Tuesday
July 13, 2010
11:00 a.m.
Seminar Room 2P4

Prof. Ralf Metzler
Physics Department
Technical University of Munich
Random motion in complex systems, ergodicity breaking and single particle trajectories

Prof.
J. Spatz

Monday
July 12, 2010
4:45 p.m.
Lecture Hall 2R4

Prof. Sergei S. Sheiko
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Molecular tensile machines

Short Lecture: Burcu Ögüt
Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
Stuttgart Center for Electron Microscopy
Surface plasmon resonances on rectangular slits in thin Ag films by low-loss EFTEM imaging

Prof.
J. Spatz

Monday
July 5, 2010
4:45 p.m.
Lecture Hall 2R4

Prof. Duncan Sutherland
Nanobiointerfaces Group, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO)
University of Aarhus, Denmark
Controlling biological interfaces at the nanoscale via colloidal lithographic patterning

Short Lecture: Dr. Anna Maciolek
Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
Department "Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter"
Tunablity of forces at the sub-micron scale; the critical Casimir forces

Prof.
J. Spatz

Monday
June 21, 2010
4:45 p.m.
Lecture Hall 2R4

Prof. Frank Mücklich
Dept. Materials Science and Engineering
Saarland University & Materials Engineering Centre Saarland, Saarbrücken
Microstructure tomography: An essential tool to understand 3D microstructures in all length scales

Short Lecture: Dr. Vesna Srot
Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
Stuttgart Center for Electron Microscopy
Nano-scale characterization of interfaces in abalone shell

Prof.
E.J. Mittemeijer

Monday
May 31, 2010
4:45 p.m.
Lecture Hall 2R4

Prof. Marco J. Starink
School of Engineering Sciences
University of Southampton
Predicting the mechanical properties of alloys

Short Lecture: Dr. Michael Hirscher
Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
Department Modern Magnetic Materials
Crystal sponges for hydrogen storage

Prof.
E.J. Mittemeijer

Monday
May 17, 2010
4:45 p.m.
Lecture Hall 2R4

Prof. Paul Voyles
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Fluctuation electron microscopy: Finding order in disorder with electron nanodiffraction

Short Lecture: Dr. Gunther Richter
Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
Central Scientific Facility Thin Film Laboratory

Prof.
M. Rühle

Monday
May 10, 2010
4:45 p.m.
Lecture Hall 2R4

Prof. Antoni P. Tomsia
Materials Science Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The role of Nanotechnology in the development of interactive biomaterials for bone

Short Lecture: Dr. Ayse Turak
Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
Department "Low-Dimensional and Metastable Materials"
Self-assembly control of exciton dissociation in organic solar cells

Prof.
M. Rühle

Monday
April 26, 2010
4:45 p.m.
Lecture Hall 2R4

Prof. Gianluigi Botton
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Probing the Chemistry and Bonding of Materials with Electron Microscopy

Short Lecture: Dr. Zaklina Burghard
Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
Department "Materials Synthesis and Microstructure Design"
Toughening through nature-adapted nanoscale design

Prof.
M. Rühle

Monday
April 19, 2010
4:45 p.m.
Lecture Hall 2R4

Prof. George M. Pharr
The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
From Pop-in to Pillars: Probing the Mechanisms of Small-Scale Plasticity with Nanoindentation

Short Lecture: PD Dr. Eberhard Goering
Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
Department "Modern Magnetic Materials"
MAXYMUS: The new UHV soft x-ray micro (spectro-)scope

Prof.
M. Rühle

Monday
March, 29 2010
4:45 p.m.
Lecture Hall 2R4

Dr. Ana Garcia-Sáez
Max Planck Institute for Metals Research & German Cancer Research Center,
Heidelberg
Apoptosis regulation by the Bcl-2 proteins: A single molecule approach

Prof.
J. Spatz