Colloquia and Seminars

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE and ABSTRACT (Click for Details)
Jan 20	Lisa J. Lapidus Stanford University	The Physics of Protein and RNA folding
Jan 22	Gail E. Fanucci Dept. of Chemistry University of Virginia	Site-Directed Spin Labeling and EPR spectroscopy of the outer membrane Vitamin B12 Transporter BtuB
Jan 23	Brian Utter Center for Nonlinear and Complex Studies Duke University	Granular Shear Flows: Scientist in a Sandbox
Jan 27	Zahir Daya	Geometry dependence of turbulent convection
Jan 29	Itai Cohen	The Shear Excitement of Confined Colloidal Suspensions
Jan 30	Peter Schiffer	Pushing through the sand: Penetration and drag in a granular medium
Feb 5	Darren R. Link Harvard University	Droplet formation and manipulation in microfluidic devices
Mar 19	No Colloquium
Mar 26	No Colloquium
Apr 2	Greg Huber University of Massachusetts, Boston	Flagella, flip flops, and fluid dynamics at the scale of bacteria.
Apr 9	Kevin Brown Harvard University	The Statistical Mechanics of Sloppy Models: Nerve Growth Factor Signaling
Apr 14	Prithwish Pal University of Rochester	'Illuminating a membrane transporter' - Resonance Energy Transfer as a tool for investigating structure and function of Anion Exchanger1
Apr 30	Arshad Kudrolli Clark University, MA	Self-organization of granular materials as a result of shape anisotropy or magnetic interactions

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