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Affordable Semi-Manufacturing: Implications for Microelectronics and Finding a New Patch into the Future
Start Date: 09/23/2011 Image provided by the speaker. Manufacturability and reliability of next generation devices is sure to be a challenge in a wor more
Send for the Doctor--Surgery and Medical Care During the Civil War
Start Date: 09/09/2011 The lecture and slide show will focus on Dr. Edward Stonestr more
Graphene Materials in the Flatland
Start Date: 07/26/2011 Image 1 credit: Courtesy of U. Montan / Images 2 & 3 provided by speaker more
The Avogadro Project A 25 Year Quest
Start Date: 05/20/2011 The Avogadro constant is an important input parameter for the international effort to redefine the kilogram on the basis of a fundamental physical … more
NIST's New Science and Engineering Research Tool DLMF
Start Date: 05/13/2011 Mathematics is the universal language of science and engineering but has yet to develop a universally-accepted method of presentation on the World … more
The Polyvalent Gold Nanoparticle Conjugate Material Synthesis, Biodiagnostics, and Intracellular Gene Regulations
Start Date: 04/29/2011 Over the past decade we have developed methods for modifying nanoparticles with oligonucleotides and explored how they can be used as designer … more
Diagnostics for Bone Disease Taking the High Road or the Low Road to Standardization
Start Date: 04/08/2011 Each year the incidence of osteoporosis-related fractures in women is greater than the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, and breast cancer … more
Recombinant Proteins in Milk A Bioreactor That Eats Hay
Start Date: 03/25/2011 The mammary gland has exceptional capacity for secretion. To harness this ability, a milk specific promoter is used to direct expression … more
Big Data, New Physics and Geospatial Super-Food
Start Date: 03/11/2011 As large collections of data come together, some very exciting and somewhat unexpected things happen. As data grow, the quality of … more
Biomarkers & Personalized Medicine Research and Diagnostics
Start Date: 02/25/2011 SomaLogic is working to find biomarkers for human disease (in blood or other matrices) and to quantify thousands of proteins at a time using small … more
Complexity and Chaos in Medieval Cartography
Start Date: 02/11/2011 The source of the peculiar accuracy of certain medieval maps known as Portolan charts has been a mystery that has stumped scholars for hundreds of … more
Quantum Money
Start Date: 01/21/2011 Money, either in the form of bills or information on a computer, should be impossible to copy and also should be verifiable as good money when … more
Is Smell a Quantum Phenomenon?
Start Date: 01/07/2011 Our sense of smell is extraordinarily good at molecular recognition: we can identify tens of thousands of odorants unerringly over a wide … more
Why Climate Science Doesn't Unite Us But Energy Technology Does
Start Date: 12/17/2010 Climate science was supposed to unite peoples across ideological and national boundaries. Instead, America's two political parties are more … more
Breeding and Building Molecules To Spy on Cells and Tumors
Start Date: 12/10/2010 To circumvent the limited spatial resolution of fluorescent protein imaging, we are developing genetically encoded tags for electron microscopy … more |
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