Soft Condensed Matter, Biological Physics Experiment & Statistical Physics Seminars

Monday 16 Jan 12 - 1:00pm

A Physicists view on measuring poverty

Graeme Ackland

Monday 23 Jan 12 - 1:00pm

The Alkali Elements at Extreme Compressions: Static and Dynamic Compression Techniques

Emma McBride

Monday 30 Jan 12 - 1:00pm

CANCELLED --- Using bespoke fluorescence microscopy to study the soft matter of living cells at the single molecule level

Mark Leake (University of Oxford)

Monday 6 Feb 12 - 1:00pm

A New Phase of Hydrogen at High Pressure

Ross Howie

Monday 13 Feb 12 - 1:00pm

Non-equilibrium fluctuations of intracellular filaments generated by motor activity

Ines Weber

Monday 20 Feb 12 - 1:00pm

Granular rheology near jamming and engineering models

Jin Sun

Monday 27 Feb 12 - 1:00pm

Evolution of antibiotic resistance in the presence of antibiotic gradients

Bartek Waclaw

Monday 5 Mar 12 - 1:00pm

The early stages of insulin fibrillogenesis explored with mass spectrometry and molecular modelling

Massimiliano Porrini

Monday 12 Mar 12 - 1:00pm

Simulating biochemical pathways

Steven Court

Monday 19 Mar 12 - 1:00pm

Pattern formation in active matter systems

Fred Farrell

Friday 23 Mar 12 - 1:00pm

From wrinkly elastomers to Janus Particles

Paulo Teixeira (University of Lisbon)

Monday 26 Mar 12 - 1:00pm

Entropy-driven self-assembly of novel phases

Laura Filion (University of Cambridge)

Monday 2 Apr 12 - 1:00pm

CANCELLED

Graham Galloway

Monday 9 Apr 12 - 1:00pm

NO SEMINAR

Easter Monday

Monday 16 Apr 12 - 1:00pm

Colloids in active fluids: simulations of microrheology experiments

Giulia Foffano

Monday 23 Apr 12 - 1:00pm

Modelling Ribosome Traffic in mRNA translation: Balancing Supply and Demand

Chris Brackley

Monday 30 Apr 12 - 1:00pm

Surface functionalized particles for Pickering stabilization

Elena Blanco Castineiras

Monday 7 May 12 - 1:00pm

Molecular dynamics simulations of radiation damage in metals

Graham Galloway

Monday 14 May 12 - 1:00pm

Wetting of Simple Liquids and Cohesive Cells on Soft Surfaces

Eric Dufresne (University of Yale)

Thursday 17 May 12 - 1:00pm

Spontaneous emulsification by ionic surfactants and responsive nanoparticles, and theoretical models of inhomogeneous, correlated Coulomb fluids.

Jos Zwanikken (Northwestern University)

Monday 21 May 12 - 1:00pm

Biophysics of protein aggregation

Tuomas Knowles (University of Cambridge)

Monday 28 May 12 - 1:00pm

An Alternative Protein Aggregation Pathway

Jay Gillam

Monday 4 Jun 12 - 1:00pm

NO SEMINAR

Monday 11 Jun 12 - 1:00pm

Novel molecular design and dielectrophoretic manipulation for enhancing biosensors

Mira Nishimura

Monday 18 Jun 12 - 1:00pm

Ionomer Design Principles for Ion-Conducting Energy Materials

Ralph Colby (Penn State University)

Monday 25 Jun 12 - 1:00pm

Antimicrobial peptide action on E.coli

Alys Jepson

Monday 2 Jul 12 - 1:00pm

Emergence of motifs in model gene regulatory networks

Marcin Zagorski (Institute of Physics at Jagiellonian University)

Monday 9 Jul 12 - 1:00pm

SUMMER BREAK

Monday 23 Jul 12 - 1:00pm

EXTRA SEMINAR: Nonlinear Rheology of Dilute Colloidal Gels

Ali Mohraz (University of California, Irvine)

Monday 30 Jul 12 - 1:00pm

EXTRA SEMINAR: Using Bijels for Advanced Materials Synthesis

Ali Mohraz (University of California, Irvine)

Monday 27 Aug 12 - 1:00pm

EXTRA SEMINAR: Topology and statistical properties of polymers using DNA with an application to gene expression control

Giovanni Dietler (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)

Monday 10 Sep 12 - 1:00pm

EXTRA SEMINAR: Understanding Chemical Engineering Processes Based on Colloid and Interfacial Science

Xianfeng Fan (Chemical Engineering, UoE)

Monday 24 Sep 12 - 1:00pm

AUTUMN TERM STARTS NEXT WEEK

Monday 1 Oct 12 - 1:00pm

Burning Titanium

Graeme Ackland

Thursday 4 Oct 12 - 1:00pm

Catalytic Swimming Devices

Stephen Ebbens (University of Sheffield)

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)

Monday 15 Oct 12 - 1:00pm

The bacterial colonisation of microplastic debris in coastal marine sediments

Jesse Harrison

Monday 22 Oct 12 - 1:00pm

Walking the back alleys: a modelling study of symplastic transport

Eva Deinum (FOM Institute, AMOLF, Amsterdam)

Monday 29 Oct 12 - 1:00pm

Elucidating the locking mechanism of peptides onto growing amyloid fibrils

Marieke Schor

Wednesday 31 Oct 12 - 2:00pm

Aqueous phase structuring and rheology in food and personal care products

William J. Frith (Unilever)

Monday 5 Nov 12 - 1:00pm

Identifying the molecular processes leading to the formation of fibrillar protein aggregates

Jason Kalapothakis

Monday 12 Nov 12 - 1:00pm

High pressure gas hydrates of the H2O-CO2 system

Daniel Amos

Monday 19 Nov 12 - 1:00pm

Competition for space in growing bacterial populations: what determines the winners and losers?

Diarmuid Lloyd

Monday 26 Nov 12 - 1:00pm

A possible key role of hydrodynamic interactions in colloidal gelation

Akira Furukawa (University of Tokyo)

Monday 3 Dec 12 - 1:00pm

Listening to Magnetism: Using ultrasound at high pressures as a probe to study uranium intermetallics.

Michal Kepa

Monday 10 Dec 12 - 1:00pm

The beginning and end of HIPE

Paul Clegg

Monday 17 Dec 12 - 1:00pm

WINTER BREAK