Biophysics/Condensed Matter

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August 1st, 2010 to July 31st, 2011. Previous/next year.
Aug26
SCI 352 12:15pm
Michael C. Muennix
University of Duisberg, Germany
Pizza served at 12 Noon
Statistical physics approach to complex economic correlations Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Sep10
SCI 352 12:00pm
Leonid Levitov
MIT
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Adatom Ordering, Bragg Scattering and Tunable Band Gap in Functionalized Graphene Host: Claudio Chamon
Sep17
SCI 352 12:00pm
Peter Lu
Harvard University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Universal Gelation of Particles with Short-ranged Attraction Host: Ophelia Tsui
Sep24
SCI 352 12:00pm
Claudio Chamon
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Quantum mechanical and information theoretic view on classical glass transitions Host: Ophelia Tsui
Oct01
SCI 352 12:00pm
Steve Simon
Oxford University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Topological Phases of Matter and Why You Should Be Interested Host: Claudio Chamon
Oct04
SCI 352 1:00pm
Prof. Nobuyasu Ito
University of Tokyo
Pizza served at 12:30, talk at 12:45 PM
Diversifying dynamics and their universality: Eco-evolution and Econo-evolution Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Oct08
SCI 352 12:00pm
Jane Lipson
Dartmouth College
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Thin film polymeric glasses: From top to bottom Host: Ophelia Tsui
Oct15
SCI 352 12:00pm
Kari Dalnoki-Veress
McMaster University
CANCELLED: Polymer Droplets on the Nanoscale Host: Ophelia Tsui
Oct25
SCI 352 12:30pm
Anders Nilsson
Stockhom University
Pizza served at 12:15PM
X-ray shines light on some of the water puzzles Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Oct28
SCI 352 12:30pm
Dr. Revati Kumar
Boston University, Chemistry Dept.
Pizza served at 12:15PM
Atomistic Models of Water Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Oct29
SCI 352 12:00pm
Masud Haque
Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany
Pizza served at 11:15 AM/seminar at 11:30 AM
Interaction induced hierarchy of edge-locking effects Host: Claudio Chamon
Nov05
SCI 352 12:00pm
Francesco Zamponi
ENS, Paris
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Bose-Einstein condensation in Quantum Glasses Host: Claudio Chamon
Nov12
SCI 352 12:00pm
Peter Young
UC Santa Cruz
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
The efficiency of the quantum adiabatic algorithm Host: Anders Sandvik
Nov19
SCI 352 12:00pm
Sean Xinsheng Ling
Brown University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Study Hard Condensed Matter Physics in Soft Colloidal Crystals Host: Ophelia Tsui
Nov30
SCI 352 12:15pm
Dr. Tobias Preis
University of Mainz (Germany)
Pizza served at 12 Noon, Special Seminar
Can Physical Science offer insights into switching phenomena in financial markets? Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Dec03
SCI 352 12:00pm
Dr. Shmuel Rubinstein
Harvard University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Droplet impact and the far-from-equilibrium dynamics of wetting Host: Ophelia Tsui
Dec10
SCI 352 12:00pm
Gerardo Ortiz
Indiana University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Algebraic approach to dualities and its applications Host: Claudio Chamon
Jan28
SCI 352 12:00pm
Meredith Betterton
University of Colorado
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Theory of motor proteins that change the length of filaments Host: Sidney Redner (Chair)
Feb04
SCI 352 12:00pm
Sid Redner
Boston University, Physics Dept.
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
The Role of Reinforcement on Social Dynamics Host: Ophelia Tsui
Feb07
SCI 352 12:00pm
Roberto Andrade
University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
Special Event, Monday Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Complex Networks and Biological Physics Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Feb11
SCI 352 12:00pm
Dr. Joe Woicik
NIST
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Local Structure Determination in Strain-Engineered Electronic Thin Films Host: Karl Ludwig
Feb14
SCI 352 12:00pm
Professor Dieter Vollhardt
Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, University of Augsburg
Special Event, Monday Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Electronic Correlations in Solids: From Models to Materials Host: Andrei Ruckenstein
Feb18
SCI 352 12:00pm
Jennifer Schwarz
Syracuse University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Correlated percolation Host: Sidney Redner (Chair)
Feb25
PRB 595 12:00pm
Kipton Barros
Los Alamos National Lab
Joint CCS/Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Dielectric effects in self-assembly of binary colloid mixtures Host: William Klein
Mar10
SCI 352 12:00pm
Paola Gallo
University of Rome III
Special Event, Thursday, Pizza served at 11:45AM
Novel Physics of Glassy Water Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Mar17
SCI 352 12:00pm
Eugenio E. Vogel
Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
Special Event, Thursday, Pizza served at 11:45AM
Underlying physics relating magnetism with economics--and air pollution Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Mar24
PRB 595 12:30pm
Glynn Holt
Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
Special Event, Thursday,Special Location, PRB595, Pizza served at 12:15PM
Fire and Ice: Torturing Water with Lasers and Bubbles Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Mar25
3:30pm
Mark Bradley
Colorado State University
Joint Condensed Matter Seminar with MSE Colloquium at 15. St. Mary's Street, Room 105; refreshments at 3:15
Spontaneous Nanoscale Pattern Formation Induced by Ion Bombardment of Solid Surfaces Host: Karl Ludwig
Apr01
SCI 352 12:00pm
Oana Malis
Purdue University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Band structure engineering for novel infrared semiconductor lasers Host: Karl Ludwig
Apr08
SCI 352 12:00pm
Aditi Mitra
New York University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Quenched Dynamics in Interacting one-dimensional systems Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Apr15
SCI 352 12:00pm
George Zimmerman
Boston University, Physics
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
"100 Years of Superconductivity" Host: Ophelia Tsui
Apr22
SCI 352 12:00pm
Pedram Roushan
Princeton University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Visualizing Surface States of Topological Insulators with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Host: Armin Rahmanisisian
Apr28
SCI 352 12:30pm
Dr. Eric Pinnick
Boston University, Physics
Water Group Special Event, Thursday,12:30 PM; Pizza served at 12:15PM
Getting water to melt at 273 K
Apr29
SCI 352 12:00pm
Theo Nieuwenhuizen
Institute for Theoretical Physics, UvA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Elucidating the quantum measurement problem Host: Paul Krapivsky
May05
SCI 352 12:30pm
Paul Matsudaira
National University Singapore
Water Group Special Event, Thursday,12:30 PM; Pizza served at 12:15PM
SPECIAL CONDENSED MATTER BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
May26
PRB 595 11:45am
Alain Arneodo
Laboratoire Joliot Curie et Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Note: Thursday at 11:45 AM;PRB 595; Pizza served at 11:30 AM
Nucleosome positioning by excluding genomic energy barriers Host: Plamen Ivanov
May27
SCI 352 12:00pm
Pablo Jensen
University of Lyon
Special Event, Friday, May 27, Noon
New Ideas in social science from the physical sciences Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Jun20
SCI 504 12:00pm
Paola Gallo
University of Rome III
Water Group Special Event; Pizza served at 11:45 AM; note location in Chemistry
Water's adventures in the supercooled wonderland: insights from aqueous solutions Host: H. Eugene Stanley