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• CMT seminar: The generalized gradient approximation in ultracold atomic physics

  Monday, May 23, 2011 - 3:15pm - 4:30pm Reiss 261A Hulikal Krishnamurthy Indian Institute of Science I will describe ideas we have been working on generalizing the local density approximation to take i

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• Soft Matter Seminar: Shear flows near jamming

  Friday, May 20, 2011 - 1:15pm - 2:15pm Reiss 261A Brian Tighe Leiden University Many amorphous materials, from foams and emulsions to pastes and microgel suspensions, can be modeled as sphere packi

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• Soft Matter Seminar: Nature and Nurture: making soft materials with biomolecules in two ways

  Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 1:15pm - 2:15pm Reiss 261A John Crocker University of Pennsylvania This talk will cover two topics highlighting the deep connections between soft matter physics and biolog

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• CMT Seminar: Aspects of non-equilibrium dynamics in quantum critical systems

  Monday, May 16, 2011 - 3:15pm Reiss 261AKrishnendu Sengupta Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences In the first part of this talk, I shall discuss the scaling law for defect density gene

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• Soft Matter Seminar: Droplet Formation in Freely Falling Granular Streams

  Friday, May 13, 2011 - 1:15pm - 2:15pm Reiss 261A John Royer NYU Physics Thin liquid streams commonly break up into characteristic droplet patterns due to the surface tension driven Plateau-Rayleig

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• CMT Seminar: Chern Numbers in Time-of-Flight Images

  Monday, May 9, 2011 - 3:15pm Reiss 261A Noah Bray-Ali Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, College Park We introduce a technique for detecting the Chern number in the time-of-flight image

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• The Polymer Processing Lab on a Chip

  Friday, May 6, 2011 - 1:15pm - 2:30pm Reiss 261AKalman Migler NIST The modern polymer processing laboratory typically contains disparate instruments for various operations such as rheometry, mixing,

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• Soft Matter Seminar: HYDROLYTICALLY DEGRADABLE POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) (PEG) AS A TUNABLE SCAFFOLD FOR NEURAL TISSUE ENGINEERING

  Friday, April 29, 2011 - 1:15pm Reiss 261A Silviya Zustiak NIH While great strides have been made in developing new biomaterials, tissue engineering efforts focused on nerve repair have been limite

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• Soft Matter Seminar: TBA

  Friday, April 15, 2011 - 1:15pm - 2:30pm Reiss 261A Raimon Sunyer Host: Daniel Blair

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• Special Statistical Physics Seminar: Monte Carlo Methods for Rough Free Energy Landscapes

  Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 1:15pm - 2:15pm Reiss 261A Jon Machta UMass Amherst Problems in many areas of science require finding ground states or equilibrium states in systems with rough free ener

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