2011 Seminar Archive
- Soft Matter Seminar: Jamming and Flow of Soft Particle Suspensions
Friday, January 28, 2011 – 1:15pm
Kerstin Nordstrom
- CMT Seminar: Interacting Hofstadter spectrum of bosons in an artificial gauge field
Monday, January 31, 2011 – 3:15pm
Stephen Powell
- CMT Seminar: Probing quantum systems through adiabatic dynamics
Friday, February 11, 2011 – 1:30pm
Claudia De Grandi
- Soft Matter Seminar: Mechanics of Swimming Microorganisms
Friday, February 18, 2011 – 1:15pm
Thomas Powers
- Cytoskeletal dynamics in mechanically loaded sensory neurons
Friday, March 4, 2011 – 1:15pm – 2:15pm
Sameer B. Shah
- Soft Matter Seminar: Periodically Sequenced Peptides: A New Tool for Nanoscale Materials Synthesis
Friday, March 18, 2011 – 1:15pm – 2:30pm
Raymod Tu
- Multiscale modeling of suspensions: application to cement based materials
Friday, April 1, 2011 – 1:15pm – 2:30pm
Nicos Martys
- Soft Matter Seminar: From macro- to nanoscale: Optical Microscopy and Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) as tools for investigating the morphology of polymer nanocomposites
Friday, April 8, 2011 – 1:15pm – 2:30pm
Mauro Zammarano
- Special Statistical Physics Seminar: Monte Carlo Methods for Rough Free Energy Landscapes
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 – 1:15pm – 2:15pm
Jon Machta
- Soft Matter Seminar: TBA
Friday, April 15, 2011 – 1:15pm – 2:30pm
Raimon Sunyer
- Soft Matter Seminar: HYDROLYTICALLY DEGRADABLE POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) (PEG) AS A TUNABLE SCAFFOLD FOR NEURAL TISSUE ENGINEERING
Friday, April 29, 2011 – 1:15pm
Silviya Zustiak
- The Polymer Processing Lab on a Chip
Friday, May 6, 2011 – 1:15pm – 2:30pm
Kalman Migler
- CMT Seminar: Chern Numbers in Time-of-Flight Images
Monday, May 9, 2011 – 3:15pm
Noah Bray-Ali
- Soft Matter Seminar: Droplet Formation in Freely Falling Granular Streams
Friday, May 13, 2011 – 1:15pm – 2:15pm
John Royer
- CMT Seminar: Aspects of non-equilibrium dynamics in quantum critical systems
Monday, May 16, 2011 – 3:15pm
Krishnendu Sengupta
- Soft Matter Seminar: Nature and Nurture: making soft materials with biomolecules in two ways
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 – 1:15pm – 2:15pm
John Crocker
- Soft Matter Seminar: Shear flows near jamming
Friday, May 20, 2011 – 1:15pm – 2:15pm
Brian Tighe
- CMT seminar: The generalized gradient approximation in ultracold atomic physics
Monday, May 23, 2011 – 3:15pm – 4:30pm
Hulikal Krishnamurthy
- CMT seminar: Electron Beam Tuning of Transport in Carbon Nanodevices
Monday, June 6, 2011 – 3:15pm – 4:30pm
Keith Williams
- CMT Seminar: Classical-field methods for finite-temperature Bose gases
Monday, June 27, 2011 – 3:15pm
Tod Wright
- CMT Seminar: Thermoelectrics: Applications, Materials Optimization, and Metrology
Monday, July 11, 2011 – 3:15pm – 4:30pm
Joshua Martin
- CMT Seminar: Strong correlation effects on capacitance
Monday, July 18, 2011 – 3:15pm – 4:30pm
Simon Hale
- Special CMT seminar Progress toward observation of quantum phase transitions in 2-d triangular ion arrays in the NIST 9Be+ Penning trap
Thursday, July 21, 2011 – 3:15pm – 4:30pm
Joe Britton
- Thesis Proposal presentation
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 – 2:00pm
Julie Schoening
- Theoretical and computational modeling of physical processes in reduced dimensional systems: how well can we understand reality?
Thursday, September 15, 2011 – 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Vincent Meunier
- CMT Seminar: Strong Correlations in Gases of Atoms and Molecules: superfluid, solid and supersolid phases of matter
Friday, September 30, 2011 – 2:30pm – 4:00pm
Guido Pupillo
- CMT Seminar: Nonequilibrium steady state for strongly-correlated many-body systems: a variational cluster approach
Monday, November 7, 2011 – 3:00pm – 4:15pm
Michael Knap
- CMT Seminar: Probing metal-insulator transitions with Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations
Monday, November 21, 2011 – 3:15pm
Thereza Paiva
- CMT Seminar: Finite-temperature properties and phase transitions of frustrated magnetic systems
Monday, December 5, 2011 – 3:15pm
Ehsan Khatami
