Soft Condensed Matter, Biological Physics Experiment & Statistical Physics Seminars

Monday 16 Jan 06 - 1:00pm

Phase separation in lipid bilayers

Vernita Gordon

Monday 23 Jan 06 - 1:00pm

Spatial and temporal inhomogeneities in the flow of dense colloidal suspensions into geometrical constrictions

Lucio Isa

Monday 30 Jan 06 - 1:00pm

Finding the Center Reliably: Robust Patterns of Developmental Gene Expression

Martin Howard

Monday 13 Feb 06 - 1:00pm

Mode-coupling glasses and liquid structure

Martin Greenall

Monday 27 Feb 06 - 1:00pm

The OCR Protein: gels, bananas and DNA

Rik Higham

Wednesday 1 Mar 06 - 1:00pm

A simple model for the excess entropy of mixing of methanol-water mixtures

Rowan Hargreaves

Monday 20 Mar 06 - 1:00pm

Controlling drop impact by additives

Volfango Bertola (School of Engineering)

Monday 27 Mar 06 - 1:00pm

Optical Trapping Experiments in Hard Sphere Colloidal Systems

Laurence Wilson

Monday 24 Apr 06 - 1:00pm

Techniques for trapping and studying colloids on liquid-liquid interfaces

Eva Herzig

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 8 May 06 - 1:00pm

Pattern formation in thin film suspensions

Mark Buchanan

Monday 15 May 06 - 1:00pm

Spatially Competing Shops

Lawrence Mitchell

Friday 19 May 06 - 1:00pm

Weak Agitations, Zero Yield Stress and Smooth Flows in Granular Media

Martin van Hecke (Leiden University)

Monday 29 May 06 - 1:00pm

Getting to the bottom of rugged energy landscapes

Richard Blythe

Monday 5 Jun 06 - 1:00pm

Topological mixing in viscous fluids

Emmanuelle Gouillart (CEA Saclay)

Friday 9 Jun 06 - 1:00pm

Directional Interactions Amongst Encapsulated Clusters

Dana Breed (University of California Santa Barbara)

Monday 19 Jun 06 - 1:00pm

Statistical Physics and Fungal Growth

Kate Sugden

Tuesday 27 Jun 06 - 1:00pm

Modelling Hard Spheres via Monte Carlo Methods

Andrew Jackson

Monday 24 Jul 06 - 1:00pm

Get Orf Moi Land

Graeme Ackland

Monday 31 Jul 06 - 1:00pm

Bacterial gene networks and the cell cycle

Rosalind Allen

Monday 7 Aug 06 - 1:00pm

Evolutionary genetics and thermodynamics

Neelofer Banglawala

Monday 14 Aug 06 - 1:00pm

Colloidal glasses

Peter Pusey

Monday 21 Aug 06 - 1:00pm

Poly-N-Methylpyrrole Modified Electrodes to Investigate Bile Salt-Lecithin Aggregation

Dilec Madenci

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 2 Oct 06 - 1:00pm

Modelling soft active materials

Davide Marenduzzo

Monday 9 Oct 06 - 1:00pm

Proline - of ants, tubes and quantum corrections

Raph Troitzsch

Monday 23 Oct 06 - 1:00pm

Connecting simulation and experiment: classical molecular dynamics of simple peptides in water

Susie Allison

Monday 6 Nov 06 - 1:00pm

Nonequilibrium Steady States in Sheared Binary Fluids

Mike Cates

Monday 13 Nov 06 - 1:00pm

Phonons and Structures in Rubidium and Oxygen at High Pressure

Malcolm McMahon

Monday 20 Nov 06 - 1:00pm

Imaging and rheology of colloidal glasses under steady shear

Rut Besseling

Monday 27 Nov 06 - 1:00pm

Self-assembly of polypeptides as inspiration for new materials

Cait MacPhee

Monday 4 Dec 06 - 1:00pm

Colloids in Surfactant Systems

Danielle van't Zand

Monday 11 Dec 06 - 1:00pm

Chain reactions, hexosomes and unexpected shades of the colour blue

Kathryn White