Past Events
January 26, 2012
Brandeis University
Sridhar Seshan, Depts. of Physics & Chemistry, Brandeis University
"Controlling spatial patterns in excitable media (A tale of disease, dynamics, and doctorate)"
January 24, 2012
Brandeis University
Joint MRSEC/Martin Weiner Lecture Series Colloquium
William Irvine, University of Chicago
"Knotted Fields"
December 19, 2011
Brandeis University
Jin Seob Kim, Dept. of Biochemistry, John Hopkins University
"Modeling the Self-Organization of Keratin Intermediate Filaments"
December 15, 2011
Brandeis University
Yaouen Fily, Dept. of Physics, Syracuse University
"Self-propelled particles at high density"
December 14, 2011
Brandeis University
Olin College Scope Students, Oilin College
"Interrogation, merging, and sorting of microfluid droplets"
December 09, 2011
Brandeis University
Jason Perlmutter, Dept. of Biomedical Eng., Univ. of Minnesota
"Computational Molecular Modelling of Membranes and Membrane Proteins"
December 08, 2011
Brandeis University
Romain Grossier, Dept of Mtl. Science and Engineering, MIT
"Microdroplets as confined systems: unusual access to nucleation"
December 01, 2011
Brandeis University
Joint MRSEC/Neuroscience Seminar
Shimon Marom, Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
"Interpretations of response fluctuations: neurons, networks, and simple behavior"
November 30, 2011
Brandeis University
Brandeis MRSEC External Advisory Meeting
November 17, 2011
Brandeis University
Narayanan Menon, Dept. of Physics, UMass, Amherst
"Emergence of shape in thin elastic sheets"
November 10, 2011
Brandeis University
Prerna Sharma, Dept. of Physics, Brandeis University
"Dynamics of Interfaces"
November 4, 2011
Brandeis University
Paul Garrity, Dept of Biology, Brandeis University
"Overheated and highly irritated: thermal and chemical sensing from the Cambrian to the sushi bar"
October 7, 2011
Brandeis University
Biochemistry-Biophysics Pizza Talk
September 01, 2011
Brandeis University
Jian Liu, NIH (Laboratory of Computational Biology)
"Mechanochemistry of endocytosis"
August 26, 2011
Brandeis University
Shashi Thutupalli, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization"
"Swarming behavior of simple model squirmers"
August 24, 2011
Brandeis University
Professor Annette Zeppelius, Univ. of Gottingen, Germany
"Structure and elasticity of anisotropic macromolecular networks"
August 12, 2011
Brandeis University
Jure Dobnikar, University of Cambridge
"Self-assembly and emergent dynamics of magnetic colloids"
July 21, 2011
Brandeis University
Taniki Yanagishima, Cavindish Laboratory, Cambridge (UK)
"Real time monitoring of complex moduli from micro-rheology"
July 15, 2011
Brandeis University
Prof. Richard Sear, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Surrey (UK)
"Dynamics of the Muscular-Dystrophy Protein in Muscle Fiber Cells"
July 13, 2011
Brandeis University
MRSEC BZ Bootcamp Workshop
Attendance was by invitation
All day event
Hosts: S. Fraden, I. Epstein
June 16, 2011
Brandeis University
Lawrence Wilson, Roland Institute (Harvard)
Title: "Quantitative Hi-speed Imaging of Mobile Microorganisms"
June 8, 2011
Brandeis University
Dibyendu Das, Assoc. Professor (Physics Dept), IIT, Bombay, India
Pedagogical lectures meant for graduate students
Title: "Lectures on Stochastic Processes"
June 7, 2011
Brandeis University
Dibyendu Das, Assoc. Professor (Physics Dept), IIT, Bombay, India
Title: "A model for collective cell migration"
June 6, 2011
Brandeis University
Prof. Abraham Atta Ogwu, Thin Film Centre, Univ. of West Scotland, UK
Title: "International Education development and biomaterials research at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, Rhuanda"
May 20, 2011
Brandeis University
Dr Rene van Roij, Institute for Theoretical Physics Leuvenlaan 4 (Netherlands)
Title: "Liquid crystals in colloidal mixtures: how flexible needles become obese and biaxial rods schizophrenic"
April 28, 2011
Brandeis UniversityAnand Bala Subramanian, Harvard University
Title: "Lipid membrane biophysics on topographically patterned and glycan-coated surfaces"
April 21, 2011
Brandeis University
Yuan Gao
Title: "Molecular Self-Assembly for Making Gels Outside and Inside Cells"
April 14, 2011
Brandeis University
Prof. Greg Huber, University of Connecticut Health Center
Title: "Membranes, curvature, and ER"
March 18, 2011
Brandeis University
Victor Rühle, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Germany)
Title: "A multiscale description of charge transport in organic semiconductors"
March 17, 2011
Brandeis University
Meredith Betterton, Univ. of Colorado (at Boulder)
Title: "Coupled aggregation and liquid-crystalline order: Theory and Monte Carlo Simulation"
March 10, 2011
Brandeis University
Cristina Berciu, Brandeis University
Title: "Introduction to Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy"
February 24, 2011
Brandeis University
Dr Apala Majumdar, University of Oxford
Title: "The Mathematics of Liquid Crystals - Analysis, Computation, and Applications"
February 17, 2011
Brandeis University
Jennifer Schwartz, Syracuse University
Title: "Modeling the actin cytoskeleton at the leading edge of a crawling cell: Lamellipodia and Filopodia"
December 9, 2010
Brandeis University
Adam Cohen, Harvard University
Title: "Controlling Molecules with Electromagnetic Fields"
December 3, 2010
Brandeis University
MRSEC/Biophysics Joint Seminar
Pankaj Mehta, Boston University
Title: "Communication and Collective Behavior in Unicellular Organisms"
December 2, 2010
Brandeis University
MRSEC EternalAdvisory Board Meeting
EAB Members:
Rama Bansil, BU
Alan Hurd, Los Alamos National Lab
Arjun Yodh, U. Penn
Nicholas Abbot, U. Wisconsin
November 18, 2010
Brandeis University
Hector Gonzalez-Ochoa, Brandeis University
Title: "Active Emulsions: Coupled Chemical Photosensitive Oscillators"
November 17, 2010
Brandeis University
Luncheon with MRSEC Director, Robert Meyer
Faculty Club
November 15, 2010
Brandeis University
Elisabetta Matsumoto,University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Defects in Smectics A: From Focal Conics Domains to the Helical Nanofilament Phase"
November 4, 2010
Brandeis University
Madhavi Krishman, Technische Hochscule Zürich
Title: "Geometry-induced electrostatic trapping, levitation, and assembly of nanometric objects in a fluid"
October 14, 2010
Brandeis University
Shashi Murthy, Northeastern University
Title: "Bio-adhesive Microfluidic Channels in Clinical Medicine & Basic Science"
October 7, 2010
Brandeis University
Melick C. Demirel, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar at Wyss Institute, Harvard University
Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Title: "A Bio-inspired Nanofilm with Unidirectional Properties"
Sept 13, 2010
Brandeis University
Prof. Adrian Parsegian, Univ. MA, Amherst, Dept. of Physics
MRSEC / Chemistry Combined Seminar
Title: "Big Molecules in small places --packing and pushing of flexible polymers in concentrated solutions and in protein channels"
Sept 9, 2010
Brandeis University
Zahera Jabeen, Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Universal Scaling Dynamics in perturbed granular gas"
Sept 3, 2010
Brandeis University
Prof. Peter D. Olmsted, School of Physics and Astronomy, Univ of Leeds, UK
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Membrane interactions with surfaces, soaps, and proteins"
Sept 2, 2010
Brandeis University
Dieter W. Heermann, University of Heidelberg
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Ring Polymers, Entropy and Confinement"
July 30, 2010
Brandeis University
Arvind Gopinath, MIT
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Getting Stuck"
July 29, 2010
Brandeis University
David Kong, MIT
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Microfluidic Synthesis of Membrane Proteins for an Olfactory Receptor-Based Odorant Biosensor"
July 27, 2010
Brandeis University
Magdaleno Medina, Institute of Physics (San Luis Potosi, Mexico)
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Glass Transition, irreversible Processes, and Aging in Collodial Suspensions"
July 21, 2010
Brandeis University
Daniel Tien-Nang Chen
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Microrheology of Soft Matter"
July 15, 2010
Brandeis University
Sirsish Kaushik Lakkaraju, Texas A & M University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Elasticity of α-helices and coiled-coils: Role in Tropomyosin and the stalk of Kinesin-14 Ncd"
July 13, 2010
Brandeis UniversityChristian Hentrich, EMBL, Heidelburg Germany
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "How crosslinking mitotic kinesins organize microtubules in vitro"
June 17, 2010
Brandeis UniversityYue Hu, Wellesley College
MRSEC Seminar
Title: ""The role of surfactants in suppressing aging to silica-PDMS gels"
June 10, 2010
Brandeis UniversityMark Williamson, Northeastern University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Force-induced DNA interactions: From small molecules to viral replication"
June 3, 2010
Brandeis UniversityAnna Balazs, Univ. of Pittrsburgh
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Self-Oscillating Gels as Mechano-responsive Materials"
May 18, 2010
Brandeis UniversityLaurence Navailles, CRPP (Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal) , France
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Confinement Induced Phase Transition in a DNA-Lipid Hydrated Complex"
May 13, 2010
Brandeis UniversityJingshan Zhang, Research Associate, Harvard University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Optimality in Affinity Maturation of antibodies"
May 6, 2010
Brandeis UniversityDaan Frenkel, Cambridge University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Dense packing and beyond"
May 5, 2010
Brandeis UniversityAndrew Spakowitz, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Physical Mechanisms for the Reading and Storage of Genomic DNA"Dense packing and beyond"
April 30, 2010
Brandeis UniversityOlin College Scope Team
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Imaging Platform for Control and Measurement of Microfluidic Applications"
April 28, 2010
Brandeis UniversityThomas Gibaud & Nadir Kaplan, Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " The Effect Chirality on Self-Assembly of attractive rod-like particles"
April 14, 2010
Brandeis UniversityProf. Leonid Mirny, MIT
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Biophysics of Protein-DNA Recognition and DNA Folding"
April 9, 2010
Brandeis UniversityMadan Rao, Raman Research Institute/National Center for Biological Sciences, India
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Active Clustering, Fluctuations and Stresses in Living Cells"
March 24, 2010
Brandeis UniversityHyunmim Yi, Dep. of Chemical and Bilogical Engineering, Tufts University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Viral Templated Palladium Nanocatalysis"
March 18, 2010
Brandeis UniversityShomeek Mukhopadhyay, Dept. of Chemistry, Columbia University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Packing Soft Spheres: From Jamming to Faceting"
March 15, 2010
Brandeis UniversitySankha Bhowmick, U Mass Dartmouthy
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Dessication Preservation of Mammalian Cells at Ambient Temperature: Experience in Bovine and Murine Sperm Model"
March 11, 2010
Brandeis UniversityYoshiaki Uchida, Harvard University, Kyoto University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Paramagnetic Liquid Crystals without Metals"
March 5, 2010
Brandeis UniversityYounan Xia, Dept of Biomedical Eng., Washington University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Putting Nanomaterials to Work for Biomedical Research"
February 25, 2010
Brandeis UniversityPascaline Mary, Harvard University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Microfluidic Stickers: An alternative to PDMS devices"
January 28, 2010
Brandeis UniversityRobert V. Lange, Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " An Organic Relationship: Materials Research and Projects for Health, Environmental Conservation, and Poverty Reduction in Africa"
January 14, 2010
Brandeis UniversityPeter Weigele, Staff Scientist, New England Biolabs, Inc
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Biobatteries: Electricity from Microbes and Compost"
January 13, 2010
Brandeis University
Rob Shaw, ProtoLife Inc (S.F. , California)
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Diffusion, Osmosis, and Parking Problems from Local Constraints to Macroscopic Transport"
December 17, 2009
Brandeis UniversityGautam Menon (IMSC, Chennai, India)
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Stretching Fluctuations and Loop Formation in Short Double-Stranded DNA Molecules"
December 10, 2009
Brandeis UniversityLuca Giomi, Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Active Systems: Past and Future"
December 3, 2009
Brandeis UniversityMarina Ruths, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Mass Lowell
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Tribology of Confined Molecularly Thin Films"
December 2, 2009
Brandeis UniversityErwin Frey. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Biopolymer Conformations and Dynamics"
November 19, 2009
Abelson 333, Brandeis University
Thomas Gibaud, Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Yielding Dynamics of a Colodial Gel"
November 12, 2009
Brandeis University
Daniel Reeves, Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Effect of rapid rebinding on biochemical rates: Theory and single molecule experiments"
October 22, 2009
Brandeis University
Chris Henley, Cornell University (visting Boston University)
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Possible Mechanisms for Initiating Macroscopic Left-Right Symmetry in Animals and Plants"
October 15, 2009
Brandeis University
Oren Elrad, Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Title: " Dynamic Encapsidation of Polymers by Icosahedral Viruses"
October 10, 2009
Brandeis University
Zvonomir Dogic, Brandeis University
Ce'sar A. Hidalgo, Harvard University
Christian Santangelo, UMass, Amherst
Patrick T. Underhill, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Seminar
Title: "11th Annual greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting"
October 1, 2009
Brandeis University
Patrick T. Underhill, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
MRSEC Seminar
Title: "Correlation in Suspensions of Swimming Microrganisms: Theory and Simulation"
September 18, 2009
Shapiro Theatre, Brandeis University
Complex Fluid Workshop
Jeremy Agresti, Harvard University - Aparna Baskaram, Syracuse University - Chris Santangelo, UMass Amherst - Wesley Wong, Rowland Institute@Harvard
Topics: active matter, droplet microfluids, self-folding origami, protein folding with laser tweezers
Thursday, Sep 03, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Rumi De, Brown University
Title: "Dynamics of Cellular Response to Mechanical Stress"
Thursday, Aug 14, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
J.F. Joanny, Institut Curie, Paris
Title: "Active Gels"
Thursday, Aug 13, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Stephen Hicks, Cornell University
Title: "Two Stories of Virus Assembly"
Thursday, Aug 6, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Joshua Blouwolff
Staff Scientist, US Genomics
Title: Us Genomics Direct Linear Analysis: DNA Mapping Using Microfluidic-Based, Single-Molecule Detection"
Host: Host: Seth Fraden
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Jorge Delgado
Brandeis University
Title: Simple Theories further away in wormlike micelles under shear
Host: Host: Seth Fraden
Thursday, July 20, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Thibaut Divoux
Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Title: On Creeping Flows in Complex Fluids
Host: Host: Seth Fraden
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Catherine Klapperich
Boston University
Title: Molecular Diagnostics in Plastic Microfluidics
Host: Host: Seth Fraden
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Eric Akkermans
http://physics.technion.ac.il/~eric
Yale University
Title: Dicke superradiance and Anderson localization of photons
Host: Host: Seth Fraden
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Jeffrey W . Ruberti
Northeastern University
Smart Matrix Theory. Is collagen a brilliant string or a dumb rope?
Host: Seth Fraden
Friday, May 8, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC meeting
Schlumberger reps. meeting with Brandeis MRSEC Investigators
Host: Bulbul Chakraborty
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Brandeis University
Monthly MRSEC Meeting
Groups: Samadani, Dogic, Kondev
Subject: Confined Polymers
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Sean Calvo, Leif Jentoft
Olin College
"Automated Imaging Platform for Microfluidic Applications"
Host: Dongshin Kim
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Eli Sloutskin
Harvard University
"Entropy in Crystal Nucleation of Hard Spheres"
Host: Seth Fraden
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Wesley P. Wong
Harvard University
"Probing Single-molecule Kinetics with Optical Tweezers Techniques"
Host: Zvonomir Dogic
Friday, March 13, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
David Lacoste
Laboratoire PCT, ESPCI (France)
"Active fluctuations in biology: single actin/microtubules filaments and active membranes"
Host: Bulbul Chakraborty
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Brandeis University
Monthly MRSEC Meeting
Subject: "Chiral Assembly"
Tuesday , March 3, 2009
Brandeis University
"Response and Fluctuations in Active Systems"
Andy Lau, Florida Atlantic University
Thursday , February 26, 2009
Brandeis University
"Vibrational dynamics and heat conduction in amorphous solids."
Vincenzo Vitelli, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday , February 24, 2009
Brandeis University
"Bacteria as a fluid: Applying the materials physics paradigm to biology"
Aparna Baskaran, Syracuse University
Friday, February 13, 2009
Brandesis University
"Defective ground states of toroidal crystals"
Luca Giomi, Syracuse University
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Brandeis University
"Swimming in viscoelastic fluids and gels"
Henry Fu, Brown University
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
"Frustrated phenomena in physics and biology: From supercooled liquids and glasses to protein folding dynamics."
Gregg Lois
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
"A thermodynamic mechanism for the agglomeration of DNA-looping proteins"
Sumedha Sumedha, Brandeis University
Friday, December 12, 2008
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
"Senior Design Project: Microfluids Imaging Systems--Concept Design"
Leif Jentoft, Oilin College of Engineering
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
"About the Parrondo's Paradox"
Rafael "Phoenix Waterman" Aguade, Brandeis University
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
"Self-assembly of rod-like polyelectrolytes: from materials to cystic fibrosis"
Erik Luijten, University of Illinois
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
"Examination of Nonliquidlike Behaviors in Molten Polymer Films"
Ophelia K.C. Tsui, Boston University
Monday, November 24, 2008
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
"Modeling, Crowding, and Confinement: Toward a quantitative understanding of cellular environments"
Huan-Xiang Zhou, Florida State University
Friday, November 21, 2008
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar/Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
"Active Fluids, Films, and Filaments"
Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
"Self Assembly of Colloidal Particles of Small Numbers"
Guangnan Meng, Harvard University