Ever wondered h?ow MRI machines work? Want to learn about the underlying physics? ?Excited to meet one of the trailblazers in magnetic resonance research? ? Then come to the Physics and Astronomy Colloquium with ALEXANDER PINES Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry and Faculty Affiliate, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, UC Berkeley FOLLOWING THE COLLOQUIUM, STICK AROUND FOR A STUDENT MEET AND GREET WITH PROFESSOR PINES! TODAY: Friday, November 7, 2014 Colloquium: 3:30pm-4:50pm Student Meet and Greet: immediately following colloquium BOTH in Wilder 104 Title: "Ups and downs of nuclear spins: Hyperactive NMR and MRI" Abstract: Contemporary NMR and MRI instruments are typically HUGE, immobile, hazardous and $$$. I shall describe recent advances in our laboratory aimed at translating some of the capabilities of NMR and MRI onto mobile microfluidic chips. Components of the converging methodologies include spin hyperpolarization, sensitive detection by means of SQUIDs and laser atomic magnetometers, the development of functionalized NMR biosensors, and the implementation of NMR and MRI at zero to ultralow magnetic fields. Professor Pines is a winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Irving Langmuir Award of the American Chemical Society. He is a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences; a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been Lord Todd Professor at Cambridge; Hinshelwood Professor at Oxford and Loeb Lecturer in Physics at Harvard.?