Squishy Physics – Archive of Speakers

Squishy Physics Event

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

Date	Title	Speaker	Institution
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
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
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