Biophysics/Condensed Matter

August 1st, 2006 to July 31st, 2007. Previous/next year.
Sep06
SCI 352
2:00pm
Dr. Michael Rosenblum
Potsdam University
 Controlling collective activity in a population of neurons
Sep08
SCI 352
12:00pm
E. Barkai
 TBA Host: Sidney Redner
Sep15
SCI 352
12:00pm
E. Hankiewicz
 TBA Host: Antonio Castro Neto
Sep22
SCI 352
12:00pm
Patrick Lee
 TBA Host: Claudio Chamon
Sep29
SCI 352
12:00pm
Arshad Kudrolli
 Clustering and Dynamics of Granular Rods, Polymers and Magnets Host: William Klein
Oct06
SCI 352
12:00pm
Andy Mackenzie
 TBA Host: Claudio Chamon
Oct12
SCI 352
12:00pm
Professor Francoise BROCHARD
Institute Curie, Paris
 Dynamics of Detachment of Real and Artificial Cells Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Oct12
SCI 107
3:00pm
Professor Pierre-Gilles DE GENNES
Institute Curie, Paris
 Neural growth via self organization of axons Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Oct13
SCI 352
12:00pm
Special joint seminar
 TBA
Oct20
SCI 352
12:00pm
Rama Bansil
 Kinetics of Phase Transitions in Block Copolymers Host: William Klein
Oct27
SCI 352
12:00pm
Chris Baurele
 Electron Coherence in Mesoscopic Kondo Wires Host: Raj Mohanty
Nov03
SCI 352
12:00pm
Mark Sutton
McGill University
 Using X-ray Speckle to Test Dynamical Scaling Host: Karl Ludwig
Nov03
SCI 352
1:30pm
Srikanth Sastry
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
 Gelation, Phase Separation and dynamical arrest in fluids
Nov17
SCI 352
12:00pm
Lorenza Viola
Darmouth College
 Dynamical decoupling techniques for coherent quantum control: Recent developments Host: Raj Mohanty
Nov17
SCI 352
1:30pm
Jay Tang
Brown University
 Biophysical studies of a fast swimming, chemotactic, and super sticky bacterium
Dec01
SCI 352
12:00pm
Chris McConville
Department of Physics, University of Warwick
 Indium Nitride: The Extreme III-V Semiconductor Material Host: Kevin Smith
Dec15
SCI 352
12:00pm
Sudip Chakravarty
 TBA Host: Antonio Castro Neto
Jan26
SCI 352
12:30pm
B.I. Shkolvskii
University of Minnesota
 Ion transport in biological ion channels and silicon nanopores: No life without entropy
Feb02
SCI 352
12:00pm
Corey S. O'Hern
Yale University
 Are Mechanically Stable Hard Particle Packings Equally Likely?
Feb09
SCI 352
12:00pm
Mathias Steiner
Tübingen University, Germany
 Optical Control of Molecular Spontaneous Emission
Feb16
SCI 352
12:00pm
P. Sodano
University of Perugia, Italy
 Boundary Field theory Approach to Superconducting Quantum Circuits
Feb23
SCI 352
12:00pm
Gabriel Popescu
G.R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, MIT
 Nanoscale cell membrane fluctuations quantified by optical interferometry
Mar02
SCI 352
12:00pm
Nikolai Prokofev
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
 Superfluid disorder in quantum solids
Mar23
SCI 352
12:00pm
Wan Kyu Park
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 Point-contact spectroscopy of heavy-fermion superconductors and metals
Mar23
SCI 352
1:30pm
Gregg Jaeger
Boston University
 Decoherence, Entanglement and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Apr05
SCI 352
3:30pm
Sean R. Garner
Harvard University
 Manipulating optical information with coherent matter-wave dynamics
Apr13
SCI 352
12:00pm
Smitha Vishveshwara
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 Inhomogeneous Phases of Bosons in Optical Lattices
Apr18
SCI 352
10:58am
Chandra Varma
University of California, Riverside
 Deriving Marginal Fermi-liquid: Solution of a Dissipative Quantum xy Model
Apr20
SCI 352
12:00pm
Gergely T. Zimanyi
UC Davis
 Freezing, aging, and coarsening in long range glasses
Apr27
SCI 352
1:30pm
Sid Redner
Boston University
 Dynamics of Microtubule Growth and Catastrophe
May18
SCI 352
11:00am
Deieter Heermann
University of Heidlberg
 A Model for Looped Biopolymers