Spring 2006 Faculty Seminars
Leadership Development Seminar:
The Role of Deans
February 24, 2006
Noon – 2:00 pm
Skelton Conference Center
Join Dean Sharon Quisenberry of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Associate Dean Ed Henneke of the College of Engineering for lunch and an informal discussion of the roles, responsibilities, and rewards of academic administrators.
Leadership Development Seminar:
The Roles of Department Heads and Center Directors
March 17, 2006
7:30 – 9:30 am
Skelton Conference Center, Preston's Restaurant, Old Guard Room
Join Jack Finney, Ishwar Puri, Valerie Hardcastle and Janet Rankin for breakfast and a discussion of the roles of department heads and research center directors at Virginia Tech.
AdvanceVT Visiting Scholar Dr. Theresa Mayer
Lunch & Seminar
April 21 , 2006
Lunch: noon - 1:30 pm
Skelton Conference Center, Preston's Restaurant
Seminar: 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Pamplin Building, Rm 2030
Electrical and Spectroscopic Characterization of
Nanoscale Metal-Molecule-Metal Junctions
Considerable attention has been devoted to developing an understanding of the mechanisms that dominate electrical transport in molecular junctions comprised of single and small ensembles of molecules and the role of molecular structure in nonlinear and switching phenomena. In this talk, Dr. Mayer will present an overview of her recent research on the electrical and spectroscopic characterization of molecular junctions inserted along the length and at the intersection of Au and Pd metal nanowires (i.e., in-wire and crossed-wire junctions) fabricated by template-directed synthesis and electrofluidic nanowire assembly.