Invited Talks & Travel

We work with scientists across the globe and have ongoing US and international collaborations towards better and faster solutions of fundamental problems in areas from condensed matter, nanoelectronics & quantum computing, to interdisciplinary topics linking basic physics with electronics, biology & medicine.

Recently we have contributed to the understanding and development of 2D materials as nanoporous membranes (membranes with holes to allow for water, ion and molecule passage) for applications in water treatment, desalination as well as biomarker analysis and DNA sequencing.

Graduate students have given presentions and visited many countries including: Japan, Israel, Canada, Taiwan, France, Germany, Switzerland and many others (see below).

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Talks, Posters, Past & Upcoming Travel:

  • November 27 – December 2, 2022, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston. https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events/fall-meetings-exhibits/2022-mrs-fall-meeting

Symposium: 2D Layered Materials and Heterostructures for Ubiquitous Electronics, Sensors and Beyond. The main topics covered in this symposium are the following:

  • Synthesis and processing of electronically-relevant 2D materials

  • Theory and modeling of sensing and electronic properties of 2D materials

  • Unique characterization and in-situ evaluation of 2D systems

  • Fundamental mechanisms government 2D materials based chemical and biosensors

  • The potential of 2D materials in sensing COVID-19 or future variants

  • Emergent and advantageous electronic and sensing properties of 2D materials and heterostructures

  • Devices and integrated electronic/sensing platforms and future applications

 

  • October 3 – November 3, 2022, Delft, Netherlands, Single-Molecule Protein Sequencing (SMPS3) conference

 

  • 07/31/2022-08/04/2022, 2022 M&M 2022, Microscopy and Microanalysis Meeting, Portland, Oregon, https://www.microscopy.org/MandM/2022/

 

  • 07/12/2022-07/14/2022, 2022 NHGRI AGTD Meeting, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT. https://www.jax.org

 

  • 06/26/2022-06/30/2022, Nanofiltration 2022, Achalm, Germany. https://nanofiltration2022.iamt.kit.edu/62.php

 

 

  • 06/11-06/18/ 2022, 
    ”From Solid State to BioPhysics X: From Basic to Life Sciences’’, Cavtat, Croatia. https://dubrovnik.epfl.ch

 

  • 05/23/2022- 05/27/2022, TAHOE Nanofluidics 2022, Tahoe City, CA.

 

  • 05/07/2022- 05/13/2022, 2022 MRS Spring Meeting,  Honolulu, Hawaii, Symposium:  Nanoscale Mass Transport Through 2D and 1D Nanomaterials.

 

  • 05/9/2022- 05/11/2022, Nanopore Workshop, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. https://www.jax.org/education-and-learning/education-calendar/2022/may/nanopore-sequencing

 

  • 12/10/2021, Industry (Outreach) Seminar “Two-dimensional and Si-based nanopores: physics and applications”, Western Digital, CA. https://www.westerndigital.com

 

  • 11/2/-11/5/2021, Invited talk, Graphene 2021

 

 

 

  • 09/08/2021-09/10/2021, CECAM flagship workshop on Nanopores, “Nanopore Translocation and Nanochannel Confined Biopolymers: bridging theory and experiments”, Trieste, Italy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 07/09/2021, Experimental Physics Research Academy (EPRA)

https://summer.sas.upenn.edu/programs/high-school/academies/experimental-physics

 

 

  • 06/29/2021

Invited talk on June 29, 2021: “2D membranes: are they realistically useful?”

Opening of the Institute for Advanced Membrane Technology (IAMT) 29 June 2021: Invitation to full day (online) workshop.

 

 

 

  • 06/05-06/12/ 2021, Jubilary 10th conference in the series
    ”From Solid State to BioPhysics X: From Basic to Life Sciences X’’, Cavtat, Croatia. (postponed for 2022)



  • 05/02-05/06/2021, PICO 2021: Frontiers of Aberration Corrected Electron Microscopy, Kasteel Vaalsbroek, Netherlands. https://er-c.org/pico2021/

 

 

 

 

 

2020:

  • 10/12-14/2020, 2020 Nanopore Electrochemistry Meeting, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. (virtual)

 

  • 08/31-09/02/ 2020, CECAM Workshop:

    “Nanopore Translocation and Nanochannel Confined Biopolymers: bridging theory and experiments”, SISSA, Trieste, Italy. (postponed)

  • 07/07-07/10/ 2020, Nanofiltration 2020, Achalm, Germany. (postponed) http://nanofiltration2020.iamt.kit.edu

 

  • 06/06-06/13/ 2020, Jubilary 10th conference in the series
    ”From Solid State to BioPhysics X: From Basic to Life Sciences X’’, Cavtat, Croatia. (postponed for 2021)  http://dubrovnik.epfl.ch/ 

 

  • 05/27-29/2020, NHGRI Advanced Genomic Development Meeting, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. (virtual)

 

  • 05/14/2020, Pappalardo Fellowships 20th Anniversary Celebration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA. (postponed)

https://web.mit.edu/physics/research/pappalardo/index.html

 

  • 12/01-12/06/2019, Invited Talk, Special symposium “2D Nanomaterials-Based Nanofluidics”, 2019 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA. https://www.mrs.org/fall2019

 

  • 11/15/2019, Invited Talk, Bioengineering Seminar Series, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA.

 

 

  • 10/24/2019, Invited Lecture, IRIS 2019 Workshop “2D-based heterostructures”, Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences (IRIS), Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany.    http://www.iris-adlershof.de/en/home.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 05/28-30/2019, NHGRI Advanced Genomic Development Meeting, Boston, MA.

  • 05/15/2019, PhD Defense Committee, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

 

  • 03/9-16/2019, IWEPNM 2019 (March 9-16), Kirchberg, Austria.2019 Invited talk, International Winterschool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials.   https://www.iwepnm.org/2019/   

  • 03/4-8/2019, American Physical Society (March 4-8, 2019), Boston, MA.

 

  • 03/2-7/2019, Biophysical Society Meetings (March 2-7, 2019), Baltimore, MD.

 

  • 02/21-23/2019, ENM Conference in STEM (Feb 21-23, 2019), Washington, DC. 

 

  • 02/14/2019 – 02/15/2019, GrapheneforUS, New York, NY.

 

 

  • 11/01/2018-11/02/2018, Invited Talk, Workshop: Atom by atom fabrication via electron beams and scanning probes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

  • 10/20/2018, BMES Annual Meeting, Applications of two-dimensional materials in healthcare, Atlanta, GA.

 

  • 10/14/2018-10/15-2018, NSERC Panel, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 05/30/20, NHGRI Advanced Genomic Development Meeting, Boston, MA.

 

 

  • 02/01/2018  January 29-February 2, ICONN 2018 – International conference on nanoscience and nanotechnology, Wollongong, NSW, Australia. http://www.ausnano.net/iconn2018/ 

 

 

  • 12/16/2017  December 16, IEMN (Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology) Group Seminar, Lille, France.

 

  • 12/08/2017  December 8, Graphene Group Seminar, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

 

  • 12/06/2017  December 6, Graphene Institute Seminar, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

 

  • 12/04/2017  December 4-5, Next generation sequencing technology and application congress, London, UK

 

  • 11/13/2017  November 13-15, Accelerating Research in 2D materials and devices, Penn State University, State College, PA

 

  • 10/24/2017  October 23-24, US-EU Workshop, Arlington, VA

 

 

  • 09/06/2017  September 4-8, Yucomat 2017, Meeting of Materials Research Society of Serbia, Herceg Novi, Montenegro

 

  • 07/16/2017  July 16-21, Workshop on Nanopores, Bremen, Germany

 

  • 05/30/2017  May 30 – June 1, Plenary Talk, EIPBN 2017 (Electron, Ion, Photon Beam, and Nanofabrication), Orlando, FL

 

  • 05/24/2017  May 24-26, 3rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Canada, Montreal, Canada

 

  • 05/22/2017  May 22-25, NIH Advanced Genomic Technology Development Grantee Meeting, Boston, MA

 

  • 03/30/2017  March 30 – April 1, Keynote Talk, International Conference on Nanopore Technology, Shenzhen, China

 

  • 2017/03/28  March 28-31, Graphene 2017, Barcelona, Spain

 

  • 2017/03/21  March 21-22, Keynote Talk, Programmable Bio-inorganic Molecular Composites, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

 

  • 2017/03/13  March 13-17, American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA

 

  • 2017/02/23  February 23, Colloquium, Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

 

  • 2017/02/11  February 11-15, 61st Annual Biophysical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA

 

  • 2016/12/13  December 13, Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Delaware, Delaware

 

  • 2016/12/08  December 8-9, NSF EFRI Meeting, San Francisco, CA

 

  • 2016/11/22  November 22, CNST Nanotechnology Seminar, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD

 

  • 2016/11/10  November 10, Physics Colloquium, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

 

  • 2016/11/08 November 8-9, Center for Excellence for Nanosctructured Graphene, Denmark

 

  • 2016/10/25 October 25, Condensed matter seminar, Penn State University        , State College, Pennsylvania

 

  • 2016/10/21 October 21, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

 

  • 2016/10/19 October 19-21, Engineering and Life, Hanover, Germany      Hanover, Germany

 

  • 2016/10/10 October 10-12, EU-US Workshop on 2D Materials, Heterostructures and Devices, Manchester, UK

 

  • 2016/09/01 September 1-10, Greta Pifat Mrzljak International School of Biophysics, Croatia

 

  • 2016/07/10 July 10-15, 2016 Carbon 2016, Penn State, PA

 

  • 2016/06/06 June 4-11, From Solid-State Physics to Biophysics VIII: From Basic to Life Sciences, Cavtat, Croatia

 

  • 2016/05/09    May 9-10, 4th annual workshop on 2D materials, “Graphene and Beyond: From Atoms to Applications”, Penn State University, State College, PA

 

  • 2016/05/03 May 2-6, “The effect of defects on the electrical and phonon properties of graphene and MoS2” European MRS (E-MRS) Meeting Lille, France

 

  • 2016/04/26     April 26-27, 2016    Plenary Lecture at ImPACT International Symposium on InSECT 2016: Ultrahigh-speed and multiplexed sensing system using Incredibly Smart, Efficient and Compact devices by insect Technology (InSECT)    Nagoya University, Nagoya Japan

 

  • 2016/04/21 April 19-22, 2015 Graphene 2016 Genova, Italy

 

  • 2015/12/07    December 7-11, 2015    HeteroNanoCarb 2015    Benasque (Aragon), Spain

 

  • 2015/10/23    October 23-25, 2015    2015 APS Mid Atlantic Section Meeting , Morgantown, WV

 

  • 2015/10/14    October 14-16, 2015    Graphene & 2D Materials Canada 2015 International Conference, Montreal, Canada

 

  • 2015/09/07    September 7-11, 2015    19th Symposium on Condensed Matter Physics – SFKM 2015, Belgrade, Serbia

 

  • 2015/08/02    August 2-6, 2015    Microscopy & Microanalysis 2015, Portland, OR

 

  • 2015/07/22    July 22-25, 2015    Drug Discovery & Therapy World Congress (DDTWC) 2015, Boston, MA

 

  • 2015/06/28    June 28 – July 1, 2015    BPS Thematic Meeting “New Biological Frontiers Illuminated by Molecular Sensors and Actuators”, Taipei, Taiwan

 

  • 2015/05/21    May 21-22, 2015    International Frontiers in Quantum Materials and Devices Workshop    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

 

  • 2015/05/20    May 20, 2015    Seminar at MIT hosted by Michael Strano’s group    Cambridge, MA

 

  • 2015/05/12    May 12-15, 2015    NHGRI Advanced Sequencing Technology Development Meeting    San Diego, CA

 

  • 2015/04/22    April 22, 2015    Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy Colloquium    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY

 

  • 2015/03/23 March 23-27, 2015     Selective Transport Through Nanopores: Physics Meets Biology      Lenzerheide, Switzerland

 

  • 2015/03/10 March 10-13, 2015     Graphene 2015            Bilbao, Spain

 

  • 2014/12/12 December 12-14, 2014            18th SANKEN International Symposium and the 13th SANKEN Nanotechnology Symposium, Osaka, Japan

 

  • 2014/10/17 October 17, 2014        Materials Science Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

 

  • 2014/09/07 September 7-12, 20148th International Microscopy Conference, Prague, Czech Republic

 

  • 2014/08/24 August 24-29, 2014    7th International Conference on Molecular Electronics, Strasbourg, France

 

  • 2014/07/06 July 6-11, 2014           Gordon Research Conference on Bioelectrochemistry, University of New England, Maine

 

  • 2014/06/15 June 15-19, 2014        The European Workshop on Epitaxial Graphene and 2D Materials (EWEG/2D 2014), Primosten, Croatia

 

  • 2014/06/07 June 7-14, 2014          From Solid State to BioPhysics VII: From Basic to Life Sciences, Cavtat, Croatia

 

  • 58th annual EIPBN conference, May 26-30, Washington, DC, May 26-30, 2014.

 

  • 7th conference ”From Solid State to BioPhysics VII: From Basic to Life Sciences”, Cavtat, Croatia, June 7-14, 2014.

 

  • 2014 Gordon Research Conference on Bioelectrochemistry, University of New England, Maine, July 6-11, 2014.

 

  • Symposium on DNA Nanotechnology, Plenary Lecture, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, November 27-29, 2013.

 

  • Crystal & Graphene Science Symposium 2013, Boston, MA September 4-5, 2013.

 

  • University of Ulm, Germany, July 2013.

 

  • 3rdNext Generation Sequencing, San Francisco, June 19-21, 2013.

 

  • Novel Approaches to DNA Sequencing, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA), Stockholm, Sweden, June 9-14, 2013.

 

  • Physics Colloquium, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, May 23, 2013.

 

  • NHGRI Advanced Sequencing Technology Development Meeting, San Diego, California, April 29 – May 2, 2013.

 

  • XIV Annual Linz Winter Workshop on “Advances in Single-Molecule Research for Biology and Nanoscience”, Linz, Austria, February 3-7, 2013.

 

  • American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting Invited Talk, Baltimore, March 19, 2013.

 

  • Nanoscale Biophysics Symposium, Biophysical Society Meeting, Philadelphia, February 2, 2013.

 

  • 19th International Symposium on Electro- and Liquid Phase Separation Techniques (ITP 2012), Baltimore, September 30 – October 3, 2012.

 

  • CECAM Workshop on “Polymer translocation in nanopores”, Mainz, Germany, September 16 – 18, 2012.

 

  • Meeting on “Applying Next-Generation Sequencing”, Providence, RI, August 13 – 15, 2012.

 

  • CECAM Workshop on “DNA sequencing and detection with nanoprobes”, Pisa, Italy, June 11-13, 2012.

 

  • Graphene Week 2012, Delft, Netherlands, June 4-8, 2012.

 

  • Physics Colloquium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2012.

 

  • Nanopores Conference 2012, Lanzarote, Spain, February 2012.

 

  • Gene, Genomes and Pediatric Disease (GGPD) seminar series, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, February 2012.

 

  • Physics and BioDesign Colloquium, Arizona State University, January 2012.

 

  • International Symposium on Clusters and Nanostructures (ISCAN), Richmond, Virginia, November 2011.

 

  • Nano Day at UPenn, Symposium on “Local Probes at the Frontiers of Energy Systems and Biotechnology”, October 2011.

 

  • Workshop on the “Many Interfaces of Physics”, Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, Vienna, Austria, September 2011.

 

  • Telluride Workshop on Single-Molecule Dynamics, Telluride, Colorado, June/July 2011.

 

  • Partnership for Research & Education in Materials (PREM), 5th Annual Symposium, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Humacao, Puerto Rico, May 2011.

 

  • American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Forum for Emerging Clinical Diagnostic Technologies, 43rd Annual Oak Ridge Conference, Baltimore, April 2011.

 

  • NHGRI Advanced Sequencing Technology Development Meeting, San Diego, California, April 2011.

 

  • IWEPNM, Kirchberg, Austria, Winter School on Novel Nanomaterials, February 2011.

 

  • 2011 Frontiers in Nanoscale Science and Technology Workshop, RIKEN Wako Campus, Wako, Saitama, Japan, January 5-7, 2011.

 

  • Villanova University, Physics Colloquium, Department of Physics, October 2010.

 

  • Rutgers University, Physics Colloquium, Department of Physics, September 2010.

 

  • Clarkson University, Joint Seminar in Physics and Electrical & Computer Engineering, September 2010.

 

 

  • Gordon Research Conference on Nanostructure Fabrication, Tilton, New Hampshire, July 18-23, 2010. Conference Program

 

 

  • University of Delaware, Material Science and Engineering Seminar, October 2009.

 

  • Frontiers in Nanoscale Science and Technology Workshop, Nanoelectronics & Nanophotonics, Spintronics & Quantum Information, Harvard University, May 2009.

 

  • University of California, Irvine, Condensed Matter Seminar, April 2009.

 

  • University of Notre Dame, Physics Colloquium, Department of Physics, April 2009.

 

  • Columbia University, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) Seminar, January 2009.

 

  • University of Arizona, Physics Colloquium, Department of Physics, November 2008.

 

  • National Academy of Sciences, Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, California, November 2008.

 

  • Yale University, Condensed Matter Seminar, October 2008.

 

  • Harvard University, SEAS Applied Physics Colloquium, October 2008.

 

  • University of Notre Dame, Condensed Matter Seminar, Department of Physics, April 2008.

 

  • Arizona State University, Physics Colloquium/Biodesign Seminar Series, April 2008.

 

  • American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, “TEBAL: Nanosculpting devices with electrons in a transmission electron microscope”, New Orleans, March 2008.

 

  • Cornell University, Applied Physics Seminar, February 2007.
  • University of Pennsylvania, Physical Chemistry Seminar, Department of Chemistry, February 2007.

 

  • Quantum Dots, 2007, Forth Lauderdale, Florida, December 2007.

 

  • Drexel University, MEMS/NEMS Seminar, November 2007.

 

  • University of Central Florida, Colloquium, Department of Physics, October 2007.

 

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, ESP 2007 Workshop: “Excited State Processes in Electronic and Bio Nanomaterials”, Center for Nonlinear Studies Conference, Sante Fe, NM, October 2007.

 

  • XVII Symposium on Condensed Matter Physics, Vrsac, Serbia, September 2007.

 

  • DuPont Central Research and Development, 2007 Discovery Chemistry Seminar Series, June 2007.

 

  • International Conference on Coherent and Nonlinear Optics (ICONO-2007), Minsk, Belarus, May 2007.

 

  • Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, Symposium: Low-dimensional materials – Synthesis, Assembly, Property Scaling, and Modeling; Title: “Nanoparticle Electronics: nanocrystal assembly and high-resolution device fabrication using transmission electron beams”, San Francisco, CA, April 2007.

 

  • Notre Dame Workshop: “Fluorescence Intermittency in single molecules, quantum dots and quantum wires”, University of Notre Dame, April 2007.

 

  • American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, March 2007, Denver, Colorado, Symposium on balancing career and family.

 

  • Grenoble’s International Meeting in Molecular Electronics ElecMol’06, Grenoble, December 2006 (talk given by Claudia Querner).

 

  • Cornell University, Center for Nanoscale Systems Seminar, October 2006.
  • ICYS-ICMR Summer School 2006 on Nanomaterials, Tsukuba, Japan, July 2006 (talk given by Claudia Querner).

 

  • American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, Title: “Controlled assembly and electronics in semiconductor nanocrystal-based devices”, Session: Nanoscale Crystals. Baltimore, March 2006.

 

  • Nanax 2 Conference: “Nanoscience with Nanocrystals”, Grenoble, France, January 2006.

 

  • National Academy of Sciences, 9th Annual Chinese-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, sponsored by the Chinese-Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.  Xiamen, China, November 2005.

 

  • National Academy of Engineering, Eleventh Annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, GE Global Research Center, Albany, NY, September 2005.

 

  • Brookhaven National Laboratory, Condensed Matter Seminar, April 2005.

 

  • University of Michigan, Condensed Matter Seminar, February 2005.

 

  • Johns Hopkins University, Condensed Matter Seminar, September 2004.

 

  • XVI Symposium of the Condensed Matter Division (SFKM’04), Serbian Physical Society, Serbia and Montenegro, September 2004.

 

  • University of Delaware, Condensed Matter Seminar, May 2004.

 

  • Princeton University, Condensed Matter Seminar, November 2003.

 

  • Temple University, Departmental Colloquium, October 2003.

 

  • McGill University, Departmental Colloquium, March 2003.

 

  • UC Berkeley, Condensed Matter Seminar, March 2003.

 

  • Harvard University, Condensed Matter Seminar, February 2003.

 

  • University of Delaware, Material Science Seminar, February 2003.

 

  • University of Florida, Condensed Matter Seminar, February 2003.

 

  • Dartmouth College, Departmental Colloquium, February 2003.

 

  • University of Pennsylvania, Condensed Matter Seminar, January 2003.

 

  • University of Oregon, Condensed Matter Seminar, January 2003.

 

  • University of Maryland, Condensed Matter Seminar, “Exploring the world of CdSe nanocrystals”, November 2002.

 

  • NTT, Atsugi, Japan, Condensed Matter Seminar, “Transport in CdSe nanocrystal solids”, August 2002.

 

  • 15th Symposium of the Condensed Matter Division (SFKM’01), Serbian Physical Society, Serbia and Montenegro, “Electronic transport in CdSe nanocrystal arrays”, October 2001.

 

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Microsystems Technology Laboratory,“Microelectromagnets for particle manipulation”, February 2000.

 

  • Brandeis University, Condensed Matter Seminar, “Microelectromagnets for particle manipulation”, February 2000.

 

  • Harvard University, Quantum Coherence Seminar, Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics,“Advances in atom manipulation using microtraps and guides”, October 1999.

 

  • Centennial Celebration and Meeting of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, Georgia, “Microelectromagnets for particle manipulation”. March 1999.

 

  • Temple University, Physics Department Colloquium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “Microelectromagnets for atom manipulation”, November 1998.

 

  • VIIIth International Conference on High Magnetic Fields, Tallahassee, Florida, “Electrical and thermal properties of microelectromagnets for atom manipulation”, October 1998.