Events
MRL Seminars for 2003
IRG4,December 17 at 1PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. J. S. Langer (with M. Falk and L. Pechenik)
"Recent Developments in Shear-Transformation-Zone Theories of Amorphous Plasticity:  Applications to Metallic Glasses"
IRG1,December 10 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Donald J. Jacobs - CANCELLED
"Predicting Protein Stability from a Free Energy Decomposition: A Physicist's Quest for Missing Entropy"
IRG4,November 26 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Yosang Yoon
"The effect of compatibilizer on the flow-induced coalescence of two drops"
IRG4,November 12 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Bumjoon Kim
"Interfacial instability induced by the reaction of end-functionalized polymers"
IRG1,November 5 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Jianjun Cheng
"Cyclodextrin-Based Polymers for the Delivery of Broad Ranging Therapeutics"
IRG4,November 5 at 1PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Russell Thompson
"The Elastic Properties of Block Copolymer Systems"
IRG1,October 27 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Christophe Tribet
"Amphiphilic polymers and proteins: from proteins stabilization to light-responsive assemblies"
IRG1,October 22 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Jianzhong Wu
"A Unified Density Functional Theory of Complex Fluids"
IRG4,October 22 at 1PM, MRL Room 2053,
Fabio Baldessari
"Flow-Induced Drop Coalescence: a Theoretical and Numerical Study"
IRG1,October 15 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Giovanni Zocchi
"Bubbles in DNA melting "
IRG3,October 9 at 1PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Clive Bosnyak
"Linking catalyst through process to properties of polyolefins to create money"
MRL-Wide, October 9 at 10AM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Kan Takeshita
"Analysis of Photo-Functional Materials by Time-Resolved Spectroscopy"
IRG1,October 8 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Raz Jelinek
"Novel supramolecular chromatic assemblies for studying bio-membrane processes"
IRG2,October 7 at 11AM, MRL Room 2053,
J. Mannhart
"Possible Solution of the Grain Boundary Problem for Applications of High-Tc Superconductors"
IRG1,October 1 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob
"Why bacteria go complex; higher flexibility for better adaptability"
IRG3,September 24 at 3PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Charles L. McCormick
"Synthesis of Precisely Controlled Stimuli-Responsive Block Copolymers via RAFT - Opportunities for Self Assembly in Aqueous Media"
IRG1,September 24 at 1PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Roland Faller
"Interactions of Phospholipid bilayers with disaccharides and alcohols "
IRG2,September 2 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Hans-Beat Bürgi
"Exploring Molecules in the Solid: Order, Disorder, Statics and Dynamics"
IRG2,August 28 at 11AM, MRL Room 2053,
David Williams
"Nanometer-scale Analysis of Grain Boundary Segregation in Metals and Alloys "
IRG2,August 18 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Gavin Lawes
"Magnetocapacitance and Magnetic Fluctuations"
IRG2,August 11 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Katharine Page
"NPDF: Studying Structural Features on the Nanometer-Scale"
IRG3,July 31 at 4PM, Chemistry 4606,
Taeghwan Hyeon
"Synthesis of Monodisperse Nanocrystals and Nanoporous Carbon Materials"
IRG2,July 15 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Vinayak P. Dravid
"Teaching “Old” Materials “New” Tricks: Site-Specific Nanopatterning of Functional Inorganics"
IRG1,July 11 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Gerard C. L. Wong
"Complex behavior of simple ions near biological polyelectrolytes"
IRG1,July 2 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Alex Levine
"Semiflexible Networks: Non-affine deformation and rigidity"
IRG4,June 17 at noon, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Andre Moreira
"Optimal phase sampling and the sign problem"
IRG1,June 11 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Herbert Levine
"A Physics-B(i)ased View of Dynamic Fracture"
MRL-Wide, June 11 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Craig J. Hawker
"A Bottoms-up Approach to Nanostructures – Application of Organic and Polymer Chemistry to the Next Generation of Computers"
IRG1,June 4 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Oded Farago
"Membrane elasticity - computational modeling and theoretical study"
IRG1,May 28 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Alexander Grosberg
"Statistical Mechanics of Polymer Knots"
IRG1,May 21 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Enrico Bellomo
"The liquid crystalline behavior of an a-helical polypeptide in aqueous solution and the ordered assembly of amphiphilic rod-rod copolypeptides into vesicles"
IRG3,May 20 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Ellen Reister
"Phase separation kinetics in thin polymer films"
IRG2,May 19 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. M. A. Subramanian
"Designer Materials Chemistry: Magnetics to Fluoroaromatics"
IRG1,May 14 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Ben Vollmayr-Lee
"Late Stage Coarsening: Theoretical and Computational Developments"
IRG4,May 6 at noon, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Doug Durian
"The shapes of craters and pebbles"
IRG4,April 29 at noon, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Delphine Gourdon and Dr. Anael Lemaitre
"Transitions from stick-slip to smooth sliding friction: how toreconcile theory and experiment"
IRG1,April 23 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Annette Zippelius
"Shear Relaxation in Near-Critical Gels"
IRG4,April 22 at noon, MRL Room 2053,
Hugo Perfettini
"A relation between postseismic relaxation and aftershocks "
MRL-Wide, April 14 at 1:30PM, MRL Room 2053,
J. K. Norskov
"Density functional calculations of bonding at surfaces, in biomolecules, and in metallic alloys"
IRG4,April 8 at noon, MRL Room 2053,
Eric Dunham
"Dynamic Growth of Shear Cracks through Strength Heterogeneities: Energy Focusing Mechanisms and Transition to Supershear Propagation Velocities"
IRG1,April 7 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Steffen Berg
"Contact Mechanics with Quartz Crystal Resonators"
IRG1,March 19 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Markus Deserno
"Elastic deformation of a fluid membrane upon colloid binding"
MRL-Wide, March 17 at 1:30PM, MRL Room 2053,
Giulia Galli
"Quantum Simulations of Solids, Liquids and Nanostructures"
MRL-Wide, March 13 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Mark Robbins
"Friction and Lubrication From Atomic to Macroscopic Scales"
MRL-Wide, March 12 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Chris G. Van de Walle
"Hydrogen in Semiconductors, Insulators and Solutions"
MRL-Wide, March 3 at 5PM, EII Pavilion,
Prof. Sir John Meurig Thomas
"The Genius of Michael Faraday"
IRG2,February 28 at 2PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Sang-Eon Park
"Nanostacking of MFI Zeolite using Nanoglue via Microwave"
IRG2,February 27 at 5PM, MRL Room 2053,
Elliott B. Slamovich
"Hydrothermal Processing of BaxSr1-xTiO3 Powders and Thin Films"
IRG1,February 26 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Itamar Borukhov
"Linker-Assisted Biopolymer Aggregation"
IRG3,February 25 at 1:30PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Luisa Andruzzi
"Control of Surface Properties Using Fluorinated Polymer Brushes Produced by Surface-Initiated Controlled Radical Polymerization"
IRG1,February 19 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Everett Lipman
"Investigating the Behavior of Single Protein Molecules with Resonance Energy Transfer"
IRG4,February 18 at 12:30PM, MRL Room 2053,
Lance Eastgate
"Dynamics of Large-Scale Plastic Deformation and the Necking Instability in Amorphous Solids"
IRG4,February 11 at 12:30PM, MRL Room 2053,
Leonid Pechenik
"Energy Dissipation in the Shear-Transformation-Zone Theory of Plastic Deformation"
IRG4,February 5 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Takashi Taniguchi
"Shape Deformation and Phase Separation of Two-Component Vesicles"
IRG4,January 28 at 1PM, MRL Room 2053,
Andrew Belmonte
"Flow Instabilities of Viscoelastic Surfaces: from Cusp to Fold or Torus"
IRG1,January 24 at 11:30AM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Tim Salditt
"2D x-ray waveguides: towards a x-ray nanobeam"
IRG4,January 21 at 12:30PM, MRL Room 2053,
Dr. Alexander Morozov
"Weakly non-linear instabilities in polymer flows"
IRG3,January 16 at 1PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Geoffrey W. Coates
"Synthetic Polymers from Nature: New Catalysts for the Synthesis of Biodegradable Polymers from Renewable Resources"
IRG1,January 15 at 4PM, MRL Room 2053,
Prof. Herbert Waite
"Metals and mechanical mettle in marine biomolecular materials"
IRG3,January 9 at 1PM, MRL Room 2053,
Vinny Manoharan
"Crystals and clusters of micron-sized spheres: Optical materials assembled from colloidal dispersions"

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