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Meetings for year 2012
Friday 13 Jan 12 - 11:30am
Physical ageing of the contact line on colloidal particles at liquid interfaces
Authors: DM Kaz, R McGorty, M Mani, MP Brenner, VN Manoharan
Speaker: Michiel Hermes
Friday 20 Jan 12 - 11:30am
Force-free swimming of a model helical flagellum in viscoelastic fluids
Authors: B. Liu, T.R. Powers, K.S. Breuer
Speaker: Giulia Foffano
Monday 23 Jan 12 - 1:00pm
The Alkali Elements at Extreme Compressions: Static and Dynamic Compression Techniques
Emma McBride
Wednesday 25 Jan 12 - 11:30am
Cycles in population dynamics due to stochastic resonances
Dominic Russell
Friday 27 Jan 12 - 11:30am
Capillary Forces in Suspension Rheology
Authors: E. Koos, N. Willenbacher
Speaker: Wilson Poon
Monday 30 Jan 12 - 1:00pm
Mark Leake (University of Oxford)
Friday 3 Feb 12 - 11:30am
Directional persistence of chemotactic bacteria in a traveling concentration wave
Authors: J. Saragosti, V. Calvez, N. Bournaveas, B. Perthame, A. Buguin, P. Silberzana
Speaker: Diarmuid Lloyd
Wednesday 8 Feb 12 - 11:30am
On derivations of some simple results in hydrodynamics.
Alexander Morozov
Friday 10 Feb 12 - 11:30am
Sedimentation and Effective Temperature of Active Colloidal Suspensions
Authors: Jeremie Palacci, Cecile Cottin-Bizonne, Christophe Ybert, and Lyderic Bocquet
Speaker: Rim Harich
Monday 13 Feb 12 - 1:00pm
Non-equilibrium fluctuations of intracellular filaments generated by motor activity
Ines Weber
Friday 17 Feb 12 - 11:30am
Diffusive-to-ballistic transition in grain boundary motion studied by atomistic simulations
Authors: Chuang Deng and Christopher A. Schuh
Speaker: Con Healy
Friday 24 Feb 12 - 11:30am
Osmotic spreading of Bacillus subtilis biofilms driven by an extracellular matrix
Authors: A Seminara, TE Angelini, JN Wilking, H Vlamakis, S Ebrahim, R Kolter, DA Weitz, MP Brenner
Speaker: Elsen Tjhung
Monday 27 Feb 12 - 1:00pm
Evolution of antibiotic resistance in the presence of antibiotic gradients
Bartek Waclaw
Friday 2 Mar 12 - 11:30am
Authors: Zexin Zhang, Peter J. Yunker, Piotr Habdas, and A. G. Yodh
Speaker: Vincent Martinez
Monday 5 Mar 12 - 1:00pm
The early stages of insulin fibrillogenesis explored with mass spectrometry and molecular modelling
Massimiliano Porrini
Friday 9 Mar 12 - 11:30am
Dynamics of Social Group Competition: Modeling the Decline of Religious Affiliation
Authors: Daniel M. Abrams, Haley A. Yaple, Richard J. Wiener
Speaker: Dominic Russell
Wednesday 14 Mar 12 - 11:30am
Responses to perturbations in Brownian dynamics simulations
Rosalind Allen
Friday 16 Mar 12 - 11:30am
Improvement of pedestrian flow by slow rhythm
Authors: Daichi Yanagisawa, Akiyasu Tomoeda and Katsuhiro Nishinari
Speaker: Kym Eden
Friday 23 Mar 12 - 1:00pm
From wrinkly elastomers to Janus Particles
Paulo Teixeira (University of Lisbon)
Monday 26 Mar 12 - 1:00pm
Entropy-driven self-assembly of novel phases
Laura Filion (University of Cambridge)
Wednesday 11 Apr 12 - 11:30am
Philip Greulich
Friday 13 Apr 12 - 11:30am
Spontaneous segregation of self-propelled particles with different motilities
Authors: Samuel R. McCandlish, Aparna Baskaran and Michael F. Hagan
Speaker: Mike Cates
Monday 16 Apr 12 - 1:00pm
Colloids in active fluids: simulations of microrheology experiments
Giulia Foffano
Friday 20 Apr 12 - 11:30am
Authors: Huilin Shi, Nicholas A. Pierson, Stephen J. Valentine, and David E. Clemmer
Speaker: Jason Kalapothakis
Monday 23 Apr 12 - 1:00pm
Modelling Ribosome Traffic in mRNA translation: Balancing Supply and Demand
Chris Brackley
Wednesday 25 Apr 12 - 11:30am
Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 2)
Bartek Waclaw
Friday 27 Apr 12 - 11:30am
Skating on a Film of Air: Drops Impacting on a Surface
Authors: John M. Kolinski Shmuel M. Rubinstein, Shreyas Mandre, Michael P. Brenner, David A. Weitz, L. Mahadevan
Speaker: Tom Lion
Monday 30 Apr 12 - 1:00pm
Surface functionalized particles for Pickering stabilization
Elena Blanco Castineiras
Friday 4 May 12 - 11:30am
Reducing the Gender Achievement Gap in College Science: A Classroom Study of Values Affirmation
Authors: Akira Miyake, Lauren E. Kost-Smith, Noah D. Finkelstein, Steven J. Pollock, Geoffrey L. Cohen, Tiffany A. Ito
Speaker: Cait MacPhee
Wednesday 9 May 12 - 11:30am
Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 4): the quasispecies model
Bartek Waclaw
Friday 11 May 12 - 11:30am
Distinct Growth Strategies of Soil Bacteria as Revealed by Large-Scale Colony Tracking
Authors: Morten Ernebjerg and Roy Kishony
Speaker: Rosalind Allen
Monday 14 May 12 - 1:00pm
Wetting of Simple Liquids and Cohesive Cells on Soft Surfaces
Eric Dufresne (University of Yale)
Wednesday 16 May 12 - 11:30am
Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 5): horizontal gene transfer
Bartek Waclaw
Thursday 17 May 12 - 1:00pm
Jos Zwanikken (Northwestern University)
Friday 18 May 12 - 11:30am
The energy-speed-accuracy trade-off in sensory adaptation
Authors: Ganhui Lan, Pablo Sartori, Silke Neumann, Victor Sourjik & Yuhai Tu
Speaker: Steven Court
Friday 25 May 12 - 11:30am
Live-cell delamination counterbalances epithelial growth to limit tissue overcrowding
Authors: Eliana Marinari, Aida Mehonic, Scott Curran, Jonathan Gale, Thomas Duke & Buzz Baum
Speaker: Philip Greulich
Wednesday 6 Jun 12 - 11:30am
Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 6): finite populations
Bartek Waclaw
Monday 11 Jun 12 - 1:00pm
Novel molecular design and dielectrophoretic manipulation for enhancing biosensors
Mira Nishimura
Wednesday 13 Jun 12 - 11:30am
Totally asymmetric exclusion process with slow sites: a network theory approach
Juraj Szavits Nossan
Friday 15 Jun 12 - 11:30am
Fluid Elasticity Can Enable Propulsion at Low Reynolds Number
Authors: Nathan C. Keim, Mike Garcia, Paulo E. Arratia
Speaker: Alexander Morozov
Monday 18 Jun 12 - 1:00pm
Ionomer Design Principles for Ion-Conducting Energy Materials
Ralph Colby (Penn State University)
Friday 22 Jun 12 - 11:30am
Polyhedral colloidal 'rocks': low-dimensional networks
Authors: Rice Rebecca; Roth Roland; Royall C. Patrick
Speaker: Andrew Schofield
Wednesday 27 Jun 12 - 11:30am
Molecular, ecological and evolutionary dynamics of quorum-sensing bacteria
Sam Brown
Monday 2 Jul 12 - 1:00pm
Emergence of motifs in model gene regulatory networks
Marcin Zagorski (Institute of Physics at Jagiellonian University)
Friday 6 Jul 12 - 11:30am
Three-Dimensional Structures of Membrane Proteins from Genomic Sequencing
Authors: Thomas A. Hopf, Lucy J. Colwell, Robert Sheridan, Burkhard Rost, Chris Sander, Debora S. Marks
Speaker: Ulrich Zachariae
Monday 23 Jul 12 - 1:00pm
EXTRA SEMINAR: Nonlinear Rheology of Dilute Colloidal Gels
Ali Mohraz (University of California, Irvine)
Monday 30 Jul 12 - 1:00pm
EXTRA SEMINAR: Using Bijels for Advanced Materials Synthesis
Ali Mohraz (University of California, Irvine)
Monday 27 Aug 12 - 1:00pm
Giovanni Dietler (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
Monday 10 Sep 12 - 1:00pm
EXTRA SEMINAR: Understanding Chemical Engineering Processes Based on Colloid and Interfacial Science
Xianfeng Fan (Chemical Engineering, UoE)
Wednesday 12 Sep 12 - 11:30am
From starling flocks to theory: some new results in flocking
Francesco Ginelli
Wednesday 19 Sep 12 - 11:30am
Totally asymmetric simple exclusion process on a tree lattice
Peter Mottishaw
Wednesday 26 Sep 12 - 11:30am
Langevin equations for interface growth: Edwards-Wilkinson and KPZ equation
Martin Evans
Thursday 4 Oct 12 - 1:00pm
Stephen Ebbens (University of Sheffield)
Friday 5 Oct 12 - 11:30am
Physical manipulation of the Escherichia coli chromosome reveals its soft nature
Authors: James Pelletier, Ken Halvorsen, Bae-Yeun Ha, Raffaella Paparcone, Steven J. Sandler, Conrad L. Woldringh, Wesley P. Wong, and Suckjoon Jun
Speaker: Davide Marenduzzo
Monday 8 Oct 12 - 1:00pm
Superparamagnetic colloidal flats: A route to studying the non-linear mechanics of actin networks
Joe Tavacoli (PMMH-ESPCI, Paris)
Wednesday 10 Oct 12 - 11:30am
Taking directions: self-organization of cortical microtubule array in plants
Bela Mulder
Friday 12 Oct 12 - 11:30am
A microfluidic method to study demulsification kinetics
Authors: T Krebs, K Schroen, R Boom
Speaker: David French
Monday 15 Oct 12 - 1:00pm
The bacterial colonisation of microplastic debris in coastal marine sediments
Jesse Harrison
Friday 19 Oct 12 - 11:30am
Heavy use of equations impedes communication among biologists
Authors: Tim W. Fawcett and Andrew D. Higginson
Speaker: Anne Pawsey
Monday 22 Oct 12 - 1:00pm
Walking the back alleys: a modelling study of symplastic transport
Eva Deinum (FOM Institute, AMOLF, Amsterdam)
Wednesday 24 Oct 12 - 11:30am
Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 7): finite populations II
Bartek Waclaw
Friday 26 Oct 12 - 11:30am
Bacterial Thermotaxis by Speed Modulation
Authors: Mahmut Demir and Hanna Salman
Speaker: Jochen Arlt
Monday 29 Oct 12 - 1:00pm
Elucidating the locking mechanism of peptides onto growing amyloid fibrils
Marieke Schor
Wednesday 31 Oct 12 - 11:30am
Chris Hooley (SUPA, University of St Andrews)
Wednesday 31 Oct 12 - 2:00pm
Aqueous phase structuring and rheology in food and personal care products
William J. Frith (Unilever)
Friday 2 Nov 12 - 11:30am
Authors: Wei Gao, Allen Pei, Joseph Wang
Speaker: Aidan Brown
Monday 5 Nov 12 - 1:00pm
Identifying the molecular processes leading to the formation of fibrillar protein aggregates
Jason Kalapothakis
Friday 9 Nov 12 - 11:30am
Topological Interaction by Entangled DNA Loops
Authors: Lang Feng, Ruojie Sha, Nadrian. C. Seeman, Paul. M. Chaikin
Speaker: Siobhan Liddle
Wednesday 14 Nov 12 - 11:30am
Pattern formation in biology by reaction-diffusion systems
Philip Greulich
Friday 16 Nov 12 - 11:30am
Optical Conveyors: A Class of Active Tractor Beams
Authors: David B. Ruffner and David G. Grier
Speaker: Alexander McVey
Monday 19 Nov 12 - 1:00pm
Competition for space in growing bacterial populations: what determines the winners and losers?
Diarmuid Lloyd
Wednesday 21 Nov 12 - 11:30am
Generalised matrix Ansatz and exact current fluctuations in the open ASEP
Alexandre Lazarescu
Friday 23 Nov 12 - 11:30am
Potential methane reservoirs beneath Antarctica
Authors: J. L.Wadham, S. Arndt, S. Tulaczyk, M. Stibal, M. Tranter, J. Telling, G. P. Lis, E. Lawson, A. Ridgwell, A. Dubnick, M. J. Sharp, A. M. Anesio, C. E. H. Butler
Speaker: Sophie Nixon
Monday 26 Nov 12 - 1:00pm
A possible key role of hydrodynamic interactions in colloidal gelation
Akira Furukawa (University of Tokyo)
Wednesday 28 Nov 12 - 11:30am
Bartek Waclaw
Friday 30 Nov 12 - 11:30am
Authors: F. Nuñez, C. Ravello, H. Urbina, T. Perez-Acle
Speaker: Justin Whitehouse
Monday 3 Dec 12 - 1:00pm
Michal Kepa
Friday 7 Dec 12 - 11:30am
Science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students
Authors: Corinne A. Moss-Racusin, John F. Dovidio, Victoria L. Brescoll, Mark J. Graham, Jo Handelsman,
Speaker: Joe Forth
Friday 14 Dec 12 - 11:30am
The Weakening Relationship Between the Impact Factor and Papers' Citations in the Digital Age
Authors: George A. Lozano, Vincent Lariere, Yves Gingras
Speaker: Kym Eden-Jones
Friday 21 Dec 12 - 11:30am
Too Close To Christmas To Trust Anybody Being There Break
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