Soft Condensed Matter, Biological Physics Experiment & Statistical Physics Seminars

Monday 5 Jan 09 - 1:00pm

No meeting: Christmas Break

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)

Monday 19 Jan 09 - 1:00pm

What's a physicist got to do with 'ecological genetics'? Diffusion in population genetics and ecology

Neelofer Banglawala

Monday 26 Jan 09 - 1:00pm

The Electrophoresis Of Colloidal Particles or How to use the new Zetasizer Nano

Andrew Schofield

Monday 2 Feb 09 - 1:00pm

Statistical Mechanics of Convergent Evolution

Bhavin Khatri

Monday 9 Feb 09 - 1:00pm

Porous media, Surfactants, and Petrodollars

Kevin Stratford

Monday 16 Feb 09 - 1:00pm

Flow and Jamming of 2D foams

Gijs Katgert (Leiden University, The Netherlands)

Monday 23 Feb 09 - 1:00pm

Complex Fluids Characterization Through Expert System & High Frequency Rheometry

Samiul Amin (Malvern Instruments Limited)

Monday 2 Mar 09 - 1:00pm

No meeting: No Seminar

Monday 9 Mar 09 - 1:00pm

Aggregation and solvent electrostriction in a simple dipeptide: a molecular dynamics investigation

Paul Tulip

Monday 16 Mar 09 - 1:00pm

Critical Behaviour of Colloidal Interfaces Probed by Gravity

Dirk Aarts (University of Oxford)

Monday 23 Mar 09 - 1:00pm

An Introduction to Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells

Alastair Mailar

Monday 30 Mar 09 - 1:00pm

The long-term fate of the attractive colloidal glass

Wilson Poon

Monday 6 Apr 09 - 1:00pm

Two-dimensional colloidal systems in optical and magnetic fields: micromechanics and band-formation

Roel Dullens (University of Oxford)

Monday 13 Apr 09 - 1:00pm

No meeting: No Seminar

Monday 20 Apr 09 - 1:00pm

No meeting: No Seminar

Monday 27 Apr 09 - 1:00pm

To be confirmed

Job Thijssen

Monday 4 May 09 - 1:00pm

Time-resolved fluorescence microspectroscopy of visible fluorescent proteins in isolated form and in their natural cellular environment

Ton Visser (Wageningen University)

Monday 11 May 09 - 1:00pm

Constitutive Equations for Colloidal Glasses from Statistical Mechanics

Mike Cates

Monday 18 May 09 - 1:00pm

No meeting: No Seminar

Monday 25 May 09 - 1:00pm

To be confirmed

Toni Collis

Monday 1 Jun 09 - 1:00pm

Emulsion Engineering: A convenient route to structured oils using polymer mediated, reversible emulsion droplet assembly

Jon Weaver (Materials Discovery, Liverpool University)

Monday 8 Jun 09 - 1:00pm

Aspects of Protein Aggregation: An Introduction to Work on the Proteins alpha B Crystallin and Ovalbumin

Caroline Miles

Monday 15 Jun 09 - 1:00pm

Understanding the lag phase variability of insulin fibrillation

Line Jourdain

Monday 22 Jun 09 - 1:00pm

Nucleation of crystals: Experimental studies of protein crystallisation and computer simulations of simple models

Richard Sear (University of Surrey)

Monday 29 Jun 09 - 1:00pm

Statistical physics of switching bacteria

Paolo Visco

Thursday 30 Jul 09 - 1:00pm

Strong Mobility in Weakly Disordered Systems

Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Thursday 10 Sep 09 - 2:00pm

Particle Stabilised Emulsions with Hydrophobic Additives

Paul FitzGerald (University of Sydney, Australia)

Tuesday 22 Sep 09 - 1:00pm

Interfacial water structure, peptide adsorption and ion-specificity

Roland Netz (Technical University Munich)

Monday 28 Sep 09 - 2:00pm

Investigations of the coalescence of emulsion droplets with microfluidics

Nicolas Bremond (Laboratoire Colloides et Materiaux Divises,ESPCI,Paris)

Monday 5 Oct 09 - 1:00pm

Game theory, chaos and noise

Tobias Galla (University of Manchester)

Monday 12 Oct 09 - 1:00pm

Scaling of the current-current time correlation function of a suspension of hard sphere-like particles; Exposing when the motion of particles is Brownian.

Bill van Megen (RMIT University, Australia)

Monday 19 Oct 09 - 1:00pm

Quantitative snapshots of bacterial motility

Laurence Wilson

Monday 26 Oct 09 - 1:00pm

Metastable Dynamics of Colloidal Hard Spheres

Vincent Martinez

Monday 2 Nov 09 - 1:00pm

Phase diagrams of low valence patchy particles

Flavio Romano

Monday 9 Nov 09 - 1:00pm

Localization of maximal entropy random walk

Bartlomiej Waclaw

Friday 13 Nov 09 - 11:30am

Nanoparticle self-assembly at liquid-liquid interfaces (SALI): what's the point?

Lucio Isa

Monday 16 Nov 09 - 1:00pm

Growth and dynamics in a size-structured spatial population

Tom Adams

Monday 23 Nov 09 - 1:00pm

Hard Spheres: Crystallization and Glass Formation

Peter Pusey

Monday 30 Nov 09 - 1:00pm

Quantum Drude Oscillators for Accurate Many-body Intermolecular Forces

Andrew Jones

Monday 7 Dec 09 - 1:00pm

A soft-core spherocylinder model for coarse-grained simulations of self-assembling system

Juho Lintuvuori