Soft Condensed Matter, Biological Physics Experiment & Statistical Physics Seminars
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Past Meetings
Monday 14 May 12 - 1:00pm
Wetting of Simple Liquids and Cohesive Cells on Soft Surfaces
Eric Dufresne (University of Yale)
Monday 30 Apr 12 - 1:00pm
Surface functionalized particles for Pickering stabilization
Elena Blanco Castineiras
Monday 23 Apr 12 - 1:00pm
Modelling Ribosome Traffic in mRNA translation: Balancing Supply and Demand
Chris Brackley
Monday 16 Apr 12 - 1:00pm
Colloids in active fluids: simulations of microrheology experiments
Giulia Foffano
Monday 26 Mar 12 - 1:00pm
Entropy-driven self-assembly of novel phases
Laura Filion (University of Cambridge)
Friday 23 Mar 12 - 1:00pm
From wrinkly elastomers to Janus Particles
Paulo Teixeira (University of Lisbon)
Monday 5 Mar 12 - 1:00pm
The early stages of insulin fibrillogenesis explored with mass spectrometry and molecular modelling
Massimiliano Porrini
Monday 27 Feb 12 - 1:00pm
Evolution of antibiotic resistance in the presence of antibiotic gradients
Bartek Waclaw
Monday 13 Feb 12 - 1:00pm
Non-equilibrium fluctuations of intracellular filaments generated by motor activity
Ines Weber
Monday 30 Jan 12 - 1:00pm
Mark Leake (University of Oxford)
Monday 23 Jan 12 - 1:00pm
The Alkali Elements at Extreme Compressions: Static and Dynamic Compression Techniques
Emma McBride
Monday 5 Dec 11 - 1:00pm
Monday 21 Nov 11 - 1:00pm
Monday 14 Nov 11 - 1:00pm
Prof. Glenn Martyna (Materials Research Laboratory at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA)
Monday 31 Oct 11 - 1:00pm
The emergence of "marginal opacity" in swarming animals
Prof. Matthew Turner (Warwick University)
Monday 17 Oct 11 - 1:00pm
Using dielectrophoretic manipulation with nucleic acid sensors
Mira Nishimura
Monday 10 Oct 11 - 1:00pm
The rheology of nanoparticle layers and the relation to foam stability
Duyang Zang (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
Monday 3 Oct 11 - 1:00pm
Collective Cell Movements and their role in Tissue Dynamics and Morphogenesis during Development
Prof. Kees Weijer (University of Dundee)
Monday 27 Jun 11 - 1:00pm
Yielding and flow of colloidal glasses and gels
Nikos Koumakis (Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH))
Monday 20 Jun 11 - 1:00pm
Noise-induced dynamical transition in systems with symmetric absorbing states
Dominic Russell
Thursday 9 Jun 11 - 1:00pm
Colloidal Particles at a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal interface
Anne Claire Pawsey
Monday 6 Jun 11 - 1:00pm
The role of particle size and shape in highly size-asymmetric mixtures.
Douglas Ashton (University of Bath)
Monday 16 May 11 - 1:00pm
Deformation of Crystalline Materials: Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Con Healy
Monday 9 May 11 - 1:00pm
Metastable intermediate phases on molecular crystallisation pathways
Jan Sefcik (Strathclyde University)
Thursday 5 May 11 - 1:00pm
Rotator phases and twist solitons in polyethylene and n-alkanes
Scott Milner (The Pennsylvania State University)
Monday 18 Apr 11 - 1:00pm
The Structure of Ammonia Monohydrate Vb: Implications for the ammonia-water system
Craig Wilson
Monday 4 Apr 11 - 1:00pm
Ryan Morris
Monday 28 Mar 11 - 1:00pm
Simulating the Adsorption of Food & Beverage Biomolecules at Fluid Interfaces
Stephen Euston (School of Life Sciences & International Centre for Brewing & Distilling, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)
Thursday 24 Mar 11 - 1:00pm
Modeling of mild fractionation of suspensions
Martijntje Vollebregt (Wageningen University)
Monday 21 Mar 11 - 1:00pm
A dynamical phase transition in a model for evolution with migration
Bartek Waclaw
Monday 7 Mar 11 - 1:00pm
The blistering of viscoelastic filaments
Christian Wagner (University of Saarlandes)
Monday 28 Feb 11 - 1:00pm
Colloids in Phase Separating Binary Liquids: Towards Rod-like Particles
Niek Hijnen
Monday 21 Feb 11 - 1:00pm
Particles at Interfaces: from Bijels to Oscillating Pickering Drops
Joe Tavacoli
Thursday 17 Feb 11 - 1:00pm
Exploring early stage processes involved in amyloid fibril formation
Kim Eden-Jones
Monday 7 Feb 11 - 1:00pm
Simulating particle stabilised thin films using surface evolver
Gareth Morris (Imperial College, London)
Monday 13 Dec 10 - 1:00pm
Adam Apostoli
Monday 1 Nov 10 - 1:00pm
Spatiotemporal regulation of chemical reactions by active cytoskeletal remodeling
Abhishek Chaudhuri (University of Oxford)
Monday 25 Oct 10 - 1:00pm
Small particles in liquid crystal phases
Ingo Dierking (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester)
Monday 18 Oct 10 - 1:00pm
Entangled liquid crystal colloids: knots and links
Miha Ravnik (University of Oxforf)
Monday 4 Oct 10 - 1:00pm
How do (fluorescent) surfactants affect particle-stabilized emulsions?
Job Tijssen
Monday 27 Sep 10 - 1:00pm
Swimming bacteria: from individual swimmers to dense suspensions
Jochen Arlt
Monday 19 Jul 10 - 1:00pm
Understanding the sol-gel transition in DSMO/lysozyme/water mixtures
Ilja Voets (University of Friburg)
Monday 28 Jun 10 - 1:00pm
Simulation studies of phase behaviour in highly size asymmetrical mixtures
Nigel Wilding (Univeristy of Bath)
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 31 May 10 - 1:00pm
Jon Doye (Oxford University)
Monday 10 May 10 - 1:00pm
Mathias Reufer
Monday 3 May 10 - 1:00pm
Live Cell imaging of Host-Virus interactions using CARS and Two-Photon microscopy
Christine Wong
Monday 12 Apr 10 - 1:00pm
Crystallization of hard aspherical particles
William Miller (Columbia University, New York)
Monday 29 Mar 10 - 1:00pm
Computer models for DNA organisation: bacteriophages and the human nucleus
Davide Marenduzzo
Monday 15 Mar 10 - 1:00pm
Deformation of elastic nanotubes via self-assembly of surface-adhesive nanoparticles
Josep Pamies
Monday 8 Mar 10 - 1:00pm
Investigating Early Aggregation Processes using Mass Spectrometry
Harriet Cole
Monday 1 Mar 10 - 1:00pm
Lattice Dynamics Studies of High-Pressure Phases Using Thermal Diffuse Scattering
Jenny Jeppsson
Thursday 18 Feb 10 - 1:00pm
DNA-directed self-assembly of micro- and nano-particles: towards self-replicating materials
Mirjam Leunissen
Monday 15 Feb 10 - 1:00pm
Statics and dynamics of a zero-range process with saturated condensation
Alasdair Thompson
Monday 18 Jan 10 - 1:00pm
The Importance of Disclinations: Colloidal Dispersions in a Themotropic Nematic Solvent
Tiffany Wood
Monday 7 Dec 09 - 1:00pm
A soft-core spherocylinder model for coarse-grained simulations of self-assembling system
Juho Lintuvuori
Monday 30 Nov 09 - 1:00pm
Quantum Drude Oscillators for Accurate Many-body Intermolecular Forces
Andrew Jones
Friday 13 Nov 09 - 11:30am
Nanoparticle self-assembly at liquid-liquid interfaces (SALI): what's the point?
Lucio Isa
Monday 12 Oct 09 - 1:00pm
Bill van Megen (RMIT University, Australia)
Monday 28 Sep 09 - 2:00pm
Investigations of the coalescence of emulsion droplets with microfluidics
Nicolas Bremond (Laboratoire Colloides et Materiaux Divises,ESPCI,Paris)
Tuesday 22 Sep 09 - 1:00pm
Interfacial water structure, peptide adsorption and ion-specificity
Roland Netz (Technical University Munich)
Thursday 10 Sep 09 - 2:00pm
Particle Stabilised Emulsions with Hydrophobic Additives
Paul FitzGerald (University of Sydney, Australia)
Thursday 30 Jul 09 - 1:00pm
Strong Mobility in Weakly Disordered Systems
Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Monday 22 Jun 09 - 1:00pm
Richard Sear (University of Surrey)
Monday 15 Jun 09 - 1:00pm
Understanding the lag phase variability of insulin fibrillation
Line Jourdain
Monday 8 Jun 09 - 1:00pm
Caroline Miles
Monday 1 Jun 09 - 1:00pm
Jon Weaver (Materials Discovery, Liverpool University)
Monday 18 May 09 - 1:00pm
No meeting: No Seminar
Monday 11 May 09 - 1:00pm
Constitutive Equations for Colloidal Glasses from Statistical Mechanics
Mike Cates
Monday 4 May 09 - 1:00pm
Ton Visser (Wageningen University)
Monday 20 Apr 09 - 1:00pm
No meeting: No Seminar
Monday 13 Apr 09 - 1:00pm
No meeting: No Seminar
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 16 Mar 09 - 1:00pm
Critical Behaviour of Colloidal Interfaces Probed by Gravity
Dirk Aarts (University of Oxford)
Monday 9 Mar 09 - 1:00pm
Aggregation and solvent electrostriction in a simple dipeptide: a molecular dynamics investigation
Paul Tulip
Monday 2 Mar 09 - 1:00pm
No meeting: No Seminar
Monday 23 Feb 09 - 1:00pm
Complex Fluids Characterization Through Expert System & High Frequency Rheometry
Samiul Amin (Malvern Instruments Limited)
Monday 16 Feb 09 - 1:00pm
Gijs Katgert (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Monday 26 Jan 09 - 1:00pm
The Electrophoresis Of Colloidal Particles or How to use the new Zetasizer Nano
Andrew Schofield
Monday 19 Jan 09 - 1:00pm
Neelofer Banglawala
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 5 Jan 09 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Christmas Break
Monday 15 Dec 08 - 1:00pm
Large Scale Simulations of Blue Phases of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Oliver Henrich
Monday 8 Dec 08 - 1:00pm
1. Water Interactions with Calcium Carbonate Nanoparticles and 2. Catching up on Bijels
Joseph Tavacoli
Monday 17 Nov 08 - 1:00pm
Arno Proeme
Monday 10 Nov 08 - 1:00pm
Cellular networks of colloids via the demixing and remixing of binary liquids
Job Thijssen
Monday 27 Oct 08 - 1:00pm
Nonequilibrium Phase Transition in a System of Sedimenting Reproducing Particles
Conrad Barrett-Freeman
Monday 13 Oct 08 - 1:00pm
Orbital ordering, reduced dimensionality and spin gap in correlated oxides
Daniel Khomskii (University of Cologne)
Friday 19 Sep 08 - 1:00pm
A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Phase Separation
Juergen Vollmer (MPI Dynamics & Self-Organization, Goettingen)
Monday 15 Sep 08 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Edinburgh Autumn Holiday
Monday 1 Sep 08 - 1:00pm
Some Optical Tweezers-Based Rheology Conclusions, and a New Microscopy Technique
Laurence Wilson
Monday 25 Aug 08 - 1:00pm
No meeting: No Seminar
Monday 4 Aug 08 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Summer Bank Holiday
Monday 28 Jul 08 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Break
Monday 7 Jul 08 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Break
Monday 30 Jun 08 - 1:00pm
Microfluidic devices: surface modification and analysis
Sally McArthur (University of Sheffield)
Monday 23 Jun 08 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Break
Monday 16 Jun 08 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Break
Monday 9 Jun 08 - 1:00pm
Sickle hemoglobin fibers - self assembly, interactions, growth and depolymerisation
Matthew Turner (University of Warwick)
Monday 26 May 08 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Spring Bank Holiday
Monday 19 May 08 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Victoria Day
Monday 5 May 08 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Early May Bank Holiday
Monday 28 Apr 08 - 1:00pm
Time dependent quantum transport and nuclear motion
Claudio Verdozzi (Lund University)
Monday 21 Apr 08 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Spring Holiday
Monday 31 Mar 08 - 1:00pm
Probing nanoscale structure and dynamics of soft matter by synchrotron X-ray scattering
Theyencheri Narayanan (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble)
Wednesday 26 Mar 08 - 1:00pm
Computer simulations of microrheology in dense colloidal systems
Antonio M. Puertas (University of Almeria)
Monday 17 Mar 08 - 1:00pm
Simulating ‘Swimmers’: Point-like self-propelled particles in lattice Boltzmann
Rupert Nash
Monday 10 Mar 08 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Break
Monday 3 Mar 08 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Break
Monday 25 Feb 08 - 1:00pm
Out of equilibrium processes in oppositely charged colloidal suspensions
Eduardo Sanz
Monday 4 Feb 08 - 1:00pm
Laser manipulation and transfer of angular momentum in liquid crystal systems
Helen Gleeson (University of Manchester)
Monday 28 Jan 08 - 1:00pm
A structural route for dynamical arrest: locally favoured structures in colloidal gels and glasses.
Paddy Royall (University of Bristol)
Monday 21 Jan 08 - 1:00pm
Jan Willem van de Meent (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)
Monday 14 Jan 08 - 1:00pm
Anna Balazs (University of Pittsburgh)
Monday 3 Dec 07 - 1:00pm
No meeting: No seminar
Monday 26 Nov 07 - 1:00pm
Clustering, wetting and demixing in colloid-microemulsion composites
Danielle Van't Zand
Monday 19 Nov 07 - 1:00pm
Characterisation of Photonic Colloidal Crystals in Real and Reciprocal Space: A Tale of Two Cities
Job Thijssen
Monday 29 Oct 07 - 1:00pm
Non-linear instabilities in parallel shear flows of visco-elastic fluids
Alexander Morozov
Monday 22 Oct 07 - 1:00pm
Electrostatic interactions across a charged lipid bilayer
Alexander Wagner (North Dakota State University)
Monday 15 Oct 07 - 1:00pm
Sex and Sensitivity: the (In)fidelity of DNA Homologous Recombination
Joel Stavans (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Monday 24 Sep 07 - 1:00pm
Ionic Assemblies: Patterns and Symmetries
Monica Olvera de La Cruz (Department of Materials Science, Northwestern University)
Monday 17 Sep 07 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Edinburgh Autumn Holiday
Monday 10 Sep 07 - 1:00pm
Nanoparticles in binary mixture of liquid crystal and dodecanol
Chethan Lobo
Monday 3 Sep 07 - 1:00pm
Colloidal Particle Structures at Liquid Interfaces
Tommy Horozov (University of Hull)
Monday 27 Aug 07 - 1:00pm
Coupling electrostatic and polymeric surface interactions in soft matter and biology
Otti Croze
Monday 6 Aug 07 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Summer Bank Holiday
Monday 23 Jul 07 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Summer Break
Monday 16 Jul 07 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Summer Break
Monday 9 Jul 07 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Summer Break
Monday 25 Jun 07 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Summer Break
Monday 18 Jun 07 - 1:00pm
Structure and Deformation of Soft Colloidal Co-crystals
Lynn M. Walker (Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University)
Monday 11 Jun 07 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Late Spring Break
Monday 4 Jun 07 - 1:00pm
Piconewton forces in dense colloids, applied and measured by optical tweezers.
Laurence Wilson
Monday 28 May 07 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Spring Bank Holiday
Monday 21 May 07 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Victoria Day
Monday 14 May 07 - 1:00pm
Antisite disorder and the magnetic groundstate of an experimental spin 1/2 kagome antiferromagnet
Mark de Vries
Monday 7 May 07 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Early May Bank Holiday
Monday 16 Apr 07 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Edinburgh Spring Holiday
Monday 9 Apr 07 - 1:00pm
No meeting: Easter Monday
Monday 2 Apr 07 - 1:00pm
Phase separating proteins and cellular switches
Richard Sear (University of Surrey)
Monday 26 Mar 07 - 1:00pm
Complex dynamics of shear banded flows
Suzanne Fielding (University of Manchester)
Monday 19 Mar 07 - 1:00pm
Rupert Nash
Monday 26 Feb 07 - 1:00pm
Catherine Biggs (Sheffield)
Monday 19 Feb 07 - 1:00pm
Lipid domain formation in binary/ternary Giant Unilamellar Vesicles
Zhijun Zhao
Monday 12 Feb 07 - 1:00pm
Lucio Isa
Monday 5 Feb 07 - 1:00pm
Nonequilibrium Kinetics of the Triangular Antiferromagnetic Ising model
Grace Kim
Monday 22 Jan 07 - 1:00pm
Atomistic simulations of martensitic transformations in 2D Lennard-Jones solids
Oliver Kastner
Monday 11 Dec 06 - 1:00pm
Chain reactions, hexosomes and unexpected shades of the colour blue
Kathryn White
Monday 13 Nov 06 - 1:00pm
Phonons and Structures in Rubidium and Oxygen at High Pressure
Malcolm McMahon
Monday 23 Oct 06 - 1:00pm
Connecting simulation and experiment: classical molecular dynamics of simple peptides in water
Susie Allison
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 21 Aug 06 - 1:00pm
Poly-N-Methylpyrrole Modified Electrodes to Investigate Bile Salt-Lecithin Aggregation
Dilec Madenci
Friday 9 Jun 06 - 1:00pm
Directional Interactions Amongst Encapsulated Clusters
Dana Breed (University of California Santa Barbara)
Friday 19 May 06 - 1:00pm
Weak Agitations, Zero Yield Stress and Smooth Flows in Granular Media
Martin van Hecke (Leiden University)
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 24 Apr 06 - 1:00pm
Techniques for trapping and studying colloids on liquid-liquid interfaces
Eva Herzig
Monday 27 Mar 06 - 1:00pm
Optical Trapping Experiments in Hard Sphere Colloidal Systems
Laurence Wilson
Monday 20 Mar 06 - 1:00pm
Controlling drop impact by additives
Volfango Bertola (School of Engineering)
Wednesday 1 Mar 06 - 1:00pm
A simple model for the excess entropy of mixing of methanol-water mixtures
Rowan Hargreaves
Monday 30 Jan 06 - 1:00pm
Finding the Center Reliably: Robust Patterns of Developmental Gene Expression
Martin Howard
Monday 23 Jan 06 - 1:00pm
Lucio Isa
Wednesday 7 Dec 05 - 12:30pm
Aymeric Robert
Monday 5 Dec 05 - 1:00pm
Conducting Organic Molecule Micropatterns on Functionalised Glass Surfaces
Iris Coe
Monday 21 Nov 05 - 1:00pm
Mutation of albedo and growth response produces oscillations in a spatial Daisyworld
Jamie Wood
Monday 14 Nov 05 - 1:00pm
Investigating Extreme Condition Microbiology
Gail Ferguson (Structural & Molecular Biology and CSEC)
Monday 31 Oct 05 - 3:00pm
Noise in Biochemical Reaction Networks
Patrick Warren (Unilever Research, Port Sunlight Laboratory)
Monday 31 Oct 05 - 1:00pm
1.00pm Michael James (Bragg Institute, Sydney)
Monday 10 Oct 05 - 1:00pm
Opening up into two dimensions: insights into liquid structure
Susie Allison
Monday 3 Oct 05 - 1:00pm
J. Murray Gibson (Argonne National Laboratory)
Monday 4 Jul 05 - 1:00pm
Alfredo Caro
Wednesday 22 Jun 05 - 1:00pm
Colloids in external fields: theory and simulation
Hartmut Löwen (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf)
Monday 20 Jun 05 - 1:00pm
Colloidal Analog of the Ionic Fluid: computer simulation study
José B. Caballero
Monday 16 May 05 - 1:00pm
Recent Developments in Lattice Boltzmann for Complex Fluids
Kevin Stratford (EPCC)
Wednesday 11 May 05 - 1:00pm
The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter
Sriram Ramaswamy (IISc, Bangalore)
Monday 9 May 05 - 1:00pm
Simulating the flipping of genetic switches and other rare events
Rosalind Allen (AMOLF)
Monday 21 Mar 05 - 1:00pm
MC measurement of the isotropic nematic interfacial tension in suspensions of soft rods
Tanja Schilling (Mainz)
Monday 7 Mar 05 - 1:00pm
With these statistical mechanics I language change and population genetics wed
Richard Blythe
Wednesday 9 Feb 05 - 1:00pm
Interaction between Colloids and Cells
Didier Roux (Centre de recherche Paul Pascal, CNRS, Pessac, France)
Friday 4 Feb 05 - 2:00pm
How industrial problems expose gaps in fundamental colloid science
Dr Richard Buscall (ICI Strategic Technology Group, Redcar)
Monday 31 Jan 05 - 1:00pm
Pattern formation in particle laden viscous fluid thin film flow
Mark Buchanan (University of Oslo)
Monday 24 Jan 05 - 1:00pm
An exactly solvable phase transition in an Ising system with a grain boundary.
Jamie Wood
Monday 22 Nov 04 - 1:00pm
Instabilities and Collective Phenomena in Plastic Flow of Crystalline Solids
Michael Zaiser
Monday 8 Nov 04 - 1:00pm
Statics and dynamics of poly(ethylene glycol)-stabilized colloids
Johan Bergenholtz (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Monday 1 Nov 04 - 1:00pm
Gels, clusters and phase separation in sticky particle systems
Helen Sedgwick
Monday 18 Oct 04 - 1:00pm
Unbinding Books and Demixing Mixtures
Jeroen S. van Duijneveldt (School of Chemistry, University of Bristol)
Monday 4 Oct 04 - 1:00pm
Jamming in 2-Dimensional Granular Flow
Ki Wing To (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan)
Monday 13 Sep 04 - 1:00pm
Untangling hair conditioners: The swelling of surfactant bilayer phases
David Fairhurst
Monday 6 Sep 04 - 1:00pm
The hydrodynamic interaction in confined suspensions
Haim Diamant (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Monday 9 Aug 04 - 1:00pm
Remoteness: studying the structure of concentrated particulate systems
Mark Haw
Monday 2 Aug 04 - 1:00pm
Self-Assembled Monolayers, Soft Lithography and Ezyme Activity at Surfaces
Nhan Pham
Monday 26 Jul 04 - 1:00pm
Limited Coalescence in Particle-Stabilised Emulsions: Experiment and Theory
Bernard P. Binks (Surfactant & Colloid Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Hull)
Monday 19 Jul 04 - 1:00pm
Overshooting Currents and Condensation Transitions in the Zero-Range Process
Andrew Angel
Monday 5 Jul 04 - 1:00pm
Chain melting in the Incommensurate Host-Guest Phase of Rb-IV
Malcolm McMahon
Monday 28 Jun 04 - 1:00pm
Molecular Motors: Observation and Theory
Michael Fisher (University of Maryland)
Monday 31 May 04 - 1:00pm
Mesoscopic and Nanoscale Thermodynamics: Fundamentals for Emerging Technologies
Mikhail Anisimov (Department of Chemical Engineering and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland)
Monday 26 Apr 04 - 1:00pm
Depinning, Ordering and Melting of Vortex Matter in Mesoscopic Channels
Rut Besseling
Tuesday 17 Feb 04 - 1:00pm
Patterns, templates and ordering in thin films: from magnetic garnets to polymer films and beyond
David Andelman (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Monday 9 Feb 04 - 1:00pm
David Lu (Physics Department, National Central University, Taiwan)
Monday 12 Jan 04 - 1:00pm
The Penna Model -- a solvable model of evolutionary ageing
Jon Coe (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
Monday 8 Dec 03 - 1:00pm
Bridges and arches - extended structures in particulate deposits
G. Barker (Institute of Food Research (Norwich))
Monday 1 Dec 03 - 1:00pm
V. Gordon
Monday 17 Nov 03 - 1:00pm
Phase transitions in one-dimensional driven systems and the zero-range process
T. Hanney
Monday 27 Oct 03 - 1:00pm
Quantum versions of random walks for quantum computing
V. Kendon (Imperial College London)
Monday 25 Aug 03 - 1:00pm
Network formation in mixtures of nematic liquid crystal and colloid particles
J. Cleaver
Monday 11 Aug 03 - 1:00pm
The Paris-Edinburgh neutron pressure cell -- The world's smallest large volume cell
J. Loveday
Tuesday 3 Jun 03 - 1:00pm
Viscoelasticity and Structural Aging in Colloidal Gels
Maria Kilfoil (Harvard University)
Monday 26 May 03 - 1:00pm
Epidemic processes with immunization
A. Jimenez-Dalmaroni (Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford)
Monday 12 May 03 - 1:00pm
Electronic structure theory: Tight-binding models and phase transformations
R. C. Albers (Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA))
Monday 5 May 03 - 1:00pm
Local perturbations of colloidal suspensions
P. Habdas (Department of Physics, Emory University (Atlanta, USA))
Tuesday 15 Apr 03 - 1:00pm
Screening phenomena in macroion suspensions
E. Trizac (Laboratoire de Physique Thorique, Universit Paris Sud)
Monday 24 Mar 03 - 1:00pm
Orienteering, daisies and spilt coffee: Simulations with non-Hamiltonian Dynamics
G. Ackland
Tuesday 11 Mar 03 - 1:00pm
Systematics of the nonmetal-metal transition in highly compressed low-Z fluids at extreme conditions
B. Nellis (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Monday 10 Mar 03 - 1:00pm
The physics of the complex mixture inside E. coli
R. Sear (Department of Physics, University of Surrey)
Monday 10 Feb 03 - 1:00pm
Percolation and phase separation in a fluid of sticky spheres
M. Miller (FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Monday 27 Jan 03 - 1:00pm
S. Meeker (Laboratoire matire molle et chimie, ESPCI, Paris, France)
Thursday 23 Jan 03 - 1:00pm
Dynamical properties of wormlike micelles
J. Candau (Laboratoire de dynamique des fluides complexes, Universit Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)
Monday 20 Jan 03 - 1:00pm
Crystal structure of elements under high pressure: recent findings and surprises
O. Degtyareva
Monday 13 Jan 03 - 1:00pm
Simulating shear flow: Leave it to chance?
R. M. L. Evans (Dpt of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK)
Monday 9 Dec 02 - 1:00pm
The Dielectric Mafia Returns: How the Polymer Network Infiltrated Charged Lamellars...
O. Croze
Monday 2 Dec 02 - 1:00pm
Didier Long
Monday 14 Oct 02 - 1:00pm
From silicon carbide to the removal of George W Bush by way of Kinlochleven
Graeme Ackland
Monday 25 Feb 02 - 1:00pm
Pressure effect on manganites with layered perovskite structure
Dmitriy Sokolov
Monday 28 Jan 02 - 1:00pm
Hard sphere glasses under oscillatory shear (The final Episode?)
George Petekidis
Monday 3 Dec 01 - 1:00pm
The Dielectric Mafia: How the Fat Macromolecules Got Away Without Being Charged
Ottavio Croze
Monday 24 Sep 01 - 1:00pm
Mesoscale Modelling of Fluidised Bed Binder Granulation
Frantisek Stepanek (Statistics and Modelling Unit, Unilever Research, Port Sunlight, UK)
Monday 3 Sep 01 - 1:00pm
Hierarchical self-assembly of polyelectrolytes at interfaces
Christiane A Helm (Universität Greifswald, Germany)
Monday 27 Aug 01 - 1:00pm
Partial structure factors in star polymer/colloid mixtures
Jörg Stellbrink (IFF/KFA Jülich, Germany)
Monday 2 Jul 01 - 1:00pm
Squeezing sandwiches, or how to tune useful properties of magnetic multilayers with pressure.
Konstantin Kamenev
Monday 11 Jun 01 - 1:00pm
What I also did in Paris:
Watching Paint Dry in Reciprocal Space
Wilson Poon
Monday 7 May 01 - 1:00pm
High-Pressure Structural Studies Of Organic Small-Molecule Systems
David R Allan
Monday 26 Feb 01 - 1:00pm
What are 'glasses', and do colloids have any relevance to their study?
Kenneth Dawson (Department of Chemistry, University College Dublin)
Monday 5 Feb 01 - 1:00pm
Universal features of jamming in a model of frictionless granular media
David Head
Monday 29 Jan 01 - 1:00pm
Monday 22 Jan 01 - 1:00pm
Carlos Rascon
Monday 27 Nov 00 - 1:00pm
Simulation in the Social Sciences: Progress towards a Computational History?
Alexander Wagner
Monday 6 Nov 00 - 1:00pm
Introduction to Stochastic Processes: Comparison between Non-interacting and Interacting Systems
Isao Hiyane
Monday 2 Oct 00 - 1:00pm
Studies of colloidal systems by confocal microscopy
Eric Weeks (Harvard University)
Monday 14 Aug 00 - 1:00pm
Why is the DNA Denaturation Transition First Order?
David Mukamel (Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Monday 17 Jul 00 - 1:00pm
Ab initio molecular dynamics studies of structure and solvation in polar liquids
Mark Tuckerman (NYU)
Monday 26 Jun 00 - 1:00pm
Atomic Force Microscopy on Polymers
Vasileios Koutsos (Centre for Materials Science and Engineering)
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