Date | Speaker | Institution |
12/14/2016 | Hadi Tavakoli Nia | Harvard |
12/7/2016 | Prof. Hyunmin Yi | Tufts |
11/30/2016 | Prof. Charles Mace | Tufts |
11/16/2016 | Neel Joshi | Harvard/Wyss |
11/9/2016 | Michael Mak | MIT-BU/Yale |
11/2/2016 | Prof. Georges Belfort | RPI |
10/26/2016 | Douglas Holmes | BU |
10/19/2016 | Prof. Zvonomir Dogic | Brandeis |
10/12/2016 | Dr. Frederik Brasz | BU/Princeton |
10/5/2016 | Prof. Scott Bunch | BU |
9/28/2016 | Zahra Fakhraai - UPenn | UPenn |
9/21/2016 | Raoul Rosenthal - ETH Zurich | ETH Zurich |
9/14/2016 | Prof. Luis Dorfmann | Tufts |
9/7/2016 | Prof. Nicholas Fang | MIT |
8/24/2016 | Dr. Shuang Zhou | Harvard/Kent state |
8/17/2016 | Prof. Sarah Perry | UMass Amherst |
8/10/2016 | Prof. Qiaobing Xu - Tufts | Tufts |
8/3/2016 | Yoav Green | Harvard |
7/27/2016 | Prof. Seth Fraden | Brandeis University |
7/20/2016 | Prof. Bing Xu | Brandeis University |
7/13/2016 | Prof. Ayse Asatekin - Tufts | Tufts |
7/6/2016 | Prof. Vivek Shenoy; UPenn | UPenn |
6/29/2016 | canceled | |
6/22/2016 | Colm Patrick Kelleher | NYU |
6/15/2016 | canceled | |
6/8/2016 | Daniel Anderson | MIT |
6/1/2016 | Mingjiang Zhong | MIT |
5/25/2016 | Mark Grinstaff | BU |
5/18/2016 | Kirill Korolev | Boston University |
5/11/2016 | Chinedum Osuji | Yale University |
5/4/2016 | Bradley Olsen | MIT |
4/27/2016 | Peter Carr | MIT |
4/20/2016 | Subramanian Ramakrishnan | FSU |
4/13/2016 | Alfred Crosby | UMass |
3/30/2016 | Corey O'Hern | Yale University |
3/23/2016 | Yingjie Sun | BU/Harvard |
3/16/2016 | Prof. Takeuchi | University of Tokyo |
3/9/2016 | Yaakov Nahmias | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
2/17/2016 | Joerg Werner | Cornell/Harvard |
2/10/2016 | Kyoo-Chul (Kenneth) Park | Aizenberg group at Harvard |
2/3/2016 | Prof. Yejia Zhang | University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) |
1/27/2016 | Meni Wanunu | Northeastern University |
1/20/2016 | Andre Sharon | Boston University |
1/13/2016 | Kimberly Hamad Schifferli | MIT |
1/6/2016 | Doogie Oh | Needleman group at Harvard |
12/16/2015 | Kaplan, Cihan Nadir | Mahadevan Lab at Harvard |
12/9/2015 | Jae-Won Shin | Harvard |
12/2/2015 | Alex Dunn | Stanford |
11/18/2015 | G. V. Shivashankar | |
11/11/2015 | Xuanhe Zhao | MIT |
11/4/2015 | Norbert Willenbacher | Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) |
10/28/2015 | Darrell J Irvine | MIT |
9/30/2015 | C. (Kees) Storm | Technische Universiteit Eindhoven |
9/16/2015 | Michael P. Short | MIT |
9/2/2015 | Eric Appel | MIT |
8/26/2015 | William Roger | Manoharan group at Harvard |
8/19/2015 | Peter Foster | Harvard |
8/5/2015 | Matthew Martin | Khalifa University |
7/22/2015 | Prof. Xiabin Jing | Chinese Academy of Science |
7/8/2015 | Wen Deng | Missouri University of Science and Technology |
7/1/2015 | Pushkar Lele | Harvard |
6/24/2015 | Aldo Jesorka | Chalmers University |
6/17/2015 | Uros Tkalec | Jozef Stefan Institute |
6/10/2015 | Siyuan Wang | Harvard |
6/3/2015 | Nikita Fakhri | MIT |
5/20/2015 | Bob Meyer | Brandeis |
5/13/2015 | Zhao Qin | MIT |
5/6/2015 | Behrouz Tavakol | Virgina Tech |
4/29/2015 | Rama Bansil | BU |
4/22/2015 | Todd Emrich | UMass Amherst |
4/15/2015 | Jame W. Swan | MIT |
4/8/2015 | Jie He | University of Connecticut |
4/1/2015 | Joel Voldman | MIT |
3/25/2015 | Rohit N Karnik | MIT |
3/11/2015 | Qin Xu | University of Chicago |
3/4/2015 | Ming Dao | MIT |
2/25/2015 | Silvia Vignolini | University of Cambridge |
2/18/2015 | Shin-Hyun Kim | KAIST |
2/4/2015 | Mijo Simunovic | University of Chicago |
1/28/2015 | Ivo Leibacher | ETH |
1/21/2015 | Elizabeth Hirst | Natick Soldeier Research, Devolopment, and Engineering Center |
1/14/2015 | Ya-Wen (Winnie) Chang | Georgia Tech |
12/10/2014 | Ron Chong | New England Biolabs |
12/3/2014 | Joseph Lott | |
11/12/2014 | Huseyin Burak Eral | MIT |
11/5/2014 | Jun Hyuk Moon | |
10/29/2014 | Vipul Dave | Johnson & Johnson |
10/22/2014 | Brian Hanley | Aspen Tech |
10/15/2014 | Mattia Gazzola | Harvard |
10/8/2014 | Gabi Steinbach | NYU |
9/24/2014 | Nick Gravish | Harvard |
9/17/2014 | Zi Chen | Dartmouth |
8/20/2014 | Doug Brumley | MIT |
8/13/2014 | Wim Noorduin | Harvard |
8/6/2014 | Cullen R. Buie | MIT |
7/30/2014 | Nicholas Vogel | Harvard |
7/23/2014 | Tim Still | University of Pennsylvania |
7/16/2014 | Jian Qin | University of Chicago |
7/9/2014 | Michael Murrell | University of Wisonsin |
7/2/2014 | Renko de Vries | Wageningen UR |
6/18/2014 | Anupam Sengupta | MIT |
6/11/2014 | Daphne Klosta | Michigan |
6/4/2014 | Hideyuki Arata | Nagoya University |
5/28/2014 | Alfredo Alexander-Katz | MIT |
5/21/2014 | Paul Blainley | MIT |
5/14/2014 | Rui Ni | Yale |
5/7/2014 | Kobi Barkan | Tel-Aviv University |
4/30/2014 | Alain Karma | Northeastern University |
4/23/2014 | Ken Kamrin | MIT |
4/16/2014 | Wonho Jhe | Seoul |
4/9/2014 | Jeff Guasto | Tufts |
4/2/2014 | Esther Amstad | SEAS |
3/26/2014 | Igor Sokolov | Tufts |
3/19/2014 | Susmita Bose | Washington |
3/5/2014 | Andrejs Cebers | Latvia |
2/19/2014 | Justin C. Burton | Emory |
2/5/2014 | Alfredo Alexander-Katz | MIT |
1/29/2014 | Maria Kilfoil | UMAss Amherst |
1/22/2014 | Randall Erb | Northeastern University |
1/15/2014 | Andrej Kosmrlj | SEAS |
12/11/2013 | Manis Chaudhuri | SEAS |
12/4/2013 | Mark W. Grinstaff | BU |
11/13/2013 | L. Mahadevan | Harvard |
11/6/2013 | Dong Chen | SEAS |
10/30/2013 | Daniel Irimia | HMS |
10/23/2013 | Aparna Baskaran | Brandeis |
10/16/2013 | Alok Tayi | Harvard |
10/9/2013 | Stephan Kohler | SEAS |
9/25/2013 | Rob Style | Yale |
9/11/2013 | Shima Parsa | SEAS |
8/28/2013 | Kate Jensen | SEAS |
8/14/2013 | Kazem Edmond | NYU |
7/31/2013 | Doug Kelley | Rochester |
7/24/2013 | Ian Y. Wong | MGH/HMS |
7/17/2013 | Dambarudhar Mohanta | Harvard |
7/10/2013 | Frank Baaijens | Eindhoven University of Technology |
7/3/2013 | Tim Sanchez | Brandeis/Harvard |
6/26/2013 | Benjamin Davidovitch | U Mass |
6/19/2013 | Tom de Greef | Eindhoven University of Technology |
6/12/2013 | Chuanhua Duan | BU |
5/29/2013 | Liheng Cai | SEAS/UNC |
5/22/2013 | Ofer Feinerman | Weizmann |
5/15/2013 | Chris Santangelo | UMass |
5/1/2013 | Cristian Staii | Tufts |
4/17/2013 | Markus Buehler | MIT |
4/10/2013 | Arpita Upadhyaya | University of Maryland |
4/3/2013 | Catherine Kuo | Tufts |
3/27/2013 | Moritz Kreysing | University of Munich |
2/27/2013 | Peter Yunker | Harvard SEAS |
2/20/2013 | Shiladitya Banerjee | Syracuse |
2/13/2013 | Fiorenzo Omenetto | Tufts |
2/6/2013 | Zhigang Suo | Harvard SEAS |
1/9/2013 | Roy Ziblat | Harvard |
12/12/2012 | Ian Morrison | Harvard |
12/5/2012 | Aaron Mertz | Yale |
11/28/2012 | Jonathan Thon | HMS |
11/14/2012 | Chris Love | MIT |
11/7/2012 | Daosheng Deng | MIT |
10/24/2012 | Karen Alim | Harvard |
10/10/2012 | Roman Stocker | MIT |
9/26/2012 | Ashutosh Agarwal | Harvard |
9/19/2012 | Jean-Jacques Slotine | MIT |
9/12/2012 | Howon Lee | MIT |
9/5/2012 | H.Burak Eral | MIT |
8/29/2012 | Polina Anikeeva | MIT |
8/8/2012 | Sebastian Seiffert | Berlin |
7/25/2012 | Warren Ruder | BU |
7/18/2012 | Vivek Sharma | MIT |
7/11/2012 | Irep Gozen | Chalmers |
6/27/2012 | Olga Dudko | UCSD |
6/13/2012 | Ulrich Steiner | Cambridge University |
6/6/2012 | Jeff Moore | BU |
5/30/2012 | Tsvi Tlusty | Princeton |
5/23/2012 | Kaare Jensen | Harvard |
5/9/2012 | Michael Devolder | Harvard |
4/25/2012 | Nisaraporn Suthiwangcharoen (Eve) | Molecular Sciences Team |
4/18/2012 | Kamil L. Ekinci | BU |
4/4/2012 | Jeremy England | MIT |
3/28/2012 | Sidney Redner | BU |
3/14/2012 | Elisha Moses | Weizmann |
2/22/2012 | Jeff Karp | MIT |
2/15/2012 | Julien Chopin | Clark University |
2/8/2012 | SJ Claire Hur | Rowland/Harvard |
2/1/2012 | Ho-Young Kim | Seoul |
1/18/2012 | Allen Ehrlicher | Harvard |
1/11/2012 | Timothy Atherton | Tufts |
12/7/2011 | Michael Henson | Umass Amherst |
11/30/2011 | Hassan Masoud | Georgia Tech |
11/16/2011 | Philippe Coussot | Universite Paris-Est |
11/9/2011 | Charlie sykes | Tufts |
11/2/2011 | William Shih | HMS |
10/26/2011 | Alexandra Zidovska | HMS/SEAS/Harvard |
10/19/2011 | Bin Liu | Brown |
10/12/2011 | Erez Braun | Technion |
9/28/2011 | Evelien WM Kemna | Twente |
9/21/2011 | Matthew Holden | Umass Amherst |
9/14/2011 | Bulbul Chakraborty | Brandeis |
9/7/2011 | Madhavi Krishnan | ETH |
8/31/2011 | Lindsay Moore | IIT Technion |
8/17/2011 | Roy Kishony | HMS |
8/10/2011 | Yuval Garini | Bar-Ilan |
8/3/2011 | Dhananjay Tambe | Harvard |
7/27/2011 | Johan Paulsson | HMS |
7/20/2011 | Florian Engert | Harvard |
7/13/2011 | Ron Weiss | MIT |
7/6/2011 | Shalev Itzkovitch | MIT |
6/22/2011 | Malte Gather | Harvard |
6/8/2011 | Quan Wen | Harvard |
6/1/2011 | Laurence Wilson | Harvard Rowland |
5/25/2011 | Michael Desai | harvard |
5/11/2011 | Andrew W. Murray | harvard |
5/4/2011 | Suckjoon Jun | Harvard |
4/27/2011 | Vivek Shenoy | Brown |
4/20/2011 | Jennifer Ross | Umass Amherst |
4/13/2011 | Srikanth Sastry | Bangalore |
4/6/2011 | Kris Noel Dahl | CMU |
3/30/2011 | James J. Collins | BU |
3/16/2011 | Kenny Breuer | Brown |
3/2/2011 | David Mooney | SEAS |
2/23/2011 | Alex Fields | Harvard |
2/9/2011 | Reza Farhadifar | SEAS |
2/2/2011 | Jeff Gore | MIT |
1/26/2011 | Jacy Bird | MIT |
1/19/2011 | Tyrone Porter | BU |
12/15/2010 | Linus Mazutis | SEAS |
12/8/2010 | Scott Manalis | MIT |
12/1/2010 | Mahesh Bandi | SEAS |
11/17/2010 | Ali Khademhosseini | MIT/HMS |
11/10/2010 | Arshad Kudrolli | Clark University |
11/3/2010 | Vinny Manoharan | SEAS/Physics |
10/27/2010 | Florent Krzakala | ESPCI Paris |
10/20/2010 | Sandra Shefelbine | Imperial College London |
10/13/2010 | Sophie Dumont | Harvard |
10/6/2010 | Eugene Pashkovski | Unilever |
9/29/2010 | Sharon Gerbode | SEAS |
9/15/2010 | Alfred Crosby | Amherst |
9/8/2010 | Zvonimir Dogic | Brandeis |
9/1/2010 | Vivek Sharma | MIT |
8/25/2010 | Jon Celli | Harvard |
8/18/2010 | Arezoo Ardekani | MIT |
8/11/2010 | Herman Offerhaus | Twente |
8/4/2010 | Ophelia Tsui | BU |
7/28/2010 | Ashkan Vaziri | Northeastern University |
7/21/2010 | Wesley P. Wong | Roland/Harvard |
7/14/2010 | Kamal Sen | BU |
7/7/2010 | Irwin Adam Eydelnant | Toronto |
6/30/2010 | Seth Fraden | Brandeis |
6/23/2010 | Tommy | Harvrad |
6/16/2010 | Frank Vollmer | Wyss |
6/9/2010 | Michael L. Smith | BU |
6/2/2010 | Erel Levine | Physics/Harvard |
5/26/2010 | Tony Dinsmore | Amherst |
5/19/2010 | Oleg Krichevsky | BGU |
5/12/2010 | Mark Bathe | MIT |
4/28/2010 | Jongyoon Han | MIT |
4/21/2010 | Ben Freund | Brown |
4/14/2010 | Jacob Klein | Weizmann |
4/7/2010 | Katia Bertoldi | SEAS |
3/31/2010 | Allan Karma | Northeastern University |
3/24/2010 | Muhammad H. Zaman | BU |
3/3/2010 | Patrick Alford | SEAS |
2/24/2010 | Ken Kamrin | SEAS |
2/17/2010 | Lene B. Oddershede | Niels Bohr Institute |
2/3/2010 | Ludvig Lizana | Niels Bohr Institute |
12/16/2009 | Adrea Camposeo | National Nano Lab Italy |
12/2/2009 | Markus Buehler | MIT |
Nov 18, 2009
Magnetic induction of neural activity: from ring cultures to rotating fields
Assaf Rotem
Harvard
Nov 11, 2009
A computational approach to network rheology
Roger Kamm
MIT
Nov 4, 2009
Next Generation Biomaterials and Stem Cell Therapeutics
Jeffrey Karp
HMS/MIT
Oct 21, 2009
Microsecond force spectroscopy of live cells and molecular interactions
Ozgur Sahin
Rowland Institute
Oct 14, 2009
Magnetic levitation as a platform for monitoring chemical reactions, detecting binding interactions, and self-assembly
Katherine Mirica
Harvard
Oct 7, 2009
Chemomechanics at the cell-material interface: Why cell-generated force and extracellular matrix stiffness are coupled
Krystyn Van Vliet
MIT
Sept 30, 2009
Force spectroscopy of actin machinery and peptide aptamers
Matthew Lang
MIT
Sept 23, 2009
Wound Detection in Zebrafish
Philip Niethammer
Harvard Medical School
Sept 16, 2009
Physical Aspects of Protein Aggregation
Tuomas Knowles
Cambridge University
Sept 9, 2009
Probing cellular dynamics: a microfluidic study of ATP release from red blood cells
Jiandi Wan
Princeton University
Sept 2, 2009
Self-assembly of DNA into three-dimensional shapes
Shawn Douglas
Wyss Institute, Harvard
August 26, 2009
Free Energy Landscape of Colloidal Assembly at Small N
Guangnan Meng
Harvard
August 19, 2009
Elasticity and Adhesion of Native Bacterial Biofilm Cells using AFM
Kathy Aidala
Mount Holyoke College
August 12, 2009
Molecular forces in cell adhesion -- from outside to inside the cell
Evan Evans
UNM/BU/UBC
August 5, 2009
Self-assembling microflowers and microdreadlocks
Joanna Aizenberg
Harvard University
July 29, 2009
Cytoplasmic Self-Assembly
Cliff Brangwynne
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
July 15, 2009
Multi-Scale Science, New Theory and High-Performance Computing for Industrial Chemistry
Samantha Jenkins
University West, Trollhattan, Sweden
July 8, 2009
The genome as polymer
Erez Lieberman
Harvard/Broad
July 1, 2009
Old dogs playing new tricks: what else can we learn from the hard spheres model?
Eli Eisenberg
Tel-Aviv University
June 24, 2009
Structure and Dynamics of Dense and Turbid Colloidal Systems Studied by Light Scattering
Otto Glatter
University of Graz
June 17, 2009
The Spread of Health Phenomena Across Complex, Longitudinally Evolving Social Networks
Nicholas Christakis
Harvard/HMS
June 10, 2009
The interplay between spinodal decomposition and dynamical arrest in colloidal suspensions and protein solutions
Peter Schurtenberger
University of Fribourg
June 3, 2009
The Secret of Splashing
Lei Xu
Harvard
May 27, 2009
Spindle Biophysics and Spindle Physics
Dan Needleman
Harvard
May 20, 2009
Dynamics of the p53 signaling network
Galit Lahav
Harvard Medical School
May 13, 2009
Lipid functionalized polymer microbubbles for molecular imaging
Wynter Duncanson
Harvard
May 6, 2009
Snail robots and reversible adhesion with nonlinear viscoelastic materials
Randy Ewoldt
MIT
Apr 29, 2009
Stabilizing colloidal asphaltenes
Sara Hashmi
Yale
Apr 22, 2009
A few techniques for in vivo tissue mechanics measurement
Mark Ottensmeyer
CIMIT/MGH/HMS
Apr 15, 2009
Nonlinear Dynamics in Viscoelastic Jets
Trushant Majmudar
MIT
Apr 8, 2009
Human in a test tube: Toward drug development process in 3D cell scaffolds
Jung Woo Lee
University of Michigan
Mar 25, 2009
Electrospun Nanofibers
Greg Rutledge
MIT
Mar 18, 2009
Onsager principle and hydrodynamics in the nanoscale
Ping Sheng
HKUST
Mar 4, 2009
Biopolymers From Bacteria: Nature's Nanotechnology
John Dutcher
University of Guelph
Feb 25, 2009
Magnetic tweezers and the nonlinear rheology of living cells
Philip Kollmannsberger
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Feb 18, 2009
Hygromorphs
Etienne Reyssat
Harvard University
Feb 11, 2009
Formation of Periodic and Hierarchical structures on Thin Polymer Films Induced by Electric Field
Ning Wu
Harvard University
Feb 4, 2009
Soft Matter Fairly Critical: From Self Organized Blood Clotting and Fluctuating Membrane Topology
Matthias Schneider
University of Augsburg
Jan 28, 2009
CARS Microscopy on Attractive Colloidal Gels
Evangelos Gatzogiannis
Harvard University
Jan 21, 2009
Viruses as adaptable containers -- modeling the simultaneous assembly and encapsulation of flexible polymers and solid nanoparticles by viral capsid proteins
Mike Hagan
Brandeis University
Jan 14, 2009
Tip growth of pollen tubes
Otger Campas
Harvard
Jan 7, 2009
A hard day in the life of a soft cell: flimsy, fragile, fluidizing
Jeffrey Fredberg
HSPH
Dec 10, 2008
Chirality & flow: from the synthesis of molecules to realizing micro-swimmers
Peer Fischer
Rowland Institute
Dec 3, 2008
Watching crystals nucleate and melt: colloids as a model to study phase transitions
Tony Dinsmore
U Mass Amherst
Nov 26, 2008
The structure of the lamin filament in health and disease
Naama Wiesel
Hebrew University Jerusalem
Nov 19, 2008
Fluctuations, Response, Entropy, and "Temperature" in Granular Packings
Bulbul Chakraborty
Brandeis
Nov 12, 2008
DNA translocations through solid-state nanopores - size does matter
Amit Meller
BU
Nov 5, 2008
Thin Elastic Sheets at Solid Interfaces: Blisters and Folds
Pedro Reis
MIT
Oct 29, 2008
Watching individual proteins at work on DNA
Antoine van Oijen
HMS
Oct 22, 2008
Lipid rafts reach a critical point
Sarah Veatch
Cornell
Oct 15, 2008
Squishy Oktoberfest Special: Beer Science 101
Kevin Verstrepen & Will Meyers
Harvard & the Cambridge Brewing Company
Oct 8, 2008
Running the flagellar motor at zero torque
Howard Berg
Harvard
Oct 1, 2008
Nanoscience in Biology: Virus Buckling and Folding of Pollen Grains
David Nelson
Harvard
September 24, 2008
Liquid Water, the "Most Complex" Fluid: New Experiments and Simulations in Bulk, Nanoconfined, and Biological Environments
Gene Stanley
BU
September 17, 2008
Bioadhesion of Mussels and Geckos: Molecular Mechanics and Material-Independent Surface Chemistry
Haeshin Lee
MIT
September 10, 2008
2D IR Spectroscopy of Protein Conformational Dynamics
Andrei Tokmakoff
MIT
September 3, 2008
How worms eat
Chris Fang-Yen
Harvard
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
Scripps 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 Koester
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