Seminars & Colloquia
| Fri, Feb 8 1:30pm |
SEMINAR CANCELED: Effects of non-taxane small molecule stabilizers on microtubule stiffness Megan Valentine, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Thu, Jan 24 11:15am |
Stick-slip sounds, jumping jaws and smashing shrimp: the evolutionary mechanics of biological movement Sheila Patek, Dept. of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Thu, Jan 31 11:15am |
Ionic Specific Effects beyond the Poisson-Boltzmann Theory: Electrolytes, Surfaces & Membranes David Andelman, University of Tel Aviv |
| Thu, Feb 7 11:15am |
Wandering amongst Feynman Diagrams for strongly correlated fermions Nikolay Prokofiev, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Thu, Feb 14 11:15am |
Computational modeling of viral assembly: encapsulation of nucleic acids and envelopment by lipid membranes Michael Hagen, Department of Physics, Brandeis University |
| Thu, Feb 21 11:15am |
Membranes, Interfaces and the Intriguing Role of Curvature Anthony Dinsmore, Dept of Physics, UMass Amherst |
| Thu, Feb 28 11:15am |
Atomically thin MoS_2 - a new two-dimensional semiconductor Jie Shan, Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University |
| Thu, Mar 7 11:15am |
A Geometric Approach to Predictive Computation of Thin Structures Eitan Grinspun, Department of Computer Science at Columbia University |
| Thu, Mar 14 11:15am |
Live together, die alone: multi-scale infection dynamics in worms Erel Levine, Department of Physics, Harvard University |
| Thu, Mar 28 11:15am |
Shocks in Fragile Matter Vincenzo Vitelli, Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden |
| Thu, Apr 4 11:15am |
Coupling in a Critical System: 4He in an Array of Microdots Frank Gasparini, SUNY Buffalo |
| Thu, Apr 11 11:15am |
Bacterial growth: defects, elasticity and plasticity Ariel Amir, Harvard University |
| Thu, Apr 18 11:15am |
Gauge fields with cold atoms Ian Spielman, NIST |
| Fri, Apr 19 1:00pm |
Can you shape the feel of stuff? Prof. Martin van Hecke, Leiden University |
| Thu, Apr 25 11:15am |
Spin-orbit coupling in cold atoms Victor Galitsky, Department of Physics, University of Maryland |
| Thu, May 2 11:15am |
Wetting on Deformable Surfaces Eric Dufresne, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Physics & Cell Biology |
| Wed, Jan 30 4:00pm |
Gamma-Ray Bursts as Tools for Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology Rosalba Perna, University of Colorado |
| Wed, Feb 20 4:00pm |
LUX, LZ, and the future of WIMPs Thomas Shutt, Case Western Reserve University |
| Wed, Mar 13 4:00pm |
Menagerie of Viruses: Organizing Principles of Virus Assembly Murugappan Muthukumar, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Wed, Mar 27 4:00pm |
Decoherence Philip Stamp, University of British Columbia |
| Wed, Apr 3 4:00pm |
Using the Earth as a Polarized Electron Source to Search for Long-Range Spin-Spin Interactions Larry Hunter, Amherst College |
| Wed, Apr 10 4:00pm |
Tabletop probes for TeV physics: searching for the electric dipole moment of the electron David Demille, Yale University |
| Wed, Apr 24 4:00pm |
A Solution Strategy for Hard Problems Inspired by the X-ray Phase Problem Veit Elser, Cornell University |
| Tue, Jan 29 12:15pm |
Hadron Polarizabilities Barry Holstein, UMass |
| Tue, Feb 5 12:15pm |
The Cosmological Constant from Discreteness of Spacetime Jennie Traschen, UMass |
| Tue, Mar 5 12:15pm |
EXO Timothy Daniels, UMass |
| Tue, Mar 12 12:15pm |
Parity-Violation at SoLID and Moller Seamus Riordan, UMass |
| Tue, Mar 26 12:15pm |
Gravitation in the Milky Way Galaxy Francis Pichanick, UMass |
| Tue, Apr 2 12:15pm |
Anthropics and the Multiverse John Donoghue, UMass |
| Tue, Apr 9 12:15pm |
Science with gravitational wave signals in the advanced detector era Salvatore Vitale, LIGO Laboratory, MIT |
| Tue, Apr 16 12:15pm |
Tensor Contributions to Temperature Anisotropies Jessica Cook, UMass |
| Tue, Apr 23 12:15pm |
GRB Astrophysics and LIGO Daniel Hoak, UMass |
| Tue, Apr 30 12:15pm |
Van der Waals fluid and charged AdS black holes David Kubiznak, Perimeter Institute |
| Fri, Feb 15 2:00pm |
Constructing (quantum) gravity from field theory using AdS / CFT Debajoyti Sakar, CUNY |
| Fri, Mar 15 2:00pm |
The Gravitational Origin of the Weak Interaction's Chirality Stephon Alexander, Dartmouth |
| Fri, Mar 29 2:00pm |
Holography and String Universality Alex Maloney, McGill University |
| Fri, Apr 5 2:00pm |
Time Crystals Alfred Shapere, University of Kentucky |
| Fri, Apr 12 2:00pm |
Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at LHCb Mike Williams, MIT |
| Fri, Apr 26 2:00pm |
Detecting gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO: how, when, and what will come next Lisa Barsotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Mon, Jan 28 3:45pm |
Thriving despite negative stereotypes: How ingroup experts in academic environments protect students’ aspirations in STEM Professor Nilanjana Dasgupta, Department of Psychology, UMass Amherst |