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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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