Physics (Internal)
Biophysics/Condensed Matter
August 1st, 2007 to July 31st, 2008. Previous/next year.
Aug23 SCI 352
11:00am |
Chi Wu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
| Ultrafiltration of macromolecules through nanopores | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Sep13 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Prof. Janusz Holyst,
Warsaw University of Technology
| Phase Transitions in Social Systems | |
Sep14 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Ganpathy Murthy
University of Kentucky
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| "Disorder, Interactions and Crossovers in Quantum Dots" | |
Sep21 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Constanze Metzger
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| "Opto-Mechanics of deformable Fabry-Perot Cavities" | Host: Bennett Goldberg |
Sep28 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Sri Sastry
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| Length Scales in Glass Forming Liquids | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Oct12 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Ophelia Tsui
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| "Equilibrium Pathway of Spin-Coated Polymer Films" | |
Oct17 SCI 352
11:00am |
David Huse
Princeton University
| Many-body localization | |
Oct18 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Yariv Kafri
Technion, Israel
Special Day and Time: Thursday at 12 Noon
| "Steady-State Chemotactic Response in E. coli" | Host: Amit Meller |
Oct19 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Giulio Biroli
CEA-Saclay
Pizza served at 11:30m AM
| "Glass transition: a new kind of critical phenomenon?" | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Oct19 SCI 352
1:30pm |
Wokyung Sung
Pohang University of Science and Technology, S. Korea
| "Biological Dynamics of Crossing over Barriers" | Host: Amit Meller |
Oct23 SCI 352
2:00pm |
Felix von Oppen
Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin
Special Day & Time: Tuesday at 2 PM
| "Two-electron resonance in the Coulomb blockade" | Host: Antonio Castro Neto |
Oct26 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Peter Silvestrov
Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| "Electrostatics of Graphene Strips" | Host: Antonio Castro Neto |
Nov02 SCI 352
11:00am |
Laurent Saminadayar
CNRS, Grenoble
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| "Quantum Coherence in Networks" | Host: Raj Mohanty |
Nov09 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Natali Gulbahce
Northeastern University/Harvard Medical School
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| "Tailoring the metabolism against mutations" | Host: William Klein |
Nov16 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Antonio Castro Neto
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| "Drawing conclusions from graphene" | |
Nov16 SCI 352
1:30pm |
Brigita Urbanc
Boston University
| “Ab Initio Discrete Molecular Dynamics Approach to Studies of Alzheimer’s Amyloid β-Protein Folding and Assembly” | |
Nov27 SCI 352
10:00am |
Nozomi Ando
Cornell University
| "The pressure stability of biomacromolecules" | |
Dec04 PRB 595
11:00am |
Dr. Uli Rant
Walter Schottky Institut, Technische Universität München
Special Location and Time: PRB 595 at 11 AM
| "Shaking biomolecules with oscillating DNA layers" | |
Dec07 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Mike Aziz
Harvard University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| "Nanoscale morphology control using ion beams" | Host: Karl Ludwig |
Dec07 SCI 352
1:30pm |
Dušanka Janežič
National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Pizza served
| "Molecular Modeling- A New Approach" | Host: Brigita Urbanc |
Jan18 SCI 352
2:00pm |
Plamen Ivanov
Boston University
| Statistical Physics in Physiology and Medicine | |
Jan31
|
Wilhelm Zwerger
Technical University of Munich
| "BCS and beyond: new insights into fermionic superfluids from ultracold gases" | |
Feb01 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Karyn Le Hur
Yale University
| Charge Fractionalization and Transport in low dimensions | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Feb08 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Piers Coleman
Rutgers University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| Heavy Fermion Superconductors: the little spin that could | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Feb12 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Mikito Koshino
Columbia University, Tokyo Inst. of Technology
Special Condensed Matter Seminar/ Special Day & Time
| Electronic properties of graphene multilayers | Host: Antonio Castro Neto |
Feb15 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Bruce Normand
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| Quantum Magnets under Pressure | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Feb22 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Mohit Randeria
The Ohio State University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| Superconductivity in Doped Mott Insulators | Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov |
Mar05 SCI 352
11:30am |
Sebastian Doniach
Stanford University
Special Day and Time, Wednesday at 11:30 AM
| The forces which stabilize small functional RNAs | |
Mar07 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Eric Chason
Brown University
| Influence of non-equilibrium conditions on thin film stress and surface morphology evolution | Host: Karl Ludwig |
Mar07 PRB 595
3:00pm |
Andre Geim
University of Manchester
Special Seminar: Special Time & Location
| Graphene: Exploring Carbon Flatland | Host: Antonio Castro Neto |
Mar20
|
Claudio Castelnovo
Univeristy of Oxford, UK
| Magnetic monopolies in spin ice | |
Mar21 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Raefael Garcia
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| Wetting transitions and forces in adsorbed films: new phenomena and surprising results | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Mar21 SCI 352
1:30pm |
Adam E. Cohen
Harvard University
| Controlling Complex Molecules with Light | Host: Mikkel Jensen |
Mar28 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Adrian Parsegian
NIH
Pizza served at 11:30 AM; joint event, with BioPhysics
| Measuring DNA interactions in vitro and in viruses. | Host: Evan Evans |
Apr02 PRB 595
3:00pm |
Dr. Andrea C. Ferrari
University of Cambridge, UK
Special Condensed Matter Seminar/ Special Day & Time
| "Raman Spectroscopy and Optical Phonons of Graphene and Nanotubes" | |
Apr03
|
Jerome Dorignac
Boston University
| "Vibration spectrum of a multi-element nanomechanical structure" | |
Apr04 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Royce Zia
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| Modeling Protein synthesis by Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Processes (TASEP) | Host: William Klein |
Apr04 SCI 352
1:30pm |
M. Carter Cornwall
Boston University School of Medicine
| Early Steps of the Visual Cycle: Production and Clearance of Retinol in Vertebrate Rod and Cone Photorecetors | Host: Kenneth Rothschild |
Apr11 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Leonid Glazman
Yale University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| 1D Fermions and Bosons beyond the Luttinger Liquid Picture | Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov |
Apr11 SCI 352
1:30pm |
Debra Auguste
Harvard University
| Embryoid Body Shell Formation Reduces Diffusive Transport: new strategies fro stem cell differentiation | Host: Mikkel Jensen |
Apr16 PRB 595
10:00am |
Marcia Barbosa
Institute of Physics, Rio Grande University, Brazil
Special Biophysics Seminar in PRB 595 at 10 AM
| Which type of potentials exhibit the anomalous behavior of water? | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Apr17 SCI 328
1:30pm |
Vitor M. Pereira
Boston University
| The Coulomb problem in graphene and its connections with QED in strong fields | |
Apr18 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Simon Trebst
Microsoft Station Q
| Collective states of interacting anyons: Things golden | |
Apr18 SCI 352
1:30pm |
Mark C. Williams
Northeastern University
| Force-induced single molecule DNA interactions: From small molecule binding to HIV replication | Host: Mikkel Jensen |
Apr25 SCI 328
12:00pm |
Ray Ashoori
MIT
Pizza served at 11:30 AM Notice Room Change - SCI 328
| Precise Measurement of Electronic States Above and Below the Fermi Level | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Apr30
|
Victor Gurarie
University of Colorado
| A many particle generalization of the Landau-Zener problem | |
May01
|
Cenke Xu
Harvard University
| Novel quantum magnetism in Sp(4) and SU(4) spin systems | |
May08
|
Sandro Stringari
University of Trento
| Effects of polarization, rotation and tunneling in the unitary Fermi gas | |
May15
|
Kris Helmerson
NIST
| Persistent currents and vortices: The physics of "two-dimensional" Bose-Einstein condensates. | |
May22
|
Victor Galitski
University of Maryland
| Quantum Fluctuations in two-dimensional superconductors |