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Illinois BIOE 498 BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology
26 Oct 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Rashid Bashir, Taher A. Saif, Ann M Nardulli, Catherine J. Murphy
BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology will provide an introduction to basic concepts of nanotechnology in mechanobiology and in cancer. This is a highly interdisciplinary field of research where knowledge from various disciplines will be presented and...
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Illinois ECE 460 Optical Imaging
03 Nov 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Gabriel Popescu
Introduction to visible and infrared imaging systems covering fields, optical elements, electronic sensors, and embedded processing systems. Lectures and labs cover active and passive illumination, ranging, holography, polarization, coherence, spectroscopy, and sampling with an emphasis on...
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Illinois ECE 498AL: Programming Massively Parallel Processors
11 Aug 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Wen-Mei W Hwu
Spring 2009 Virtually all semiconductor market domains, including PCs, game consoles, mobile handsets, servers, supercomputers, and networks, are converging to concurrent platforms. There are two important reasons for this trend. First, these concurrent processors can potentially offer more...
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Illinois ECE 598EP Hot Chips: Atoms to Heat Sinks
27 Jan 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Eric Pop
This course pursues a parallel treatment of electrical and thermal issues in modern nanoelectronics, from fundamentals to system-level issues. Topics include energy transfer through electrons and phonons, mobility and thermal conductivity, power dissipation in modern devices (CMOS, phase-change...
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Illinois ECE598XL Semiconductor Nanotechnology
14 Jun 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Xiuling Li
Lectures and discussion on current topics of semiconductor nanotechnology building block formation, characterization and device applications. Group IV, III-V and II-VI semiconductor nanowires, nanotubes and related nanophotonic and nanoelectronic device science and technology will be examined,...
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Illinois MatSE485/Phys466/CSE485 - Atomic-Scale Simulation
27 Jan 2009 | | Contributor(s):: David M. Ceperley
THE OBJECTIVE is to learn and apply fundamental techniques used in (primarily classical) simulations in order to help understand and predict properties of microscopic systems in materials science, physics, chemistry, and biology. THE EMPHASIS will be on connections between the simulation...
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Illinois ME 498NF: Introduction of Nano Science and Technology
01 Sep 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Nick Fang
Introduction to Nano Science and Technology This new elective course is intended to be a gateway for the senior and graduate students to the range of special graduate courses in nanoscience and technology for engineers. The course consists of topics in fundamental nanoscale science, plus an...
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Illinois Nano EP Seminar Series
28 Jan 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Akash Garg, Albert Liao, Omar N Sobh
The Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics (NANO-EP) seminar focuses on topics that span the fields of nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, nanobioelectronics, and others with biweekly talks. The seminar's goal is to promote interaction and discussion in the nano field, particularly amongst the...
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Illinois Phys550 Molecular Biophysics
25 Jan 2010 | | Contributor(s):: Klaus Schulten
Physical concepts governing the structure and function of biological macromolecules; general properties, spatial structure, energy levels, dynamics and functions, and relation to other complex physical systems such as glasses; recent research in biomolecular physics; physical techniques and...
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Illinois Physics 498: Introduction to Biological Physics
07 Apr 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Paul R Selvin
We will apply simple yet powerful ideas of physics to gain some understanding of biology. (What is the inertia of a bacteria and how does this affect its behavior?) We will begin with atoms, move to molecules, then macromolecules, then cells, and finally whole systems. For example, how do we...
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MSE 498: Computational Materials Science and Engineering
30 Mar 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Andrew Ferguson
This new course will give students hands-on experience with popular computational materials science and engineering software through a series of projects in: electronic structure calculation (e.g., VASP), molecular simulation (e.g., GROMACS), phase diagram modeling (e.g.,...
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[Illinois] Biophysics 401: Introduction to Biophysics
17 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Paul R Selvin
Major concepts of physics inherent to biological systems. Basics of biology, including protein and DNA structure and their organization into cells with a focus on single molecule biophysics. Major experimental techniques including x-ray diffraction, optical and magnetic traps, and fluorescence...
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[Illinois] ECE 398: Electronic and Photonic Devices
07 Feb 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Kent D Choquette
Fall Semester, 2010 A first course on active and passive photonic devices and applications. Optical processes in dielectric and semiconductor materials discussed including waveguide propagation, confinement, electrical junctions, and emission/absorption. Active and passive photonic components...
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[Illinois] ECE 564 Modern Light Microscopy
25 Apr 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Gabriel Popescu
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[Illinois] ECE 564: Modern Light Microscopy
11 Apr 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Gabriel Popescu
Current research topics in modern light microscopy: optics principles (statistical optics, Gaussian optics, elastic light scattering, dynamic light scattering); traditional microscopy (bright field, dark field, DIC, phase contract, confocal, epi-fluorescence, confocal fluorescence); current...
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[Illinois] Introduction to Bioinformatics
24 Jan 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Saurabh Sinha
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[Illinois] Physics 550 Biomolecular Physics
05 Sep 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Klaus Schulten, Taekjip Ha
Physical concepts governing the structure and function of biological macromolecules; general properties, spatial structure, energy levels, dynamics and functions, and relation to other complex physical systems such as glasses; recent research in biomolecular physics;...
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[Illinois] Physics 598BP: Experimental Biophysics
11 Apr 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Paul R Selvin
This course provides training in advanced biophysical techniques through hands-on laboratory exercises and weekly lectures as background. Topics will cover general optical and fluorescence spectroscopy, introduction to various microscope techniques - wide field, bright field, DIC,...