Soft Condensed Matter, Biological Physics Experiment & Statistical Physics Seminars

Monday 11 Jan 10 - 1:00pm

Investigating the assembly of actin networks

Linda Hirst

Monday 18 Jan 10 - 1:00pm

The Importance of Disclinations: Colloidal Dispersions in a Themotropic Nematic Solvent

Tiffany Wood

Monday 25 Jan 10 - 1:00pm

Large Scale Lattice-Boltzmann Simulation of Liquid Crystals

Oliver Henrich

Monday 1 Feb 10 - 1:00pm

Secondary Structure Determination of gp41(659-671)

Craig Gregor

Monday 8 Feb 10 - 1:00pm

Capillary filling and drop dynamics on structured surfaces

Bortolo Mognetti

Monday 15 Feb 10 - 1:00pm

Statics and dynamics of a zero-range process with saturated condensation

Alasdair Thompson

Thursday 18 Feb 10 - 1:00pm

DNA-directed self-assembly of micro- and nano-particles: towards self-replicating materials

Mirjam Leunissen

Monday 22 Feb 10 - 1:00pm

Microscopic swimmers at surfaces

Jens Elgeti

Monday 1 Mar 10 - 1:00pm

Lattice Dynamics Studies of High-Pressure Phases Using Thermal Diffuse Scattering

Jenny Jeppsson

Monday 8 Mar 10 - 1:00pm

Investigating Early Aggregation Processes using Mass Spectrometry

Harriet Cole

Monday 15 Mar 10 - 1:00pm

Deformation of elastic nanotubes via self-assembly of surface-adhesive nanoparticles

Josep Pamies

Monday 22 Mar 10 - 1:00pm

Charge models of disordered alloys for electron spectroscopy

Tom Underwood

Monday 29 Mar 10 - 1:00pm

Computer models for DNA organisation: bacteriophages and the human nucleus

Davide Marenduzzo

Monday 5 Apr 10 - 1:00pm

To be confirmed

Easter Monday

Monday 12 Apr 10 - 1:00pm

Crystallization of hard aspherical particles

William Miller (Columbia University, New York)

Monday 19 Apr 10 - 1:00pm

To be confirmed

Spring Holidays

Monday 26 Apr 10 - 1:00pm

Shear localization in colloidal glasses

Rut Besseling

Monday 3 May 10 - 1:00pm

Live Cell imaging of Host-Virus interactions using CARS and Two-Photon microscopy

Christine Wong

Monday 10 May 10 - 1:00pm

Scattering techniques applied to reveal internal structure and orientational behaviour of colloidal particles

Mathias Reufer

Monday 17 May 10 - 1:00pm

To be confirmed

Victoria Day

Monday 24 May 10 - 1:00pm

Discontinuous Transition in a Boundary Driven Contact Process

Andre Costa

Monday 31 May 10 - 1:00pm

Coarse-grained simulations of DNA nanostructures, the self-assembly of virus-like objects, and the evolution of protein complexes

Jon Doye (Oxford University)

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)

Monday 14 Jun 10 - 1:00pm

To be confirmed

NO SEMINAR

Monday 21 Jun 10 - 1:00pm

High-Pressure Incommensurate Structures in Nanomaterials

Wanruk Chaimayo

Monday 28 Jun 10 - 1:00pm

Simulation studies of phase behaviour in highly size asymmetrical mixtures

Nigel Wilding (Univeristy of Bath)

Monday 5 Jul 10 - 1:00pm

Ordering by random copying on complex networks

Richard Blythe

Monday 12 Jul 10 - 1:00pm

To be confirmed

NO SEMINAR

Monday 19 Jul 10 - 1:00pm

Understanding the sol-gel transition in DSMO/lysozyme/water mixtures

Ilja Voets (University of Friburg)

Tuesday 7 Sep 10 - 1:00pm

The puzzle of delayed gel collapse

Paul Bartlett (University of Bristol)

Monday 27 Sep 10 - 1:00pm

Swimming bacteria: from individual swimmers to dense suspensions

Jochen Arlt

Monday 4 Oct 10 - 1:00pm

How do (fluorescent) surfactants affect particle-stabilized emulsions?

Job Tijssen

Monday 11 Oct 10 - 1:00pm

Protein structure prediction and folding dynamics

Katrin Wolff

Monday 18 Oct 10 - 1:00pm

Entangled liquid crystal colloids: knots and links

Miha Ravnik (University of Oxforf)

Monday 25 Oct 10 - 1:00pm

Small particles in liquid crystal phases

Ingo Dierking (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester)

Monday 1 Nov 10 - 1:00pm

Spatiotemporal regulation of chemical reactions by active cytoskeletal remodeling

Abhishek Chaudhuri (University of Oxford)

Monday 8 Nov 10 - 1:00pm

What it takes to grow at pressure

Lucas Black

Monday 15 Nov 10 - 1:00pm

Active transport on random filament networks

Philip Greulich

Monday 22 Nov 10 - 1:00pm

To be confirmed

NO SEMINAR

Monday 29 Nov 10 - 1:00pm

Analytical Study of a Genetic Toggle Switch

Juan Venegas-Ortiz

Monday 6 Dec 10 - 1:00pm

Colloids in cholesteric

Juho Lintuvuori

Monday 13 Dec 10 - 1:00pm

A Most Unnatural Act! Investigating some of the Questions Surrounding the Way in which We Speak and Sing

Adam Apostoli