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• Soft Matter Seminar: TBA

  Monday, February 10, 2014 - 11:00am - 12:00pm Regents 351 Leonard Sander University of Michigan Host: Daniel Blair

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• Soft Matter Seminar: Capillarity: From Spreading Pressure to Disjoining Pressure to Contact Angle to Energy of Wetting

  Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 3:00pm Regents 351Ian Morrison That wetting energy is key to understanding capillary phenomena has been known for about one hundred years. The relation of contact angle

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• 2014 Seminar Archive

  Soft Matter Seminar: Capillarity: From Spreading Pressure to Disjoining Pressure to Contact Angle to Energy of Wetting Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 3:00pm Ian Morrison Soft Matter Seminar: Utili

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• CMT Seminar: Ultrafast control of trapped atomic ions

  Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm Regents 351 Brian Neyenhuis Joint Quantum Institute of UMD and NIST Trapped atomic ions allow us to build up strongly interacting quantum systems one atom

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• Soft Matter Seminar: DNA Descending a Nanofluidic Staircase

  Friday, October 18, 2013 - 2:00pm Regents 351Elizabeth A. StrychalskiNational Institute of Standards and Technology Imagine a long, floppy spring – such as a Slinky – uncoiling and recoiling as it wa

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• Ultrasensitive THz Detection with Graphene Nanobolometers

  Friday, October 11, 2013 - 2:30pm Regents 351Daniel ProberDepts. of Applied Physics, Physics, EE, Yale University Graphene has recently been proposed as an ultrasensitive THz photon detector element

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• Soft Matter Seminar: Contractile Biological Networks at the Verge of Mechanical Stability

  Friday, October 4, 2013 - 2:00pm Regents 351Chase Broedersz Princeton University The mechanical properties of cells are regulated in part by internal stresses generated actively by molecular motors

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• CMT Theory Seminar: Dynamics of spin-1 bosons in an optical lattice: Spin mixing, quantum-phase-revival spectroscopy, and effective three-body interactions

  Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm Regents 351 Khan Mahmud Joint Quantum Institute of UMD and NIST In this talk we present a theoretical study of the dynamics of spin-1 atoms in an optical

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• CMT Theory Seminar: Landau-Zener transitions in double-well optical lattices

  Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm Regents 351Andrij ShvaikaInstitute for Condensed Matter Physics Driven quantum systems are attracting a great interest and have wide applications from che

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• CMT Theory Seminar: Equilibrium positions, phonon modes and effective spin-spin interactions for ions and defects trapped in a Penning trap

  Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm Regents 351 Mike McAnneny Department of Physics, Georgetown University Trapped ion quantum simulators are emerging as the largest analog quantum computers.

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