Biophysics/Condensed Matter

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Jan14
SCI 352
12:15pm
Huijuan Wang
University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
Special day, Monday; special time 12:15pm Pizza served at 12 noon
Epidemics & Opinion Models on Interdependent Networks Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Jan15
SCI 352
12:15pm
Susannah Moat
University College, London
Special day, Tuesday; special time 12:15pm Pizza served at noon
"Can Online Data Anticipate Economic Behaviour"? Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Jan23
SCI 328
2:00pm
Adrian Feiguin
Northeastern University
Note special time: 11 AM
Toward a unified description of spin incoherent behavior at zero and finite temperatures Host: Michael Kolodrubetz
Jan25
SCI 352
12:00pm
Verner Thorsmolle
Rutgers University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Singlet condensation on an antiferromagnetic background in CaMn2Sb2 Host: Richard Averitt
Jan28
SCI 352
12:00pm
David Hu
Georgia Tech University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM; Note special day
Active control of friction by snakes Host: Sidney Redner (Chair)
Jan30
SCI 328
2:00pm
Dr. Igor Mazets
Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Atominstitut, TU Wien and Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2:00 PM
Description of phase fluctuations in atomic quasicondensates via the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic process Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Feb11
SCI 352
12:00pm
C-K Peng
Harvard Medical School
Pizza served at 11:45 AM Note: Special day
A Physicist's Approach to Quantify Health and Disease Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Feb15
SCI 352
12:00pm
James Bird
Boston University, Mechanical Engineering
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Bouncing drops and draining bubbles Host: Rama Bansil
Mar01
SCI 352
12:00pm
Matt Foster
Rice University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Quantum quench in p+ip superfluids: Non-equilibrium topological gapless state(s) Host: Richard Averitt
Mar04
SCI 352
12:00pm
Nobuyasu Ito
University of Tokyo
Special day, Monday; Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Thermal engine revisited Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Mar22
SCI 352
11:00am
Paola Gallo
University of Rome III
Note special time: 11 AM; Pizza served at 10:45 AM
The physics underlying cryoprotection Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Mar29
SCI 352
12:00pm
Dr. Julien Tailleur
Université Paris Diderot
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Statistical Physics of Active Matter Host: Sidney Redner (Chair)
Apr05
SCI 352
12:00pm
Dr. Titus Neupert
Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Topology and Quantum Geometry in Flat Electronic Bands Host: Claudio Chamon
Apr12
SCI 352
12:00pm
Katharina Ribbeck
MIT
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Mucin biopolymers prevent biofilm formation by retaining bacteria in the free-swimming state Host: Rama Bansil
Apr12
SCI 352
3:00pm
Kirill Korolev
MIT
Special Time 3:00 PM/ Changed to SCI352
Ecology and evolution of cancer tumors and expanding populations
Apr17
SCI 328
2:00pm
Moshe Goldstein
Yale University
2:00 PM
Quantum Impurity Physics with Microwave Photons Host: Claudio Chamon
Apr19
SCI 352
12:00pm
Robert A. Kaindl
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Ultrafast spectroscopy of electronic dynamics in complex materials Host: Richard Averitt
Apr26
SCI 328
12:00pm
Bob Suter
Carnegie Mellon University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM; Note Room SCI328
High Energy X-ray Diffraction Microscopy: Direct Observation of 3D Materials Responses Host: William Klein
May01
SCI 352
12:00pm
Meir Plotnik 
Sackler School of Medicine (TAU) ; Science Director Ctr. of Advanced Technologies in Rehabilitation, Sheba Medical Center Tel Aviv, Israel
Special day, Wednesday, May 1 Pizza served at 11:45 AM
CANCELLED: TBA Host: Plamen Ivanov
May01
SCI 328
2:15pm
Anushya Chandran
Princeton University
2:15 PM
Equilibration and coarsening in the quantum O(N) model Host: Michael Kolodrubetz
May03
SCI 352
12:00pm
Jak Chakhalian
University of Arkansas
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Whither the Correlated Oxide Interface Host: Richard Averitt
May08
SCI 328
2:00pm
Onuttom Narayan
UC Santa Cruz
2:00 PM
Energy transport in low dimensional systems Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
May13
SCI 328
11:00am
Zi Yang Meng
Louisana State University
Note special day/time: Monday, May 13, 2013 11 AM
Dynamical cluster quantum Monte Carlo studies on strongly correlate electron systems Host: Thomas Lang
May22
SCI 328
2:00pm
Alioscia Hamma
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Topological Entropy after a Quantum Quench Host: Claudio Chamon