Past squishy physics seminars

Past squishy physics and pizza seminars


August 27, 2008: Dynamics of single molecules of DNA in solution; Adam Cohen; Harvard
August 20, 2008: Is the cytoskeleton critical?; Enhua Zhou; Harvard School of Public Health
August 13, 2008: Spectral Cyto-pathology: Infrared and Raman spectroscopy of human cells; Max Diem; Northeastern University
August 6, 2008: Patterned Materials Deposition by 'Writing' on Superhydrophobic Surfaces; Ben Hatton; Harvard
July 30, 2008: From In Vitro Super-resolution Microscopy to In Vivo Multi-photon Intravital Microscopy; Euiheon Chong; MGH
July 23, 2008: Structured Colloids from Block Copolymers; Gi-Ra Yi; Korea Basic Science Institute
July 16, 2008: Why is the granulocyte a very squishy cell?; Don & Ada Olins; Bowdoin College
July 9, 2008: Creasing of surface-attached hydrogels: Harnessing an elastic instability to create active surfaces; Ryan Hayward; UMass Amherst
July 2, 2008: Imaging : From the cell to the brain; Kandice Tanner; UC Irvine
June 25, 2008: Monolayer chemistry on porous silicon photonic crystals: Tools for monitoring biological processes; Till Boecking; Harvard Medical School
June 18, 2008: Nonlinear elasticity of biopolymer networks with highly flexible cross-links; Chase Broeders; Vrije University
June 11, 2008: Using stereochemistry to control rheology in associative polymer gels; Surita Bhatia; UMass Amherst
June 4, 2008: Anisotropic viscosity in viscous flow models - implications for the Earth's mantle; Einat Lev; MIT
May 28, 2008: How does a protein find its site on DNA?; Leonid Mirny; MIT
May 21, 2008: Intranuclear Quorum Sensing During Eukaryotic DNA Replication; Ron Lebofsky; Harvard Medical School
May 14, 2008: Gene brushes: from crowding and the search problem to synthetic systems; Roy Bar-Ziv; Weizmann Institute
May 7, 2008: Chiral Self-Assembly; Zvonimir Dogic; Brandeis University
April 30, 2008: The fluid trampoline: droplets bouncing on a soap film; John Bush; MIT
April 23, 2008: Microfluidic Sample Preparation for Molecular Detection of Infectious Disease; Catherine Klapperich; Boston University
April 16, 2008: Life in a drop of ocean: microfluidic insights into microbial ecology; Roman Stocker; MIT
April 9, 2008: Glass formation and structuring in soft materials; Hans Wyss; Harvard
April 2, 2008: Microtools for profiling heterogeneous populations of cells; Chris Love; MIT
March 26, 2008: The origin and function of cytoskeletal noise; Igor Kulic; Harvard University
March 19, 2008: Microfluidic Cell Separation: Applications & Challenges in Cardiac Tissue Engineering; Shashi Murthy; Northeastern University
March 12, 2008: Biological Materials: Characterization of Composites and Biopolymers; Debbie Chacra; Olin College
March 5, 2008: Self assembly of liquid crystalline and block copolymers; Eric Anton Verploegen; MIT
February 27, 2008: Mechanical Properties and Morphology of Collagen Networks - Laying the Groundwork to Obtain Cell Traction Forces in 3 Dimensions; Stefan Münster; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität-Erlangen-Nürnberg
February 20, 2008: Constitutive Modeling of the Stress-Strain Behavior of F-Actin Filament Networks; Jeff Palmer; MIT
February 13, 2008: Synthesis and Microfabrication of Elastomeric Biomaterials for Advanced Tissue Engineering Scaffolds; Christopher J Bettinger; MIT
February 6, 2008: Non-sticking drops; Mathilde Reyssat; Harvard University
January 30, 2008: Viscoelasticity of biological membranes: in vitro, in synapse, and at the dawn of cell biology; Raphael Bruckner; MGH
January 23, 2008: Chemistry in a box: Effect of confinement on diffusion limited reactions; Jane' Kondev; Brandeis University
January 16, 2008: Three liquid jet stories; Etienne Reyssat; Harvard University
January 9, 2008: Directed Self-Assembly of Spherical Particles at Low N; Natalie Arkus; Harvard University
December 19, 2007: Parallel measurement of thermal properties in nanoscale coatings; Patrick McCluskey; Harvard University
December 12, 2007: Casimir forces and quantum electrodynamic torques; Jeremy Munday; Harvard University
December 5, 2007: Probing single-molecule dynamics and structure with optical tweezers; Wesley Wong; Rowland Institute
November 28, 2007: General principles for randomness in cells; Johan Paulsson; Harvard Medical School/University
November 21, 2007: Assembly of Spider Silk in a Microfluidic Device; Sebastian Rammensee; Technical University Munich
November 14, 2007: Microfluidic technologies to create complex microparticles; Patrick Doyle; MIT
November 7, 2007: Physical properties of mucus; Katharina Ribbeck; Harvard University
October 31, 2007: Fluctuations in squishy imitators; Nathan Israeloff; Northeastern University
October 24, 2007: Mechanics of plant cell morphogenesis; Jacques Dumais; Harvard University
October 17, 2007: Microrheology at interfaces: On the surface of things, Brownian motion is correlated; Vikram Prasad; Emory University
October 10, 2007: Engineering the Biotic-Abiotic Interface: From Anti-fouling Surfaces to Soft Robotics to Cardiac Disease Models; Adam Feinberg; Harvard University
October 3, 2007: Biomechanics of Squishy Fish Locomotion; George Lauder; Harvard University
September 26, 2007: Lipid vesicles during the origin of life; Irene Chen; Harvard University
September 19, 2007: Holographic particle tracking; Vinny Manoharan; Harvard University
September 12, 2007: Chasing Poliovirus In Live Cells; Joshua Vaughan; Harvard University
August 29, 2007: Controlled production of emulsions using membrane and silicon microchannel array devices; Goran Vladisavljevic; Loughborough University
August 22, 2007: Mammalian cells change volume and membrane area during mitosis; Emmanuel Boucrot; Harvard Medical School
August 15, 2007: X-ray and fluorescence studies of planar lipid bilayers; Christian Reich; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
August 8, 2007: Microfluidic Rheology; Christopher Pipe; MIT
August 1, 2007: Rheology of Bread Dough and Gluten Gels; Trevor Ng; MIT
July 25, 2007: Understanding Complex Smectic Phases through Doping; Jennifer Kirchhoff; Florida State University
June 13, 2007: The jamming transition in systems with attraction; Gregg Lois; Yale University
June 6, 2007: Soft Modes and Dynamics in amorphous solids; Matthieu Wyart; Harvard University
May 7, 2007: Adhesion on microstructured surfaces; Emilie Verneuil; CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique
April 18, 2007: Brownian motion in complex potential energy landscape created with light; Sang-Hyuk Lee; NYU
March 28, 2007: A Statistical Ensemble for Soft Granular Matter; Silke Henkes; Brandeis Univ.
March 21, 2007: Fingers, Starbursts and Kinks : Dynamics of driven contact lines; Shomeek Mukhopadhyay; Duke Univ.
March 15, 2007: Floppy modes and non-affine deformations in biopolymer networks; Erwin Frey; LMU Munich
March 14, 2007: Colloidal crystallization under centrifugal force field; Gi-Ra Yi; KBSI Korea
January 10, 2007: Elastic behavior of composite actin and microtubule networks; Yi-Chia Lin; Harvard University
December 13, 2006: Synthesis of colloidal particles with controlled morphologies and surface properties; Adeline Perro; University of Bordeaux
December 6, 2006: Linear response of jammed granular media: critical behavior at the jamming transition; Wouter Ellenbroek; Leiden Institute for Physics
November 29, 2006: Planar Microfluidics - Blood Flow on a Chip; Matthias Schneider; University of Augsburg
November 15, 2006: Sand in a Jam; Anita Mehta; Radcliffe/S.N. Bose National Centre, Calcutta
November 8, 2006: Optical Activity and Layer Curvature in Bent-Core Liquid Crystals; Loren Hough; UC Boulder
October 18, 2006: Spatial Heterogeneities in the Structural Relaxation Dynamics of Confined Foams; David Sessoms; University of Fribourg
October 11, 2006: Universal Physical Responses to Stretch in the Living Cell; Xavier Trepat; Harvard School of Public Health
October 4, 2006: Structure and dynamics of polymer nanocomposites. From technological to model systems; Giovanni Romeo; Harvard
September 27, 2006: Collapse of depletion-induced vesicle gels; Matt Lynch; Proctor and Gamble
September 20, 2006: Gravitationally Induced Deformation and Delayed Collapse of Emulsion Gels; Yaquian Liu; BASF
September 13, 2006: Structure and velocity fluctuations in dense granular flows observed with internal imaging; Ashish Orpe; Clark University
September 6, 2006: Surface Engineering of Non-planar Geometries Using Layer-by-Layer Assembly; Daeyeon Lee; MIT
August 23, 2006: Complex solvation of H-bond sensitive materials in water-alcohol mixtures; Irmgard Bischofberger; Univ. of Fribourg
July 12, 2006: A consensus mechanical response of the mammalian cytoskeleton; Brent Hoffman; UPenn.
May 24, 2006: Life at low copy numbers: a single molecule adventure in gene expression; Long Cai; Harvard Univ.
May 17, 2006: On the biological function of surfactants; Roberto Kolter; Harvard Medical School
May 10, 2006: How Can Colloid Science Help the Fabrication of Novel and Better Ceramics ?; Andre Studart; ETH Zurich
April 19, 2006: TBA; Yuval Avnir; Hebrew University
April 5, 2006: Physics of electrofying biomatter; Per Lyngs Hansen; MEMPHYS - Univ. S. Denmark
March 22, 2006: Glassy dynamics of granular media : caging and dynamical heterogeneities; Oliver Dauchot; CEA, Sacley
March 1, 2006: Self-Assembly in Asphaltenes -Enthalpy, Entropy of Depletion and Dynamics at Cross over; Pabitra Sen; Schlumberger Research
February 22, 2006: Polymer manipulation and motility on substrates; Pavel Kraikivski; Max Planck Inst., Golm
February 8, 2006: Squishy and Shiney physics: Optofluidics; Peter Domachuk; Univ. of Sydney
January 18, 2006: Droplet traffic in microfluidic trees: complexity and passive control; Armand Ajdari; ESPCI Paris/Harvard Univ.
January 11, 2006: Organization in model membranes: Proteins and Phase Separation; Suliana Manley; MIT
December 7, 2005: Structure and dynamics of soft glassy materials; Hans Wyss; Harvard Univ.
November 30, 2005: Traction Assays for Studies of Cell Mechanotransduction; Vesna Damljanovic; Boston Univ.
November 9, 2005: Worm Algorithm in Microrheology; Oliver Reubenacker; Univ. of Connecticut
October 26, 2005: What's shakin' inside a foam; Vinny Manoharan; Harvard Univ.
October 19, 2005: Anisotropic Silica Particles for Confocal Microscopy; Patrick Johnson; Simmons College
October 12, 2005: Mechano-chemical Signaling Directs Cell State; Adam Engler; Univ. Pennsylvania
October 5, 2005: Salt Necessary for PEO-Cofactor Association: The role of Molecular Modelling in PEO Flocculation Mechanisms; Roger Gaudreault; Cascades Corp.
August 17, 2005: The long-range cooperativity in yeast mating polarization; Chinlin Guo; Harvard Univ.
July 7, 2005: Jarzynski equality and possible applications at various scales; Benny Davidovich; Harvard Univ.
June 22, 2005: Random close packing revisited: How many ways can we pack frictionless disks?; Corey O'Hern; Yale Univ.
June 15, 2005: Twist and Pull: Optical Micromanipulation Applied to (Bio)physics; Gregor Knoener; Queensland Univ.
May 25, 2005: Stress and Relaxation in Polymer Thin Films; Anita Bowles; Harvard Univ.
May 18, 2005: Bacterial flagellum as a model chiral polymer; Zvonomir Dogic; Rowland Inst.
May 11, 2005: Cutting of Viscoelastic Materials; Stephan Koehler; Emory Univ.
April 20, 2005: Collapse of the Cluster Phase; Jan Groenewold; Delft Univ.
April 13, 2005: Marangoni Convection and Deviations from Maxwells' Evaporation Model; Phil Segre; Emory Univ.
April 6, 2005: An effective long-range attraction between protein molecules in solutins studied by small angle neutron scattering; Yun Liu; MIT
March 30, 2005: Stress and Large-Scale Spatial Structures in Dense, Granular Flows; Allison Ferguson; Brandeis Univ.
March 9, 2005: Mechanical Feedback in Cell Motility: 'Dude, this floor is so soft, it's hard to grip on'; Margaret Gardel; Scripts Institute
February 23, 2005: Compartmentalization-based techniques to screen for inhibitors of viral infections; Christoph Merten; Cambridge Univ.
February 9, 2005: How to calculate contact angles from spreading pressures; Ian Morrison; Cabot
January 19, 2005: Liquid crystal drops and shells; Alberto Fernandez de las Nieves; The University of Almeria, Spain
December 8, 2004: Nonequilibrium behavior of a simple one-dimensional fluid; Pablo Hurtado; Boston University
December 1, 2004: Nuclear Biophysics: the hard core of soft matter; Amy Rowat; The University of Southern Denmark
November 24, 2004: The Cheerios Effect; Dominic Vella; DAMTP, Cambridge University
October 6, 2004: Geometric origin of excess soft vibrationnal modes in amorphous solid; Matthieu Wyart; Saclay & U. Chicago
September 29, 2004: Non-genetic individuality in the gradient sensing response of Dictyostelium; Azadeh Samadani; MIT
September 15, 2004: Structure of colloidal particle networks: Characterization of heterogeneity and porosity; Markus Heutter; MIT
July 28, 2004: Biomaterials in Confined Geometry; Sarah Keoster; Boston Univ.
July 21, 2004: Protein patterns at inter-membrane junctions; Raghuveer Parthasarathy; UC Berkeley
July 14, 2004: Hydro-dynamical models for the chaotic dripping faucet; Christophe Riera; Harvard
June 30, 2004: Step by Step up the DNA Ladder: Single Molecule DNA Sequencing by Synthesis; Ido Braslavsky; Ohio U.
June 16, 2004: Current induced instabilities in vicinal Si surfaces; Zhao Tong; U. Maryland
May 26, 2004: Movements of molecular motors: Random walks and traffic phenomena; Stefan Klumpp; MPI Golm
May 12, 2004: Monte Carlo simulations of polymers in supercritical solution; Peter Virnau; MIT
May 5, 2004: Actin' Pushy and Pulling Springs: Two Forms of Cell Motility; Arpita Upadhyaya; MIT
April 28, 2004: Organic templating of nanostructured inorganic oxide thin films; Ryan Hayward; UCSB
April 21, 2004: Electric-field induced assembly of colloidal particles; Bill Ristenpart; Princeton Univ.
April 14, 2004: Protein adsorption and stability at biomaterial interfaces; Jamie Forrest; MIT
April 7, 2004: Ferrohydrodynamic and Electrohydrodynamic Flow Phenomena; Markus Zahn; MIT
March 17, 2004: Nematic phase transitions in mixtures of thin and thick colloidal rods; Kirstin Purdy; Brandeis University
March 10, 2004: Playing with chaos, particles, drops, or other things in microfluidic system; Patrick Tabeling; ESPCI Paris
February 25, 2004: Molecular Structure and Primary Aggregation of Asphaltenes: And the Future of Petroleum Science Petroleomics; Oliver Mullins; Schlumberger Research
February 18, 2004: Mechanics of the Venus Fly Trap; Jan Skotheim; Harvard Univerisity
February 11, 2004: Physics of DNA packaging in viruses; Jane' Kondev; Brandeis Univerisity
February 4, 2004: Air entrainment through viscous liquid; Chris Harrison and Dan Angelescu; Schlumberger Research
January 28, 2004: Air entrainment through viscous liquid; Elise Lorenceau; Harvard University
January 21, 2004: Soft Self Assembly with Amphiphilic Polymers: making drug nanoparticles and complex liquid crystal phases; Robert Prud'homme; Princeton University
January 14, 2004: Compaction, ordering and phase transitions in vibrated granular rods: preliminary results; Joshua Bloustine; Brandeis University
December 3, 2003: Communicating Science, Communicating in Science: A view from inside Science Magazine; Marc Lavine; Science Magazine
November 12, 2003: Diffusion and mixing in dense, granular drainage; Martin Bazant & Jaehyuk Choi; MIT
November 5, 2003: Non-Universal Drop Break-Up; Pankaj Doshi; MIT
October 29, 2003: Kinematics of rolling grains; Thomas Hallsey; ExxonMobil
October 22, 2003: Crater formation: Dynamics of projectile impact in granular media; Andrew Lee; U. Texas, Astin
October 15, 2003: Tearing of a thin solid sheet using a blunt tool; Animangsu Ghatak; Harvard University
October 8, 2003: Physics of Red Blood Cell Shapes; Ranjan Mukhopadhyay; Clark University
October 1, 2003: Electrical Properties of Carbon Black using Impedance Spectroscopy; Andrea Freitag; Cabot Corporation
September 24, 2003: Polymer gels: static inhomogeneities and thermal fluctuations; Yitzhak Rabin; Bar-Ilan Univ./Rowland Institute
September 17, 2003: From Energy Applications to Biomaterials:Nano- to Microscale Patterning and Assembly of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers; Paula Hammond; Chem E., MIT
August 27, 2003: Extensional Flows of Wormlike Micelle Solutions; Jonathan Rothstein; Mech E., Umass Amherst
August 20, 2003: Fractional Kinetics in Transport and Relaxation; Yossi Klafter; Dept.of Chemestry, Tel Aviv Univ.
August 1, 2003: Physics of cutting soft materials; Stephan Koehler; Dept. of Physics, Emory Univ.
July 23, 2003: Rheology of micellar block polyelectrolyte gels; Surita Bhatia; Chemical Engineering, Mass Amherst
June 18, 2003: The role of interstitial gas in the segregation of vertically vibrated granular media; Mason Klein and Leo Tsai; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
June 4, 2003: How to found a venture-backed startup company; Jeffrey Andrews; Atlas Venture
May 28, 2003: Stabiliation of DNA from a pharmaceutical perspective; Roger Adami; Pfizer, Inc.
May 7, 2003: Cell rheology and dynamics as seen by tracer beads attached to cell cytoskeleton; Predrag Bursac; Harvard University School of Public Health
April 30, 2003: Local perturbations of colloidal suspensions; Piotr Habdas; Emory University
April 23, 2003: Energy response of the flagellar rotary motor of Escheria coli bacteria; Chris Gabel; Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
April 16, 2003: Strain stiffening in biopolymer networks; Cornelius Storm; Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
April 9, 2003: DNA Denaturation; Yariv Kafri; Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
April 2, 2003: Generating Strange Magnetic Interactions in Particle Suspensions; Jim Martin; Sandia National Labs
March 26, 2003: Collective Phenomena in Intracellular Transport; -- postponed --; Erwin Frey; Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin
March 12, 2003: Casimir Forces in MicroElectroMechanical Systems; Davide Iannuzzi; DEAS, Harvard University
February 26, 2003: Microcapsules: Controlled release to printable electronic displays; Andrew Loxley; A123Systems, Boston
January 29, 2003, 15:30: Control of colloids with gravity, temperature gradient, and optical fields; Zhengdong Cheng; Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
January 22, 2003, 15:30: Advances Towards the Practical Usage of Cubosomes; Matthew Lynch; Proctor & Gamble, Colloid and Surfactant Laboratory
January 15, 2002: Growth patterns of microscopic brain tumors; Len Sander; University of Michigan
December 11, 2002: Helicase opening of DNA: active versus passive opening; Meredith Betterton; Courant Institute, New York University
November 27, 2002: Flow induced by a circular cylinder subject to forced oscillations; Combined with applied mechanics - special time 1 pm Pierce 209; Serpil Kocabiyik; Department of Mathematics, Memorial University of Newfoundland
November 20, 2002: Designing Emulsions One Drop at a Time; Shelley Anna; Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
November 13, 2002: Predicting Surfactant Self-Assembly; Nagu Nagarajan; Department of Chemical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University
November 6, 2002: Novel Microgradient Compliant Hydrogels to Probe Cell Behavior; Joyce Wong; Department of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University
October 23, 2002: Mechanics of Cellular Cytoplasm; Megan Valentine; DEAS, Harvard University
October 16, 2002: Gravity-driven unjamming of emulsion gels; Alan Parker; Ferminich, Switzerland
October 9, 2002: The shear banding transition in wormlike micelles; Jean-Francois Berret; CNRS Universite de Montpellier II and Rhodia, New Jersey
October 2, 2002: Microstructure evolution and materials synthesis in Aerosol OT-based gels and microemulsions; Arijit Bose; Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island
September 4, 2002: The Structure of the Memory Kernel in the Generalized Langevin Equation; Gady Frenkel; Tel Aviv University
August 28, 2002: Untangling DNA; Greg Buck; St. Anselm's College, NH
June 12, 2002: Rotational and translational diffusion in colloidal mixtures; Gijsje Koenderink; Department of Physical and Colloid Chemistry, Utrecht University
June 5, 2002: Kaolinite and its use in paper applications; Phil Jones; Imerys
May 22, 2002: Structures of Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymers; Denis Bendejacq; Rhodia, NJ
May 15, 2002: Electron Glass Behavior in Amorphous Indium Oxide FETs; Stephen Arnason; Department of Physics, UMass Boston
May 8, 2002: Explaining polyelectrolyte multilayers with stickers and loops; Stella Park; Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
May 1, 2002: Explaining polyelectrolyte multilayers with stickers and loops; Sid Redner; Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
April 24, 2002: Bent-core liquid crystals: Chiral phases from achiral molecules; Darren Link; Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
April 17, 2002: Heterogeneous aging in spin glasses; Horatio Castillo; Department of Physics, Boston University
April 10, 2002: Surface and Interfacial Structures Induced by Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities; Zhiqun Lin; Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
April 3, 2002: Nonequilibrium dynamics and rheology of glassy materials; Ryoichi Yamamoto; Department of Physics, Kyoto University
March 13, 2002: Applications of laser polarized noble gases to NMR studies of complex media; Ross Mair; Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics
February 13, 2002: Micro-active control of a jet flow; Thomas Peacock; Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
January 30, 2002: Clustering transitions in excited dipolar hard spheres; Dan Blair; Clark University
January 23, 2002: Gels in beer; Christian Clasen; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
January 16, 2002: Why knot -- equilibrium shapes of knots; Ralf Metzler; Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
January 9, 2002: Topological transitions in two-fluid flows; Itai Cohen; Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University