Seminar archive

This list includes seminars from the academic year 2010-2011 onwards that were advertised to the group.

SpeakerTitleTimeLocation
Stefano Sacanna (New York)Shaping colloids for self-assembly29/5/2012 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Felix Ritort (Barcelona)Unraveling free energy landscapes of nucleic acids by mechanically unzipping single molecules15/5/2012 16.00 PTCL JSR Seminar Room
William Durham (Oxford)The impact of flow on microbial ecology: phytoplankton patchiness and bacterial biofilm development in porous media1/5/2012 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Kamaludin Dingle (Oxford)Simplicity bias in genotype-phenotype maps26/4/2012 13.00DWB Fisher Room
Rava da Silveira (Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'ENS, Paris)The orchestral brain: coding with correlated neurons24/4/2012 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Georg Maret (Konstanz)KTHNY in two-dimensional colloidal crystals6/3/2012 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Ramin Golestanian (Oxford)Hydrodynamic synchronisation, co-ordination and signalling2/3/2012 10.00Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory
Roberto Piazza (Milano)What is buoyancy? Surprises and puzzles in sedimentation21/2/2012 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Marco Leoni (Bristol)Order and hydrodynamic fluctuations in active suspensions16/2/2012 13.00DWB Fisher Room
Tom Duke (UCL)Force generation in the lamellipodia of crawling cells14/2/2012 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Olivier Martin (Paris Sud)Biological networks: from function to structure7/2/2012 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Enkeleida Lushi (Imperial)The importance of hydrodynamic interactions in the colonial dynamics of micro-organisms31/1/2012 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Dušan Babič (Ljubljana)Colloidal structures of low dimensionality24/1/2012 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Anne-Florence Bitbol (Paris-Diderot)Statistics and dynamics of complex membranes19/1/2012 13.00DWB Fisher Room
Daniel Beysens (CEA & ESPCI, Paris)Dew17/1/2012 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Andrew Goodwin (Oxford)Structure determination of disordered materials29/11/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Peter Keim (Konstanz)Dynamic arrest in an amorphous 2D colloidal system22/11/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Douwe Jan Bonthuis (Freie Universität Berlin)Dielectric profile of interfacial water and its effect on double layer capacitance, electrophoretic mobility and surface conductivity17/11/2011 13.00DWB Fisher Room
David McGloin (Dundee)Development of optical control techniques for aerosols, emulsion droplets and microbubbles15/11/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Mustansir Barma (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)TBC8/11/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Jürgen Horbach (Düsseldorf)From localisation transitions to micro-rheology: one-particle dynamics in glassforming soft-sphere mixtures1/11/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Kamaludin Dingle (Oxford)Phenotypic bias in genotype-phenotype maps27/10/2011 13.00DWB Fisher Room
Roland Winkler (Forschungszentrum Jülich)Mesoscale hydrodynamic simulation of polymers in flow fields25/10/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Dominic Vella (Oxford)The physics of floating and sinking20/10/2011 13.00DWB Fisher Room
Karsten Kruse (Universität des Saarlandes)Spontaneous actin waves18/10/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Ho-Young Kim (Seoul National University)Hydrodynamics of writing with ink11/10/2011 11.15PTCL JSR Seminar Room
David B. Searls (Pennsylvania)Macromolecules, languages and automata3/10/2011 14.00DWB Seminar Room
Mark Curtis (Oxford)Linked sphere swimmers in a linearly (Maxwell) viscoelastic fluid5/7/2011 10.00Audrey Wood Room, Martin Wood Building
Eugenia Corvera Poiré (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)Slippage, stratification and flow control in microfluidics9/6/2011 13.00DWB Fisher Room
Sarah Harris (Leeds)Molecular mayhem! Dynamics, defects and disorder: modelling biomacromolecules with supercomputers7/6/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Josef Käs (Leipzig)Are biomechanical changes necessary for tumour progression?31/5/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Albert Philipse (Utrecht)Cubic crystals from cubic colloids24/5/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Vinodkumar Saranathan (Oxford)Evolutionary photonics: Structure, function, self-assembly and evolution of bio-photonic nanostructures19/5/2011 13.00DWB Fisher Room
Peter Lenz (Marburg)How a bacterial cell organizes its interior – a theoretical physics approach17/5/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Christoph Schmidt (Göttingen)Active biomaterials: from model systems to cells3/5/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Philip Tinnefeld (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)DNA origami meets single-molecule spectroscopy1/4/2011 10.00Dobson Room, Atmospheric Physics
Kristian Müller-Nedebock (Stellenbosch)Some equilibrium and non-equilibrium perspectives on actively cross-linked networks30/3/2011 16.00DWB Fisher Room
Helmut Schiessel (Leiden)Euler's elastica and their applications to DNA, nucleosomes and chromatin fibres8/3/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Seth Fraden (Brandeis)Active emulsions1/3/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Stephen Peppin (OCCAM, Oxford)Dynamics of colloidal particles in ice22/2/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Jens Eggers (Bristol)The physics of receding contact lines15/2/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Peter Holmqvist (Forschungzentrum Jülich)Dynamics in charged colloidal suspension in liquid, crystal and glass state8/2/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Marco Polin (Cambridge)Locomotion of a green flagellate1/2/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Stephen Mann (Bristol)Integrative assembly of nanoscale constructs: from hybrid nanostructures to solvent-less proteins25/1/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
William Sampson (Manchester)Modelling interdependence of pore size and specific surface area in electrospun polymer fibre networks18/1/2011 16.00PTCL JSR Seminar Room
Ian Griffiths (Oxford)Mathematical modelling of complex fluids: colloids and surfactants2/12/2010 13.00DWB Fisher Room
Agnes Noy (Oxford)The 3D code of DNA21/10/2010 13.00DWB Fisher Room