Events
MRL Seminars for 2001
IRG1,December 12 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Tom Chou
"Ribosome diffusion and mRNA conformations in translational regulation"
IRG4,December 11 at noon, Physics Dept. Trailer,
Dr. Raoul Zana
"Dynamics of self-assembling amphiphilic nanostructures"
IRG1,December 5 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Itamar Borukhov
"Aggregation of biopolymers by inter-chain linkers"
IRG1,November 28 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Jay T. Groves
"Spontaneous pattern formation in lipid membranes and cell signaling"
IRG1,November 21 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Julia Kornfield
"Making them Better and Faster: Flow-Enhanced Crystallization of Polymers"
IRG4,November 20 at noon, Broida Room 3033,
Fabio Baldessari
"Thin film dynamics in flow induced drop coalescence"
IRG1,November 14 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Michael Dennin
"Domain coarsening in a pattern: how do stripes grow?"
IRG4,November 13 at noon, Broida Room 3033,
Camilla Voeltz
"Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a sedimenting suspension"
IRG1,November 7 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Leo Radzihovsky
"Ring Pattern Dynamics in Smectic-C Films"
IRG4,November 6 at noon, Broida Room 3033,
Prof. Jacob Israelachvili
"Coalescence, rupture and other instabilities of liquid-liquid and liquid-vapor interfaces"
IRG1,October 31 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Dmitri (Mitya) Chklovskii
"How to optimize your brain: A wiring economy principle"
IRG4,October 30 at noon, Broida Room 3033,
Vittorio Badalassi
"Diffuse Interface Methods for Analysis of Liquid-Liquid Surface Instabilities"
IRG1,October 24 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Rafael Tadmor
"Polymer physics of confined systems: adsorbed, grafted andnon-adsorbed polymers between surfaces"
IRG4,October 23 at noon, Broida Room 3033,
Anael Lemaitre
"Rearrangements and dilatancy for sheared dense materials"
IRG1,October 17 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. John Toner
"Soap, dirt, jello, and magnetic superconductors: A nasty recipefor some tasty physics"
IRG1,October 10 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Mary Pugh
"Long-wave unstable thin film equations - singularities, steady states, and long-time behavior"
IRG4,October 9 at noon, Broida Room 3033,
Jason Benkoski
"How Random Copolymers Strengthen Polymer-Polymer Interfaces"
IRG1,October 3 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Mehran Kardar
"Anomalous Dynamics of Translocation"
IRG2,October 2 at 1PM, MRL Room 2053,
Angela M. Belcher
"Evolving Biomolecular Control of Semiconductor and Magnetic Nanostructures"
IRG1,September 26 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Robijn Bruinsma
"Molecular Dynamics and the Microscopics of Motor Proteins"
IRG3,August 15 at 11AM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Mathieu Joanicot
"Polyelectrolyte Amphiphilic diblock polymers"
IRG3,July 27 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Marc Hamm
"Numeric implementation of a dynamic mean field theory for liquid crystalline polymers"
IRG2,July 13 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Jianfang Wang
"Semiconductor Nanowires as Optoelectronic Building Blocks: Synthesis, Physics, and Devices"
IRG1,June 13 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Heather D. Maynard
"Synthesis and Efficacy of New Biomaterials Prepared by Olefin Metathesis Reactions"
IRG4,June 12 at noon, Broida Room 3033,
Dave Pine
"Jamming in non-colloidal suspensions"
IRG3,June 6 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053,
U. Sternberg
"3D Solid State Structure Refinement using NMR Chemical Shifts"
IRG2,May 21 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053,
Edwin Kroke
"From non-oxide gels to novel (ultra)hard materials"
IRG3,May 9 at 4PM, Chemistry 4606,
Prof. Tim Patten
"Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Nanoparticles and Composites"
IRG1,May 9 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. William M. Gelbart
"More on DNA Condensation: Sub-critical Concentrations of Polyvalent Counterions"
IRG2,May 7 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. T. Wagner
"Thin Metal Overlayers on Oxides: Epitaxy and Chemical Reactions"
IRG1,May 2 at 4PM, Broida Room 3033,
Mahn Won Kim
"Structure of DNA and Cationic Lipid Monolayer Complexes at an Interface"
IRG1,April 25 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Stephen Quake
"Single Molecule Biophysics: FemtoNewton Force Spectroscopy, Microfluidics, and Nanophotonics"
IRG1,April 19 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Seth Fraden
"Engineering Entropy: Building Order with Disorder"
IRG2,April 19 at noon, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Wolfgang Pompe
"Formation of Metallic Nanostructures on Biomolecular Templates"
IRG2,April 18 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. C.N.R. Rao
"Self-assembly of small and large systems: The wide domain of weak interactions"
IRG2,April 17 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Christian Schoen
"Energy landscapes and their application to the determination, prediction and understanding of the structure of solids"
IRG4,April 17 at noon, Broida Room 3033,
Bud Homsy
"Some open problems in viscoelastic flow at high Reynolds number"
IRG3,April 12 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Manfred Wilhelm
"FT-Rheology, a Sensitive Way for Non-linear Mechanical Characterization of Polymers"
IRG1,April 10 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. David G. Grier
"Macroionic Mysteries Shed New Light on Vortex Matter Interactions"
IRG2,April 6 at 3:30PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Osamu Terasaki
"Direct Structure Determination by Electron Microscopy"
IRG2,April 6 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Florence Babonneau
"Various characterization techniques applied to self-assembled silica films and organosilicates powders"
IRG3,April 6 at 1PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Olli Ikkala
"Self-Organized Comb-Shaped Supramolecules: A Concept for Functional Polymeric Materials"
IRG2,April 5 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Sang-Eon Park
"Catalytic activation of CO2 over nano-designed catalysts"
IRG4,April 3 at noon, Broida Room 3033,
Bruce Shaw
"The Physics of Earthquakes: Integrating Theory and Observations"
IRG1,March 29 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Peter Schwartz
"Molecular Transport from an AFM tip: Writing on the molecular scale with everything from nonpolar molecules to DNA strands"
IRG2,March 29 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Hellmut Eckert
"Dipolar NMR Spectroscopy of Disordered Materials"
IRG4,March 20 at noon, Broida Room 3033,
Mehran Kardar
"Pattern formation in mixtures of microtubules and motors"
IRG2,March 19 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Harald P. Fritzer
"Are we always using the correct symmetry groups? -- Some thoughts on rare-earth optical spectroscopy"
IRG1,March 14 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Erik Winfree
"Algorithmic Self-Assembly of DNA"
IRG1,March 7 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. David R. Nelson
"Viruses, Vesicles and Multi-Electron Bubbles: The Thomson Problem Revisited"
IRG3,March 6 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Anthony J Ryan
"Using polymer self assembly to build photonic devices and molecular machines"
IRG4,March 6 at noon, Broida Room 3033,
Ed Kramer
"New Results on Deformation and Fracture of Block Copolymers"
IRG1,February 28 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Tom C. Lubensky
"Topological Defects, Interactions, and Chaining in Nematic Emulsions"
IRG4,February 20 at noon, Broida Room 3033,
Mike Falk
"A critical evaluation of dynamic fracture simulations using cohesive surfaces"
IRG3,February 16 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053,
G. Julius Vancso
"Towards Chemistry on Single Molecules with AFM"
IRG1,February 14 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Tsvi Tlusty
"Defect-induced Phase Separation in Dipolar Fluids"
IRG1,February 7 at 4PM, ITP Room 1003,
Dr. Haim Diamant
"Topography and instability of biphasic monolayers"
IRG4,February 6 at noon, Broida Room 3033,
Steve Girvin
"Introduction to Noise Spectra (with applications to glassy dynamics in solids and Bose Einstein Condensates)"
IRG4,January 30 at noon, Broida Room 3033,
C.Y. (Herbert) Hui
"A theory for the single filament composite test"
IRG1,January 24 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. John A. Frangos
"The Membrane Fluidity Theory of Mechanochemical Signal Transduction in Cells"
IRG4,January 16 at noon, MRL Room 2053,
Jim Langer
"Microstructural shear localization in plastic deformation of amorphous solids"
IRG1,January 12 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Edwin L. Thomas
"Block Copolymer Based Technologies"
IRG1,January 10 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Scott I. Simon
"Cellular Rock and Roll; Tethering and Signaling through Leukocyte Selectins"
IRG3,January 5 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Ulrich Suter
"Modeling Materials Behavior - Atomistic Approaches and Beyond"

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