Physics (Internal)
Biophysics/Condensed Matter
August 1st, 2008 to July 31st, 2009. Previous/next year.
Sep12 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Ehud Altman
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Pizza served at 11:45
| Hidden order in low dimensional Bose insulators and possible implications for quantum magnets | |
Sep19 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Vidya Madhavan
Boston College
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Superconducting gaps and Pseudogaps: spectroscopic evidence for two competing, coexisting phases below Tc | |
Sep23 SCI 328
12:00pm |
Hong Ding
Institute of Phsyics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Pizza will be served at 11:40AM
| The New Iron-Based High Tc Superconductors | |
Oct03 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Senthil Todadri
MIT
Pizza served at 11:45AM
| Critical Fermi surfaces and non-fermi liquid metals | |
Oct10 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Michael Pustilnik
Georgia Tech
| One-dimensional fermions beyond the Luttinger liquid paradigm | Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov |
Oct15 SCI 352
11:00am |
Ivan Brovchenko
University of Dortmund
Special Biophysics Seminar in SCI 352
| Physics of Peptide Aggregation | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Oct17 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Matthew Grayson
Northeastern University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Novel boundaries for quantum Hall fluids: The bent quantum Hall junction | |
Oct24 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Nuh Gedik
MIT
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Ultrafast structural dynamics observed with atomic scale resolution | |
Oct30 SCI 352
3:00pm |
Eric Dufresne
Yale University
| Optical Tweezers Shed Light on Cell Biology | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Oct31 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Alioscia Hamma
Perimeter Institute
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Lieb-Robinson bounds and the speed of light from topological order | |
Nov13 SCI 352
3:00pm |
Bulbul Charkraborty
Brandeis University
| What can minimal models tell us about the function of biopolymers? | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Nov20 SCI 352
3:00pm |
Al Crosby
UMASS Amherst
| Wrinkling, Crumpling, and Snapping Polymer Surfaces | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Nov21 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Nick Bonesteel
Florida State University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Braiding and Entanglement in Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States | Host: Anders Sandvik |
Dec04 SCI 352
3:00pm |
C. Austen Angell
Arizona State University
| Control of protein folding and misfolding in ionic liquid media, and a conjecture on early earth biology | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Dec05 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Xi Lin
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Computing viscosity of supercooled liquids | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Jan15 SCI 352
3:00pm |
Allison L. Stelling
SUNY Stony Brook
| Vibrational studies of biological chromophores: Raman spectroscopy of the Yellow Fluorescent Protein and ultrafast infrared spectroscopy of the bacterial blue light sensing protein, AppA. | Host: Kenneth Rothschild |
Jan22 SCI 352
3:00pm |
Michael Hagan
Brandeis University
| Viruses as adaptable containers--modeling the simultaneous assembly and encapsulation of flexible polymers and solid nanoparticles by viral capsid proteins. | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Feb04 SCI 352
12:30pm |
Marcia Barbosa
University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Special Biophysics Seminar; special day and time; pizza served at 12 noon
| Connection between Interaction Potential and Phase Behavior of Water | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Feb05 SCI 352
3:30pm |
Fiorenzo Omenetto
Tufts University
Time Change: Talk from 3:30 to 4:30
| Silk Optics | Host: Richard Averitt |
Feb06 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Brian LeRoy
Arizona State University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Local electronic properties of graphene | Host: Antonio Castro Neto |
Feb12 SCI 352
3:00pm |
Plamen Ivanov
Boston University
| Scale-invariant aspects of physiologic dynamics | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Feb13 12:00pm |
Ying Ran
UC Berkeley
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Helical Metal Inside a Topological Band Insulator | |
Feb26
|
Joseph Thywissen
University of Toronto
| Ultracold fermions and bosons in Toronto | |
Feb26 SCI 352
3:00pm |
Wonmuck Hwang
Texas A & M
| Mechanical Design of the Kinesin Motor | Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli |
Feb27 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Narayanan Menon
UMASS Amherst
| Wrinkling, folding and crumpling of thin elastic sheets | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Mar12
|
Alessandro Silva
ICTP, Triste, Italy
| The statistics of the work done in quantum quenches | |
Mar12 SCI 352
12:30pm |
Orion Penner
University of Calgary
SPECIAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
| Connection between DNA sequence alignment and information theoretic similarity measures. | |
Apr01
|
Mukund Vengalattore
Cornell University
| Supersolidity in a quantum degenerate dipolar spinor gas | |
Apr02
|
Eduardo Fradkin
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
| Entanglement Entropy at 2D quantum critical points and topological fluids | |
Apr03 PRB 595
11:30am |
Erik Luijten
Northwestern University
Special Combined Biophysics, Condensed Matter, Computational Science Seminar
| Self-assembly of rod-like polyelectrolytes: from materials to cystic fibrosis | Host: William Klein |
Apr09
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Sasha Chernyshev
University of California, Irvine
| Frustrated, degenerate, and breaking apart: the Bright Side of Life in triangular lattice | |
Apr10 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Walter Reisner
Brown University
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| Conformational Sculpting of DNA: Nanofluidics for Single Molecule DNA Analysis and Manipulation | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Apr16
|
Krishnendu Sengupta
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
| Aspects of many-body physics in graphene | |
Apr17 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Dr. Jon Celli
Wellman Center for Photomedicine, MGH, Harvard Medical School
Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| Studying the effects of tumor microenvironment on migration, assembly and therapeutic efficacy in a 3D model of ovarian cancer | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Apr23
|
Lars Fritz
Harvard University
| Hydrodynamic transport properties of graphene | |
May08 12:00pm |
Eric Akkermans
Yale University
Joint seminar with CNN Pizza served at 11:30 AM
| Dicke superradiance and Anderson localization of photons | Host: Bennett Goldberg |
May14 SCI 512
12:00pm |
Srikanth Sastry
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India
Joint seminar with Chemistry; Pizza served
| Discovery of a Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition in Supercooled Silicon (an analog of supercooled water) | |
Jun18 SCI 512
4:00pm |
Dr. Marie-Claire Bellissent
Lab Leon Brillouin, CEN Saclay (Paris), FRANCE
SPECIAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
| Structure and Dynamics of Water in Biological Systems | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Jun23 SCI 352
4:00pm |
Otto Glatter
University of Graz, Austria
SPECIAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
| Nanostructured Lipid Droplets (Poster) | Host: Rama Bansil |
Jul31 SCI 352
11:45am |
Scott Kirkpatrick
Hebrew Univerisity (formerly IBM)
Pizza served at 11:45
| Making Really Hard Modeling Problems Much Easier | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Jul31 SCI 352
3:00pm |
Atsushi Takahara
Kyushu University, Japan
| Design of Soft Interfaces through Biomimetic Approach | Host: Ophelia Tsui |