Technical Seminar
(PReSS)

The Post-doc/Recent Staff Seminar series aims to hold an informal hour-long seminar about once a month where 2 post-docs or recently-hired (within the past 5 years) staff give a general talk about a research topic they are working on or are interested in (25 minutes each), followed by a period of questions/discussion. This is meant to be an informal and collegial atmosphere for people to present their research and ideas. Attendance is open to all who are interested. Through attendance and participation, researchers in various organizations and fields across Sandia gain exposure, learn about other work being performed at Sandia, share ideas, and network.

October 2009

Topic	Speaker:	Date:
Mitigating Emissions While Preserving Efficiency – The Paradox of Modern Diesel Engine	Isaac Ekoto	October 29

September 2009

Topic	Speaker:	Date:
Fascinating Foam: Diverse Applications, Unexpected Properties, and Characterization Challenges	Jamie Kropka	September 24

June 2009

Topic	Speaker:	Date:
Wetting Dynamics on Micropatterned Surfaces	Melissa Yaklin	June 8

May 2009

Topic	Speaker:	Date:
Color Detection Using Chromophore-Nanotube Hybrid Devices	Xinjian Zhou	May 28

April 2009

Topic	Speaker:	Date:
Capillarity, Wettability and Interfacial Dynamics in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells	Partha P. Mukherjee	April 30

March 2009

Topic	Speaker:	Date:
Terascale Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Combustion: Capabilities and Limits	Chun Sang Yoo	March 26

January 2009

Topic	Speaker:	Date:
Laser ignition thresholds and reaction dynamics in energetic multilayer foils	Joel P. McDonald	January 29

October 2008

Topic	Speaker:	Date:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Meditations on Textured Lead-Free Ferroelectrics Diesel spray and combustion: how to get better fuel economy while maintaining clean exhaust gases?	Michael R. Winter & Sanghoon Kook	October 30

August 2008

Topic	Speaker:	Date:
Synchrotron Photoionization Mass Spectrometry Measurements of Kinetics and Product Formation in the Allyl Radical (H2CCHCH2) Self-Reaction Porous and alumina-filled epoxies: polymer composites from the micron to nanometer length scale	Talitha M. Selby & Robert Klein and Joseph Lenhart	August 28

June 2008

Topic	Speaker:	Date:
Forces on functionalized nanoparticles from atomistic simulation Performance of a high-order projection scheme for AMR computations of chemically reacting flows	Matthew Lane & Cosmin Safta	June 26

May 2008

Topic	Speaker:	Date:
Explosives under Shock: Simulating PETN using Reactive Molecular Dynamics Developing a Laser-Based Ionization Approach for Detecting Explosives with Ion Mobility Spectrometry	Joanne Budzien & Jeffrey Headrick	May 29

April 2008

Topic	Speaker:	Date:
Dual-Pump CARS Probing of Meter-Scale Turbulent Pool Fires Rapid Diffusion of Magic-Size Islands by Combined Glide and Vacancy Mechanisms	Kraig Frederickson & Obiama Uche	April 23

March 2008

Topic	Speaker:	Date:
Electrochemical Solution Growth of III-Nitrides A Molecular Beam Mass Spectrometric Study of a Laminar Tetrahydrofuran Flame	Karen Waldrip & Tina Kasper	March 26

January 2008

Topic	Speaker:	Date:
Coupled Piezoelectric and Electrical Properties of Individual ZnO Nanorods Microfluidic Cell Sorting Using Photonic Forces for Host-Pathogen Studies	D.A. Scrymgeour & Thomas Perroud	January 31