BACON

BACON+ Meetings

This page lists all BACON+ meetings happened preceding Fall 2015.

Spring 2015 - BACON+ Meetings

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Friday, April 17th, 2015
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON+ Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers: 
Topological semimetals and topological insulators in rare earth monopnictides
Chen Fang (Fu group, MIT)

Physical Adsorption of Gases on a Monolayer Graphene Using Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulation.
Sidi Mohamed Maiga (Gatica Group, Howard)

Location: Harvard, Pierce Hall 301
Sponsored by CIQM
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Friday, March 13th, 2015
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON+ Meeting @ MIT 
Speakers: 
Nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond nanomechanical resonators
Young-Ik Sohn (Lončar group, Harvard)

Quantum anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulator quantum well films
Cui-zu Chang (Moodera Group, MIT)

Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by CIQM
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Friday, February 20th, 2015
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON+ Meeting @ Howard University
Speakers: 
Beyond pairwise van der Waals forces: an efficient implementation of many-body dispersion forces
Martin Blood-Forsythe (Aspuru-Guzik Group, Harvard)

NEXAFS and transport study of chlorinated graphene
Xu Zhang (Palacios group, MIT)
Location: Howard University
Sponsored by CIQM
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Fall 2014 - BACON+ Meetings


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Friday, December 12th, 2014
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON+ Meeting @ Howard University
Speakers: 
Probing interface ferromagnetism of EuS/Bi2Se3 heterostructures with magnetic second harmonic generation
Changmin Lee (Gedik Group, MIT)
Location: Howard University
Sponsored by CIQM
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Friday, November 14th, 2014
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON+ Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers: 
Evidence for specular Andreev reflections at ultra clean hBN/graphene/NbSe2 vdW interfaces
Dmitri Efetov (Englund Group, MIT; work done while at Kim group at Columbia)

Growth of Graphene on Various Substrates
Mpho Musengua (Gary Harris Group, Howard)
Location: 20 University Road 646 AB (map)
Sponsored by CIQM
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Friday, October 24th, 2014
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON+ Meeting @ MIT
Speakers: 
Nanoscale probing of magnetic noise near conducting surfaces
Shimon Kolkowitz (Lukin Group, Harvard)

Observation of edge currents in graphene at zero magnetic field using Josephson interferometry
Monica Allen (Yacoby Group, Harvard)
Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by CIQM
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Spring 2014 - BACON+ Meetings

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Friday, April  23rd, 2014
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON+ Event @ USA Science & Engineering Festival
Speakers: 
Birgit Hausmann (Harvard)
Andrea Young (MIT)

Location: Washington DC - Broadcast LIVE via WebEx
Sponsored by CIQM
http://www.usasciencefestival.org/2014-festival.html
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Friday, March 21st, 2014
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON+ Meeting @ MIT
Speakers: 
Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy and Imaging of Topological Kondo Insulators
Yang He (Hoffman Group, Harvard)

Electrically tunable interactions between graphene and optical emitters.
Lucas Orona (Jarillo-Herrero Group, MIT / Koppens Group, ICFO)
Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by CIQM
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Friday, Feb 14th, 2014
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON+ Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers: 
Electrostatic Coupling Between the Surface States of a Topological Insulator
Valla Fatemi (Jarillo-Herrero Group, MIT)

Excitonic properties of single-layer MoS2
Cosmi Yuxuan Lin (Palacios Group, MIT)
Location: Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin 119 (map)
Sponsored by CIQM
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Fall 2013 - new BACON+ Meetings

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Friday, Nov 22nd, 2013
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON+ Meeting @ MIT
Speakers: 
Heteroepitaxial Growth of Diamond by Hot Filament Chemical Vapor Deposition
Bokani Mtengi (Gary Harris Group, Howard University)

Induced Superconductivity in the Quantum Spin Hall Edge
Sean Hart (Yacoby Group, Harvard)
Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by CIQM
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Friday, Oct 18th, 2013
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON+ Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers: 
Spin-filtered Edge States with an Electrically Tunable Gap in a Two-Dimensional Topological Crystalline Insulator
Tim Hsieh (Fu Group, MIT)

Transport and optoelectronics in transition metal dichalcogenides
Hugh Churchill (Jarillo-Herrero Group, MIT)
Location: Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G125 (map)
Sponsored by CIQM
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Friday, Sept 27th 2013
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON+ Meeting @ MIT
Speakers: 
Magnetic resonance imaging using a nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond sensor with sub-nanometer resolution and single-spin sensitivity.
Michael Grinolds (Yacoby Group, Harvard)

Engineering interaction effects in graphene superlattices
Justin Song (Levitov Group, MIT)
Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by CIQM
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BACON Day 2013 - June 19th, 2013
@ Boston University (Click here to Register)

Registration is free but required - Deadline June 19th
BACON Day
June 19th, 2013 @ Boston University

Boston University
Photonics Auditorium, PHO 906
8 St. Mary's St
Boston, MA 02215

Invited Speakers:
Dimitri Basov (UCSD)
Claudio Chamon (BU)
Cory Dean (CUNY)
James Hone (Columbia)
Efthimios Kaxiras (Harvard)
Michael Strano (MIT)

For questions please contact David Campbell 
email: dkcampbe@bu.edu		 Schedule
9:00-9:25 Coffee
9:25-9:30 Welcome by David Campbell (BU) and
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT)
9:30-10:10 Dmitri Basov (UCSD): Nano-plasmonic phenomena in graphene
10:10-10:20 Questions
10:20-11:00  Efthimios Kaxiras (Harvard): Theoretical and experimental studies of the properties of nanostructured graphene
11:00-11:10 Questions
11:10-11:50 Claudio Chamon (BU): Driven graphene as a tunable semiconductor with topological properties
11:50-12:00 Questions

12:00-13:30 Lunch (provided by meeting)

13:30-14:10 Cory Dean (CUNY): Hofstadter’s Butterfly in Graphene Superlattices
14:10-14:20 Questions
14:20-15:00 James Hone (Columbia): TBD
15:10-15:20 Questions
15:20-16:00 Michael Strano (MIT) : The Use of Doping Trajectories and Raman Spectroscopy in the Understanding of Graphene Chemistry and Applications
16:00-16:10 Questions
16:10-18:00 Coffee break and poster session
18:00 End

Spring 2013 Meetings

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Friday, April 12th 2013
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers: 
A graphene-based physiometer array for the analysis of single biological cells
Geraldine Paulus (Strano Group, MIT)

Sunlight Absorption and Angstrom-Thick Photovoltaics using Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Graphene
Marco Bernardi (Grossman Group, MIT)
Location:  Harvard, LISE 303
Sponsored by Harvard CNS
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Friday, March 8th 2013
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ MIT
Speakers: 
Quantum spin Hall effect in the graphene zero Landau level
Andrea Young (Jarillo-Herrero and Ashoori Group, MIT)

How graphene slides: Measurement and theory of frictional forces between graphene and SiO2
Alex Kitt (Goldberg Group, BU)
Location:  MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by MIT CMSE
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Fall 2012 Meetings

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Friday, Dec 14th 2012
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ MIT
Speakers: 
Giant Nonlocal Photocurrent near the Charge Neutrality Point in Intrinsic Graphene
Qiong Ma (Jarillo-Herrero Group, MIT)

Multiple Landau Level Crossings in Biased Trilayer Graphene
Maksym Serbyn (Patrick Lee Group, MIT)
Location:  MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by MIT CMSE
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Friday, Nov 2nd 2012
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers: 
Zero-field insulating state in monolayer graphene
Ben Hunt (Ashoori Group, MIT)

Using gate-modulated inelastic scattering of light to probe graphene materials: a new approach to assign and understand their phonon modes
Paulo Araújo (Dresselhaus Group, MIT)
Location:  Harvard, Pierce Hall 209
Sponsored by Harvard CNS
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Friday, October 5th 2012
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ MIT
Speakers: 
Surface Functionalization on Graphene through Chlorination
Xu Zhang (Palacios & Dresselhaus Groups, MIT)

Magnetic Electron Focusing in Graphene
Thiti Taychatanapat (Jarillo-Herrero Group, MIT)
Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by MIT CMSE
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BACON Day 2012 - June 13th, 2012
@ Boston University (Click here to Register)

Registration is free but required - Deadline June 6th
BACON Day
June 13th, 2012 @ Boston University

Boston University
Photonics Auditorium, PHO 906
8 St. Mary's St
Boston, MA 02215

Invited Speakers:
Kirill Bolotin, Vanderbilt
Antonio Castro Neto, NUS-BU
Swastik Kar, Northeastern
Rohit Karnik, MIT
Amir Yacoby, Harvard
Jun Zhu, Penn State

For questions please contact David Campbell 
email: dkcampbe@bu.edu		 Schedule
9:00-9:35 Coffee
9:35-9:50 Welcome by David Campbell (BU) and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT)
9:50-10:20 Amir Yacoby (Harvard)
10:20-10:30 Questions
10:30-11:00 Swastik Kar (Northeastern)
11:00-11:10 Questions
11:10-11:40 Rohit Karnik (MIT)
11:40-11:50 Questions

11:50-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:00 Jun Zhu (Penn State)
14:00-14:10 Questions
14:10-14:40 Kirill Bolotin (Vanderbilt)
14:40-14:50 Questions
14:50-15:20 Antonio Castro Neto (NUS-BU)
15:20-15:30 Questions

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-18:00 Poster Session
18:00 End

Spring 2012 Meetings

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Friday, April 27th 2012
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers: 
Optoelectronic properties in 2D monolayers with domains of hexagonal boronnitride and graphene
Marco Bernardi (Grossman Group, MIT)

Q-factors of Graphene Nanoresonators with Extended Defects
Zenan Qi (Park Group, BU)
Location: Harvard, Cruft 309(map)
Sponsored by Harvard CNS
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Friday, March 16th 2012
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ MIT
Speakers: 
Quantum and Classical Cloaking in Trilayer Graphene Heterostructures
Leonardo Campos (Jarillo-Herrero Group, MIT)

Disorder-assisted Electron-Lattice Cooling in Graphene
Justin Song (Levitov Group, MIT)
Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by MIT CMSE
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Friday, February 3rd 2012
12:00pm-12:45pm
BACON Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers: 
Universal Magnetic Properties of Covalent Functionalization in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
Elton J. G. Santos (Kaxiras Group, Harvard)

Corrections to Pseudo Vector Potentials and their effect on Pseudo Magnetic Fields
Alex Kitt (Goldberg Group, BU)
Location: Harvard, Cruft 309(map)
Sponsored by Harvard CNS
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Fall 2011 Meetings

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Friday, November 18th 2011
12:00pm-12:45pm
BACON Meeting @ MIT
Speakers: 
Chemical imprint lithography on graphene: Controlling the substrate influence on electron transfer reactions
Qing Hua Wang (Strano Group, MIT)
Location: MIT, 3-442
Sponsored by MIT CMSE
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Friday, October 14th 2011
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers: 
Chiral Superconductivity from Repulsive Interactions in Doped Graphene
Rahul Nandkishore (Levitov Group, MIT)

Inter-layer Screening and Insulating States in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi (Jarillo Group, MIT)
Location: Harvard, Pierce Hall 209
Sponsored by Harvard CNS
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Friday, September 16th 2011
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ MIT
Speakers: 

Electronic Compressibility of Fractional Quantum Hall States in Suspended Graphene
Ben Feldman (Yacoby Group, Harvard)

Study of Graphene-Titanium Interactions
Allen Hsu (Palacios Group and Kong Group, MIT)

Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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BACON Day 2011 - June 7th, 2011
@ Boston University (Click here to Register)

Registration is free but required - Deadline June 1st
BACON Day
June 7th, 2011 @ Boston University

Boston University
Photonics Auditorium, PHO 906
8 St. Mary's St
Boston, MA 02215

Invited Speakers:
Mildred Dresselhaus, MIT
Jeanie Lau, UC Riverside
Eduardo Mucciolo, UCF
Harold Park, BU
Joshua Robinson, Penn State
Robert Westervelt, Harvard

For questions please contact David Campbell 
email: dkcampbe@bu.edu		 Schedule
9:00-9:35 Coffee
9:35-9:50 Welcome by David Campbell (BU) and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT)
9:50-10:20 Millie Dresselhaus (MIT)
10:20-10:30 Questions
10:30-11:00 Bob Westervelt (Harvard)
11:00-11:10 Questions
11:10-11:40 Harold Park (Boston University)
11:40-11:50 Questions

11:50-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:00 Jeanie Lau (UC Riverside)
14:00-14:10 Questions
14:10-14:40 Joshua Robinson (Penn State)
14:40-14:50 Questions
14:50-15:20 Eduardo Mucciolo (University of Central Florida)
15:20-15:30 Questions

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-18:00 Poster Session
18:00 End

Spring 2011 Meetings


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Friday, May 13th 2011
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers: 
Photothermoelectric origin of photocurrent in graphene p-n junctions
Nathan Gabor (Jarillo-Herrero Group, MIT)

Common path interference and Zener oscillations in bilayer graphene
Rahul Nandkishore (Levitov Group, MIT)
Location: Harvard, Cruft 309(map)
Sponsored by Harvard CNS
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Friday, April 8 2011
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ MIT
Speakers: 
Bilayer and Trilayer Graphene Solutions
Chih-Jen Shih (Blankschtein Group and Strano Group, MIT)

Gate defined quantum dots in suspended bilayer graphene
Monica Allen (Yacoby Group, Harvard)
Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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Friday, March 11 2011
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers: 
Synthesis of one to two layer hexagonal boron nitride using chemical vapor deposition
KiKang Kim (Kong Group, MIT)

Mechanisms for photocurrent in graphene
Justin Song (Levitov Group, MIT)
Location: Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G115 (map)
Sponsored by Havard CNS
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Friday, Feb 4 2011
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ MIT
Speakers:
Fabrication of Few-electron Carbon Nanotube Double Quantum Dots
Hugh Churchill  (Marcus Group, Harvard)

Coupling between Spin and Nanomechanical motion in Carbon Nanotubes
Mark Rudner (Halperin Group, Harvard)
Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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Fall 2010 Meetings

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Friday, Dec 17 2010
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers:
Quantum Hall Effect and Landau Level Crossing in Trilayer Graphene.
Thiti Taychatanapat  (Jarillo-Herrero Group, MIT)

Gigahertz Ambipolar Frequency Multiplier based on CVD Graphene
Han Wang (Palacios Group, MIT)
Location: Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G125 (map)
Sponsored by Havard CNS
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Friday, Nov 12 2010
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ MIT
Speakers:
Study of the electrostatic shielding and environmental interactions in CNTs by resonant Raman spectroscopy
Paulo Araújo  (Dresselhaus Group, MIT)

STM Imaging and Nanopatterning of Self-Assembled Organic Monolayers on Epitaxial Graphene
Qing Hua Wang (Strano Group, MIT)
Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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Friday, Oct 15th 2010
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers:
Quantum anomalous Hall state in bilayer graphene
Rahul Nandkishore (Levitov Group, MIT)

STM and STS study of CVD grown Graphene Nanoribbons
Xiaoting Jia (Dresselhaus Group, MIT)
Location: Harvard, Cruft 309
Sponsored by Harvard CNS
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BACON Day - June 25th, 2010 @ Boston University

BACON Day
June 25th, 2010 @ Boston University

Boston University
Florence and Chafetz Hillel House
213 Bay State Rd
Boston, MA

Invited Speakers:
Dmitry Abanin, Princeton
Xu Du, Stonybrook
Jens Martin, Harvard
Tomas Palacios, MIT
Anna Swan, Boston University
Andrea Young, Columbia University

Please contact Antonio Castro Neto with any questions or comments
phone: 617-353-6116
email: neto@bu.edu		 Schedule
09:00 - 09:35 - Coffee 
09:35 - 09:50 - Welcome by Antonio Castro Neto (BU) & Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT)

09:50 - 10:20 - Jens Martin (Harvard)
10:20 - 10:30 - Questions
10:30 - 11:00 - Anna Swan (BU)
11:00 - 11:10 - Questions
11:10 - 11:40 - Tomas Palacios (MIT)
11:40 - 11:50 - Questions

11:50 - 13:30 - Lunch

13:30 - 14:00 - Xu Du (Stonybrook)
14:00 - 14:10 - Questions
14:10 - 14:40 - Dmitry Abanin (Princeton)
14:40 - 14:50 - Questions
14:50 - 15:20 - Andrea Young (Columbia)
15:20 - 15:30 - Questions

15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee break

16:00 - 18:00 - Poster Session
18:00 - End

Spring 2010 Meetings

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Friday, April 9th 2010
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ MIT
Speakers:
Gate-tunable energy gap in suspended bilayer graphene
Monica Allen (Yacoby Group, Harvard)

Phonon lifetimes and thermal conductivity of graphene from first-principles
Nicola Bonini (Marzari Group, MIT)
Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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Friday, Feb 19th 2010
12:00pm-1:30pm
First 2010 BACON Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers:
Effective Transport Gap in Dual-gated Bilayer Graphene
Thiti Taychatanapat (Jarillo-Herrero Group, MIT)

Chemically Driven, Carbon Nanotube-Guided Thermopower Waves
Joel Abrahamson and Wonjoon Choi(Strano Group, MIT)
Location: Harvard, Maxwell Dworkin G125 (map)
Sponsored by Harvard CNS
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Fall 2009 Meetings

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Friday, Dec 11th 2009
12:00pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ MIT
Speakers:
Anisotropic Etching and Crystallographic Nanoribbons in Single Layer Graphene
Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi (Jarillo-Herrero Group, MIT)

Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes of Discrete Chirality
Xia Tian (Jasti Group, BU)
Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by the MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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Friday, Oct 23rd 2009
12pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers:
Fabrication of Low-disorder, Multi-gate CNT Device
Patrick Herring (Marcus Group, Harvard University)

Electronic and Regio- Selective Chemistry of Graphene for Nanoelectronics
Richa Sharma(Strano Group, MIT)
Location: Pierce Hall 209
Sponsored by Harvard CNS
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Friday, Sept 25th 2009
12pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ MIT
Speakers:
Strain Engineering of Graphene's Electronic Structure
Vitor M. Pereira (Castro-Neto Group, Boston University)

Imaging Coherent Transport in Mesoscopic Graphene
Jesse Berezovsky(Westervelt Group, Harvard University)
Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by the MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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BACON Day - June 18th, 2009 @ Boston University

June 18th was our first BACON Day, a full day conference on carbon hosted by Boston University.
Videos from the event can be found here

BACON Day
June 18th, 2009 @ Boston University

Boston University
Life Science and Engineering (LSE) Building
Room B01
24 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215

Invited Speakers:
Vikas Berry (Kansas State University)
Bennett Goldberg (BU)
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT)
Jiwoong Park (Cornell University)
Kenneth Shepard (Columbia University)
Amir Yacoby (Harvard)http://maps.google.com/places/us/cambridge/oxford-st/29/-pierce-hall

Please contact Antonio Castro Neto with any questions or comments
phone: 617-353-6116
email: neto@bu.edu		 Schedule
09:00 - 09:15 - Welcome by Antonio Castro Neto (BU)
09:15 - 09:45 - Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT)
09:45 - 09:55 - Questions

09:55 - 10:30 - Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00 - Amir Yacoby (Harvard)
11:00 - 11:10 - Questions
11:10 - 11:40 - Bennett Goldberg (BU)
11:40 - 11:50 - Questions

11:50 - 13:30 - Lunch

13:30 - 14:00 - Vikas Berry (KSU)
14:00 - 14:10 - Questions
14:10 - 14:40 - Jinwoong Park (Cornell)
14:40 - 14:50 - Questions
14:50 - 15:20 - Ken Sheppard (Columbia)
15:20 - 15:30 - Questions

15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee break

16:00 - 18:00 - Poster Session
18:00 - End

Spring 2009 Meetings


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Friday, May 1st 2009
12pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers:
Biaxial strain in graphene adhered to shallow trenches
Constanze Metzger (Goldberg/Swan Groups, Boston University)

Graphene frequency multiplier devices
Han Wang (Palacios Group, MIT)
Location: Harvard, Lunch @ LISE Room 303, Seminar @ Pierce Hall, Room 209
Sponsored by Harvard CNS
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Friday, February 27th 2009
12pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ MIT
Speakers:
Transport Along p-n junctions in Graphene
Jimmy Williams (Marcus's Group, Harvard)

Klein Backscattering and Fabry-Perot Interference in Graphene Heterojunctions
Mark Rudner (CMT, Harvard)
Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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Friday, January 23th 2009
12pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers:
Softening of the radial breathing mode in metallic carbon nanotubes
Hootan Farhat (Kong's Group, MIT)

Electron - Electron interactions in graphene bilayers
Silvia Viola Kusminskiy (Castro-Neto's Group, Boston University)
Location: Harvard LISE Room 303
Sponsored by Harvard CNS
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Fall 2008 Meetings

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Friday, December 19th 2008
12pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ MIT
Speakers:
"Efficient Manipulation of Zigzag and Armchair Edges in Graphene Nanoribbons by Joule Heating"
Xiaoting Jia (Dresselhaus Group, MIT)

Crystallographic etching and nanoribbon formation in single layer graphene
Leonardo Campos (Jarillo-Herrero's Group, MIT)
Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331)
Sponsored by the MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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Friday, November 14th 2008
12pm-1:30pm
BACON Meeting @ Harvard
Speakers:
"Graphene by CVD: growth and integration with other materials"
Alfonso Reina (Kong's Group, MIT)

"Spin relaxation in 13C nanotube double quantum dots"
Hugh Churchill (Marcus' Group, Harvard)
Location: Harvard Northwest Building, 52 Oxford Street, Room: 425  (map)
Sponsored by Harvard CNS
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Friday, October 17th  2008
12pm-1:30pm
First BACON Meeting
Speakers:
Electronic transport in suspended bilayer graphene.
Ben Feldman  (Yacoby's Group, Harvard)

Impurities and their effect on the electronic structure and transport of graphene
Vitor Pereira (Castro-Neto's Group, Boston University)

Location: MIT Duboc Seminar Room, 4-331 (Building 4, 3rd floor, room 331).
Lunch & Drinks sponsored by the MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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