Physics (Internal)
Biophysics/Condensed Matter
August 1st, 2011 to July 31st, 2012. Previous/next year.
Aug05 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Professor Toru Ohira
Physics Department, U. Tokyo and SONY Basic Research Laboratories
Pizza at 11.45
| Statistical Physics and Human Motion | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Aug24 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Sylvia Capuani & Andrea Gabrielli
Sapienza University, Rome
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Spatio-temporal anomalous diffusion in heterogeneous media by NMR | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Aug26 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Debashish Chowdhury
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Stochastic pause-and-translocation of molecular motors: distributions of dwell-times of kinesin and ribosome | Host: Sidney Redner |
Sep09 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Doug Densmore
Boston University, ECE
Pizza at 11:45 AM
| EDA to BDA | Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli |
Sep28
|
Arnab Sen
Boston University
| Phase transitions in the frustrated Ising model on the square lattice | |
Oct07 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Ramon Huerta
BioCircuits Institute, UCSD
Pizza at 11:45 AM
| Models of the insect brain for odor discrimination and decision making | Host: Plamen Ivanov |
Oct19
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Takuya Kitagawa
Harvard University
| Novel topological phenomena in non-equilibrium systems | |
Oct21 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Jeremy England
MIT
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Shape Shifting: the statistical physics of protein conformational change | Host: Pankaj Mehta |
Oct26
|
Jasmine Meroz
Tel Aviv University
| Who's Who of Subdiffusive Models | |
Nov04 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Pankaj Mehta
Boston University, Physics
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Communication and collective behavior in unicellular organisms | Host: Ophelia Tsui |
Nov09 SCI 328
3:30pm |
Wolfgang Keil
Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Note: Wednesday, 3:30 PM in SCI328
| Reorganization of columnar architecture in the growing visual cortex | Host: Pankaj Mehta |
Nov11 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Prof. Victor Henner
Perm State University, Perm, Russia and University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Magnetic properties and ultra-fast relaxation in systems of molecular nanomagnets | Host: Richard Averitt |
Nov16
|
F. M. Izrailev
Instituto de Fisica, BUAP, Mexico, and Michigan State University
Note: 11:00AM; SCI 328
| From classical to quantum chaos:Where are we now? | Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov |
Nov18 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Dr. Joel Kralj
Harvard University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Imaging Voltage: From E. coli to neurons | Host: Kenneth Rothschild |
Nov18
|
Roger Melko
University of Waterloo, Canada
Note: 1:30 PM, SCI328
| Spin liquid and Deconfined Criticality in a Kagome Lattice Bose-Hubbard Model | Host: Anders Sandvik |
Nov30
|
Sidhartha Goyal
KITP at UCSB
| Dynamic mutation selection balance as an evolutionary attractor | Host: Pankaj Mehta |
Dec01 SCI 352
4:45pm |
Dr. Francesco Sciortino
University of Rome
Refreshments served at 4:45 PM
| Novel Physics of Patchy Colloidal Particles | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Dec02 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Joel L. Lebowitz
Rutgers University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Three Easy to State Open Problems | Host: Sidney Redner |
Dec07
|
Subir Sachdev
Harvard University
| Non-Fermi liquids: Field theory vs. holography | |
Dec09 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Marc Howard
Boston University, Psychology Dept.
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Time and space in the mind and brain | Host: Manher Jariwala |
Jan05 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Rosario Mantegna
University of Palermo
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Clustering financial investors from their trading activity | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Feb08
|
Jay Deep Sau
Harvard University
| The search Majorana fermions and non-Abelian statistics in semiconductor-superconductor systems. | |
Feb13 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Laura H. Greene
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Special Day; Joint with MSE Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Detection of Orbital Fluctuations Above the Structural Transition Temperature in the Iron Pnictides and Chalcogenides | Host: David Bishop |
Feb16
|
Michael Kolodrubetz
Princeton University
| Non-equilibrium dynamic critical scaling of the transverse-field Ising chain | Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov |
Feb17 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Ilias Perakis
University of Crete
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Femtosecond Coherent Optical Control of Electronic and Magnetic Order | Host: Richard Averitt |
Feb23
|
Michael Rosenblum
Potsdam University
| Reconstructing Phase Dynamics of Oscillator Networks | Host: Plamen Ivanov |
Feb24 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Roderich Moessner
Max Planck Institute, Dresden
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Statistical mechanics of classical and quantum computational complexity | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Mar02 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Geetha Balakrishnan
University of Warwick
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| CANCELLED: Cancelled | Host: Richard Averitt |
Mar09 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Ivar Martin
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Spontaneous quantum Hall effect and fractionalization in itinerant chiral magnets | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Mar13 SCI 352
1:30pm |
Ivo Grosse
Luther University, Halle, Germany
Note: Special day/time- Tuesday at 1:30 PM.......... Pizza served at 1:15pm
| DNA sequence analysis using methods of statistical physics | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Mar19 SCI 352
2:00pm |
Sasuke Miyazima
Chuba University, Japan
Note:Special day/ Time: Monday at 2 PM
| Exact Solution of Percolation Problem in 4 Dimensions | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Mar29 SCI 352
1:30pm |
Mason Porter
University of Oxford, UK
Special day/time: Thursday, March 29 at 1:30 PM
| The Influence of Topology on Sound Propagation in Granular Force Networks | Host: David Campbell |
Mar30 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Vidya Madhaven
Boston College
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Stripes in topological insulators | Host: Claudio Chamon |
Apr04
|
Dirk Morr
University of Illinois, Chicago
| Non-Equilibrium Transport and Current Imaging in Nanoscopic Quantum Networks | |
Apr06 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Jose Soares Andrade
University of Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Creating and Destroying Optimal Transport Networks | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Apr09 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Luciano Costa
University of Sao Paulo
Special day-Monday, April 9........ Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Structure and Function in Complex Networks | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Apr11
|
Cristian Batista
Los Alamos National Laboratory
| Condensation of Anyons in Quantum Magnets | Host: Anders Sandvik |
Apr12 SCI 352
2:00pm |
Bikas K. Chakrabarti
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
Note: Special day/time - Thursday, April 12 at 2 PM Refreshments served
| Statistical Physics of Earthquake Aftershocks | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Apr13 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Cristian Batista
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Field induced phases in quantum magnets - theory and experiments | Host: Anders Sandvik |
Apr27 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Valeri Kotov
University of Vermont
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Correlations in Graphene | Host: Anders Sandvik |
May02
|
Dmitri Feldman
Brown University
| Fluctuation-dissipation theorem for chiral systems in non-equilibrium steady states | Host: Claudio Chamon |
May04 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Ratnesh Lal
UCSD, Dept. of Bioengineering
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Structural Polymorphism of misfolded proteins and its implication for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenrative diseases | Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli |
May09
|
Jonathan Simon
Harvard University
| Building Synthetic Materials from Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Magnetism in an Optical Lattice | Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov |
May11 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Onuttom Narayan
UC, Santa Cruz
Canceled
| Energy transport in one-dimensional systems | Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli |
May21 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Paola Gallo
University of Rome III
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| FLUCTUATION PHYSICS IN WATER NEAR ITS FIRST ORDER PHASE TRANSITION LINE | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |
Jun27 SCI 352
12:00pm |
Zhiqiang Su
Boston University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
| Behavior of the Widom Line in Presence of Amphiphilic Particles | Host: H. Eugene Stanley |