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• Fluid turbulence: How nature mixes things up

  Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - 3:15pm - 4:30pm Reiss 502 Robert Ecke Director, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory Ash disperses from a volcano; fuel and air mix in an internal comb

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• Formation and properties of Cu2S-CdS and Ag2S-CdS nanorod heterostructures

  Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Reiss 502 Denis DemchenkoDepartment of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University A partial cation exchange has been used to synthesize Cu2S-CdS and Ag2S-CdS

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• The superconducting proximity effect in metals and molecules

  Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 3:15pm Reiss 502Sophie GuéronUniversité Paris Sud, Orsay The supercurrent through a conductor connected to two superconductors (S) is contingent on the penetration of superc

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• Modeling the dynamics and gravitational-wave emission of coalescing binary black holes

  Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 3:15pm Reiss 502Prof. Alessandra BuonannoDepartment of Physics, University of Maryland In general relativity, spacetime is a dynamic and elastic entity both influencing and

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• Self-assembly with a twist

  Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 3:15pm - 4:30pm Reiss 502Zvonimir DogicBrandeis University Dept. of Physics Once initiated, most self-assembly pathways proceed without bound, resulting in the formation of t

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• Modeling adaptation in E. coli chemotaxis: precise, robust, and optimized

  Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 3:15pm - 4:30pm Reiss 502 Ned Wingreen Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University Bacteria swim toward food (chemotax) by detecting temporal changes in their ch

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• Interaction of Femtosecond Terawatt Laser Radiation with Plasmas and Materials

  Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 3:15pm - 4:30pm Reiss 502 Dr. Antonio (Tony) Ting Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Lab Intense femtosecond pulses generated from chirped pulse amplification terawat

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• Collapse and revival of an ultra-cold few-atom state

  Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Reiss 502 Eite Tiesinga Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and University of Maryland, Gaithersburg I will explain some of our recent modeling of experiments that l

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• Aspects of One-Dimensional Quantum Many-Body Systems: Chaos, Dynamics, and Quantum Control

  Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 3:15pm Reiss 502Prof. Lea Ferreira dos SantosYeshiva University Understanding the dynamics of quantum many-body systems is one of the main challenges in fundamental studie

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• Materials Assembly – A complex route to merging nano- and micro- length scales

  Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 3:15pm Reiss 502 Kimani Stancil, Assistant Professor Howard University, Department of Physics Nanocrystal syntheses typically require complex surfactant mixtures that at

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