Seminars & Colloquia

Condensed Matter Seminar
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