Month: January 2013

First-principles Study of Bio-conjugated Ultra-thin Silicon Nanowires: Interaction with a PNA-RNA Double Helix

Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, January 31, 2013
4:00 pm
Room 139 Fisher Hall
First-principles Study of Bio-conjugated Ultra-thin Silicon Nanowires:
Interaction with a PNA-RNA Double Helix
Xiaoliang Zhong
PhD Physics Graduate Student
Advisor: Ravindra Pandey
Physics Department
Michigan Tech University

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Proposals in Progress for January 22, 2013

Assistant Professor Kim Fook Lee (Physics), “Continuous Weak Measurement of Single Electron Spins in Diamond,” NSF.

Assistant Professor Jinfeng Jiang (Biomed/BRC), Professor and Chair Sean Kirkpatrick (Biomed/BRC), Assistant Professor Bruce Lee (Biomed/BRC), Assistant Professor Rupak Rajachar (Biomed/BRC) and Adjunct Assistant Professor Gowtham Shankara (Physics/BRC), “Virtual Breast Project: Improving Noninvasive Characterization of Tumors,” NSF.

From Tech Today.

Yap and Lee in Michigan Tech Research Magazine 2012

Yap and Lee in Michigan Tech Research 2012Yap, Lee Honored for Nanotube Discoveries

For groundbreaking work in nanotechnology, Yoke Khin Yap and Chee Huei Lee have received Michigan Tech’s Bhakta Rath Research Award.

The award, endowed by 1958 alumnus Bhakta Rath and his wife, Shushama Rath, recognizes a Michigan Tech doctoral student and advisor for “exceptional research of particular value that anticipates the future needs of the nation while supporting advances in emerging technology.”

Read more at Michigan Tech Magazine, by Marcia Goodrich.

Nemiroff and Students Receive Best Paper Award

imapCS Faculty/Students Win Best Paper Award

Computer Science Assistant Professor Chaoli Wang, former CS undergraduate student John Reese, former CS MS student Huan Zhang, CS PhD student Jun Tao, and Physics Professor Robert Nemiroff will receive a Best Paper Award for their paper, “iMap: A stable layout for navigating large image collections with embedded search”, at the IS&T/SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis, Feb. 4-6, 2013, in Burlingame, Calif. Jun Tao will present the award paper at the conference.

For their next steps, the authors will further develop techniques for animated transition and graph-based image layout, deploy the visualization results on the display wall at the Immersive Visualization Studio (IVS) at the Center for Computer Systems Research (CCSR) for outreach, and eventually release a web-based online program to benefit a wider user base.

From Tech Today.