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• 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 Reiss 261AMauro Zammarano NIST The morphological characterization of polymer nanocomposites over multiple length scales is a fundamental challenge which must

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• Multiscale modeling of suspensions: application to cement based materials

  Friday, April 1, 2011 - 1:15pm - 2:30pm Reiss 261ANicos Martys NIST A multi-scale approach for modeling suspensions composed of particles with a wide size distribution, like cement based materials,

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• Soft Matter Seminar: Periodically Sequenced Peptides: A New Tool for Nanoscale Materials Synthesis

  Friday, March 18, 2011 - 1:15pm - 2:30pm Reiss 261ARaymod Tu CCNY Periodically sequenced peptides can be confined to interfaces and assembled into patterns that present chemical functionalities with

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• Cytoskeletal dynamics in mechanically loaded sensory neurons

  Friday, March 4, 2011 - 1:15pm - 2:15pm Reiss 261A Sameer B. Shah Department of Bioengineering, U. Maryland The axonal cytoskeleton is a well organized heterogeneous scaffold composed of polymer fi

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• Soft Matter Seminar: Mechanics of Swimming Microorganisms

  Friday, February 18, 2011 - 1:15pm Reiss 261AThomas Powers School of Engineering, Brown University At the small scale of a cell swimming in water, inertial effects are unimportant. Therefore, the mo

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• CMT Seminar: Probing quantum systems through adiabatic dynamics

  Friday, February 11, 2011 - 1:30pm Reiss 261AClaudia De GrandiBoston University We analyze the response of a quantum system when perturbed from its quantum critical point. In particular we consider t

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• CMT Seminar: Interacting Hofstadter spectrum of bosons in an artificial gauge field

  Monday, January 31, 2011 - 3:15pm Reiss 261AStephen PowellUniversity of Maryland In the presence of a magnetic field, noninteracting particles on a lattice have a remarkable fractal spectrum, known a

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• Soft Matter Seminar: Jamming and Flow of Soft Particle Suspensions

  Friday, January 28, 2011 - 1:15pm Reiss 261A Kerstin Nordstrom U. Penn Complex fluids are ubiquitous in nature and industry. Soft particle suspensions offer a unique perspective on complex fluids i

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• Controlling Epitaxial Graphene Growth

  Monday, December 13, 2010 - 1:30pm Reiss 502 D.K.Gaskill Advanced SiC Epitaxial Research Laboratory, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375 In the last two years, tremendous progress

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• Soft Matter Seminar: Granular aggregates with capillary interactions

  Friday, August 6, 2010 - 1:30pm - 2:30pm Reiss 261A Michael Berhanu Clark University, Dept. of Physics We consider assembly of identical spherical particles (of diameter about few millimeter) float

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