Workshops
None scheduled at this time
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PAST WORKSHOPS
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September 23,2011
48th New England Complex Fluids Workshop
Brandeis University
Shapiro Student Center
September 23, 2011
9am - 5pm
Register at the complex fluids website: http://www.complexfluids.org
If you would like to present a 5 minute sound-bite, submit your talk title and abstract when you register for the meeting. Additional information such as maps, directions, schedule and a list of registered attendees is available at the site as well.
Invited Speakers:
Krystyn Van Vliet, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
Chemomechanics of responsive gels
http://vvgroup.scripts.mit.edu/WP/
Jeremy England, Physics, MIT
Shape Shifting: the statistical physics of protein conformational change
http://www.englandlab.com
Francis Starr, Physics, Physics, Wesleyan College
DNA-linked Nanoparticle Assemblies
http://fstarr.faculty.wesleyan.edu
Jennifer Ross, Physics, UMass Amherst
Controlling Microtubules Through Severing
http://people.umass.edu/rossj/
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July 13, 2011
BZBootcamp Workshop
Brandeis University
The "BZ Bootcamp" was attended by the various groups at Brandeis that are interested in working together on aspects of the dynamics of non-linear chemical reactions. Participants came from the groups of professors Miller (neuroscience), Pollack (computer science), Epstein (chemistry), Xu (chemistry), Fraden (physics), Chakraborty (physics), Baskaran (physics), Hagan (physics). The BZ Bootcamp was designed to bring us all together to listen to talks on non-linear dynamics from the different perspectives of the wide range of disciplines represented in our research group, to acquire a common set of experiences in the lab and with numerical and theoretical modeling, and to eat and drink together at the end of a pleasurable summer day!
Many of these Brandeis theorists have hardly ever touched a chemical in their lives and as part of the day's activities Milos Dolnik led us on a 2 hour hands-on exercise using the quintessential non-linear oscillating chemical system, the Belousov - Zhabotinsky reaction. On the other hand, many of the experimentalists have little experience with the analytic theory and numerical methods used to model the BZ reactions. So another part of the day's activities was a 2 hour Matlab session with tutorials and hands-on exercises led by Tamas Bansagi, Mike Giver, Ning Li and Nate Tompkins to complement the lab session.
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May 18-21, 2009
"Soft Active Materials: From Granular Rods to Flocks, Cells, and Tissues"
Syracuse University
The Workshop aims to bring together junior and senior researchers working on the emergent properties of soft active matter. It will focus on nonequilibrium collective behavior and locomotion in active systems, including mixtures of cytoskeletal filaments and motor proteins, the cell cytoskeleton, bacteria colonies, collections of cells in elastic matrices or living tissues, plankton in the ocean, insects or animal groups, and vibrated granular layers. By bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines we hope to stimulate new interactions and ideas in this rapidly evolving field.