-
2010 Nano-Biophotonics Summer School @ UIUC Lecture 5 - Biomedicine - A tour of the Cell
Online Presentations | 25 Sep 2010 | Contributor(s):: Marina Marjanovic
Edited and Uploaded by Omar Sobh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-
2010 Nano-Biophotonics Summer School @ UIUC Lecture 1 - Introduction
Online Presentations | 20 Sep 2010 | Contributor(s):: Rashid Bashir, Stephen Boppart
Edited and Uploaded by Omar Sobh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-
Nano*High: From Atoms to Electricity: An Introduction to Nuclear Power, Its Promise and Challenge
Online Presentations | 02 Feb 2010 | Contributor(s):: Brian D. Wirth
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Nano*High. Professor Brian Wirth from the UC Berkeley Dept. of Nuclear Engineering presents the basics of nuclear science, and discusses the technological challenges involved in generating nuclear power and dealing safely with the by-products.
-
Nano*High: Superconductivity, Trains and SQUIDs
Online Presentations | 02 Feb 2010 | Contributor(s):: John Clarke
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Nano*High. Superconductivity is a unique phenomenon where the electric resistance of a material drops to zero. Until only a few decades ago, superconductivity was only observed at extremely low temperatures. Today however, a new class of exotic...
-
X-ray Diffraction and Reflectivity Analysis of Thin Films and Nanomaterials
Online Presentations | 29 Dec 2009 | Contributor(s):: Mauro Sardela
A review of x-ray analysis techniques applied to the characterization of nanomaterials will be presented with focus on x-ray lab source instrumentation similar to the facilities available at the Birck Nanotechnology Center. Practical aspects of data acquisition and interpretation using x-ray...
-
Metal Oxide Nanowires as Gas Sensing Elements: from Basic Research to Real World Applications
Online Presentations | 21 Sep 2009 | Contributor(s):: andrei kolmakov
Quasi 1-D metal oxide single crystal chemiresistors are close to occupy their specific niche in the real world of solid state sensorics. Potentially, the major advantage of this kind of sensors with respect to available granular thin film sensors will be their size and stable, reproducible and...
-
Energy and Nanoscience A More Perfect Union
Online Presentations | 29 Mar 2009 | Contributor(s):: Mark Ratner
Huge problems of energy and sustainability confront the science/engineering community, mankind, and our planet. The energy problem comes in many dimensions, including supply, demand, conservation, transportation, and storage. This overview will stress the nature of these problems, and offer a few...
-
How Chemical Engineers Will Save the World
Online Presentations | 26 Mar 2009 | Contributor(s):: William F. Banholzer
The world is facing massive challenges brought on by population growth, economic meltdowns, and environmental constraints. Scientific solutions are needed now more than ever. In this seminar, an overview of certain mega trends is presented – emphasizing how the skills possessed by chemical...
-
Microstructural Design of Electrically Active Materials and Devices Through Computational Modeling: The OOF Project
Online Presentations | 20 Jan 2009 | Contributor(s):: R. Edwin Garcia
We present an overview of a public domain program, the Object Oriented Finite Element analysis (OOF), which predicts macroscopic behavior, starting from an image of the microstructure and ending with results from finite element calculations. The program reads an image (or a sequence of images)...
-
Spins and Magnets (Whiteboard lecture), Part 1
Online Presentations | 06 Jan 2009 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta
Whiteboard version of approximately the same material covered in Lectures 3A/3B.
-
Spins and Magnets (Whiteboard lecture), Part 2
Online Presentations | 06 Jan 2009 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta
Whiteboard version of approximately the same material covered in Lectures 3A/3B.
-
The Optical Freqency Comb: A Remarkable Tool for Metrology, Science and Medical Diagnostics
Online Presentations | 31 Dec 2008 | Contributor(s):: John L. Hall
The Optical Frequency Comb concept and technology exploded in 1999-2000 from the synthesis of advances in independent fields of Laser Stabilization, UltraFast Lasers, and NonLinear Optical Fibers. The Comb was developed first as a method for optical frequency measurement, enabling a thousand-fold...
-
Porting, Tuning and Performance Analysis Tools
Online Presentations | 29 Dec 2008 | Contributor(s):: Mohamed Sayeed
A basic introduction to Porting, Tuning and Performance analysis tools will be presented. I will talk about issues in porting applications to different architectures including writing portable programs. Application performance tuning is very important to making efficient use of high performance...
-
MPI for the Next Generation of Supercomputing
Online Presentations | 05 Dec 2008 | Contributor(s):: Andrew Lumsdaine
Despite premature rumours of its demise, MPI continues to be the de facto standard for high-performance parallel computing. Nonetheless, supercomputing software and the high-end ecosystem continue to advance, creating challenges to several aspects of MPI. In this talk we will review the design...
-
Nanoparticle and Colloidal Simulations with Molecular Dynamics
Online Presentations | 05 Dec 2008 | Contributor(s):: Steve Plimpton
Modeling nanoparticle or colloidal systems in a molecular dynamics (MD) code requires coarse-graining on several levels to achieve meaningful simulation times for study of rheological and other manufacturing properties. These include treating colloids as single particles, moving from explicit to...
-
Data Preservation via RapidSVN for NCN students
Online Presentations | 24 Nov 2008 | Contributor(s):: Xufeng Wang
This presentation discusses how to use SVN client RapidSVN and how to utilize SVN for data preservation purpose.
-
OpenMP Tutorial
Online Presentations | 25 Nov 2008 | Contributor(s):: Seung-Jai Min
This tutorial consists of three parts. First, we will discuss abouthow OpenMP is typically used and explain OpenMP programming model. Second, we will describe important OpenMP constructs and data enviroments. Finally, we will show a simple example to illustrate how OpenMP APIs are used to program...
-
Welcoming Remarks
Online Presentations | 24 Nov 2008 | Contributor(s):: Alejandro Strachan
Opening remarks for the Purdue School on High Performance and Parallel Computing.
-
Introduction to Parallel Programming with MPI
Online Presentations | 24 Nov 2008 | Contributor(s):: David Seaman
Single-session course illustrating message-passing techniques. The examples include point-to-point and collective communication using blocking and nonblocking transmission. One application illustrates the manager/worker model with buffered communications. Code examples provided in C, C++, Fortran...
-
Software Productivity Tools
Online Presentations | 24 Nov 2008 | Contributor(s):: David Seaman
This presentation briefly describes the use of tar(1), make(1), the Portable Batch System (PBS), and two version control systems: CVS and subversion.