2014-2015
Previous Seminars
May 4, 2014, 2pm
Soft Matter Seminar: Pattern Formation in Thin Elastic Films
Dr. Elisabetta Matsumoto, Princeton University Exploiting elastic instabilities in thin films has proven a robust method for creating complex patterns and structures across a…
Location: Regents Hall
May 8, 2014, 11am
Soft Matter Seminar: Polymer Adhesion at Short Contact Time
Chelsea S. Davis, NIST In rubber manufacturing, two layers of uncrosslinked rubber are often brought into contact and required to adhere to one another very rapidly. The…
Location: Regents Hall
Nov 3, 2014, 3pm
Prof. Joonil Seog, University of Maryland One-dimensional nanostructures are ideal building blocks for functional nanoscale assembly. Peptide based nanofibers have a high…
Location: Regents Hall
Nov 6, 2014, 1pm
Soft Matter Seminar: Bringing Physics into the Fold: Origami-Inspired Mechanical Meta-materials
Prof. Itai Cohen, Cornell University Title: Bringing Physics into the Fold: Origami-Inspired Mechanical Meta-materials Tessellated patterns, realistic animals, and curved…
Location: Regents Hall
Nov 7, 2014, 11:30am
Soft Matter Seminar: Drops Behaving Badly
Drops Behaving Badly Prof. Colin Bain Department of Chemistry, Durham University, UK When fluid dynamics comes up against capillarity, a wide range of interesting…
Location: Regents Hall
Dec 1, 2014, 3pm
Soft Matter Seminar: The Non-monotonic Flow Curves of Shear Thickening Suspensions
Dr. Ryohei Seto, Levich Institute, CUNY Title: The non-monotonic flow curves of shear thickening suspensions The solid particles in a suspension need to reconfigure…
Location: Regents Hall
Jan 9, 2015, 2pm
Soft Matter Seminar: Nanoparticle Organization in Polymer Layers
Dr Jure Dobnikar Soft Matter Centre Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) The organization of colloids or nanoparticles inside grafted polymer layers is…
Location: Regents Hall
Jan 26, 2015, 3pm
Soft Matter Seminar: Relaxation Dynamics of Binary Lipid Bilayers
Professor Shigeyuki Komura Tokyo Metropolitan University We shall discuss theoretically the relaxation dynamics of two-component fluid bilayer membranes in a homogeneous…
Location: Regents Hall
Feb 13, 2015, 3pm
Soft Matter Seminar: AFM Studies of Bilayer Dynamics, Structure and Growth in the Three-Phase Region
Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds Bilayers formed from lipid ternary mixtures are useful model systems for understanding phase…
Location: Regents Hall
Feb 18, 2015, 2:30pm
Soft Matter Seminar: Study of the Transmembrane Potential with Giant Unilamellar Vesicles
Matthias GARTEN PhD Student, Bassereau Group, “Membranes and Cellular Functions” PhysicoChimie Curie Institut Curie, Paris Abstract: Giant unilamellar vesicles…
Location: Regents Hall
Feb 26, 2015, 3pm
Ben Partlow PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering Tufts University Silk fibers from the Bombyx Mori silkworm are well known for their impressive strength and…
Location: Regents Hall
Feb 27, 2015, 3pm
Soft Matter Seminar: High-precision Test of Landauer’s Principle in a Feedback Trap
John Bechhoefer Dept. of Physics Simon Fraser University Abstract: Landauer’s principle, formulated in 1961, postulates that irreversible logical or computational…
Location: Regents Hall
Mar 12, 2015, 3pm
Soft Matter Seminar: Structure-Function Relationships of Self-Assembled Fibrillar Gels
Katie Weigandt PhD NIST Center for Neutron Research Fibrillar gels represent an important class of materials with commercially relevant applications in the cosmetics and…
Location: Regents Hall
Mar 16, 2015, 3pm
Vernita Gordon, Assistant Professor of Physics, UT Austin Center for Nonlinear Dynamics Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology Biofilms are communities of…
Location: Regents Hall
Mar 31, 2015, 3:15pm
Physics Colloquium: Mechanics of Squishy Spheres
Prof. Craig Maloney Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University “Mechanics of Squishy Spheres” Many complex fluids such as emulsions or…
Location: Regents Hall
Apr 23, 2015, 3:30pm
Soft Matter Seminar: Adding Softness to Particles at Fluid-fluid Interfaces
Prof. Dr. Lucio Isa, ETH Zurich Colloidal particles adsorbed at the interface between two fluids play a pivotal role in a large range of applications, e.g. in emulsion and…
Location: Regents Hall
Apr 24, 2015, 11am
Dr. Cynthia Reichhardt Los Alamos National Laboratory http://cnls.lanl.gov/~olson/ There has been tremendous growth in studying nonequilibrium systems in which the…
Location: Regents Hall