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Future Meetings
Monday 27 May 13 - 1:00pm - Room 2511
The dispersion of swimming algae: consequences for photobioreactors
Ottavio Croze (University of Cambridge)
Monday 10 Jun 13 - 1:00pm - Room 2511
Barbara Frisken (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Monday 17 Jun 13 - 1:00pm - Room 2511
Shashi Thutupalli (Princeton University)
Monday 24 Jun 13 - 1:00pm - Room 2511
David Fairhurst (Nottingham Trent University)
Past Meetings
Friday 24 May 13 - 11:30am
Speeding up of Sedimentation under Confinement
Authors: S. Heitkam, Y. Yoshitake, F. Toquet, D. Langevin, A. Salonen
Speaker: Juho Lintuvuori
Monday 20 May 13 - 1:00pm
Imaging the microstructure of colloidal suspensions to understand their non-Newtonian flow behavior
Neil Lin (Physics Department, Cornell University)
Friday 17 May 13 - 11:30am
Growth of non-phototrophic microorganisms using solar energy through mineral photocatalysis
Authors: Anhuai Lu, Yan Li, Song Jin, Xin Wang, Xiao-Lei Wu, Cuiping Zeng, Yan Li, Hongrui Ding, Ruixia Hao, Ming Lv, Changqiu Wang, Yueqin Tang & Hailiang Dong
Speaker: Charles Cockell
Friday 10 May 13 - 11:30am
Effects of Particle Shape on Growth Dynamics at Edges of Evaporating Drops of Colloidal Suspensions
Authors: Peter J. Yunker, Matthew A. Lohr, Tim Still, Alexei Borodin, D. J. Durian, and A. G. Yodh
Speaker: Dario Dell'Arciprete
Wednesday 8 May 13 - 11:30am
Universal record statistics for random walks and Levy flights
Satya Majumdar (LPTMS, Université de Paris-Sud)
Monday 6 May 13 - 1:00pm
Motility control in suspensions of swimming cells
Vasily Kantsler (University of Cambridge)
Friday 3 May 13 - 11:30am
Unified study of glass and jamming rheology in soft particle systems
Authors: Atsushi Ikeda, Ludovic Berthier, and Peter Sollich
Speaker: Ben guy
Monday 29 Apr 13 - 1:00pm
High Temperature Studies of Hydrogen and Deuterium at Extreme Pressures
Philip Dalladay-Simpson
Wednesday 24 Apr 13 - 11:30am
Revisiting the flocking transition using active spins
Julien Tailleur (Universite Paris Diderot-Paris 7)
Monday 22 Apr 13 - 1:00pm
Equality and Diversity: What you need to know and why you need to know it.
Toni Collis
Friday 12 Apr 13 - 11:30am
Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts
Authors: Jesse L. Silverberg, Matthew Bierbaum, James P. Sethna, Itai Cohen
Speaker: Richard Blyth
Wednesday 10 Apr 13 - 11:30am
Density functional theory for hard polyhedra
Matthieu Marechal (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Friday 5 Apr 13 - 11:30am
'Blue Energy' From Ion Adsorption And Electrode Charging In Sea And River Water
Authors: Niels Boon, René Roij
Speaker: Job Thijssen
Wednesday 27 Mar 13 - 11:30am
When eigenvalues aren't enough: problems with linear stability analysis
Lawrence Mitchell (EPCC)
Tuesday 26 Mar 13 - 1:00pm
CANCELLED:Solidification of Colloidal Hard Spheres
Hans Joachim Schope (University of Mainz and Max-Planck Institute, Germany)
Monday 25 Mar 13 - 1:00pm
What happens at freezing. A perspective from suspension of hard sphere-like particles.
Bill van Megen (RMIT University,Australia)
Friday 22 Mar 13 - 11:30am
Authors: Alina Krzeminski, Maja Tomaschunas, Ehrhard Köhn, Mechthild Busch-Stockfisch, Jochen Weiss, Jörg Hinrichs
Speaker: Simon Weir
Wednesday 20 Mar 13 - 11:30am
Novel approximation methods for stochastic biochemical kinetics
Ramon Grima (Systems Biology)
Friday 15 Mar 13 - 11:30am
Spontaneous motion in hierarchically assembled active matter
Authors: Tim Sanchez, Daniel T. N. Chen, Stephen J. DeCamp, Michael Heymann, Zvonimir Dogic
Speaker: Dana Vladescu
Friday 8 Mar 13 - 11:30am
Predicting the mechanisms of H-NS – DNA assembly
Dr. Jocelyne Vreede (University of Amsterdam)
Friday 1 Mar 13 - 11:30am
Confined Active Nematic Flow in Cylindrical Capillaries
Authors: M. Ravnik, J.M. Yeomans
Speaker: Adriano Tiribocchi
Monday 25 Feb 13 - 1:00pm
Super-resolution imaging of rapid biological processes in real-time
Prof. Rory Duncan (Heriot-Watt University)
Friday 22 Feb 13 - 11:30am
Adaptation to a new environment allows cooperators to purge cheaters stochastically
Authors: Adam James Waite, Wenying Shou
Speaker: Fred Farrell
Wednesday 20 Feb 13 - 11:30am
Saddle-point approximation in statistical physics, part II
Juraj Szavits Nossan
Friday 15 Feb 13 - 11:30am
How To Capture Active Particles
Authors: A. Kaiser, H. H. Wensink, H. Löwen
Speaker: Joakim Stenhammar
Wednesday 13 Feb 13 - 11:30am
Saddle-point approximation in statistical physics, part I
Juraj Szavits Nossan
Friday 8 Feb 13 - 11:30am
Human Time-Frequency Acuity Beats the Fourier Uncertainty Principle
Authors: J.N. Oppenheim, M.O. Magnasco
Speaker: Tom Underwood
Friday 1 Feb 13 - 11:30am
Molecular Vibration-Sensing Component in Human Olfaction
Authors: S. Gane, D. Georganakis, K. Maniati, M. Vamvakias, N. Ragoussis, E.M.C. Skoulakis, L. Turin
Speaker: Jay Gillam
Wednesday 30 Jan 13 - 11:30am
The Use of the Information Theoretic Entropy in Thermodynamics
Justin Whitehouse
Monday 28 Jan 13 - 1:00pm
Fluid entrainment by individual microswimmers
Mitya Pushkin (University of Oxford)
Friday 25 Jan 13 - 11:30am
Theoretical and Experimental Dissection of DNA Loop-Mediated Repression
Authors: James Q. Boedicker, Hernan G. Garcia, Rob Phillips
Speaker: Chris Brackley
Monday 21 Jan 13 - 1:00pm
Magnetic and transport measurements at very high pressures and low temperatures
Chris O'Neill
Friday 18 Jan 13 - 11:30am
A canonical stability-elasticity relationship verified for one million face-centred-cubic structures
Authors: Sascha B. Maisel, Michaela Höffer, Stefan Müller
Speaker: Bengt Tegner
Friday 11 Jan 13 - 11:30am
Filamentous bacteria transport electrons over centimetre distances
Authors: Christian Pfeffer, Steffen Larsen, Jie Song, Mingdong Dong, Flemming Besenbacher, Rikke Louise Meyer, Kasper Urup Kjeldsen, Lars Schreiber, Yuri A. Gorby, Mohamed Y. El-Naggar, Kar Man Leung, Andreas Schramm, Nils Risgaard-Petersen & Lars Peter Nielsen
Speaker: Tim Bush
Friday 21 Dec 12 - 11:30am
Too Close To Christmas To Trust Anybody Being There Break
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 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
Monday 3 Dec 12 - 1:00pm
Michal Kepa
Friday 30 Nov 12 - 11:30am
Authors: F. Nuñez, C. Ravello, H. Urbina, T. Perez-Acle
Speaker: Justin Whitehouse
Wednesday 28 Nov 12 - 11:30am
Bartek Waclaw
Monday 26 Nov 12 - 1:00pm
A possible key role of hydrodynamic interactions in colloidal gelation
Akira Furukawa (University of Tokyo)
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
Wednesday 21 Nov 12 - 11:30am
Generalised matrix Ansatz and exact current fluctuations in the open ASEP
Alexandre Lazarescu
Monday 19 Nov 12 - 1:00pm
Competition for space in growing bacterial populations: what determines the winners and losers?
Diarmuid Lloyd
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
Wednesday 14 Nov 12 - 11:30am
Pattern formation in biology by reaction-diffusion systems
Philip Greulich
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
Monday 5 Nov 12 - 1:00pm
Identifying the molecular processes leading to the formation of fibrillar protein aggregates
Jason Kalapothakis
Friday 2 Nov 12 - 11:30am
Authors: Wei Gao, Allen Pei, Joseph Wang
Speaker: Aidan Brown
Wednesday 31 Oct 12 - 2:00pm
Aqueous phase structuring and rheology in food and personal care products
William J. Frith (Unilever)
Wednesday 31 Oct 12 - 11:30am
Chris Hooley (SUPA, University of St Andrews)
Monday 29 Oct 12 - 1:00pm
Elucidating the locking mechanism of peptides onto growing amyloid fibrils
Marieke Schor
Friday 26 Oct 12 - 11:30am
Bacterial Thermotaxis by Speed Modulation
Authors: Mahmut Demir and Hanna Salman
Speaker: Jochen Arlt
Wednesday 24 Oct 12 - 11:30am
Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 7): finite populations II
Bartek Waclaw
Monday 22 Oct 12 - 1:00pm
Walking the back alleys: a modelling study of symplastic transport
Eva Deinum (FOM Institute, AMOLF, Amsterdam)
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 15 Oct 12 - 1:00pm
The bacterial colonisation of microplastic debris in coastal marine sediments
Jesse Harrison
Friday 12 Oct 12 - 11:30am
A microfluidic method to study demulsification kinetics
Authors: T Krebs, K Schroen, R Boom
Speaker: David French
Wednesday 10 Oct 12 - 11:30am
Taking directions: self-organization of cortical microtubule array in plants
Bela Mulder
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)
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
Thursday 4 Oct 12 - 1:00pm
Stephen Ebbens (University of Sheffield)
Wednesday 26 Sep 12 - 11:30am
Langevin equations for interface growth: Edwards-Wilkinson and KPZ equation
Martin Evans
Wednesday 19 Sep 12 - 11:30am
Totally asymmetric simple exclusion process on a tree lattice
Peter Mottishaw
Wednesday 12 Sep 12 - 11:30am
From starling flocks to theory: some new results in flocking
Francesco Ginelli
Monday 10 Sep 12 - 1:00pm
EXTRA SEMINAR: Understanding Chemical Engineering Processes Based on Colloid and Interfacial Science
Xianfeng Fan (Chemical Engineering, UoE)
Monday 27 Aug 12 - 1:00pm
Giovanni Dietler (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
Monday 30 Jul 12 - 1:00pm
EXTRA SEMINAR: Using Bijels for Advanced Materials Synthesis
Ali Mohraz (University of California, Irvine)
Monday 23 Jul 12 - 1:00pm
EXTRA SEMINAR: Nonlinear Rheology of Dilute Colloidal Gels
Ali Mohraz (University of California, Irvine)
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 2 Jul 12 - 1:00pm
Emergence of motifs in model gene regulatory networks
Marcin Zagorski (Institute of Physics at Jagiellonian University)
Wednesday 27 Jun 12 - 11:30am
Molecular, ecological and evolutionary dynamics of quorum-sensing bacteria
Sam Brown
Friday 22 Jun 12 - 11:30am
Polyhedral colloidal 'rocks': low-dimensional networks
Authors: Rice Rebecca; Roth Roland; Royall C. Patrick
Speaker: Andrew Schofield
Monday 18 Jun 12 - 1:00pm
Ionomer Design Principles for Ion-Conducting Energy Materials
Ralph Colby (Penn State University)
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
Wednesday 13 Jun 12 - 11:30am
Totally asymmetric exclusion process with slow sites: a network theory approach
Juraj Szavits Nossan
Monday 11 Jun 12 - 1:00pm
Novel molecular design and dielectrophoretic manipulation for enhancing biosensors
Mira Nishimura
Wednesday 6 Jun 12 - 11:30am
Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 6): finite populations
Bartek Waclaw
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
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
Thursday 17 May 12 - 1:00pm
Jos Zwanikken (Northwestern University)
Wednesday 16 May 12 - 11:30am
Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 5): horizontal gene transfer
Bartek Waclaw
Monday 14 May 12 - 1:00pm
Wetting of Simple Liquids and Cohesive Cells on Soft Surfaces
Eric Dufresne (University of Yale)
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
Wednesday 9 May 12 - 11:30am
Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 4): the quasispecies model
Bartek Waclaw
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
Monday 30 Apr 12 - 1:00pm
Surface functionalized particles for Pickering stabilization
Elena Blanco Castineiras
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
Wednesday 25 Apr 12 - 11:30am
Simple models of microbial dynamics and evolution (part 2)
Bartek Waclaw
Monday 23 Apr 12 - 1:00pm
Modelling Ribosome Traffic in mRNA translation: Balancing Supply and Demand
Chris Brackley
Friday 20 Apr 12 - 11:30am
Authors: Huilin Shi, Nicholas A. Pierson, Stephen J. Valentine, and David E. Clemmer
Speaker: Jason Kalapothakis
Monday 16 Apr 12 - 1:00pm
Colloids in active fluids: simulations of microrheology experiments
Giulia Foffano
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
Wednesday 11 Apr 12 - 11:30am
Philip Greulich
Monday 26 Mar 12 - 1:00pm
Entropy-driven self-assembly of novel phases
Laura Filion (University of Cambridge)
Friday 23 Mar 12 - 1:00pm
From wrinkly elastomers to Janus Particles
Paulo Teixeira (University of Lisbon)
Friday 16 Mar 12 - 11:30am
Improvement of pedestrian flow by slow rhythm
Authors: Daichi Yanagisawa, Akiyasu Tomoeda and Katsuhiro Nishinari
Speaker: Kym Eden
Wednesday 14 Mar 12 - 11:30am
Responses to perturbations in Brownian dynamics simulations
Rosalind Allen
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
Monday 5 Mar 12 - 1:00pm
The early stages of insulin fibrillogenesis explored with mass spectrometry and molecular modelling
Massimiliano Porrini
Friday 2 Mar 12 - 11:30am
Authors: Zexin Zhang, Peter J. Yunker, Piotr Habdas, and A. G. Yodh
Speaker: Vincent Martinez
Monday 27 Feb 12 - 1:00pm
Evolution of antibiotic resistance in the presence of antibiotic gradients
Bartek Waclaw
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
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
Monday 13 Feb 12 - 1:00pm
Non-equilibrium fluctuations of intracellular filaments generated by motor activity
Ines Weber
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
Wednesday 8 Feb 12 - 11:30am
On derivations of some simple results in hydrodynamics.
Alexander Morozov
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
Monday 30 Jan 12 - 1:00pm
Mark Leake (University of Oxford)
Friday 27 Jan 12 - 11:30am
Capillary Forces in Suspension Rheology
Authors: E. Koos, N. Willenbacher
Speaker: Wilson Poon
Wednesday 25 Jan 12 - 11:30am
Cycles in population dynamics due to stochastic resonances
Dominic Russell
Monday 23 Jan 12 - 1:00pm
The Alkali Elements at Extreme Compressions: Static and Dynamic Compression Techniques
Emma McBride
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
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 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
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 2 Dec 11 - 11:30am
The Network of Global Corporate Control
Authors: Stefania Vitali, James B. Glattfelder, Stefano Battiston
Speaker: Fred Farrell
Friday 25 Nov 11 - 11:30am
Stability of the Bulk Phase of Layered ZnO
Authors: Bipul Rakshit and Priya Mahadevan
Speaker: Linggang Zhu
Wednesday 23 Nov 11 - 11:30am
The Schweitz virial relation and how to compute the local pressure in molecular simulations
Tom Lion
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
Monday 14 Nov 11 - 1:00pm
Prof. Glenn Martyna (Materials Research Laboratory at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA)
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 31 Oct 11 - 1:00pm
The emergence of "marginal opacity" in swarming animals
Prof. Matthew Turner (Warwick University)
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
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
Monday 17 Oct 11 - 1:00pm
Using dielectrophoretic manipulation with nucleic acid sensors
Mira Nishimura
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 10 Oct 11 - 1:00pm
The rheology of nanoparticle layers and the relation to foam stability
Duyang Zang (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
Friday 7 Oct 11 - 11:30am
A possible statistical mechanism of anomalous neutrino velocity in OPERA experiment?
Authors: Robert Alicki
Speaker: Bartlomiej Waclaw
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 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
Friday 1 Jul 11 - 11:30am
No Journal Club due to special Theory Club Meeting
Monday 27 Jun 11 - 1:00pm
Yielding and flow of colloidal glasses and gels
Nikos Koumakis (Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH))
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 20 Jun 11 - 1:00pm
Noise-induced dynamical transition in systems with symmetric absorbing states
Dominic Russell
Friday 17 Jun 11 - 11:30am
Structure Formation In Active Networks
Authors: Simone Kohler, Volker Schaller, Andreas Bausch
Speaker: Ryan Philips
Thursday 9 Jun 11 - 1:00pm
Colloidal Particles at a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal interface
Anne Claire Pawsey
Wednesday 8 Jun 11 - 11:30am
Bayesian parameter inference in discrete state-space stochastic population models
Glenn Marion
Monday 6 Jun 11 - 1:00pm
The role of particle size and shape in highly size-asymmetric mixtures.
Douglas Ashton (University of Bath)
Friday 20 May 11 - 11:30am
Authors: Guanghong Wei, Andrew I. Jewett and Joan-Emma Shea
Speaker: Massimiliano Porrini
Wednesday 18 May 11 - 11:30am
The extremal current principle for driven diffusive systems
Philip Greulich
Monday 16 May 11 - 1:00pm
Deformation of Crystalline Materials: Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Con Healy
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 9 May 11 - 1:00pm
Metastable intermediate phases on molecular crystallisation pathways
Jan Sefcik (Strathclyde 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
Thursday 5 May 11 - 1:00pm
Rotator phases and twist solitons in polyethylene and n-alkanes
Scott Milner (The Pennsylvania State University)
Wednesday 4 May 11 - 11:30am
Condensation in the inclusion process and related models
Stefan Grosskinsky
Monday 18 Apr 11 - 1:00pm
The Structure of Ammonia Monohydrate Vb: Implications for the ammonia-water system
Craig Wilson
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
Friday 8 Apr 11 - 11:30am
The origin of bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics
Authors: Albert-Laslzo Barabas
Speaker: Robert Concannon
Monday 4 Apr 11 - 1:00pm
Ryan Morris
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)
Friday 25 Mar 11 - 11:30am
Cinema, Fermi Problems, & General Education
Authors: C.J. Efthimiou and R. Llewellyn
Speaker: Juan Venegas-Ortiz
Thursday 24 Mar 11 - 1:00pm
Modeling of mild fractionation of suspensions
Martijntje Vollebregt (Wageningen University)
Monday 21 Mar 11 - 1:00pm
A dynamical phase transition in a model for evolution with migration
Bartek Waclaw
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 7 Mar 11 - 1:00pm
The blistering of viscoelastic filaments
Christian Wagner (University of Saarlandes)
Friday 4 Mar 11 - 11:30am
Universal statistical properties of poker tournaments
Authors: Clement Sire
Speaker: Philip Greulich
Monday 28 Feb 11 - 1:00pm
Colloids in Phase Separating Binary Liquids: Towards Rod-like Particles
Niek Hijnen
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 21 Feb 11 - 1:00pm
Particles at Interfaces: from Bijels to Oscillating Pickering Drops
Joe Tavacoli
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
Thursday 17 Feb 11 - 1:00pm
Exploring early stage processes involved in amyloid fibril formation
Kim Eden-Jones
Wednesday 16 Feb 11 - 11:30am
One step beyond linear stability analysis: the amplitude equation
Julien Tailleur
Friday 11 Feb 11 - 11:30am
Comparative Hydrodynamics of Bacterial Polymorphism
Authors: Saverio E. Spagnolie and Eric Lauga
Speaker: Alexander Morozov
Monday 7 Feb 11 - 1:00pm
Simulating particle stabilised thin films using surface evolver
Gareth Morris (Imperial College, London)
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
Wednesday 2 Feb 11 - 11:30am
Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling with and without detailed balance
Katrin Wolff
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
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 17 Dec 10 - 11:30am
Undulation instabilities in the meniscus of smectic membranes
Authors: J. C. Loudet, P. V. Dolganov, P. Patricio, H. Saadaoui, P. Cluzeau
Speaker: Paul Clegg
Monday 13 Dec 10 - 1:00pm
Adam Apostoli
Friday 10 Dec 10 - 11:30am
Simple Theory of Protein Folding Kinetics
Authors: Vijay S. Pande
Speaker: Katrin Wolff
Friday 3 Dec 10 - 11:30am
Evolutionary Game Theory in Growing Populations
Authors: Anna Melbinger, Jonas Cremer, and Erwin Frey
Speaker: Dominic Russell
Friday 26 Nov 10 - 11:30am
A spacetime cloak, or a history editor
Authors: M.W. McCall, A. Favaro, P. Kinsler and A. Boardman
Speaker: Kym Eden-Jones
Friday 19 Nov 10 - 11:30am
Authors: Chong Liu and Zhigang Li
Speaker: Tom Lion
Friday 12 Nov 10 - 11:30am
Enhanced diffusion due to active swimmers at solid surfaces
Vincent Martinez
Friday 5 Nov 10 - 11:30am
Authors: (1) K. N. Nordstrom, Verneuil, W. G. Ellenbroek, T. C. Lubensky, Gollub, and D. J. Durian. (2) K. N. Nordstrom, E. Verneuil, P. E. Arratia, A. Basu, Z. Zhang, A. G. Yodh, J. P. Gollub, and D. J. Durian.
Speaker: Gijs Katgert
Monday 1 Nov 10 - 1:00pm
Spatiotemporal regulation of chemical reactions by active cytoskeletal remodeling
Abhishek Chaudhuri (University of Oxford)
Friday 29 Oct 10 - 11:30am
Authors: V. Yamakov, D. Wolf, S.R. Phillpot, A.K. Mukherjee AND H. Gleiter
Speaker: Con Healy
Monday 25 Oct 10 - 1:00pm
Small particles in liquid crystal phases
Ingo Dierking (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester)
Wednesday 20 Oct 10 - 11:30am
The Role of Noise in Systems with Two Symmetric Absorbing States.
Dominic Russell
Monday 18 Oct 10 - 1:00pm
Entangled liquid crystal colloids: knots and links
Miha Ravnik (University of Oxforf)
Friday 15 Oct 10 - 11:30am
Crystalline Phases of Polydisperse Spheres
Authors: Peter Sollich and Nigel B. Wilding
Speaker: Siobhan Liddle
Friday 15 Oct 10 - 11:30am
Nanoparticle-induced widening of the temperature range of liquid-crystalline blue phases
Authors: Eva Karatairi, Brigita Rozic, Zdravko Kutnjak, Vassilios Tzitzios, George Nounesis, George Cordoyiannis, Jan Thoen and Christ Glorieux
Speaker: Anne Claire Pawsey
Monday 4 Oct 10 - 1:00pm
How do (fluorescent) surfactants affect particle-stabilized emulsions?
Job Tijssen
Friday 1 Oct 10 - 11:30am
vibrations and stabilization of the beta phase in Ni-Ti shape-memory alloy
Authors: Petros Souvatzis, Dominik Legut, Olle Eriksson, and Mikhail I. Katsnelson
Speaker: Bengt Tegner
Monday 27 Sep 10 - 1:00pm
Swimming bacteria: from individual swimmers to dense suspensions
Jochen Arlt
Friday 24 Sep 10 - 11:30am
Crystallization of Deformable Spherical Colloids
Authors: Vera M. O. Batista and Mark A. Miller
Speaker: Job Thijssen
Wednesday 22 Sep 10 - 11:30am
N. H. Barton
Wednesday 15 Sep 10 - 11:30am
Lattice Boltzmann simulations of phase separation in a binary mixture with dynamic temperature
Giuseppe Gonnella
Monday 19 Jul 10 - 1:00pm
Understanding the sol-gel transition in DSMO/lysozyme/water mixtures
Ilja Voets (University of Friburg)
Friday 9 Jul 10 - 11:30am
Chemoresponsive assemblies of microparticles at liquid crystalline interfaces
Authors: G.M. Koening, Jr., I. Lin and N.L. Abbott
Speaker: Juho Lintuvuori
Wednesday 7 Jul 10 - 11:30am
Field Theoretic Approaches to Interacting Particle Systems
Alasdair Thomson
Wednesday 30 Jun 10 - 11:30am
Catastrophes and the increased risk of population extinction
Neelofer Banglawala
Monday 28 Jun 10 - 1:00pm
Simulation studies of phase behaviour in highly size asymmetrical mixtures
Nigel Wilding (Univeristy of Bath)
Friday 25 Jun 10 - 11:30am
Second Order Catalytic Quasispecies Yields Discontinuous Mean Fitness at Error Threshold
Authors: N. Wagner, E. Tannenbaum and G. Ashkenasy
Speaker: Bartlomiej Waclaw
Friday 18 Jun 10 - 11:30am
Authors: A.Widmer-Cooper, H. Perry, P. Harrowell and D.R. Reichman
Speaker: Eduardo Sanz
Friday 11 Jun 10 - 11:30am
Compositional ripening of particle- and surfactant-stabilised emulsions: a comparison
Authors: B.P. Binks, P.D.I. Fletcher, B.L. Holt, O.Kuca, P. Beaussoubre and K. Wong
Speaker: Job Thijssen
Monday 7 Jun 10 - 1:00pm
Irreversible Aging Dynamics and Phase Behavior of Aqueous Suspensions of Laponite
Yogesh M. Joshi (Department of Chemical Engineering,Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Friday 4 Jun 10 - 11:30am
Quasi-two-dimensional diffusion of single ellipsoids: aspect ratio and confinement effects
Authors: Y. Han, A. Alsayed, M. Nobili and A. G. Yodh
Speaker: Mathias Reufer
Monday 31 May 10 - 1:00pm
Jon Doye (Oxford University)
Friday 21 May 10 - 11:30am
Arrested phase separation of colloidal rod–sphere mixtures
Authors: N. Yasarawan and J.S. van Duijneveldt
Speaker: Joe Tavacoli
Friday 14 May 10 - 11:30am
Large-Scale Collective Properties of Self-Propelled Rods
Authors: F. Ginelli, F. Peruani, M. Bär, and H. Chaté
Speaker: Martin Evans
Monday 10 May 10 - 1:00pm
Mathias Reufer
Friday 7 May 10 - 11:30am
A bacterial ratchet motor
Swimming bacteria power microscopic gears
Authors:
A. Sokolova, M.M. Apodacac, B.A. Grzybowskic, and I.S. Aransona.
Speaker: Julien Tailleur
Monday 3 May 10 - 1:00pm
Live Cell imaging of Host-Virus interactions using CARS and Two-Photon microscopy
Christine Wong
Wednesday 28 Apr 10 - 11:30am
Front speeds, cut-offs, and the blow-up method in scalar reaction-diffusion equations
Nikola Popovic
Friday 16 Apr 10 - 11:30am
Nanoconfinement controls stiffness, strength and mechanical toughness of beta-sheet crystals in silk
Authors: S. Keten, Z. Xu, B. Ihle and M.J. Buehler
Speaker: Bengt Tegner
Monday 12 Apr 10 - 1:00pm
Crystallization of hard aspherical particles
William Miller (Columbia University, New York)
Friday 9 Apr 10 - 11:30am
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Friday 2 Apr 10 - 11:30am
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Monday 29 Mar 10 - 1:00pm
Computer models for DNA organisation: bacteriophages and the human nucleus
Davide Marenduzzo
Friday 26 Mar 10 - 11:30am
Soft colloids make strong glasses
Authors: J. Mattsson, H.M. Wyss, A. Fernandez-Nieves, K. Miyazaki, Z. Hu, D.R. Reichman and David A. Weitz
Speaker: Andy Schofield
Friday 19 Mar 10 - 11:30am
Accumulation of Microswimmers near a Surface Mediated by Collision and Rotational Brownian Motion
Authors: G. Li and J.X. Tang
Speaker: Laurence Wilson
Monday 15 Mar 10 - 1:00pm
Deformation of elastic nanotubes via self-assembly of surface-adhesive nanoparticles
Josep Pamies
Monday 8 Mar 10 - 1:00pm
Investigating Early Aggregation Processes using Mass Spectrometry
Harriet Cole
Friday 5 Mar 10 - 11:30am
Authors: S.Y. Park, H. Handa and A. Sandhu
Speaker: Alastair Mailer
Monday 1 Mar 10 - 1:00pm
Lattice Dynamics Studies of High-Pressure Phases Using Thermal Diffuse Scattering
Jenny Jeppsson
Friday 19 Feb 10 - 2:00pm
Asymmetric exclusion process as a model for protein synthesis
Luca Ciandrini
Friday 19 Feb 10 - 11:30am
Flow visualization and flow cytometry with holographic video microscopy
Authors: F.C. Cheong, B. Sun, R. Dreyfus, J. Amato-Grill, K. Xiao, L. Dixon & D.G. Grier
Speaker: Jochen Arlt
Thursday 18 Feb 10 - 1:00pm
DNA-directed self-assembly of micro- and nano-particles: towards self-replicating materials
Mirjam Leunissen
Monday 15 Feb 10 - 1:00pm
Statics and dynamics of a zero-range process with saturated condensation
Alasdair Thompson
Friday 5 Feb 10 - 11:30am
Delocalization transition for the Google matrix
Authors: O. Giraud, B. Georgeot, and D.L. Shepelyansky
Speaker: Arno Proeme
Friday 29 Jan 10 - 11:30am
Supersonic Air Flow due to Solid-Liquid Impact
Authors: S. Gekle, I.R. Peters, J.M. Gordillo, D. van der Meer, and D. Lohse
Speaker: Alasdair Thompson
Friday 22 Jan 10 - 11:30am
Equivalence of Glass Transition and Colloidal Glass Transition in the Hard-Sphere Limit
Authors: N. Xu, T.K. Haxton, A.J. Liu, and S.R. Nagel
Speaker: Richard Blythe
Monday 18 Jan 10 - 1:00pm
The Importance of Disclinations: Colloidal Dispersions in a Themotropic Nematic Solvent
Tiffany Wood
Friday 15 Jan 10 - 2:00pm
How to solve f(x)=0 numerically? A globally convergent modification of the Newton-Raphson method
Alexander Morozov
Monday 7 Dec 09 - 1:00pm
A soft-core spherocylinder model for coarse-grained simulations of self-assembling system
Juho Lintuvuori
Friday 4 Dec 09 - 11:30am
Authors: D. Zerrouki, J. Baudry, D. Pine, P. Chaikin and J. Bibette
Speaker: Chantal Valeriani
Monday 30 Nov 09 - 1:00pm
Quantum Drude Oscillators for Accurate Many-body Intermolecular Forces
Andrew Jones
Friday 13 Nov 09 - 11:30am
Nanoparticle self-assembly at liquid-liquid interfaces (SALI): what's the point?
Lucio Isa
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
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 16 Oct 09 - 11:30am
Statistical mechanics and hydrodynamics of bacterial suspensions
Authors: A. Baskaran and M. C. Marchetti
Speaker: Davide Marenduzzo
Monday 12 Oct 09 - 1:00pm
Bill van Megen (RMIT University, Australia)
Friday 9 Oct 09 - 11:30am
Osmotic Propulsion: The Osmotic Motor
Authors: U. M. Córdova-Figueroa and J. F. Brady
Speaker: Tiffany Wood
Monday 5 Oct 09 - 1:00pm
Tobias Galla (University of Manchester)
Friday 2 Oct 09 - 11:30am
Characterization of Hydrodynamic Surface Interactions of Escherichia coli Cell Bodies in Shear Flow
Laurence Wilson
Monday 28 Sep 09 - 2:00pm
Investigations of the coalescence of emulsion droplets with microfluidics
Nicolas Bremond (Laboratoire Colloides et Materiaux Divises,ESPCI,Paris)
Tuesday 22 Sep 09 - 1:00pm
Interfacial water structure, peptide adsorption and ion-specificity
Roland Netz (Technical University Munich)
Thursday 17 Sep 09 - 10:15am
Methodology of the determination of phase diagrams via computer simulations
Eduardo Sanz
Thursday 10 Sep 09 - 2:00pm
Particle Stabilised Emulsions with Hydrophobic Additives
Paul FitzGerald (University of Sydney, Australia)
Thursday 30 Jul 09 - 1:00pm
Strong Mobility in Weakly Disordered Systems
Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Thursday 9 Jul 09 - 3:00pm
Damien Simon
Monday 22 Jun 09 - 1:00pm
Richard Sear (University of Surrey)
Monday 15 Jun 09 - 1:00pm
Understanding the lag phase variability of insulin fibrillation
Line Jourdain
Monday 8 Jun 09 - 1:00pm
Caroline Miles
Monday 1 Jun 09 - 1:00pm
Jon Weaver (Materials Discovery, Liverpool University)
Monday 11 May 09 - 1:00pm
Constitutive Equations for Colloidal Glasses from Statistical Mechanics
Mike Cates
Monday 4 May 09 - 1:00pm
Ton Visser (Wageningen University)
Thursday 30 Apr 09 - 10:15am
Bhavin Khatri
Monday 6 Apr 09 - 1:00pm
Two-dimensional colloidal systems in optical and magnetic fields: micromechanics and band-formation
Roel Dullens (University of Oxford)
Thursday 2 Apr 09 - 10:15am
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
Thursday 26 Mar 09 - 10:15am
Matthew Salewski
Monday 16 Mar 09 - 1:00pm
Critical Behaviour of Colloidal Interfaces Probed by Gravity
Dirk Aarts (University of Oxford)
Friday 13 Mar 09 - 11:30am
Microrheology of a sticking transition
Authors: P. Sharma, S. Ghosh and S. Bhattacharya
Speaker: Wilson Poon
Monday 9 Mar 09 - 1:00pm
Aggregation and solvent electrostriction in a simple dipeptide: a molecular dynamics investigation
Paul Tulip
Friday 6 Mar 09 - 11:30am
Authors:
S.P. Diggle, A.S. Griffin, G.S. Campbell and S.A. West
Speaker: Chantal Valeriani
Monday 23 Feb 09 - 1:00pm
Complex Fluids Characterization Through Expert System & High Frequency Rheometry
Samiul Amin (Malvern Instruments Limited)
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 16 Feb 09 - 1:00pm
Gijs Katgert (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Thursday 12 Feb 09 - 10:15am
Geometric bounds for eigenvalues of reversible Markov chains
Richard Blythe
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
Friday 30 Jan 09 - 11:30am
Authors: A.J. Parnell, S.J. Martin, R.A.L. Jones, C. Vasilev, C. J. Crook and A.J. Ryan
Speaker: Alastair Mailer
Monday 26 Jan 09 - 1:00pm
The Electrophoresis Of Colloidal Particles or How to use the new Zetasizer Nano
Andrew Schofield
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
Thursday 22 Jan 09 - 10:15am
Eigenvalue perturbations for matrices with arbitrary Jordan form - Part II
Arno Proeme
Monday 19 Jan 09 - 1:00pm
Neelofer Banglawala
Thursday 15 Jan 09 - 10:15am
Eigenvalue perturbations for matrices with arbitrary Jordan form - Part I
Arno Proeme
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)
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 15 Dec 08 - 1:00pm
Large Scale Simulations of Blue Phases of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Oliver Henrich
Monday 8 Dec 08 - 1:00pm
1. Water Interactions with Calcium Carbonate Nanoparticles and 2. Catching up on Bijels
Joseph Tavacoli
Friday 28 Nov 08 - 11:30am
Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string
Authors: D. M. Raymer and D. E. Smith
Speaker: Rupert Nash
Thursday 27 Nov 08 - 10:15am
Weak-segregation theory of microphase separation in block copolymers - Part I
Alexander Morozov
Thursday 20 Nov 08 - 10:15am
Statistical mechanics of a model of genetic switch with linear feedback - Part 2
Paolo Visco
Monday 17 Nov 08 - 1:00pm
Arno Proeme
Friday 14 Nov 08 - 11:30am
Authors: L. H. Cisneros, J. O. Kessler, R. Ortiz, R. Cortez and M. A. Bees
Speaker: Laurence Wilson
Thursday 13 Nov 08 - 10:15am
Statistical mechanics of a model of genetic switch with linear feedback - Part 1
Paolo Visco
Monday 10 Nov 08 - 1:00pm
Cellular networks of colloids via the demixing and remixing of binary liquids
Job Thijssen
Friday 7 Nov 08 - 11:30am
A Molecular Clutch Disables Flagella in the Bacillus subtilis Biofilm
Authors: K. M. Blair, L. Turner, J. T. Winkelman, H. C. Berg, D. B. Kearns
Speaker: Angela Dawson
Friday 31 Oct 08 - 11:30am
First-Principles Constitutive Equation for Suspension Rheology
Authors: J. M. Brader, M. E. Cates, and M. Fuchs
Speaker: Oliver Henrich
Monday 27 Oct 08 - 1:00pm
Nonequilibrium Phase Transition in a System of Sedimenting Reproducing Particles
Conrad Barrett-Freeman
Friday 24 Oct 08 - 11:30am
Robust dynamic classes revealed by measuring the response function of a social system
Authors: R. Crane and D. Sornette
Speaker: Lawrence Mitchell
Friday 17 Oct 08 - 11:30am
Elastic Instabilities of Polymer Solutions in Cross-Channel Flow; Purely Elastic Flow Asymmetries
Authors: P. E. Arratia, C. C. Thomas, J. Diorio, and J. P. Gollub; R. J. Poole, M. A. Alves and P. J. Oliveira
Speaker: Alexander Morozov
Monday 13 Oct 08 - 1:00pm
Orbital ordering, reduced dimensionality and spin gap in correlated oxides
Daniel Khomskii (University of Cologne)
Friday 3 Oct 08 - 11:30am
Asymmetric caging in soft colloidal mixtures
Authors: C. Mayer, E. Zaccarelli, E. Stiakakis, C. N. Likos, F. Sciortino, A. Munam, M. Gauthier, N. Hadjichristidis, H. Iatrou, P. Tartaglia, H. L"\" o"wen and D. Vlassopoulos
Speaker: Job Thijssen
Tuesday 30 Sep 08 - 2:00pm
Current Fluctuations in the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process and Bethe Ansatz - Part II
Sylvain Prolhac
Tuesday 23 Sep 08 - 2:00pm
Current Fluctuations in the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process and Bethe Ansatz - Part I
Sylvain Prolhac
Friday 19 Sep 08 - 1:00pm
A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Phase Separation
Juergen Vollmer (MPI Dynamics & Self-Organization, Goettingen)
Monday 1 Sep 08 - 1:00pm
Some Optical Tweezers-Based Rheology Conclusions, and a New Microscopy Technique
Laurence Wilson
Monday 30 Jun 08 - 1:00pm
Microfluidic devices: surface modification and analysis
Sally McArthur (University of Sheffield)
Friday 27 Jun 08 - 11:30am
Cooperativity, Sensitivity, and Noise in Biochemical Signaling
Authors: W. Bialek and S. Setayeshgar
Speaker: Martin Evans
Friday 20 Jun 08 - 11:30am
Differential Dynamic Microscopy: Probing Wave Vector Dependent Dynamics with a Microscope
Authors: R. Cerbino and V. Trappe
Speaker: Peter Pusey
Friday 13 Jun 08 - 11:30am
Statistically enhanced promiscuity of structurally correlated patterns
Authors: D. B. Lukatsky and E. I. Shakhnovich
Speaker: Chantal Valeriani
Monday 9 Jun 08 - 1:00pm
Sickle hemoglobin fibers - self assembly, interactions, growth and depolymerisation
Matthew Turner (University of Warwick)
Friday 6 Jun 08 - 11:30am
A phase diagram for jammed matter
Authors: C. Song, P. Wang and H Makse
Speaker: Paolo Visco
Friday 30 May 08 - 11:30am
Motility influences biofilm architecture in Escherichia coli
Authors: T. K. Wood, A. F. González Barrios, M. Herzberg and J. Lee
Speaker: Jana Schwarz-Linek
Friday 23 May 08 - 11:30am
Tearing as a test for mechanical characterization of thin adhesive films
Authors: E. Hamm, P. Reis, M. LeBlanc, B Roman and E. Cerda
Speaker: Julien Tailleur
Friday 16 May 08 - 11:30am
Diffusionless crystal growth from glass has precursor in equilibrium liquid
Authors: Ye Sun, Hanmi Xi, M. D. Ediger and Lian Yu
Speaker: Eduardo Sanz
Friday 9 May 08 - 11:30am
Thermal convection and emergence of isolated vortices in soap bubbles
Authors: F. Seychelles, Y. Amarouchene, M. Bessafi and H. Kellay
Speaker: Lucio Isa
Friday 2 May 08 - 11:30am
Paleotemperature trend for Precambrian life inferred from resurrected proteins
Authors: Eric A. Gaucher, Sridhar Govindarajan and Omjoy K. Ganesh
Speaker: Cait Macphee
Tuesday 29 Apr 08 - 2:00pm
Metastability and topology - What can be read in a Fokker-Planck equation?
Julien Tailleur
Monday 28 Apr 08 - 1:00pm
Time dependent quantum transport and nuclear motion
Claudio Verdozzi (Lund University)
Friday 25 Apr 08 - 11:30am
Random organization in periodically driven systems
Authors: Laurent Corte, P. M. Chaikin, J. P. Gollub and D. J. Pine
Speaker: Mike Cates
Friday 18 Apr 08 - 11:30am
Authors: Yoel Forterre, Jan M. Skotheim, Jacques Dumais and L. Mahadevan
Speaker: Rupert Nash
Friday 11 Apr 08 - 11:30am
Universal nature of particle displacements close to glass and jamming transitions
Authors: Pinaki Chaudhuri, Ludovic Berthier and Walter Kob
Speaker: Rut Besseling
Friday 4 Apr 08 - 11:30am
Amoebae anticipate periodic events
Authors: Tetsu Saigusa, Atsushi Tero, Toshiyuki Nakagaki and Yoshiki Kuramoto
Speaker: Laurence Wilson
Monday 31 Mar 08 - 1:00pm
Probing nanoscale structure and dynamics of soft matter by synchrotron X-ray scattering
Theyencheri Narayanan (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble)
Friday 28 Mar 08 - 11:30am
Coherent structures in monolayers of swimming particles
Authors: Takuji Ishikawa and T. J. Pedley
Speaker: Davide Marenduzzo
Wednesday 26 Mar 08 - 1:00pm
Computer simulations of microrheology in dense colloidal systems
Antonio M. Puertas (University of Almeria)
Monday 17 Mar 08 - 1:00pm
Simulating ‘Swimmers’: Point-like self-propelled particles in lattice Boltzmann
Rupert Nash
Friday 14 Mar 08 - 11:30am
Importance of metastable states in the free energy landscapes of polypeptide chains
Authors: Stefan Auer, Mark A. Miller, Sergei V. Krivov, Christopher M. Dobson, Martin Karplus and Michele Vendruscolo
Speaker: Rosalind Allen
Friday 7 Mar 08 - 11:30am
Morphological clues to wet granular pile stability
Authors: M. Scheel, R. Seemann, M. Brinkmann, M. Di Michiel, A. Sheppard, B. Briedenbach and S. Herminghaus
Speaker: Kathryn White
Friday 29 Feb 08 - 11:30am
Magnetic monopoles in spin ice
Authors: C. Castelnovo, R. Moessner and S. L. Sondhi
Speaker: Richard Blythe
Monday 25 Feb 08 - 1:00pm
Out of equilibrium processes in oppositely charged colloidal suspensions
Eduardo Sanz
Friday 22 Feb 08 - 11:30am
Three-dimensional super-resolution imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy
Authors: Bo Huang, Wenqin Wang, Mark Bates and Xiaowei Zhuang
Speaker: Job Thijssen
Friday 15 Feb 08 - 11:30am
Structural rearrangements that govern flow in colloidal glasses
Authors: Peter Schall, David A. Weitz and Frans Spaepen
Speaker: Oliver Henrich
Friday 8 Feb 08 - 11:30am
Authors: George Oster and Hongyun Wang
Speaker: Otti Croze
Monday 4 Feb 08 - 1:00pm
Laser manipulation and transfer of angular momentum in liquid crystal systems
Helen Gleeson (University of Manchester)
Friday 1 Feb 08 - 11:30am
A single type of progenitor cell maintains the epidermis
Authors: E. Clayton, D. P. Doupe, A. M. Klein, D. Winton, B. D. Simons and P. H. Jones
Speaker: Lawrence Mitchell
Monday 28 Jan 08 - 1:00pm
A structural route for dynamical arrest: locally favoured structures in colloidal gels and glasses.
Paddy Royall (University of Bristol)
Monday 21 Jan 08 - 1:00pm
Jan Willem van de Meent (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)
Monday 14 Jan 08 - 1:00pm
Anna Balazs (University of Pittsburgh)
Friday 30 Nov 07 - 11:30am
Two papers from the Department of Applied Physics at RMIT, Australia
Gary Bryant
Monday 26 Nov 07 - 1:00pm
Clustering, wetting and demixing in colloid-microemulsion composites
Danielle Van't Zand
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 19 Nov 07 - 1:00pm
Characterisation of Photonic Colloidal Crystals in Real and Reciprocal Space: A Tale of Two Cities
Job Thijssen
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
Tuesday 13 Nov 07 - 11:30am
Steady-State Distributions of Random Walks with (some) Memory
Yariv Kafri (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
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
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
Monday 29 Oct 07 - 1:00pm
Non-linear instabilities in parallel shear flows of visco-elastic fluids
Alexander Morozov
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 22 Oct 07 - 1:00pm
Electrostatic interactions across a charged lipid bilayer
Alexander Wagner (North Dakota State University)
Friday 19 Oct 07 - 11:30am
Dynamical evolution of ecosystems
Authors: Sandro Azaele, Simone Pigolotti, Jayanth R. Banavar and Amos Maritan
Speaker: Amit Chattopadhyay
Tuesday 16 Oct 07 - 11:30am
Extreme value statistics, integer partitions and the Bose gas
Satya Majumdar (Orsay)
Monday 15 Oct 07 - 1:00pm
Sex and Sensitivity: the (In)fidelity of DNA Homologous Recombination
Joel Stavans (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Friday 12 Oct 07 - 11:30am
Stochastic gene expression in fluctuating environments
Authors: Mukund Thattai and Alexander van Oudenaarden
Speaker: Rosalind Allen
Friday 5 Oct 07 - 11:30am
Physical nature of bacterial cytoplasm
Authors: Ido Golding and Edward C. Cox
Speaker: Wilson Poon
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
Tuesday 25 Sep 07 - 11:30am
Driven interacting particle systems II: New perspectives
Royce Zia (Virginia Tech, USA)
Tuesday 25 Sep 07 - 10:00am
Transition to quorum on intracellular and population-wide scales
Andrew Goryachev (Centre for Systems Biology, Edinburgh)
Monday 24 Sep 07 - 1:00pm
Ionic Assemblies: Patterns and Symmetries
Monica Olvera de La Cruz (Department of Materials Science, Northwestern University)
Friday 21 Sep 07 - 11:30am
Femtosecond time-delay X-ray holography
Authors: Henry N. Chapman et al.
Speaker: Job Thijssen
Thursday 20 Sep 07 - 11:30am
Driven interacting particle systems I: A (re)introduction
Royce Zia (Virginia Tech, USA)
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
Monday 10 Sep 07 - 1:00pm
Nanoparticles in binary mixture of liquid crystal and dodecanol
Chethan Lobo
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 3 Sep 07 - 1:00pm
Colloidal Particle Structures at Liquid Interfaces
Tommy Horozov (University of Hull)
Friday 31 Aug 07 - 11:30am
Authors: Julius Adler
Speaker: Otti Croze
Monday 27 Aug 07 - 1:00pm
Coupling electrostatic and polymeric surface interactions in soft matter and biology
Otti Croze
Friday 24 Aug 07 - 11:30am
Authors: Nolan C. Harris, Yang Song and Ching-Hwa Kiang
Speaker: Richard Blythe
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 22 Jun 07 - 11:30am
Authors: J. M. Skotheim and L. Mahadevan
Speaker: Alexander Morozov
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 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
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
Monday 4 Jun 07 - 1:00pm
Piconewton forces in dense colloids, applied and measured by optical tweezers.
Laurence Wilson
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
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)
Monday 14 May 07 - 1:00pm
Antisite disorder and the magnetic groundstate of an experimental spin 1/2 kagome antiferromagnet
Mark de Vries
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
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
Tuesday 3 Apr 07 - 11:30am
Condensation in the zero-range process and connection to sums of random variables
Martin Evans
Monday 2 Apr 07 - 1:00pm
Phase separating proteins and cellular switches
Richard Sear (University of Surrey)
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 26 Mar 07 - 1:00pm
Complex dynamics of shear banded flows
Suzanne Fielding (University of Manchester)
Friday 23 Mar 07 - 11:30am
Authors: Kirsten Bacia, Petra Schwille and Teymuras Kurzchalia
Speaker: Zhijun Zhao
Monday 19 Mar 07 - 1:00pm
Rupert Nash
Friday 16 Mar 07 - 11:30am
Collective evolution and the genetic code
Authors: Kalin Vetsigian, Carl Woese and Nigel Goldenfeld
Speaker: Richard Blythe
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
Monday 26 Feb 07 - 1:00pm
Catherine Biggs (Sheffield)
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 19 Feb 07 - 1:00pm
Lipid domain formation in binary/ternary Giant Unilamellar Vesicles
Zhijun Zhao
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
Tuesday 13 Feb 07 - 11:30am
Boundary conditions and the solution of the diffusion equation of population genetics
Alan McKane (Manchester University)
Monday 12 Feb 07 - 1:00pm
Lucio Isa
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 5 Feb 07 - 1:00pm
Nonequilibrium Kinetics of the Triangular Antiferromagnetic Ising model
Grace Kim
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
Friday 26 Jan 07 - 11:30am
An asymmetric model for water structure
Authors: A. K. Soper
Speaker: Susie Allison
Monday 22 Jan 07 - 1:00pm
Atomistic simulations of martensitic transformations in 2D Lennard-Jones solids
Oliver Kastner
Friday 19 Jan 07 - 11:30am
Brownian motion near a liquid-like membrane
Authors: T. Bickel
Speaker: Danielle van't Zand
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
Monday 11 Dec 06 - 1:00pm
Chain reactions, hexosomes and unexpected shades of the colour blue
Kathryn White
Monday 13 Nov 06 - 1:00pm
Phonons and Structures in Rubidium and Oxygen at High Pressure
Malcolm McMahon
Tuesday 24 Oct 06 - 11:30am
The forward flux sampling method for simulating rare events
Rosalind Allen
Monday 23 Oct 06 - 1:00pm
Connecting simulation and experiment: classical molecular dynamics of simple peptides in water
Susie Allison
Tuesday 10 Oct 06 - 11:30am
Connectivity of growing random networks: How preferential attachment leads to scale-free behaviour
Lawrence Mitchell
Monday 25 Sep 06 - 1:00pm
Non linear rheology and dynamic yielding of a simple glass: A molecular dynamics study
Fathollah Varnik (Max-Planck Institut fuer Eisenforschung, Duesseldorf)
Monday 21 Aug 06 - 1:00pm
Poly-N-Methylpyrrole Modified Electrodes to Investigate Bile Salt-Lecithin Aggregation
Dilec Madenci
Thursday 22 Jun 06 - 11:30am
The war of attrition, or how to win big in mating contests
Lawrence Mitchell
Friday 9 Jun 06 - 1:00pm
Directional Interactions Amongst Encapsulated Clusters
Dana Breed (University of California Santa Barbara)
Thursday 8 Jun 06 - 11:30am
Computing defect energies for continuous spin glasses
Martin Weigel (Heriot-Watt)
Friday 19 May 06 - 1:00pm
Weak Agitations, Zero Yield Stress and Smooth Flows in Granular Media
Martin van Hecke (Leiden University)
Thursday 11 May 06 - 11:30am
The Fokker Planck equation and its applications to population genetics
Jonathan Coe & Neelofer Banglawala
Tuesday 2 May 06 - 1:00pm
How to Make a Neurocrystal: Modeling the Developmental Patterning of the Fly's Eye
David Lubensky (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Monday 24 Apr 06 - 1:00pm
Techniques for trapping and studying colloids on liquid-liquid interfaces
Eva Herzig
Thursday 20 Apr 06 - 11:30am
Some general properties of nonequilibrium steady states and a simple example
Beate Schmittmann (Virginia Tech)
Monday 27 Mar 06 - 1:00pm
Optical Trapping Experiments in Hard Sphere Colloidal Systems
Laurence Wilson
Monday 20 Mar 06 - 1:00pm
Controlling drop impact by additives
Volfango Bertola (School of Engineering)
Wednesday 1 Mar 06 - 1:00pm
A simple model for the excess entropy of mixing of methanol-water mixtures
Rowan Hargreaves
Thursday 16 Feb 06 - 11:30am
Mikko Alava (Helsinki University of Technology)
Monday 30 Jan 06 - 1:00pm
Finding the Center Reliably: Robust Patterns of Developmental Gene Expression
Martin Howard
Monday 23 Jan 06 - 1:00pm
Lucio Isa
Thursday 19 Jan 06 - 11:30am
The extinction of family names: generating functions and branching processes
Jonathan Coe
Thursday 15 Dec 05 - 11:30am
Kirchhoff's loop law and the maximum entropy production principle
Graeme Ackland
Thursday 8 Dec 05 - 11:30am
Method of characteristics for solving ‘quasi-linear’ partial differential equations
Martin Evans
Wednesday 7 Dec 05 - 12:30pm
Aymeric Robert
Monday 5 Dec 05 - 1:00pm
Conducting Organic Molecule Micropatterns on Functionalised Glass Surfaces
Iris Coe
Thursday 1 Dec 05 - 11:30am
Fock-space and generating-function approaches to a simple birth-death process
Jonathan Coe & Richard Blythe
Thursday 24 Nov 05 - 11:30am
Persistence and extreme statistics in fluctuating interfaces II
Satya Majumdar (Orsay)
Monday 21 Nov 05 - 1:00pm
Mutation of albedo and growth response produces oscillations in a spatial Daisyworld
Jamie Wood
Thursday 17 Nov 05 - 11:30am
Persistence and extreme statistics in fluctuating interfaces I
Satya Majumdar (Orsay)
Monday 14 Nov 05 - 1:00pm
Investigating Extreme Condition Microbiology
Gail Ferguson (Structural & Molecular Biology and CSEC)
Thursday 3 Nov 05 - 11:30am
Richard Blythe
Monday 31 Oct 05 - 3:00pm
Noise in Biochemical Reaction Networks
Patrick Warren (Unilever Research, Port Sunlight Laboratory)
Monday 31 Oct 05 - 1:00pm
1.00pm Michael James (Bragg Institute, Sydney)
Thursday 27 Oct 05 - 11:30am
Introduction to stochastic processes I: properties of Markov processes on a finite state space
Richard Blythe
Monday 10 Oct 05 - 1:00pm
Opening up into two dimensions: insights into liquid structure
Susie Allison
Monday 3 Oct 05 - 1:00pm
J. Murray Gibson (Argonne National Laboratory)
Thursday 15 Sep 05 - 11:30am
Parallel and random sequential updating schemes in the asymmetric exclusion process
Martin Evans
Monday 4 Jul 05 - 1:00pm
Alfredo Caro
Wednesday 22 Jun 05 - 1:00pm
Colloids in external fields: theory and simulation
Hartmut Löwen (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf)
Monday 20 Jun 05 - 1:00pm
Colloidal Analog of the Ionic Fluid: computer simulation study
José B. Caballero
Monday 16 May 05 - 1:00pm
Recent Developments in Lattice Boltzmann for Complex Fluids
Kevin Stratford (EPCC)
Wednesday 11 May 05 - 1:00pm
The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter
Sriram Ramaswamy (IISc, Bangalore)
Monday 9 May 05 - 1:00pm
Simulating the flipping of genetic switches and other rare events
Rosalind Allen (AMOLF)
Tuesday 19 Apr 05 - 1:00pm
Fred Mackintosh (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Monday 21 Mar 05 - 1:00pm
MC measurement of the isotropic nematic interfacial tension in suspensions of soft rods
Tanja Schilling (Mainz)
Monday 7 Mar 05 - 1:00pm
With these statistical mechanics I language change and population genetics wed
Richard Blythe
Wednesday 9 Feb 05 - 1:00pm
Interaction between Colloids and Cells
Didier Roux (Centre de recherche Paul Pascal, CNRS, Pessac, France)
Friday 4 Feb 05 - 2:00pm
How industrial problems expose gaps in fundamental colloid science
Dr Richard Buscall (ICI Strategic Technology Group, Redcar)
Monday 31 Jan 05 - 1:00pm
Pattern formation in particle laden viscous fluid thin film flow
Mark Buchanan (University of Oslo)
Monday 24 Jan 05 - 1:00pm
An exactly solvable phase transition in an Ising system with a grain boundary.
Jamie Wood
Monday 22 Nov 04 - 1:00pm
Instabilities and Collective Phenomena in Plastic Flow of Crystalline Solids
Michael Zaiser
Monday 8 Nov 04 - 1:00pm
Statics and dynamics of poly(ethylene glycol)-stabilized colloids
Johan Bergenholtz (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Monday 1 Nov 04 - 1:00pm
Gels, clusters and phase separation in sticky particle systems
Helen Sedgwick
Monday 18 Oct 04 - 1:00pm
Unbinding Books and Demixing Mixtures
Jeroen S. van Duijneveldt (School of Chemistry, University of Bristol)
Monday 4 Oct 04 - 1:00pm
Jamming in 2-Dimensional Granular Flow
Ki Wing To (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan)
Monday 13 Sep 04 - 1:00pm
Untangling hair conditioners: The swelling of surfactant bilayer phases
David Fairhurst
Monday 6 Sep 04 - 1:00pm
The hydrodynamic interaction in confined suspensions
Haim Diamant (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Monday 9 Aug 04 - 1:00pm
Remoteness: studying the structure of concentrated particulate systems
Mark Haw
Monday 2 Aug 04 - 1:00pm
Self-Assembled Monolayers, Soft Lithography and Ezyme Activity at Surfaces
Nhan Pham
Monday 26 Jul 04 - 1:00pm
Limited Coalescence in Particle-Stabilised Emulsions: Experiment and Theory
Bernard P. Binks (Surfactant & Colloid Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Hull)
Monday 19 Jul 04 - 1:00pm
Overshooting Currents and Condensation Transitions in the Zero-Range Process
Andrew Angel
Monday 5 Jul 04 - 1:00pm
Chain melting in the Incommensurate Host-Guest Phase of Rb-IV
Malcolm McMahon
Monday 28 Jun 04 - 1:00pm
Molecular Motors: Observation and Theory
Michael Fisher (University of Maryland)
Monday 31 May 04 - 1:00pm
Mesoscopic and Nanoscale Thermodynamics: Fundamentals for Emerging Technologies
Mikhail Anisimov (Department of Chemical Engineering and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland)
Monday 26 Apr 04 - 1:00pm
Depinning, Ordering and Melting of Vortex Matter in Mesoscopic Channels
Rut Besseling
Tuesday 17 Feb 04 - 1:00pm
Patterns, templates and ordering in thin films: from magnetic garnets to polymer films and beyond
David Andelman (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Monday 9 Feb 04 - 1:00pm
David Lu (Physics Department, National Central University, Taiwan)
Monday 12 Jan 04 - 1:00pm
The Penna Model -- a solvable model of evolutionary ageing
Jon Coe (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
Monday 8 Dec 03 - 1:00pm
Bridges and arches - extended structures in particulate deposits
G. Barker (Institute of Food Research (Norwich))
Monday 1 Dec 03 - 1:00pm
V. Gordon
Monday 17 Nov 03 - 1:00pm
Phase transitions in one-dimensional driven systems and the zero-range process
T. Hanney
Monday 27 Oct 03 - 1:00pm
Quantum versions of random walks for quantum computing
V. Kendon (Imperial College London)
Monday 25 Aug 03 - 1:00pm
Network formation in mixtures of nematic liquid crystal and colloid particles
J. Cleaver
Monday 11 Aug 03 - 1:00pm
The Paris-Edinburgh neutron pressure cell -- The world's smallest large volume cell
J. Loveday
Tuesday 3 Jun 03 - 1:00pm
Viscoelasticity and Structural Aging in Colloidal Gels
Maria Kilfoil (Harvard University)
Monday 26 May 03 - 1:00pm
Epidemic processes with immunization
A. Jimenez-Dalmaroni (Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford)
Monday 12 May 03 - 1:00pm
Electronic structure theory: Tight-binding models and phase transformations
R. C. Albers (Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA))
Monday 5 May 03 - 1:00pm
Local perturbations of colloidal suspensions
P. Habdas (Department of Physics, Emory University (Atlanta, USA))
Tuesday 15 Apr 03 - 1:00pm
Screening phenomena in macroion suspensions
E. Trizac (Laboratoire de Physique Thorique, Universit Paris Sud)
Monday 24 Mar 03 - 1:00pm
Orienteering, daisies and spilt coffee: Simulations with non-Hamiltonian Dynamics
G. Ackland
Tuesday 11 Mar 03 - 1:00pm
Systematics of the nonmetal-metal transition in highly compressed low-Z fluids at extreme conditions
B. Nellis (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Monday 10 Mar 03 - 1:00pm
The physics of the complex mixture inside E. coli
R. Sear (Department of Physics, University of Surrey)
Monday 10 Feb 03 - 1:00pm
Percolation and phase separation in a fluid of sticky spheres
M. Miller (FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Monday 27 Jan 03 - 1:00pm
S. Meeker (Laboratoire matire molle et chimie, ESPCI, Paris, France)
Thursday 23 Jan 03 - 1:00pm
Dynamical properties of wormlike micelles
J. Candau (Laboratoire de dynamique des fluides complexes, Universit Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)
Monday 20 Jan 03 - 1:00pm
Crystal structure of elements under high pressure: recent findings and surprises
O. Degtyareva
Monday 13 Jan 03 - 1:00pm
Simulating shear flow: Leave it to chance?
R. M. L. Evans (Dpt of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK)
Monday 9 Dec 02 - 1:00pm
The Dielectric Mafia Returns: How the Polymer Network Infiltrated Charged Lamellars...
O. Croze
Monday 2 Dec 02 - 1:00pm
Didier Long
Monday 14 Oct 02 - 1:00pm
From silicon carbide to the removal of George W Bush by way of Kinlochleven
Graeme Ackland
Monday 25 Feb 02 - 1:00pm
Pressure effect on manganites with layered perovskite structure
Dmitriy Sokolov
Monday 28 Jan 02 - 1:00pm
Hard sphere glasses under oscillatory shear (The final Episode?)
George Petekidis
Monday 3 Dec 01 - 1:00pm
The Dielectric Mafia: How the Fat Macromolecules Got Away Without Being Charged
Ottavio Croze
Monday 24 Sep 01 - 1:00pm
Mesoscale Modelling of Fluidised Bed Binder Granulation
Frantisek Stepanek (Statistics and Modelling Unit, Unilever Research, Port Sunlight, UK)
Monday 3 Sep 01 - 1:00pm
Hierarchical self-assembly of polyelectrolytes at interfaces
Christiane A Helm (Universität Greifswald, Germany)
Monday 27 Aug 01 - 1:00pm
Partial structure factors in star polymer/colloid mixtures
Jörg Stellbrink (IFF/KFA Jülich, Germany)
Monday 2 Jul 01 - 1:00pm
Squeezing sandwiches, or how to tune useful properties of magnetic multilayers with pressure.
Konstantin Kamenev
Monday 11 Jun 01 - 1:00pm
What I also did in Paris:
Watching Paint Dry in Reciprocal Space
Wilson Poon
Monday 7 May 01 - 1:00pm
High-Pressure Structural Studies Of Organic Small-Molecule Systems
David R Allan
Monday 26 Feb 01 - 1:00pm
What are 'glasses', and do colloids have any relevance to their study?
Kenneth Dawson (Department of Chemistry, University College Dublin)
Monday 12 Feb 01 - 1:00pm
Luca Cipelletti (Université Montpellier II)
Monday 5 Feb 01 - 1:00pm
Universal features of jamming in a model of frictionless granular media
David Head
Monday 22 Jan 01 - 1:00pm
Carlos Rascon
Monday 27 Nov 00 - 1:00pm
Simulation in the Social Sciences: Progress towards a Computational History?
Alexander Wagner
Monday 6 Nov 00 - 1:00pm
Introduction to Stochastic Processes: Comparison between Non-interacting and Interacting Systems
Isao Hiyane
Monday 2 Oct 00 - 1:00pm
Studies of colloidal systems by confocal microscopy
Eric Weeks (Harvard University)
Monday 14 Aug 00 - 1:00pm
Why is the DNA Denaturation Transition First Order?
David Mukamel (Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Monday 17 Jul 00 - 1:00pm
Ab initio molecular dynamics studies of structure and solvation in polar liquids
Mark Tuckerman (NYU)
Monday 26 Jun 00 - 1:00pm
Atomic Force Microscopy on Polymers
Vasileios Koutsos (Centre for Materials Science and Engineering)
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