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Meetings for year 2007
Friday 12 Jan 07 - 11:30am
Shape selectivity in the assembly of lithographically designed colloidal particles
Authors: Stephane Badaire, Cecile Cottin-Bizonne, Joseph W. Woody, Allen Yang and Abraham D. Stroock
Speaker: Kathryn White
Friday 19 Jan 07 - 11:30am
Brownian motion near a liquid-like membrane
Authors: T. Bickel
Speaker: Danielle van't Zand
Monday 22 Jan 07 - 1:00pm
Atomistic simulations of martensitic transformations in 2D Lennard-Jones solids
Oliver Kastner
Friday 26 Jan 07 - 11:30am
An asymmetric model for water structure
Authors: A. K. Soper
Speaker: Susie Allison
Friday 2 Feb 07 - 11:30am
Escherichia coli swim on the right-hand side
Authors: Willow R. DiLuzio, Linda Turner, Michael Mayer, Piotr Garstecki, Douglas B. Weibel, Howard C. Berg and George M. Whitesides
Speaker: Otti Croze
Monday 5 Feb 07 - 1:00pm
Nonequilibrium Kinetics of the Triangular Antiferromagnetic Ising model
Grace Kim
Friday 9 Feb 07 - 11:30am
Nonequilibrium mechanics of active cytoskeletal networks
Authors: Daisuke Mizuno, Catherine Tardin, C. F. Schmidt and F. C. MacKintosh
Speaker: Laurence Wilson
Monday 12 Feb 07 - 1:00pm
Lucio Isa
Tuesday 13 Feb 07 - 11:30am
Boundary conditions and the solution of the diffusion equation of population genetics
Alan McKane (Manchester University)
Friday 16 Feb 07 - 11:30am
Crossover from stretched to compressed exponential relaxations in a polymer-based sponge phase
Authors: P. Falus, M. A. Borthwick, S. Narayanan, A. R. Sandy and S. G. J. Mochrie
Speaker: Paul Clegg
Monday 19 Feb 07 - 1:00pm
Lipid domain formation in binary/ternary Giant Unilamellar Vesicles
Zhijun Zhao
Friday 23 Feb 07 - 11:30am
Quorum signal molecules as biosurfactants affecting swarming in Rhizobium etli
Authors: Ruth Daniels, Sven Reynaert, Hans Hoekstra, Christel Verreth, Joost Janssens, Kristien Braeken, Maarten Fauvart, Serge Beullens, Christophe Heusdens, Ivo Lambrichts, Dirk E. De Vos, Jos Vanderleyden, Jan Vermant and Jan Michiels
Speaker: Wilson Poon
Monday 26 Feb 07 - 1:00pm
Catherine Biggs (Sheffield)
Friday 2 Mar 07 - 11:30am
Bistable bacterial growth rate in response to antibiotics with low membrane permeability
Authors: Johan Elf, Karin Nilsson, Tanel Tenson and Mans Ehrenberg
Speaker: Rosalind Allen
Friday 16 Mar 07 - 11:30am
Collective evolution and the genetic code
Authors: Kalin Vetsigian, Carl Woese and Nigel Goldenfeld
Speaker: Richard Blythe
Monday 19 Mar 07 - 1:00pm
Rupert Nash
Friday 23 Mar 07 - 11:30am
Authors: Kirsten Bacia, Petra Schwille and Teymuras Kurzchalia
Speaker: Zhijun Zhao
Monday 26 Mar 07 - 1:00pm
Complex dynamics of shear banded flows
Suzanne Fielding (University of Manchester)
Friday 30 Mar 07 - 11:30am
Optofluidic control using photothermal nanoparticles
Authors: Gang L. Liu, Jaeyoun Kim, Yu Lu and Luke P. Lee
Speaker: Lucio Isa
Monday 2 Apr 07 - 1:00pm
Phase separating proteins and cellular switches
Richard Sear (University of Surrey)
Tuesday 3 Apr 07 - 11:30am
Condensation in the zero-range process and connection to sums of random variables
Martin Evans
Friday 27 Apr 07 - 11:30am
Concentration dependence of the collective dynamics of swimming bacteria
Authors: Andrey Sokolov, Igor S. Aranson, John O. Kessler and Raymond E. Goldstein
Speaker: Rut Besseling
Friday 11 May 07 - 11:30am
Propulsion of a molecular machine by asymmetric distribution of reaction products
Authors: Ramin Golestanian, Tanniemola B. Liverpool and Armand Ajdari
Speaker: Davide Marenduzzo
Monday 14 May 07 - 1:00pm
Antisite disorder and the magnetic groundstate of an experimental spin 1/2 kagome antiferromagnet
Mark de Vries
Thursday 17 May 07 - 11:30am
Modelling the wave of advance of neolithic agriculture
Morrel H Cohen (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University and Chemistry Department, Princeton University)
Friday 18 May 07 - 11:30am
Dissolution arrest and stability of armored bubbles
Authors: Manouk Abkarian, Anand B. Subramaniam, Shin-Hyun Kim, Ryan Larsen, Seung-Man Yang and Howard A. Stone
Speaker: Mike Cates
Monday 4 Jun 07 - 1:00pm
Piconewton forces in dense colloids, applied and measured by optical tweezers.
Laurence Wilson
Friday 8 Jun 07 - 11:30am
Einstein relation generalized to nonequilibrium
Authors: V. Blickle, T. Speck, C. Lutz, U. Sifert and C. Bechinger
Speaker: Martin Evans
Friday 15 Jun 07 - 11:30am
Hydra molecular network reaches criticality at the symmetry-breaking axis-defining moment
Authors: Jordi Soriano, Cyril Colombo and Albrecht Ott
Speaker: Rupert Nash
Monday 18 Jun 07 - 1:00pm
Structure and Deformation of Soft Colloidal Co-crystals
Lynn M. Walker (Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University)
Friday 22 Jun 07 - 11:30am
Authors: J. M. Skotheim and L. Mahadevan
Speaker: Alexander Morozov
Friday 17 Aug 07 - 11:30am
Measurement of effective temperatures in an aging colloidal glass.
Authors: Nils Greinert, Tiffany Wood and Paul Bartlett
Speaker: Laurence Wilson
Friday 24 Aug 07 - 11:30am
Authors: Nolan C. Harris, Yang Song and Ching-Hwa Kiang
Speaker: Richard Blythe
Monday 27 Aug 07 - 1:00pm
Coupling electrostatic and polymeric surface interactions in soft matter and biology
Otti Croze
Friday 31 Aug 07 - 11:30am
Authors: Julius Adler
Speaker: Otti Croze
Monday 3 Sep 07 - 1:00pm
Colloidal Particle Structures at Liquid Interfaces
Tommy Horozov (University of Hull)
Friday 7 Sep 07 - 11:30am
Self-motile colloidal particles: from directed propulsion to random walk.
Authors: J. R. Howse, R. A. L. Jones, A. J. Ryan, T. Gough, R. Vafabakhsh and R. Golestanian
Speaker: Kathryn White
Monday 10 Sep 07 - 1:00pm
Nanoparticles in binary mixture of liquid crystal and dodecanol
Chethan Lobo
Friday 14 Sep 07 - 11:30am
Flows driven by flagella of multicellular organisms enhance long-range molecular transport.
Authors: M. B. Short, C. A. Solari, S. Ganguly, T. R. Powers, J. O. Kessler and R. E. Goldstein
Speaker: Davide Marenduzzo
Thursday 20 Sep 07 - 11:30am
Driven interacting particle systems I: A (re)introduction
Royce Zia (Virginia Tech, USA)
Friday 21 Sep 07 - 11:30am
Femtosecond time-delay X-ray holography
Authors: Henry N. Chapman et al.
Speaker: Job Thijssen
Monday 24 Sep 07 - 1:00pm
Ionic Assemblies: Patterns and Symmetries
Monica Olvera de La Cruz (Department of Materials Science, Northwestern University)
Tuesday 25 Sep 07 - 10:00am
Transition to quorum on intracellular and population-wide scales
Andrew Goryachev (Centre for Systems Biology, Edinburgh)
Tuesday 25 Sep 07 - 11:30am
Driven interacting particle systems II: New perspectives
Royce Zia (Virginia Tech, USA)
Friday 28 Sep 07 - 11:30am
Experimental and theoretical study of mitotic spindle orientation
Authors: Manuel Thery, Andrea Jimenez-Dalmaroni, Victor Racine, Michel Bornens and Frank Juelicher
Speaker: Lawrence Mitchell
Friday 5 Oct 07 - 11:30am
Physical nature of bacterial cytoplasm
Authors: Ido Golding and Edward C. Cox
Speaker: Wilson Poon
Friday 12 Oct 07 - 11:30am
Stochastic gene expression in fluctuating environments
Authors: Mukund Thattai and Alexander van Oudenaarden
Speaker: Rosalind Allen
Monday 15 Oct 07 - 1:00pm
Sex and Sensitivity: the (In)fidelity of DNA Homologous Recombination
Joel Stavans (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Tuesday 16 Oct 07 - 11:30am
Extreme value statistics, integer partitions and the Bose gas
Satya Majumdar (Orsay)
Friday 19 Oct 07 - 11:30am
Dynamical evolution of ecosystems
Authors: Sandro Azaele, Simone Pigolotti, Jayanth R. Banavar and Amos Maritan
Speaker: Amit Chattopadhyay
Monday 22 Oct 07 - 1:00pm
Electrostatic interactions across a charged lipid bilayer
Alexander Wagner (North Dakota State University)
Friday 26 Oct 07 - 11:30am
Self-assembly and cross-linking of bionanoparticles at liquid-liquid interfaces
Authors: Justin T. Russell et al.
Speaker: Mike Cates
Monday 29 Oct 07 - 1:00pm
Non-linear instabilities in parallel shear flows of visco-elastic fluids
Alexander Morozov
Friday 2 Nov 07 - 11:30am
Electrostatics at the oil-water interface, stability, and order in emulsions and colloids
Authors: Mirjam E. Leunissen, Alfons van Blaaderen, Andrew D. Hollingsworth, Matthew T. Sullivan and Paul M. Chaikin
Speaker: Paul Clegg
Friday 9 Nov 07 - 11:30am
Chemotaxis of nonbiological colloidal rods
Authors: Yiyinig Hong, Nicole Blackman, Nathaniel Kopp, Ayusman Sen and Darrell Velegol
Speaker: Rupert Nash
Tuesday 13 Nov 07 - 11:30am
Steady-State Distributions of Random Walks with (some) Memory
Yariv Kafri (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
Friday 16 Nov 07 - 11:30am
Two-dimensional nematic colloidal crystals self-assembled by topological defects
Authors: Igor Musevic, Miha Skarabot, Uros Tkalec, Miha Ravnik and Slobodan Zumer
Speaker: Tiffany Wood
Monday 19 Nov 07 - 1:00pm
Characterisation of Photonic Colloidal Crystals in Real and Reciprocal Space: A Tale of Two Cities
Job Thijssen
Friday 23 Nov 07 - 11:30am
Metamaterial electromagnetic cloak at microwave frequencies
Authors: D. Schurig, J. J. Mock, S. A. Cummer, J. B. Pendry, A. F. Starr and D. R. Smith
Speaker: Oliver Henrich
Monday 26 Nov 07 - 1:00pm
Clustering, wetting and demixing in colloid-microemulsion composites
Danielle Van't Zand
Friday 30 Nov 07 - 11:30am
Two papers from the Department of Applied Physics at RMIT, Australia
Gary Bryant
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