Soft Condensed Matter, Biological Physics Experiment & Statistical Physics Seminars

Monday 17 Jan 05 - 1:00pm

Phase separation in lipid bilayers

Vernita Gordon

Monday 24 Jan 05 - 1:00pm

An exactly solvable phase transition in an Ising system with a grain boundary.

Jamie Wood

Monday 31 Jan 05 - 1:00pm

Pattern formation in particle laden viscous fluid thin film flow

Mark Buchanan (University of Oslo)

Friday 4 Feb 05 - 2:00pm

How industrial problems expose gaps in fundamental colloid science

Dr Richard Buscall (ICI Strategic Technology Group, Redcar)

Wednesday 9 Feb 05 - 1:00pm

Interaction between Colloids and Cells

Didier Roux (Centre de recherche Paul Pascal, CNRS, Pessac, France)

Monday 21 Feb 05 - 1:00pm

Attraction and Repulsion in Glasses

Thomas Voigtmann

Monday 28 Feb 05 - 1:00pm

Dilatancy, Jamming, and the Physics of Granulation

Mike Cates

Monday 7 Mar 05 - 1:00pm

With these statistical mechanics I language change and population genetics wed

Richard Blythe

Monday 14 Mar 05 - 1:00pm

Microimmiscible aqueous alcohols: dynamics and thermodynamics

Simon Bates

Monday 21 Mar 05 - 1:00pm

MC measurement of the isotropic nematic interfacial tension in suspensions of soft rods

Tanja Schilling (Mainz)

Tuesday 19 Apr 05 - 1:00pm

To be confirmed

Fred Mackintosh (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)

Monday 9 May 05 - 1:00pm

Simulating the flipping of genetic switches and other rare events

Rosalind Allen (AMOLF)

Wednesday 11 May 05 - 1:00pm

The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter

Sriram Ramaswamy (IISc, Bangalore)

Monday 16 May 05 - 1:00pm

Recent Developments in Lattice Boltzmann for Complex Fluids

Kevin Stratford (EPCC)

Monday 30 May 05 - 1:00pm

Armadillos, a dead dinosaur and the glass transition

Martin Greenall

Monday 6 Jun 05 - 1:00pm

The Physics of Filamentous Fungi

Wilson Poon

Monday 20 Jun 05 - 1:00pm

Colloidal Analog of the Ionic Fluid: computer simulation study

José B. Caballero

Wednesday 22 Jun 05 - 1:00pm

Colloids in external fields: theory and simulation

Hartmut Löwen (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf)

Monday 4 Jul 05 - 1:00pm

From interparticle potentials to free energies - or the challenge of doing atomistic simulations with the right thermodynamics

Alfredo Caro

Monday 1 Aug 05 - 1:00pm

Colloidal glasses under shear

Khoa Pham

Monday 22 Aug 05 - 1:00pm

Weighted Networks and the Multi-Species Zero-Range Process

Andrew Angel

Monday 5 Sep 05 - 1:00pm

Self Assembled Monolayers and Soft Lithography

Nhan Pham

Monday 3 Oct 05 - 1:00pm

Correlation spectroscopy with photons and electrons - insight into medium-range order in amorphous materials

J. Murray Gibson (Argonne National Laboratory)

Monday 10 Oct 05 - 1:00pm

Opening up into two dimensions: insights into liquid structure

Susie Allison

Monday 17 Oct 05 - 1:00pm

Phase Transitions in Stochastic Models of Flow

Martin Evans

Monday 24 Oct 05 - 1:00pm

Diffuse Scattering from Incommensurate Rb-IV

Malcolm McMahon

Monday 31 Oct 05 - 1:00pm

Condensed matter neutron science down-under: From magnetic cobaltates to polymer substrates for biosensing applications

1.00pm Michael James (Bragg Institute, Sydney)

Monday 31 Oct 05 - 3:00pm

Noise in Biochemical Reaction Networks

Patrick Warren (Unilever Research, Port Sunlight Laboratory)

Monday 7 Nov 05 - 1:00pm

Realtime 3D microscopy of colloidal glasses under shear

Rut Besseling

Monday 14 Nov 05 - 1:00pm

Investigating Extreme Condition Microbiology

Gail Ferguson (Structural & Molecular Biology and CSEC)

Monday 21 Nov 05 - 1:00pm

Mutation of albedo and growth response produces oscillations in a spatial Daisyworld

Jamie Wood

Monday 28 Nov 05 - 1:00pm

An introduction to networks

Tom Hanney

Monday 5 Dec 05 - 1:00pm

Conducting Organic Molecule Micropatterns on Functionalised Glass Surfaces

Iris Coe

Wednesday 7 Dec 05 - 12:30pm

X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy as a new tool to investigate the dynamics of soft condensed matter

Aymeric Robert

Monday 19 Dec 05 - 1:00pm

The OCR Protein: gels, bananas and DNA

Rik Higham