Colloquia and Seminars

 Spring 2010
Unless otherwise posted, all colloquia are held at 3 pm on Fridays in Math/Science Center E300
DATE SPEAKER TITLE and ABSTRACT
January 14 (Th!)
>> 2:30pm << 		Mahesh Bandi
Harvard University 		Fragility and hysteresis in frictional granular jamming
January 21 (Th!)
>> 3:00pm <<		 Leonard Sander
University of Michigan 		Biomechanics of cell motility in Dictyostelium
January 22 Corey O'Hern
Yale University 		What Do We Know about Static Packings: From Hard Spheres to Ellipsoidal Particles and from Collapsed Polymers to Folded Proteins?
February 1 (Mo!)
>> 2:30pm <<		 Claudiu Stan
Harvard University 		Fundamental measurements using microfluidics: the rate of ice nucleation in supercooled water
February 4 (Th!)
>> 2:30pm << 		Adam Abate
Harvard University 		Complex system with emulsion microfluidics
February 8 (Mo!)
>> 2:30pm <<		 Naomi Ginsberg
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab 		Ultrafast physics in photosynthesis: Mapping sub-nanometer energy flow
February 11 (Th!)
>> 2:30pm <<
Planetarium		 Paul Wiggins
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 		Special CLS Colloquium:
Structuring a bacterial chromosome
February 15 (Mo!)
>> 4:00pm <<
Dental School 308		 Jeffrey Barrick
Michigan State University 		Special CLS Colloquium:
Genome Dynamics During a 20-Year Evolution Experiment with E.Coli
February 17 (We!)
>> 4:00pm <<
Rollins 1052		 Chris Fang Yen
Harvard University 		Special CLS Colloquium
February 18 (Th!)
>> 4:00pm <<
Rollins 1052		 Farren Isaacs
Harvard University 		Special CLS Colloquium
February 19 Will Ryu
University of Toronto 		The thermal response and motor behavior of E. coli and C. elegans
February 25 (Th!)
>> 3:00pm <<
Planetarium 		Ryan Gutenkunst
Los Alamos National Lab 		Special CLS Colloquium:
Sloppy Modeling of Biochemical Networks and Human Genetic History
February 26 Douglas Gies
Georgia State University 		Transformations in Massive Binary Stars
March 1 (Mo!)
>> 3:00pm <<
Planetarium		 Savas Tay
Stanford University 		Special CLS Colloquium:
Decoding signaling networks using microfluidics: NF-&kappaB dynamics reveal digital responses to inflammatory signals
March 5 Michael Pustilnik
Georgia Institute of Technology 		Coulomb blockade and Kondo effect in nanosystems
March 12 Spring Break
 No Colloquium
April 2 Svetlana Kilina
Los Alamos National Lab 		Simulations of phonon-mediated dynamics in quantum dots
April 16 Jurek Krzystek
National High Magnetic Field Lab 		High-frequency and -field EPR of high-spin transition metal coordination complexes
April 23 John Wikswo
Vanderbilt University 		Avoiding the problem of seven: Can computers design and conduct experiments for automated inference of models of cellular metabolic and signaling networks?
April 27 (Tu!)
>> 3:00pm << 		Roland Winston
University of California, Merced 		Solar Concentration at the Interface between Optics and Thermodynamics

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