Archive of Speakers

 

DateSpeakerInstitution
12/14/2016Hadi Tavakoli NiaHarvard
12/7/2016Prof. Hyunmin YiTufts
11/30/2016Prof. Charles MaceTufts
11/16/2016Neel JoshiHarvard/Wyss
11/9/2016Michael MakMIT-BU/Yale
11/2/2016Prof. Georges BelfortRPI
10/26/2016Douglas HolmesBU
10/19/2016Prof. Zvonomir DogicBrandeis
10/12/2016Dr. Frederik Brasz BU/Princeton
10/5/2016Prof. Scott BunchBU
9/28/2016Zahra Fakhraai - UPennUPenn
9/21/2016Raoul Rosenthal - ETH ZurichETH Zurich
9/14/2016Prof. Luis DorfmannTufts
9/7/2016Prof. Nicholas FangMIT
8/24/2016Dr. Shuang ZhouHarvard/Kent state
8/17/2016Prof. Sarah PerryUMass Amherst
8/10/2016Prof. Qiaobing Xu - TuftsTufts
8/3/2016Yoav GreenHarvard
7/27/2016Prof. Seth FradenBrandeis University
7/20/2016Prof. Bing XuBrandeis University
7/13/2016Prof. Ayse Asatekin - TuftsTufts
7/6/2016Prof. Vivek Shenoy; UPennUPenn
6/29/2016canceled 
6/22/2016Colm Patrick KelleherNYU
6/15/2016canceled 
6/8/2016Daniel AndersonMIT
6/1/2016Mingjiang ZhongMIT
5/25/2016Mark GrinstaffBU
5/18/2016Kirill KorolevBoston University
5/11/2016Chinedum OsujiYale University
5/4/2016Bradley OlsenMIT
4/27/2016Peter CarrMIT
4/20/2016Subramanian RamakrishnanFSU
4/13/2016Alfred CrosbyUMass
3/30/2016Corey O'HernYale University
3/23/2016Yingjie SunBU/Harvard
3/16/2016Prof. TakeuchiUniversity of Tokyo
3/9/2016Yaakov NahmiasThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2/17/2016Joerg WernerCornell/Harvard
2/10/2016Kyoo-Chul (Kenneth) ParkAizenberg group at Harvard
2/3/2016Prof. Yejia ZhangUniversity of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
1/27/2016Meni WanunuNortheastern University
1/20/2016Andre SharonBoston University
1/13/2016Kimberly Hamad SchifferliMIT
1/6/2016Doogie OhNeedleman group at Harvard
12/16/2015Kaplan, Cihan NadirMahadevan Lab at Harvard
12/9/2015Jae-Won ShinHarvard
12/2/2015Alex DunnStanford
11/18/2015G. V. Shivashankar 
11/11/2015Xuanhe ZhaoMIT
11/4/2015Norbert WillenbacherKarlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
10/28/2015Darrell J IrvineMIT
9/30/2015C. (Kees) StormTechnische Universiteit Eindhoven
9/16/2015Michael P. ShortMIT
9/2/2015Eric AppelMIT
8/26/2015William RogerManoharan group at Harvard
8/19/2015Peter FosterHarvard
8/5/2015Matthew MartinKhalifa University
7/22/2015Prof. Xiabin JingChinese Academy of Science
7/8/2015Wen DengMissouri University of Science and Technology
7/1/2015Pushkar LeleHarvard
6/24/2015Aldo JesorkaChalmers University
6/17/2015Uros TkalecJozef Stefan Institute
6/10/2015Siyuan WangHarvard
6/3/2015Nikita FakhriMIT
5/20/2015Bob MeyerBrandeis
5/13/2015Zhao QinMIT
5/6/2015Behrouz TavakolVirgina Tech
4/29/2015Rama BansilBU
4/22/2015Todd EmrichUMass Amherst
4/15/2015Jame W. SwanMIT
4/8/2015Jie HeUniversity of Connecticut
4/1/2015Joel VoldmanMIT
3/25/2015Rohit N KarnikMIT
3/11/2015Qin XuUniversity of Chicago
3/4/2015Ming DaoMIT
2/25/2015Silvia VignoliniUniversity of Cambridge
2/18/2015Shin-Hyun KimKAIST
2/4/2015Mijo SimunovicUniversity of Chicago
1/28/2015Ivo LeibacherETH
1/21/2015Elizabeth HirstNatick Soldeier Research, Devolopment, and Engineering Center
1/14/2015Ya-Wen (Winnie) ChangGeorgia Tech
12/10/2014Ron ChongNew England Biolabs
12/3/2014Joseph Lott 
11/12/2014Huseyin Burak EralMIT
11/5/2014Jun Hyuk Moon 
10/29/2014Vipul DaveJohnson & Johnson
10/22/2014Brian HanleyAspen Tech
10/15/2014Mattia GazzolaHarvard
10/8/2014Gabi SteinbachNYU
9/24/2014Nick GravishHarvard
9/17/2014Zi ChenDartmouth
8/20/2014Doug BrumleyMIT
8/13/2014Wim NoorduinHarvard
8/6/2014Cullen R. BuieMIT
7/30/2014Nicholas VogelHarvard
7/23/2014Tim StillUniversity of Pennsylvania
7/16/2014Jian QinUniversity of Chicago
7/9/2014Michael MurrellUniversity of Wisonsin
7/2/2014Renko de VriesWageningen UR
6/18/2014Anupam SenguptaMIT
6/11/2014Daphne KlostaMichigan
6/4/2014Hideyuki ArataNagoya University
5/28/2014Alfredo Alexander-KatzMIT
5/21/2014Paul BlainleyMIT
5/14/2014Rui NiYale
5/7/2014Kobi BarkanTel-Aviv University
4/30/2014Alain KarmaNortheastern University
4/23/2014Ken KamrinMIT
4/16/2014Wonho JheSeoul
4/9/2014Jeff GuastoTufts
4/2/2014Esther AmstadSEAS
3/26/2014Igor SokolovTufts
3/19/2014Susmita BoseWashington
3/5/2014Andrejs CebersLatvia
2/19/2014Justin C. BurtonEmory
2/5/2014Alfredo Alexander-KatzMIT
1/29/2014Maria KilfoilUMAss Amherst
1/22/2014Randall ErbNortheastern University
1/15/2014Andrej KosmrljSEAS
12/11/2013Manis ChaudhuriSEAS
12/4/2013Mark W. GrinstaffBU
11/13/2013L. MahadevanHarvard
11/6/2013Dong ChenSEAS
10/30/2013Daniel IrimiaHMS
10/23/2013Aparna BaskaranBrandeis
10/16/2013Alok TayiHarvard
10/9/2013Stephan KohlerSEAS
9/25/2013Rob StyleYale
9/11/2013Shima ParsaSEAS
8/28/2013Kate JensenSEAS
8/14/2013Kazem EdmondNYU
7/31/2013Doug KelleyRochester
7/24/2013Ian Y. WongMGH/HMS
7/17/2013Dambarudhar MohantaHarvard
7/10/2013Frank BaaijensEindhoven University of Technology
7/3/2013Tim SanchezBrandeis/Harvard
6/26/2013Benjamin DavidovitchU Mass
6/19/2013Tom de GreefEindhoven University of Technology
6/12/2013Chuanhua DuanBU
5/29/2013Liheng CaiSEAS/UNC
5/22/2013Ofer FeinermanWeizmann
5/15/2013Chris SantangeloUMass
5/1/2013Cristian StaiiTufts
4/17/2013Markus BuehlerMIT
4/10/2013Arpita UpadhyayaUniversity of Maryland
4/3/2013Catherine KuoTufts
3/27/2013Moritz KreysingUniversity of Munich
2/27/2013Peter YunkerHarvard SEAS
2/20/2013Shiladitya BanerjeeSyracuse
2/13/2013Fiorenzo OmenettoTufts
2/6/2013Zhigang SuoHarvard SEAS
1/9/2013Roy ZiblatHarvard
12/12/2012Ian MorrisonHarvard
12/5/2012Aaron MertzYale
11/28/2012Jonathan ThonHMS
11/14/2012Chris LoveMIT
11/7/2012Daosheng DengMIT
10/24/2012Karen AlimHarvard
10/10/2012Roman StockerMIT
9/26/2012Ashutosh AgarwalHarvard
9/19/2012Jean-Jacques SlotineMIT
9/12/2012Howon LeeMIT
9/5/2012H.Burak EralMIT
8/29/2012Polina AnikeevaMIT
8/8/2012Sebastian SeiffertBerlin
7/25/2012Warren RuderBU
7/18/2012Vivek SharmaMIT
7/11/2012Irep GozenChalmers
6/27/2012Olga DudkoUCSD
6/13/2012Ulrich SteinerCambridge University
6/6/2012Jeff MooreBU
5/30/2012Tsvi TlustyPrinceton
5/23/2012Kaare JensenHarvard
5/9/2012Michael DevolderHarvard
4/25/2012Nisaraporn Suthiwangcharoen (Eve)Molecular Sciences Team
4/18/2012Kamil L. EkinciBU
4/4/2012Jeremy EnglandMIT
3/28/2012Sidney RednerBU
3/14/2012Elisha MosesWeizmann
2/22/2012Jeff KarpMIT
2/15/2012Julien ChopinClark University
2/8/2012SJ Claire HurRowland/Harvard
2/1/2012Ho-Young KimSeoul
1/18/2012Allen EhrlicherHarvard
1/11/2012Timothy AthertonTufts
12/7/2011Michael HensonUmass Amherst
11/30/2011Hassan MasoudGeorgia Tech
11/16/2011Philippe CoussotUniversite Paris-Est
11/9/2011Charlie sykesTufts
11/2/2011William ShihHMS
10/26/2011Alexandra ZidovskaHMS/SEAS/Harvard
10/19/2011Bin LiuBrown
10/12/2011Erez BraunTechnion
9/28/2011Evelien WM KemnaTwente
9/21/2011Matthew HoldenUmass Amherst
9/14/2011Bulbul ChakrabortyBrandeis
9/7/2011Madhavi KrishnanETH
8/31/2011Lindsay MooreIIT Technion
8/17/2011Roy KishonyHMS
8/10/2011Yuval GariniBar-Ilan
8/3/2011Dhananjay TambeHarvard
7/27/2011Johan PaulssonHMS
7/20/2011Florian EngertHarvard
7/13/2011Ron WeissMIT
7/6/2011Shalev ItzkovitchMIT
6/22/2011Malte GatherHarvard
6/8/2011Quan WenHarvard
6/1/2011Laurence WilsonHarvard Rowland
5/25/2011Michael Desaiharvard
5/11/2011Andrew W. Murrayharvard
5/4/2011Suckjoon JunHarvard
4/27/2011Vivek ShenoyBrown
4/20/2011Jennifer RossUmass Amherst
4/13/2011Srikanth SastryBangalore
4/6/2011Kris Noel DahlCMU
3/30/2011James J. CollinsBU
3/16/2011Kenny BreuerBrown
3/2/2011David MooneySEAS
2/23/2011Alex FieldsHarvard
2/9/2011Reza FarhadifarSEAS
2/2/2011Jeff GoreMIT
1/26/2011Jacy BirdMIT
1/19/2011Tyrone PorterBU
12/15/2010Linus MazutisSEAS
12/8/2010Scott ManalisMIT
12/1/2010Mahesh BandiSEAS
11/17/2010Ali KhademhosseiniMIT/HMS
11/10/2010Arshad KudrolliClark University
11/3/2010Vinny ManoharanSEAS/Physics
10/27/2010Florent KrzakalaESPCI Paris
10/20/2010Sandra ShefelbineImperial College London
10/13/2010Sophie DumontHarvard
10/6/2010Eugene PashkovskiUnilever
9/29/2010Sharon GerbodeSEAS
9/15/2010Alfred CrosbyAmherst
9/8/2010Zvonimir DogicBrandeis
9/1/2010Vivek SharmaMIT
8/25/2010Jon CelliHarvard
8/18/2010Arezoo ArdekaniMIT
8/11/2010Herman OfferhausTwente
8/4/2010Ophelia TsuiBU
7/28/2010Ashkan VaziriNortheastern University
7/21/2010Wesley P. WongRoland/Harvard
7/14/2010Kamal SenBU
7/7/2010Irwin Adam EydelnantToronto
6/30/2010Seth FradenBrandeis
6/23/2010TommyHarvrad
6/16/2010Frank VollmerWyss
6/9/2010Michael L. SmithBU
6/2/2010Erel LevinePhysics/Harvard
5/26/2010Tony DinsmoreAmherst
5/19/2010Oleg KrichevskyBGU
5/12/2010Mark BatheMIT
4/28/2010Jongyoon HanMIT
4/21/2010Ben FreundBrown
4/14/2010Jacob KleinWeizmann
4/7/2010Katia BertoldiSEAS
3/31/2010Allan KarmaNortheastern University
3/24/2010Muhammad H. ZamanBU
3/3/2010Patrick AlfordSEAS
2/24/2010Ken KamrinSEAS
2/17/2010Lene B. OddershedeNiels Bohr Institute
2/3/2010Ludvig LizanaNiels Bohr Institute
12/16/2009Adrea CamposeoNational Nano Lab Italy
12/2/2009Markus BuehlerMIT

 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