

May 6, 2008:  Dr. Stephen K. Gray, Senior Chemist, Chemical Dynamics in the Gas Phase and Computational Nanophotonics, Chemistry Division and Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL.  Presentation topic forthcoming.