Physics (Internal)
Biophysics/Condensed Matter
August 1st, 2009 to July 31st, 2010. Previous/next year.
Aug11 SCI 352
11:45am |
Oliver Bäumchen
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Pizza served at 11:45
| Slippage at the Solid/Liquid Interface - Probing the Hydrodynamic Boundary Condition by Dewetting Experiments | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Sep04 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Yariv Kafri
Technion, Israel
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Target location by proteins - typical vs. average times | Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov |
Sep10 PRB 595
3:30pm |
Dr. Ofer Feinerman
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center
Special Biological Physics Seminar
| Cellular heterogeneity and cooperativity shape decision-making in the immune system | |
Sep16
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Emanuele Dalla Torre
The Weizmann Institute
Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, SCI328, 1:50 PM
| Quantum critical states and phase transitions in the presence of non equilibrium noise | |
Sep23 SCI 352
2:30pm |
Eshel Ben-Jacob
Tel Aviv University
SPECIAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
| Learning from Bacteria about Information Processing | Host: Andrei Ruckenstein |
Sep30 1:45pm
|
Arnab Sen
Boston University
1:45 PM
| Geometrically frustrated magnets | |
Oct05 11:00am
|
Fabio Franchini
ICTP, Triste, Italy
Special date and time; Monday at 11 AM
| Nonlinear dynamics of spin and charge in spin-Calogero model | |
Oct14 5:00pm |
Roland Netz
Technical University of Munich
Pizza served
| Interfacial water and peptide adsorption | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Oct16 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Chanjoong Kim
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Polymer Monolayer Dynamics at the air/water interface | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Oct19 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Keiji Tanaka
Kyushu University, Japan
Special Day/Time; Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Aggregation States and Dynamics of Polymers at Non-solvent Interfaces | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Oct21 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Fabio Bruni
University di Roma Tre, Roma, Italy
Special Biophysics Seminar Pizza Served at 11:45 AM
| Protein hydration water and Other Water Puzzles | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Oct22 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Marcia Barbosa
University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Special CM Seminar
| Thermodynamic, Dynamic and Structural Anomalies for Shoulder-like potentials | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Oct23 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Elaine DiMasi
NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Early stage mineralization of extracellular matrix proteins probed at the nanoscale by synchrotron imaging methods | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Oct30 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Xin Zhang
Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Development of optical moiré based micro and nano biomechano sensor | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Nov02 12:00pm |
Professor Sasuke Miyazima
Chuba University, Japan
Pizza served at 11:45
| Scaling Laws in Biological Physics | |
Nov04 1:45pm
|
Erez Berg
Harvard University
| A Twisted Ladder: relating the Fe superconductors to the high Tc cuprates | |
Nov06 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Rick Averitt
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Terahertz Spectroscopy of Complex Materials | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Nov13 PRB 595
12:00pm |
Frank Alexander
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Special Joint CNN/ Condensed Matter Seminar PRB595
| Equation-free Implementation of Statistical Moment Closures | |
Nov20 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Fabio Marchesoni
Universita’ di Camerino, Italy
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Stochastic Resonance | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Dec03 PRB 595
3:30pm |
Jingshan Zhang
Harvard University
SPECIAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR, refreshments served
| How does entropy determine the number of protein types in a cell? | Host: Sidney Redner |
Dec04 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Zohar Nussinov
Washington University, St. Louis
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Topological and hidden orders in condensed matter systems: general approaches and thermodynamic considerations | Host: Sidney Redner |
Dec10 PRB 595
3:30pm |
Aleksandra Walczak
Princeton University
SPECIAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR, refreshments served
| Information processing in small gene regulatory networks and cascades | Host: Sidney Redner |
Dec16 1:00pm
|
Fabio Marchesoni
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Camerino, Italy
Cancelled due to illness
| CANCELLED: The Physics of Molecular Motors | |
Jan07 12:00pm
|
Marton Kormos
SISSA, Italy
12 Noon
| 1D Bose gas as the non-relativistic limit of the sinh-Gordon model | |
Jan14 PRB 595
3:30pm |
Tibor Antal
Harvard University
SPECIAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR, refreshments served
| Stochastic Models of Cell Maintenance and Tumor Progression | Host: Sidney Redner |
Jan20 3:15pm
|
Paul Krapivsky
Boston University
| Kinetics of Ising Ferromagnets: Sudden Quench to Zero-Temperature and Slow Cooling | |
Jan21 PRB 595
3:30pm |
Pankaj Mehta
Princeton University
SPECIAL BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR, refreshments served
| From biological networks to complex behaviors | Host: Sidney Redner |
Jan22 12:00pm |
Bennett Goldberg
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:45
| Spectral reflectance biosensing for label-free and dynamic detection of protein, DNA and viruses | Host: Claudio Chamon, Ophelia Tsui |
Jan28 PRB 595
3:30pm |
Dr. Paul Francois
Rockefeller University
Special Biological Physics Seminar
| Physics of evolution-development | Host: Sidney Redner |
Jan29 12:00pm |
Matthias Schneider
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:45
| Thermodynamic Triggered Transitions, Transport and Traffic in Biology Blood Clotting, Membranes and Nerves | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Feb03 SCI 352
3:00pm |
Nadav Shnerb
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Special Biophysics CM Seminar 3PM
| Power laws:pinning the tail on the shoulder | Host: Sidney Redner |
Feb05 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Zvonimir Dogic
Brandeis University
Pizza served at 11:45
| Chiral self-assembly of rod-like molecules with a twist | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Feb10 10:00am
|
Vanja Dunjko
University of Massachusetts, Boston
10:00 AM
| Lost cousins: Gell-Mann--Low renormalization group and Pad approximation | |
Feb12 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Sonia R. Bentes and Rui Menezes
University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Pizza served at 11:45
| Application of Statistical Physics to Complex Economical Systems | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Feb16 2:00pm
|
Assa Auerbach
Technion
2 PM
| Superconductivity and Conductivity of Hard Core Lattice Bosons | |
Feb17 10:00am
|
Lode Pollet
Harvard University
10:00 AM
| Suppression of the critical temperature for superfluidity near the Mott transition: validating a quantum simulator | |
Feb19 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Connie Roth
Emory University
Pizza served at 11:45
| Anomalous Structural Relaxation in Thin Polymer Films | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Feb19 SCI 352
2:00pm |
Dr. Rudolf Podgornik
NIH
Special Seminar, Refreshments served
| Effects of osmotic stress on DNA packing and capsid stability in simple viruses | Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli |
Feb22 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Anders Nilsson
Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accellerator Laboratory and Stockholm University, Sweden
Special Seminar, Monday, Feb. 22 Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| X-ray shines light on the water mystery | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Feb24 10:00am
|
Flavio Nogueira
Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany
10:00 AM
| Quantum critical behavior of deconfined spinons | |
Feb26 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Anatoli Polkovnikov
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:45
| Quantum dynamics in closed Hamiltonian systems | |
Mar05 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Scott Milner
Pennsylvania State University
Pizza served at 11:45
| Rotator phases and nucleation in polyethylene | Host: Sidney Redner |
Mar08 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Gerald H. Pollack
University of Washington
Special Biophysics CM Seminar, Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| WATER AND LIFE: The Role of Energy | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Mar24 10:00am
|
Nic Shannon
University of Bristol
10:00 AM
| A quantum liquid with deconfined fractional excitations in three dimensions | |
Mar25 10:00am
|
Lilach Goren
Weizmann Institute
| Destruction of Cuprate Superconductivity with Current: a Variational Study | |
Mar26 10:00am
|
Sebastian Huber
Weizmann Institute
| The inverted kagome lattice: frustrated bosons without superexchange | |
Apr02 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Rama Bansil
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:45
| Gelation of stomach mucus and its relevance to motility of the ulcer causing bacterium | |
Apr09 12:00pm |
Mark Rudner
Harvard University
Pizza served at 11:45
| Topological Transitions in Dissipative Quantum Transport | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Apr16 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Marcos Rigol
Georgetown University
Pizza served at 11:45
| Breakdown of thermalization in finite one-dimensional systems | Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov |
Apr23 12:00pm |
Dr. Buz Barstow
Wyss Institute, Harvard University
Pizza served at 11:45
| Direct Correlation of Protein Structure and Function By High-pressure X-ray Crystallography | Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli |
Apr30 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Günther Bauer
Institute for Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Pizza served at 11:45
| SiGe based hetero-and nanostructures | Host: Bennett Goldberg |
May04 11:00am
|
Eduardo V. Castro
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain Centro de Fisica do Porto, Portugal
11:00 AM
| Flexural phonon limited mobility in doped suspended graphene. | |
May10 11:00am
|
Dima Abanin
Princeton University
11 AM
| Flavor-Hall effect and nonlocal charge transport in graphene | |
Jun11 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Etienne Guyon
Physique et Chimie and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Matter & Materials: What is the World made of? | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Jun17 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Dr. Golan Bel
Los Alamos National Lab
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Insights into Single Molecule Dynamics | Host: Sidney Redner |
Jul23
|
Prof. Stefan Kehrein
University of Munich, Germany
11 AM
| Weak Interaction Quenches in Bulk and Impurity Quantum Systems | |
Jul29
|
Christian Gogolin
University of Bristol
11 AM
| Pure state quantum statistical mechanics |