Seminars & Discussions
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Meetings for year 2011
Friday 14 Jan 11 - 11:30am
Sources and Sinks: A Stochastic Model of Evolution in Heterogeneous Environments
Authors: Rutger Hermsen and Terence Hwa
Speaker: Richard Blythe
Friday 28 Jan 11 - 11:30am
The Hamaker constant of anatase aqueous suspensions
Authors: A.I. Gomez-Merino, F.J. Rubio-Hernandez, J.F. Velazquez-Navarro, F.J. Galindo-Rosales, P. Fortes-Quesada
Speaker: Alastair Mailer
Wednesday 2 Feb 11 - 11:30am
Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling with and without detailed balance
Katrin Wolff
Friday 4 Feb 11 - 11:30am
Direct Measurement of Molecular Mobility in Actively Deformed Polymer Glasses
Authors: Hau-Nan Lee, Keewook Paeng, Stephen F. Swallen, M. D. Ediger
Speaker: Mike Cates
Monday 7 Feb 11 - 1:00pm
Simulating particle stabilised thin films using surface evolver
Gareth Morris (Imperial College, London)
Friday 11 Feb 11 - 11:30am
Comparative Hydrodynamics of Bacterial Polymorphism
Authors: Saverio E. Spagnolie and Eric Lauga
Speaker: Alexander Morozov
Wednesday 16 Feb 11 - 11:30am
One step beyond linear stability analysis: the amplitude equation
Julien Tailleur
Thursday 17 Feb 11 - 1:00pm
Exploring early stage processes involved in amyloid fibril formation
Kim Eden-Jones
Friday 18 Feb 11 - 11:30am
Relativity and the Lead-Acid Battery
Authors: Rajeev Ahuja, Andreas Blomqvist, Peter Larsson, Pekka Pyyko, and Patryk Zaleski-Ejgierd
Speaker: Job Thijssen
Monday 21 Feb 11 - 1:00pm
Particles at Interfaces: from Bijels to Oscillating Pickering Drops
Joe Tavacoli
Friday 25 Feb 11 - 11:30am
Authors: Xiangyun Qiu, Donald C. Rau, V. Adrian Parsegian, Li Tai Fang, Charles M. Knobler, and William M. Gelbart
Speaker: Simon Titmuss
Monday 28 Feb 11 - 1:00pm
Colloids in Phase Separating Binary Liquids: Towards Rod-like Particles
Niek Hijnen
Friday 4 Mar 11 - 11:30am
Universal statistical properties of poker tournaments
Authors: Clement Sire
Speaker: Philip Greulich
Monday 7 Mar 11 - 1:00pm
The blistering of viscoelastic filaments
Christian Wagner (University of Saarlandes)
Friday 11 Mar 11 - 11:30am
Force-Velocity Measurements of a Few Growing Actin Filaments
Authors: Coraline Brangbour, Olivia du Roure, Emmanuele Helfer, Damien Demoulin, Alexis Mazurier, Marc Fermigier, Marie-France Carlier, Jerome Bibette and Jean Baudry
Speaker: Joe Tavacoli
Monday 21 Mar 11 - 1:00pm
A dynamical phase transition in a model for evolution with migration
Bartek Waclaw
Thursday 24 Mar 11 - 1:00pm
Modeling of mild fractionation of suspensions
Martijntje Vollebregt (Wageningen University)
Friday 25 Mar 11 - 11:30am
Cinema, Fermi Problems, & General Education
Authors: C.J. Efthimiou and R. Llewellyn
Speaker: Juan Venegas-Ortiz
Monday 28 Mar 11 - 1:00pm
Simulating the Adsorption of Food & Beverage Biomolecules at Fluid Interfaces
Stephen Euston (School of Life Sciences & International Centre for Brewing & Distilling, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)
Monday 4 Apr 11 - 1:00pm
Ryan Morris
Friday 8 Apr 11 - 11:30am
The origin of bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics
Authors: Albert-Laslzo Barabas
Speaker: Robert Concannon
Friday 15 Apr 11 - 11:30am
Directed self-assembly of a colloidal kagome lattice
Authors: Qian Chen, Sung Chul Bae1 & Steve Granick1
Speaker: Chantal Valeriani
Monday 18 Apr 11 - 1:00pm
The Structure of Ammonia Monohydrate Vb: Implications for the ammonia-water system
Craig Wilson
Wednesday 4 May 11 - 11:30am
Condensation in the inclusion process and related models
Stefan Grosskinsky
Thursday 5 May 11 - 1:00pm
Rotator phases and twist solitons in polyethylene and n-alkanes
Scott Milner (The Pennsylvania State University)
Friday 6 May 11 - 11:30am
Colloidal diffusion inside a spherical cell
Authors: A. E. Cervantes-Martinez, A. Ramirez-Saito, R. Armenta-Calderon M. A. Ojeda-Lopez, and J. L. Arauz-Lara
Speaker: Andrew Schofield
Monday 9 May 11 - 1:00pm
Metastable intermediate phases on molecular crystallisation pathways
Jan Sefcik (Strathclyde University)
Friday 13 May 11 - 11:30am
Real-time attack on single Escherichia coli cells by the human antimicrobial peptide LL-37
Authors: Kem A. Sochackia, Kenneth J. Barnsa, Robert Buckib, and James C. Weisshaar
Speaker: Jana Schwarz-Linek
Monday 16 May 11 - 1:00pm
Deformation of Crystalline Materials: Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Con Healy
Wednesday 18 May 11 - 11:30am
The extremal current principle for driven diffusive systems
Philip Greulich
Friday 20 May 11 - 11:30am
Authors: Guanghong Wei, Andrew I. Jewett and Joan-Emma Shea
Speaker: Massimiliano Porrini
Monday 6 Jun 11 - 1:00pm
The role of particle size and shape in highly size-asymmetric mixtures.
Douglas Ashton (University of Bath)
Wednesday 8 Jun 11 - 11:30am
Bayesian parameter inference in discrete state-space stochastic population models
Glenn Marion
Thursday 9 Jun 11 - 1:00pm
Colloidal Particles at a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal interface
Anne Claire Pawsey
Friday 17 Jun 11 - 11:30am
Structure Formation In Active Networks
Authors: Simone Kohler, Volker Schaller, Andreas Bausch
Speaker: Ryan Philips
Monday 20 Jun 11 - 1:00pm
Noise-induced dynamical transition in systems with symmetric absorbing states
Dominic Russell
Friday 24 Jun 11 - 11:30am
Hidden Randomness between Fitness Landscapes Limits Reverse Evolution
Authors: Longzhi Tan, Stephen Serene, Hui Xiao Chao, and Jeff Gore
Speaker: Wilson Poon
Monday 27 Jun 11 - 1:00pm
Yielding and flow of colloidal glasses and gels
Nikos Koumakis (Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH))
Friday 1 Jul 11 - 11:30am
No Journal Club due to special Theory Club Meeting
Friday 30 Sep 11 - 11:30am
Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
Authors: Loads of 'em
Speaker: Graeme Ackland
Monday 3 Oct 11 - 1:00pm
Collective Cell Movements and their role in Tissue Dynamics and Morphogenesis during Development
Prof. Kees Weijer (University of Dundee)
Friday 7 Oct 11 - 11:30am
A possible statistical mechanism of anomalous neutrino velocity in OPERA experiment?
Authors: Robert Alicki
Speaker: Bartlomiej Waclaw
Monday 10 Oct 11 - 1:00pm
The rheology of nanoparticle layers and the relation to foam stability
Duyang Zang (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
Friday 14 Oct 11 - 11:30am
Optimal concentrations in nectar feeding
Authors: Wonjung Kim, Tristan Gilet, and John W. M. Bushb
Speaker: Mathias Reufer
Monday 17 Oct 11 - 1:00pm
Using dielectrophoretic manipulation with nucleic acid sensors
Mira Nishimura
Friday 21 Oct 11 - 11:30am
Authors: Yan Wei, Xiaolin Wang, Jingfang Liu, Ilya Nememan, Amoolya H. Singh, Howie Weiss, and Bruce R. Levin
Speaker: Alys Jepson
Friday 28 Oct 11 - 11:30am
Endotoxin-Induced Structural Transformations in Liquid Crystalline Droplets
Authors: I-Hsin Lin, Daniel S. Miller, Paul J. Bertics, Christopher J. Murphy, Juan J. de Pablo, Nicholas L. Abbott
Speaker: Juho Lintuvuori
Monday 31 Oct 11 - 1:00pm
The emergence of "marginal opacity" in swarming animals
Prof. Matthew Turner (Warwick University)
Friday 11 Nov 11 - 11:30am
Ecosystems with Mutually Exclusive Interactions Self-Organize to a State of High Diversity
Authors: Joachim Mathiesen, Namiko Mitarai, Kim Sneppen, Ala Trusina
Speaker: Martin Evans
Monday 14 Nov 11 - 1:00pm
Prof. Glenn Martyna (Materials Research Laboratory at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA)
Friday 18 Nov 11 - 11:30am
Suppression of the coffee-ring effect by shape-dependent capillary interactions
Authors: Peter J. Yunker, Tim Still1, Matthew A. Lohr & A. G. Yodh
Speaker: Niek Hijnen
Wednesday 23 Nov 11 - 11:30am
The Schweitz virial relation and how to compute the local pressure in molecular simulations
Tom Lion
Friday 25 Nov 11 - 11:30am
Stability of the Bulk Phase of Layered ZnO
Authors: Bipul Rakshit and Priya Mahadevan
Speaker: Linggang Zhu
Friday 2 Dec 11 - 11:30am
The Network of Global Corporate Control
Authors: Stefania Vitali, James B. Glattfelder, Stefano Battiston
Speaker: Fred Farrell
Friday 9 Dec 11 - 11:30am
On the origin of large interstitial clusters in displacement cascades
Authors: A.F. Calder, D.J. Bacon, A.V. Barashev, Yu.N. Osetsky
Speaker: Graham Galloway
Friday 16 Dec 11 - 11:30am
Imaging the Microscopic Structure of Shear Thinning and Thickening Colloidal Suspensions
Authors: Xiang Cheng, Jonathan H. McCoy, Jacob N. Israelachvili, Itai Cohen
Speaker: Tiffany Wood
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