INVITED TALKS & COLLOQUIA SINCE 1995

  • Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Surface Morphology, Physics Department Colloquium, University of Virginia, September 1995.
  • Mobility and Metastability on Silicon Surfaces, Materials Science Department Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University, October 1995.
  • Thermodynamics and the Evolution of Nanostructure on Silicon Surfaces, Physics and Chemistry of Semiconductor Interfaces, San Diego, January 1996.
  • Creating and Using Novel Step Morphologies on Silicon Surfaces, March Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 1996.
  • Mobility and Metastability on Silicon Surfaces, Materials Research Lecture, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, April 1996.
  • Evolution and Decay of Metastable Structures on Si(111), Physical Electronics Conference, Boston, June 1996.
  • Predicting Mass Transport for the Stability of Nanostructures, Physics Colloquium, Cornell, October 1996.
  • Anomalous Effects in Growth, Condensed Matter Seminar, Cornell, October, 1996.
  • Acceleration of Mass Transport with Direct Current on Si(111), Materials Research Society, December, 1996.
  • Equilibrium Morphology and Morphological Transitions, Mueller Award Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, January 1997.
  • Equilibrium Fluctuations and Rates of Mass Transport, Mueller Award Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, January 1997.
  • Evolution of Morphology from Nanometers to Microns, Mueller Award Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, January 1997.
  • Potential Applications of Surface Studies to Electromigration, Lucent-Bell Labs technical seminar, January 1997.
  • Electromigration on Si Surfaces, 23rd Japan-U.S. Seminar, Nagoya, Japan, March 1997.
  • Nanostructure and Step Dynamics, Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan, Nagoya, Japan, March 1997.
  • Evolution of Nanostructure via Step Motion, Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, Tokyo, Japan, April 1997.
  • The Mesoscale Approach to Surface Nanostructure, James Franck Institute Colloquium, University of Chicago, May 1997.
  • Surface Nanostructure, Gordon Conference on Thin Films and Crystal Growth Mechanisms, New Hampshire, July 1997.
  • Nanostructure Evolution and Electromigration on Silicon: Experimental Applications of Length-Scaling Predictions Advancing Frontiers of Condensed Matter Science, University of Pennsylvania, October 13-14, 1997.
  • Understanding and Controlling Surface Nanostructure, Johns Hopkins University, Condensed Matter Seminar, October 22, 1997.
  • Fluctuations in Materials Science, Physics Department Colloquium, University of Maryland, March 1998.
  • Stability and Aging of Nanostructures on Si, Materials Research Society Meeting, San Francisco, April 1998.
  • Equilibrium Fluctuations and the Prediction of Structural Stability, Physics Colloquium, University of Illinois, September 1998.
  • Quantifying Surface Electromigration: Si(111) as a Model System, Physics Colloquium, Carnegie Mellon University, October 1998.
  • Quantifying Surface Electromigration: Si(111) as a Model System, 45th International American Vacuum Society Symposium, Baltimore, November 1998.
  • Step Energies and Electromigration Patterns, International Symposium on Surfaces and Interfaces, Tokyo Institute of Technology, November 1998.
  • Small Structures on Si Surfaces: Characterizing Stability and Electronic Structure, Physics Seminar, Joint Research Center on Atom Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, November 1998.
  • Patterns and Rates in sub-micron Scale surface Restructuring, Materials Research Society Meeting, Boston, December 1998.
  • Designing Smart Experiments to Predict Materials Behavior: Examples from the Electromigration of Silicon, Physics Colloquium, Johns Hopkins Applied Research Laboratory, January 1999.
  • Fluctuations in Materials: Stability and Aging, East-West Surface Science Workshop, Pamporovo, Bulgaria, February 1999.
  • Equilibrium Fluctuations and the Prediction of Structural Stability, Physics Colloquium, Princeton University, March 1999.
  • Characterization and Comparison of Advanced Microscopies, SEMATECH Analytical Managers Working Group Meeting, NIST, April 1999.
  • Equilibrium Fluctuations and the Prediction of Structural Stability, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, Technion, Haifa, May 1999.
  • Equilibrium Fluctuations and the Prediction of Structural Stability, Department of Physics and Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehoboth, May 1999.
  • From Steps to the Meso-Scale: Experimental Observations on Si(111) and (113), International Conference on Stepped Surfaces, Wohldenberg, Germany, September 1999.
  • From Steps to the Meso-Scale: Experimental Observations on Si(111) and (113), Forschungszentrum, Jülich, September, 1999.
  • Equilibrium Fluctuations and the Prediction of Structural Stability, Physics Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, February 2000.
  • Nano-scale to Micron Scale Structural Stability, Physics Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, February 2000.
  • Nano-scale to Micron Scale Structural Stability, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, Case-Western Reserve, Cleveland, May 2000.
  • Fluctuations and Stability of Nanoscale Structures, International Symposium on Surface and Interface-Properties of Different Symmetry Crossing, Nagoya, Japan, October 2000.
  • Molecular Electronics, Laboratory for Physical Science Colloquium, October 2000.
  • Fluctuations and Stability of Nanoscale Structures, Fall Meeting of the MRS, Boston, December 2000
  • Nanoscale Fluctuations on Solid Surfaces, American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, February 2001
  • Interdisciplinary research using advanced surface science instrumentation, NSF Workshop: Analytical Instrumentation for the New Millenium - Materials, New Orleans, March 2001
  • Surface Fluctuations on Nanoscale Structures, American Physical Society, David Adler Award Lecture, Seattle, March 2001.
  • Nanoscale Fluctuations on Solid Surfaces, Physics Department Colloquium, University of Maryland, March 2001.
  • Nanoscale Fluctuations on Solid Surfaces, Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., May 2001.
  • Structural Fluctuations and Structural Evolution, Materials Research Society, Boston, December, 2001.
  • Fluctuations and Relaxation of Small Structures: Workshop on Morphological Evolution of Crystalline Surfaces, Rosh Pina, Israel, May 2002 (workshop cancelled).
  • Fluctuations of Nanoscale Structures: Integrated Nanosystems 2002, Berkeley, California, September 2002.
  • Continuum Step Dynamics: Deterministic and Stochastic Processes: University of Leiden, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, December 2002.
  • Nanoscale Fluctuations on Solid Surfaces: Dutch Condensed Matter Physics Conference, Veldhoven, The Netherlands, December 2002 (Plenary talk)
  • Bridging Atomic to Nanoscale Properties:  Rutgers University, Physics Colloquium, March, 2003.
  • Nanoscale Fluctuations on Solid Surfaces:  Michigan State University, Physics Colloquium, March 2003.
  • Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale:  Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, April 2003.
  • Nanoscale Fluctuations on Solid Surfaces:  University of New Hampshire, Physics Colloquium, April 2003.
  • Nanoscale Fluctuations on Solid Surfaces:  Harvard University, Physics Colloquium, April 2003.
  • Deterministic to Stochastic Processes in Nanostructure Evolution:  University of Washington, May 2003.
  • Surface Lability: How, why and when surfaces reorganize to form self-patterned substrates, Gordon Research Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, June 2003
  • Nanoscale Fluctuations on Solid Surfaces:  Ohio State University, October 2003
  • Fluctuations and Instabilities in Nanoscale Materials, Turnbull Award Lecture, Materials Research Society, Boston, December 2003.
  • Nanoscale Fluctuations on Solid Surfaces, Sigma Xi Colloquium, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, December 2003.
  • Nanoscale Structures: Lability, Length Scales and Fluctuations, JFI Colloquium, University of Chicago, Chicago, February 2004.
  • Nanoscale Structures: Lability, Length Scales and Fluctuations, Physics Colloquium, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, March 2004.
  • Evolution of Nanoscale Structures, Mathematics Colloquium, University of Maryland, April 2004. 
  • Nanoscale Structures: Lability, Length Scales and Fluctuations, Physics Colloquium, University of Delaware, Wilmington, DE, May 2004.
  • Fluctuations on Nanoscale Structures: Correlation Length, Persistence and Survival, Lorentz Workshop on Collective Aspects of Stochastic Non-Equilibrium Phenomena at Surfaces and Interfaces, Lorentz Center, Leiden University, June 2004
  • Length Scales and Time Scales in First-Passage Behavior of Step Wandering on Solid Surfaces, 22nd  International Conference on Statistical Physics, Bangalore, India, July 2004
  • Nanscience Research for Energy Needs, report of the NNI Grand Challenges Workshop on Energy uctuations in Nanostructures, 50th Anniversary of Atomic Resolution Microscopy (Mueller Memorial), Pennsylvania State University, June 2005.
  • Electronic transport at the outer nanometer, effects of disorder and fluctuations, Gordon Research Conference on the Chemistry of Electronic Materials, July 2005.
  • Nanoscale Shape and Evolution of Supported Crystallites, Gordon Research Conference on Dynamics at Surfaces, August 2005
  • Progress and Opportunities in Nanoscience, Committee to Review the National Nanotechnology Initiative, NRC-National Materials Advisory Board, Washington, DC August 2005
  • What's New in Nanoscale Structures?, Colloquium, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, September 2005
  • What's New in Nanoscale Structures? Annual Coordination Meeting of the DOE Computational Materials Science Network, Madison, October 2000
  • What's New in Nanoscale Structures?, Colloquium, Department of Physics, University of North Carolina, December 2005
  • Electronic transport at the outer nanometer, NIST Nanotechnology Colloquium, December 2005
  • What's new in Nanoscale Structures, Department of Chemistry, U. of Maryland, February 2006
  • What's new in Nanoscale Structures, Cornell University, March 2006
  • Fluctuations and Transport in Nanoscale Structures, Fourth Stig Lundqvist Conference on Advancing Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, July 2006.
  • Fluctuations and Transport in Nanoscale Structures, Sanken International Symposium on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2006, University of Osaka, Japan, September 2006.

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