Seminars & Discussions

No meeting: Christmas Break

Friday 9 Jan 09 - 11:30am

Rate Dependence and Role of Disorder in Linearly Sheared Two-Dimensional Foams

Authors: Gijs Katgert, Matthias E. Möbius, and Martin van Hecke

Speaker: Rut Besseling

Monday 12 Jan 09 - 1:00pm

Condensed phases of paramagnetic colloids

Jure Dobnikar (Jozef Stefan Institute, Department for Theoretical Physics, Ljubljana, Slovenia and University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK)

Thursday 15 Jan 09 - 10:15am

Eigenvalue perturbations for matrices with arbitrary Jordan form - Part I

Arno Proeme

Friday 16 Jan 09 - 11:30am

Monday 19 Jan 09 - 1:00pm

What's a physicist got to do with 'ecological genetics'? Diffusion in population genetics and ecology

Neelofer Banglawala

Thursday 22 Jan 09 - 10:15am

Eigenvalue perturbations for matrices with arbitrary Jordan form - Part II

Arno Proeme

Friday 23 Jan 09 - 11:30am

A purple acidophilic di-ferric DNA ligase from Ferroplasma

Authors: M. Ferrer, O.V. Golyshina, A. Beloqui, L.H. Böttger, J.M. Andreu, J. Polaina, A.L. De Lacey, A.X. Trautwein, K.N. Timmis, and P.N. Golyshin

Speaker: Caroline Miles

Monday 26 Jan 09 - 1:00pm

The Electrophoresis Of Colloidal Particles or How to use the new Zetasizer Nano

Andrew Schofield

Friday 30 Jan 09 - 11:30am

Direct visualization of the real time swelling and collapse of a poly(methacrylic acid) brush using atomic force microscopy

Authors: A.J. Parnell, S.J. Martin, R.A.L. Jones, C. Vasilev, C. J. Crook and A.J. Ryan

Speaker: Alastair Mailer

Monday 2 Feb 09 - 1:00pm

Statistical Mechanics of Convergent Evolution

Bhavin Khatri

Friday 6 Feb 09 - 11:30am

Simple Quantitative Model for the Reversible Association of DNA Coated Colloids

Authors: Rémi Dreyfus, M.E. Leunissen, R. Sha, A.V. Tkachenko, N.C. Seeman, D.J. Pine, and P.M. Chaikin

Speaker: Eduardo Sanz

Monday 9 Feb 09 - 1:00pm

Porous media, Surfactants, and Petrodollars

Kevin Stratford

Thursday 12 Feb 09 - 10:15am

Geometric bounds for eigenvalues of reversible Markov chains

Richard Blythe

Friday 13 Feb 09 - 11:30am

Job Thijssen

Monday 16 Feb 09 - 1:00pm

Flow and Jamming of 2D foams

Gijs Katgert (Leiden University, The Netherlands)

Friday 20 Feb 09 - 11:30am

Larger Islands House More Bacterial Taxa

Authors: T. Bell, D. Ager, Ji-Inn Song, J.A. Newman, I.P. Thompson, A.K. Lilley, C.J. van der Gast.

Speaker: Jana Schwarz-Linek

Monday 23 Feb 09 - 1:00pm

Complex Fluids Characterization Through Expert System & High Frequency Rheometry

Samiul Amin (Malvern Instruments Limited)

Friday 27 Feb 09 - 11:30am

Laurence Wilson

Monday 2 Mar 09 - 1:00pm

No meeting: No Seminar

Friday 6 Mar 09 - 11:30am

Biodegradable luminescent porous silicon nanoparticles for in vivo applications

Cooperation and conflict in quorum-sensing bacterial populations

Authors:

J.-H. Park, L. Gu, G. von Maltzahn, E. Ruoslahti, S.N. Bhatia and M.J. Sailor

S.P. Diggle, A.S. Griffin, G.S. Campbell and S.A. West

Speaker: Chantal Valeriani

Monday 9 Mar 09 - 1:00pm

Aggregation and solvent electrostriction in a simple dipeptide: a molecular dynamics investigation

Paul Tulip

Thursday 12 Mar 09 - 10:15am

Low Reynolds number swimming and Purcell's scallop theorem

Rupert Nash

Friday 13 Mar 09 - 11:30am

Microrheology of a sticking transition

Authors: P. Sharma, S. Ghosh and S. Bhattacharya

Speaker: Wilson Poon

Monday 16 Mar 09 - 1:00pm

Critical Behaviour of Colloidal Interfaces Probed by Gravity

Dirk Aarts (University of Oxford)

Monday 23 Mar 09 - 1:00pm

An Introduction to Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells

Alastair Mailar

Thursday 26 Mar 09 - 10:15am

MSR: An Approach to Nonequilibrium Statistical Dynamics based on Schwinger's Nonpeturbative approach to QFT - Part I

Matthew Salewski

Friday 27 Mar 09 - 11:30am

Extinction of an infectious disease: A large fluctuation in a nonequilibrium system

Authors: Alex Kamenev and Baruch Meerson

Speaker: Alasdair Thompson

Monday 30 Mar 09 - 1:00pm

The long-term fate of the attractive colloidal glass

Wilson Poon

Thursday 2 Apr 09 - 10:15am

MSR: An Approach to Nonequilibrium Statistical Dynamics based on Schwinger's Nonpeturbative approach to QFT - Part II

Matthew Salewski

Friday 3 Apr 09 - 11:30am

Andrew Harrison

Monday 6 Apr 09 - 1:00pm

Two-dimensional colloidal systems in optical and magnetic fields: micromechanics and band-formation

Roel Dullens (University of Oxford)

Friday 10 Apr 09 - 11:30am

None - Good Friday

Monday 13 Apr 09 - 1:00pm

No meeting: No Seminar

Friday 17 Apr 09 - 11:30am

None - Easter break

Monday 20 Apr 09 - 1:00pm

No meeting: No Seminar

Friday 24 Apr 09 - 11:30am

Alexander Morozov

Monday 27 Apr 09 - 1:00pm

Job Thijssen

Thursday 30 Apr 09 - 10:15am

Viscoelasticity of conformational transitions in single biopolymers: A simple microscopic model for internal viscous friction

Bhavin Khatri

Friday 1 May 09 - 11:30am

Monday 4 May 09 - 1:00pm

Time-resolved fluorescence microspectroscopy of visible fluorescent proteins in isolated form and in their natural cellular environment

Ton Visser (Wageningen University)

Friday 8 May 09 - 11:30am

Cait MacPhee

Monday 11 May 09 - 1:00pm

Constitutive Equations for Colloidal Glasses from Statistical Mechanics

Mike Cates

Friday 15 May 09 - 11:30am

Jochen Arlt

Monday 18 May 09 - 1:00pm

No meeting: No Seminar

Friday 22 May 09 - 11:30am

Oliver Henrich

Monday 25 May 09 - 1:00pm

Toni Collis

Friday 29 May 09 - 11:30am

Paolo Visco

Monday 1 Jun 09 - 1:00pm

Emulsion Engineering: A convenient route to structured oils using polymer mediated, reversible emulsion droplet assembly

Jon Weaver (Materials Discovery, Liverpool University)

Friday 5 Jun 09 - 11:30am

Davide Marenduzzo

Monday 8 Jun 09 - 1:00pm

Aspects of Protein Aggregation: An Introduction to Work on the Proteins alpha B Crystallin and Ovalbumin

Caroline Miles

Friday 12 Jun 09 - 11:30am

Nhan Pham

Monday 15 Jun 09 - 1:00pm

Understanding the lag phase variability of insulin fibrillation

Line Jourdain

Friday 19 Jun 09 - 11:30am

Richard Blythe

Monday 22 Jun 09 - 1:00pm

Nucleation of crystals: Experimental studies of protein crystallisation and computer simulations of simple models

Richard Sear (University of Surrey)

Thursday 25 Jun 09 - 10:15am

Statistics and data fitting, why should you care?

Lawrence Mitchell

Monday 29 Jun 09 - 1:00pm

Statistical physics of switching bacteria

Paolo Visco

Friday 3 Jul 09 - 2:00pm

Non-linear Fisher travelling waves : an overview

Damien Simon

Thursday 9 Jul 09 - 3:00pm

Non-linear Fisher travelling waves and boundary effects : the survival probability of a population of branching random walks

Damien Simon

Thursday 16 Jul 09 - 10:15am

Einstein relation for Nonequilibrium Steady States

Martin Evans

Thursday 30 Jul 09 - 1:00pm

Strong Mobility in Weakly Disordered Systems

Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Thursday 10 Sep 09 - 2:00pm

Particle Stabilised Emulsions with Hydrophobic Additives

Paul FitzGerald (University of Sydney, Australia)

Thursday 17 Sep 09 - 10:15am

Methodology of the determination of phase diagrams via computer simulations

Eduardo Sanz

Tuesday 22 Sep 09 - 1:00pm

Interfacial water structure, peptide adsorption and ion-specificity

Roland Netz (Technical University Munich)

Monday 28 Sep 09 - 2:00pm

Investigations of the coalescence of emulsion droplets with microfluidics

Nicolas Bremond (Laboratoire Colloides et Materiaux Divises,ESPCI,Paris)

Friday 2 Oct 09 - 11:30am

Characterization of Hydrodynamic Surface Interactions of Escherichia coli Cell Bodies in Shear Flow

Laurence Wilson

Monday 5 Oct 09 - 1:00pm

Game theory, chaos and noise

Tobias Galla (University of Manchester)

Friday 9 Oct 09 - 11:30am

Osmotic Propulsion: The Osmotic Motor

Authors: U. M. Córdova-Figueroa and J. F. Brady

Speaker: Tiffany Wood

Friday 9 Oct 09 - 2:00pm

Transition State Theory

Chantal Valeriani

Monday 12 Oct 09 - 1:00pm

Scaling of the current-current time correlation function of a suspension of hard sphere-like particles; Exposing when the motion of particles is Brownian.

Bill van Megen (RMIT University, Australia)

Friday 16 Oct 09 - 11:30am

Statistical mechanics and hydrodynamics of bacterial suspensions

Authors: A. Baskaran and M. C. Marchetti

Speaker: Davide Marenduzzo

Friday 16 Oct 09 - 3:00pm

Disordered driven lattice gases

Philip Greulich

Monday 19 Oct 09 - 1:00pm

Quantitative snapshots of bacterial motility

Laurence Wilson

Monday 26 Oct 09 - 1:00pm

Metastable Dynamics of Colloidal Hard Spheres

Vincent Martinez

Friday 30 Oct 09 - 11:30am

Crystal Nucleation in a Supercooled Liquid with Glassy Dynamics

Authors: I. Saika-Voivod, R. K. Bowles and P.H. Poole

Speaker: Eduardo Sanz

Friday 30 Oct 09 - 2:00pm

Random matrix theory in financial physics

Bartlomiej Waclaw

Monday 2 Nov 09 - 1:00pm

Phase diagrams of low valence patchy particles

Flavio Romano

Friday 6 Nov 09 - 11:30am

Yield Stress and Shear Banding in Granular Suspensions

Authors: A. Fall, F. Bertrand, G. Ovarlez and D. Bonn

Speaker: Rut Besseling

Monday 9 Nov 09 - 1:00pm

Localization of maximal entropy random walk

Bartlomiej Waclaw

Friday 13 Nov 09 - 11:30am

Nanoparticle self-assembly at liquid-liquid interfaces (SALI): what's the point?

Lucio Isa

Friday 13 Nov 09 - 2:00pm

Simulating systems with absorbing state transitions

Conrad Barrett-Freeman

Monday 16 Nov 09 - 1:00pm

Growth and dynamics in a size-structured spatial population

Tom Adams

Monday 23 Nov 09 - 1:00pm

Hard Spheres: Crystallization and Glass Formation

Peter Pusey

Friday 27 Nov 09 - 2:00pm

How variable is protein production in single cells?

Rosalind Allen

Monday 30 Nov 09 - 1:00pm

Quantum Drude Oscillators for Accurate Many-body Intermolecular Forces

Andrew Jones

Friday 4 Dec 09 - 11:30am

Chiral colloidal clusters

Authors: D. Zerrouki, J. Baudry, D. Pine, P. Chaikin and J. Bibette

Speaker: Chantal Valeriani

Monday 7 Dec 09 - 1:00pm