Biophysics/Condensed Matter

August 1st, 2013 to July 31st, 2014. Previous/next year.
Aug15
SCI 352
12:15pm
Lidia A. Braunstein
IFIMAR Institute, CONICET-UNMdP, Mar del Plata University - Argentina
Pizza served at 12:00 PM
Epidemic Models on Complex Networks Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Aug21
SCI 352
12:15pm
Jinshan Wu
Beijing Normal University
Pizza served at 12:00 PM
Application of Statistical Physics Concepts to Learning Chinese Characters Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Sep04
SCI 328
11:00am
Tom Iadecola
Boston University, Physics
Rotating Kekulé mass in graphene: a 'hydrogen atom' for non-equilibrium quantum systems
Sep06
SCI 352
12:00pm
Robert Kaindl
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Ultrafast spectroscopy of electronic dynamics in complex materials Host: Richard Averitt
Sep11
SCI 328
11:00am
Marin Bukov
Boston University
Bose-Fermi Mixtures: a Mean-Field Study
Sep11
SCI 328
11:30am
Adrian Hutter
University of Basel
Enhanced thermal stability of the toric code through coupling to a bosonic bath
Sep11
3:00pm
Dr. Jochen Guck
Technical University Dresden
Note: Special day, time, place. Wednesday, 3 PM 110 Cummington Mall, Room 245 Mechanical Engineering
Do biological cells care about physics? Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli, Matthias Schneider
Sep13
SCI 352
12:00pm
Lenore L. Dai
Arizona State University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Pickering Emulsions and Beyond Host: Ophelia Tsui
Sep18
SCI 328
11:00am
Ted Pudlik, Charles Fisher
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Sep20
SCI 352
12:00pm
Kirill Shtengel
UC Riverside
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Engineering non-Abelian anyons: Moving beyond Majorana zero modes Host: Claudio Chamon
Sep25
SCI 328
10:30am
Dr. Kipton Barros
LANL
Efficient Langevin simulation of coupled classical fields and fermions Host: Luca D'Alessio
Sep27
SCI 352
12:00pm
Jiwei Lu
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Virginia
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Electron MBE: Growth of Complex Oxides via Pulsed Electron Beam Deposition Host: Kevin Smith
Sep30
SCI 328
2:00pm
Gordon Baym
University of Illinois - Urbana Champagne
Special day, time: Monday, Sept. 30 at 2 PM
The Landau criterion for superfluidity is neither necessary nor sufficient Host: David Campbell
Oct04
SCI 352
12:00pm
Matthias Raddant
University of Kiel, Germany
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Structure and stability of the Italian interbank loan network Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Oct09
SCI 328
11:00am
Alan Gabel
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Oct11
SCI 352
12:00pm
Feng Wang
University of Arkansas, Chemistry Dept.
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Liquid-Liquid transition in supercooled water suggested by microsecond simulations Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Oct16
SCI 328
11:00am
Dries Sels
Universiteit Antwerpen
Wigner distribution functions for complex dynamical systems Host: Luca D'Alessio
Oct18
SCI 352
12:00pm
Brigita Urbanc
Drexel University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Insights into amyloid β-protein self–assembly: Specificity versus universality Host: Ophelia Tsui
Oct21
SCI 352
12:00pm
Professor Luciano Costa
Institute of Physics at Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo
Note: Special Day- Monday ....... Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Statistical physics approach to quantifying aging Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Oct23
SCI 328
11:00am
Luca D'Alessio
Boston University/Penn State University
Event at 11:00 AM
CMT Group Meeting
Nov06
SCI 328
11:00am
Victor Gurarie
University of Colorado - Boulder
Quenched p-wave topological superfluid Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov13
SCI 328
11:00am
Yariv Kafri
Technion
Statistical physics of fluctuations away from equilibrium Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov18
SCI 352
12:00pm
Professor Yoed Kenett
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Note: Special Day- Monday Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Statistical physics approach to quantifying creativity Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Nov20
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Maro Suwa
Boston University
CMT group meeting
Dec04
SCI 328
11:00am
Prof. Maxim Vavilov
University of Wisconsin
Full counting statistics of photons emitted by a double quantum dot Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Dec09
SCI 352
12:00pm
Prof. Sasuke Miyazima & Prof. Henio Aragao
Chuba University, Japan; University of Marenhao
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Can One Measure the Temperature of a Language Text? Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Dec11
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Michael Kolodrubetz
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Dec12
10:00am
Carsten Madler
TBA
Jan15
SCI 328
11:00am
Javad Noorbakhsh
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Jan22
SCI 328
11:00am
Cheng-Wei Liu
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Jan24
SCI 352
12:00pm
Sergey Kravchenko
Northeastern University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Approaching an (unknown) phase transition in 2D Host: Raj Mohanty
Jan29
SCI 328
11:00am
Tatsuhiko Ikeda
University of Tokyo and Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Jan30
SCI 328
3:00pm
Titus Neupert
Princeton University
Note: Special Day-Thursday; 3:00 PM
Simple manipulation of Majorana zero modes on a necklace
Jan31
SCI 352
12:00pm
Kevin Bedell
Boston College
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
The Higgs (Amplitude) Mode in Ferromagnetic Metals Host: David Campbell
Feb05
SCI 328
11:00am
Dmitry Abanin
Perimeter Institute
Many-body localization: Local integrals of motion, area-law entanglement, and quantum dynamics Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Feb07
SCI 352
12:00pm
Scott Norris
Southern Methodist University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Irradiation-Induced Morphology Evolution Host: Karl Ludwig
Feb12
SCI 328
11:00am
Prof. Stefan Kehrein
Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen
Undephasing the generalized Gibbs ensemble Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Feb14
SCI 352
12:00pm
David Kessler
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Anomalous Diffusion of Cold Atoms: Bessel Excursions and Levy Walks Host: Sidney Redner
Feb19
SCI 328
11:00am
Alex Lang
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Feb21
SCI 352
12:00pm
Arun Bansil
Northeastern University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
CANCELLED: TBA Host: Kevin Smith
Feb24
SCI 352
12:00pm
Thomas Waigh
University of Manchester
Note: Special Day- Monday Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Comb polyelectrolytes: Synthetic and Biological Host: Rama Bansil
Feb26
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. David Luitz
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, Toulouse
Shannon-Renyi entropies and participation spectra in quantum many body systems Host: Thomas Lang
Mar07
SCI 352
12:00pm
Andrea Gabrielli
University of Rome
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Statistical physics approach to quantifying differences in myelinated nerve fibers Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Mar10
SCI 328
2:00pm
Derek Lee
Imperial College, London
Note Special Day - Monday; Special Time - 2 PM
Dynamics of Thermalization in nanoscale systems Host: Luca D'Alessio
Mar12
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Paula Bienzobaz and Dr. Pedro Gomes
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Mar12
SCI 352
12:00pm
Gregorio D'Agostino
University of Rome
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Stochastic processes on interdependent infrastructures
Mar19
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Thomas Lang
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Mar28
SCI 352
12:00pm
Linyuan Lü
Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Link predictability of complex networks Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Apr02
SCI 328
11:00am
Jung Hoon Han
Sungkyunkwan University
Emergence of Orbital Chirality in Multi-orbital Surface Bands Host: Claudio Chamon
Apr07
PRB 595
12:00pm
Marco Mazza
Max Planck Institute for Complex Fluids, University of Göttingen, Germany
Note: Special day, location: Monday in PRB595 - Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Bacteria that breathe metals Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Apr07
SCI 328
2:30pm
Amir Bar
Weizman Institute
Note special day, time: Monday at 2:30 PM
Mixed order phase transitions in one dimension Host: Yariv Kafri
Apr09
SCI 328
11:00am
Shainen Davidson
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Apr11
SCI 352
12:00pm
Dr. Matthias Imboden
ECE, Boston University
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Quench Condensed Atomic Calligraphy Host: Ophelia Tsui
Apr16
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Michael Kolodrubetz
Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
Apr18
SCI 352
12:00pm
Chi Wu
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Antibiofouling ─ how a polymer brush repels proteins and our novel integrated design Host: Ophelia Tsui
Apr23
SCI 328
10:30am
Pankaj Mehta
Boston University
Note special time: 10:30 AM
CMT Group Meeting
Apr25
SCI 352
12:00pm
Maxim Olchanyi
UMass - Boston
Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Traces of integrability in the relaxation in one-dimensional two-mass mixtures Host: Sidney Redner
Apr30
SCI 328
11:00am
Prof. Ribhu Kaul
University of Kentucky/Boston University
CMT Group Meeting
May07
SCI 328
11:00am
Maksym Serbyn
MIT
How to probe many-body localized phase? Host: Claudio Chamon
May13
SCI 352
12:00pm
Antonio Coniglio
University of Naples, Italy
Note: Special day:Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Scaling and Universality in the Glass Transition Host: H. Eugene Stanley
May14
SCI 328
11:00am
Naomichi Hatano
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
Arrow of time in quantum mechanics Host: Anders Sandvik
May28
SCI 328
11:00am
Dr. Garry Goldstein
Rutgers University
Generalized Gibbs ensemble (GGE) and applications for integrable systems Host: Claudio Chamon
Jul14
SCI 352
12:00pm
Prof Janos Kertesz
Central European Univ, Budapest
Note: Special day:Pizza served at 11:45 AM
Spreading on networks: The role of topology, burstiness and non-stationarity Host: H. Eugene Stanley