2015 Colloquia Archive

  • Physical Guidance of Cell Migration
  • Following Molecular Dynamics with Strong and Short Laser Pulses
    September 29, 2015
    Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland
  • Opportunity for Oxides in Electronics, Optics, Magnetics, Memory, Energy, and Health
    March 20, 2015
    T. Venkatesan, NUSNNI-NanoCore, National University of Singapore
  • High-Capacity Hydrogen/Methane Storage and Carbon Capture in Porous Materials: Current Progress and Challenges
    April 21, 2015
    Taner Yildirim, Center for Neutron Research, NIST
  • From sand castles to urban modeling. Some naive thoughts on construction and cities.
    April 14, 2015
    Prof. Henri van Damme , ESPCI (France) and MIT
  • Physics of Sand: Emergent Behavior in the Macro World
    April 7, 2015
    Prof. Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
  • Low-Dimensional Properties of Atomically-Thin Materials and Systems
    March 24, 2015
    Douglas Strachan, University of Kentucky
  • Shear thickening fluids and their applications as field-responsive protective materials
    March 17, 2015
    Norman Wagner, University of Delaware
  • Facile Production of Multifunctional Nanoparticles by Block-Copolymer-Directed Rapid Precipitation
    February 24, 2015
    Robert K. Prud’homme, Princeton University
  • Nuclear physics with cold neutrons
    February 17, 2015
    Nadia Fomin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee
  • Kinematic matrix theory and chiral separation of nanomotors and self-propellers
    February 9, 2015
    Amir Nourhani, Pennsylvania State University
  • Discovering the Higgs Boson and What’s Next
    Alice Bean, Department of Physics, University of Kansas
    January 27, 2015
  • RNA/Protein Phase Transitions and Cell Size
    January 20, 2015
    Clifford Brangwynne, Princeton University
  • Physics approaches to simplifying microbial ecology
    January 13, 2015
    Nicholas Chia, Theoretical Biology Group, Mayo Clinic