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IRG1,

December 20 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Oded Farago "Elasticity of entropy-dominated systems"

IRG3,

December 14 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Daniella Goldfarb "In-situ Investigation of the Formation of Mesoporous Materials via the Dynamics and Ordering of Spin-probes"

IRG1,

December 6 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Venkat Ganesan "Some theoretical and computational studies in the science and engineering of advanced materials"

IRG4,

December 5 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Pascal Favreau "Initiation and propagation of the seismic rupture: frictional instability in elastodynamics"

IRG2,

November 21 at 2:30PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Giancarlo Cappellini "An efficient DFT-LDA method to calculate quasiparticle energies in semiconductors and insulators"

IRG4,

November 14 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Anael Lemaitre "Chaos-memory effect in the droplet model for spin-glasses"

IRG2,

November 13 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053, Johannes A. Lercher "Alkane sorption and catalysis in molecular sieves"

IRG1,

November 8 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Enrique Lopez-Cabarcos "Reaction-Diffusion Systems and Pattern Formation"

IRG3,

November 7 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Charles G. Wade "Dynamics of Perfluoropolyether Thin Films on Amorphous Carbon Substrates by NMR"

IRG4,

November 7 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Gary Leal "Recent Studies of Droplet Coalescence in Flow-Reactive Blending"

IRG1,

November 1 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Giovanni Zocchi "Force Measurements on Single Molecular Contacts Through Evanescent Wave Microscopy"

IRG3,

October 31 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Pratima Rangarajan "Optical Imaging of Surface Damage"

IRG4,

October 31 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Kim Olsen "Dynamic modeling of the 1992 Landers earthquake"

IRG1,

October 27 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Diethelm Johannsmann "Dynamic Viscoelastic Profiles of Soft Polymer Interfaces via Noise Analysis of SFM Cantilevers"

IRG1,

October 25 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Henri Orland "Polyelectrolytes: titration, adsorption and forces"

IRG1,

October 18 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Helen Hansma "Spider webs and lipases: new directions for probe microscopy of biomaterials"

IRG1,

October 11 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Yufang Hu "Characterization of the Adhesion Between Model Myelin Membranes by the Surface Forces Apparatus"

IRG1,

October 4 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Jianjun Cheng "Synthesis and Studies of Optically Active Poly-b-peptides"

IRG4,

October 3 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Jacob Israelachvili "Some Interesting New Findings on the Adhesion of Surfaces"

IRG1,

September 27 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Andy W.C. Lau "Electrostatics of Highly-Charged Surfaces: Fluctuation and Correlation Effects"

IRG4,

September 26 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Glenn Fredrickson "Field-Theoretic Polymer Simulations"

IRG2,

September 20 at 4PM, Chemistry 4606, Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig "Multiple Bonds to Silicon Properties, Reactions, and the Interplay Between Theory and Experiment"

IRG4,

September 19 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Carl Robert "Fatal Epidemics through Percolation: A Dynamical Model Leading to 'HOT' States"

IRG4,

September 12 at noon, Broida Room 3033, David Pine "Aging in Particle-Reinforced Polymer Gels"

IRG2,

September 11 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Helmut Schubert "Biopolymers in Ceramic Processing and Application"

IRG2,

September 8 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Christian Serre "Synthesis and Characterization of Micro- and Mesoporous Titanium Phosphates"

IRG2,

September 5 at noon, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Wolfgang M. Sigmund "Surface Forces and Colloidal Processing of Ceramics"

IRG2,

September 5 at 11AM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Nitin P. Padture "Novel Concepts in Contact-Damage Resistant Ceramics"

IRG1,

July 19 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Kurt Kremer "Multiscale Modeling of Dense Polymer Systems"

IRG2,

June 23 at 10AM, MRL Room 2053, N.M.Butt "Micro-Macro property correlations in cubic materials"

IRG4,

June 13 at noon, Broida Room 6204, Delphine Gourdon "Friction anisotropies of monolayers as measured by AFM"

IRG3,

June 2 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Wolfgang Knoll "Bio-Electronic Signal Transduction in Membrane/ Cell-Transistor Hybrid Systems"

IRG4,

May 30 at noon, MRL Room 2053, Eberhard Bodenschatz "Wax Tectonics: Experimental studies of Morphological Pattern-Formation at Mid Ocean Ridges"

IRG1,

May 24 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. James Kindt "Phase transitions of self-assembling semiflexible polymers"

IRG1,

May 17 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Samir Mitragotri "Physico-Chemical Methods for Enhancing Transdermal Drug Delivery"

IRG1,

May 10 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Rafael Tadmor "Friction and Relaxation at Surfaces Bearing End-Tethered Chains"

IRG3,

May 9 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Manfred Wilhelm "Fourier transform rheology to characterize mechanicaly materials in the non-linear regime"

IRG2,

May 8 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053, Sean C. Christiansen "Molecularly Ordered Frameworks in Layered Silicate/Surfactant Mesophases"

IRG3,

May 8 at 2:30PM, MRL Room 2053, Drs. Jeff Lackey and Jerry White "Stayin' Alive in Polymer Chemistry - A Snapshot of an Industrial Career"

IRG1,

May 3 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Uri Raviv "Interaction between PEG brushes in aqueous media: Soft Surface modifications for implants and biomaterials"

IRG1,

May 2 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Virginie Ponsinet "Self-organization of Amphiphilic Copolymers"

IRG3,

May 2 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, G. Josse "Coupling of bulk and surface properties in adhesion of acrylic pressure sensitive adhesives on silicone release coatings"

IRG4,

May 2 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Prof. Deborah Fygenson "Dynamic Instability of Microtubules"

IRG1,

April 26 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Alison Butler "Self-Assembling Amphiphilic Peptides from Marine Bacteria and their Biological Role Mediating Iron Acquisition"

IRG4,

April 25 at noon, Broida Room 3033, John Doyle "Power Laws, Highly Optimized Tolerance, and Congestion Control on the Internet"

IRG2,

April 24 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053, Manfred Puchinger "Gallium Nitride from Liquid Precursors"

IRG2,

April 20 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Francis Taulelle "Recent development in NMR crystallography of microporous compounds: Topological and non-topological bonds"

IRG2,

April 20 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Russell Morris "Strategies for the design of porous inorganic-organic hybrid solids"

IRG4,

April 18 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Ned Wingreen "Designability of Protein Structures"

IRG2,

April 17 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053, John A. Ripmeester "Applications of Hyperpolarized Xe NMR to the Study of Materials and Processes"

IRG2,

April 17 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. C.N.R. Rao "Serendipity in the synthesis of new inorganic materials"

IRG2,

April 17 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Lucy Bull "Characterization of nanoporous materials by 17O NMR"

IRG3,

April 12 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Julia S. Higgins "The Effect of Flow on the Mixing and De-Mixing of Polymers"

IRG2,

April 11 at 11AM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Geoffrey Maitland "Materials Science Issues in Oil Recovery Processes"

IRG2,

April 10 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053, António Moreira dos Santos "On the Epitaxy and Phase Equilibria in Layered Rare Earth Manganates"

IRG1,

April 5 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Martin Castelnovol "Formation of polyelectrolyte multilayers"

IRG2,

March 31 at 11AM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Qiming Zhu "Methane Reformation with CO2 on Ni/ZrO2 Catalysts"

IRG2,

March 29 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Peter Day "Some Molecular Magnets and Superconductors: Supramolecular Chemistry and Physics"

IRG1,

March 22 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Gerald Brezesinki "Interactions of phospholipids with phospholipases studied in monolayers at the air-water interface"

IRG2,

March 13 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053, Brian A. Adair "Open-Framework Antimony(III) Phosphates & Phosphonates"

IRG4,

March 13 at noon, Broida Room 6204, Venkat Ganesan "A (Toy) Mechanico-Chemical Model for the Rheology of Block Copolymers"

IRG1,

March 8 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Catherine Barentin "Shear-thickening in dilute solutions of wormlike micelles"

IRG3,

March 8 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Daniel DeKee "Some Interesting Aspects of Viscoelastic Behavior"

IRG4,

March 6 at noon, Broida Room 6204, James Langer "Failure Mechanisms in Amorphous Solids Made of Small-Molecules"

IRG3,

March 2 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Johannes Eichmanns "Photoaddressable Polymers for Optical Data Storage"

IRG1,

March 1 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Delphine Gourdon "Friction anisotropies of monolayers as measured by AFM and their correlations to molecular order"

IRG4,

February 29 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Walter Goldburg "Turbulence in Soap Films"

IRG1,

February 23 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Mike Wyrsta and Andy Nowak "Characterization and study of PEG functionalized poly(lysine)"

IRG2,

February 14 at 5:30PM, EII Pavilion, Prof. Sir Harold Kroto "Science Broadcasting for Television and the Internet - More information on the Vega web-site"

IRG4,

February 14 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Ed Kramer "Fracture of Semicrystalline Block Copolymers - in Bulk and at Interfaces"

IRG1,

February 11 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Pierre G. de Gennes "Strange glass transitions in polymer films"

IRG1,

February 11 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Francoise Brochard "Opening and closure of pores in vesicles"

IRG1,

February 9 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Johannes Kindt "Advanced AFM techniques for the study of single molecule biological systems"

IRG1,

February 3 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Meredith Betterton "Collapsing Bacterial Cylinders: Singularities in a Petri Dish"

IRG1,

February 2 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Claudine E. Williams "Hydrophobic Polyelectrolytes: a Story of Pearls, Strings and Necklaces"

IRG4,

February 1 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Rava da Silveira "Rippling Instability of a Collapsing Bubble"

IRG2,

January 31 at noon, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Manfred Rüehle "Quantitative TEM Studies in SrTiO3"

IRG1,

January 26 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Dr. Timothy L. Bullock "Structural studies of high-affinity binding in a transfer RNA - enzyme system"

IRG4,

January 25 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Herbie Levine "Viscoelastic lattice models of brittle fracture"

IRG1,

January 12 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. Do Yoon "Conformation and Dynamics of Polymers in a Thin Film and at a Surface"

IRG3,

January 11 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053, Prof. R.J. Young "Analysis of Fibre and Composite Deformation Using Raman Spectroscopy"

IRG4,

January 11 at noon, Broida Room 3033, Tom Jordan "The strange behavior of earthquakes on oceanic transform faults"

IRG2,

January 10 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053, Sang-Eon Park "Hydroxylation and H2O2 Generation with Fe- and/or Pd-Incorporated Zeolites"

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