| DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE and ABSTRACT (Click for Details) |
| Jan 21 |
Cancelled
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Cancelled |
| Jan 28 |
Andrew Pomerance
University of Maryland |
Cell Motility: Actin Up |
| Feb 7 |
Jennifer Ogilvie
Ecole Polytechnique |
Watching Proteins in Action - A Laser Spectroscopist's View of Protein Function |
| Feb 9 |
Chris Schaffer
Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego |
Nonlinear optics in vivo: using light to study and perturb blood flow in the living brain |
| Feb 21 |
Tobias Baumgart
Cornell University |
Of polka dots and dumbbells: phase behavior and bending of biomembranes |
| Feb 24 |
Arthur LaPorta
Cornell University |
Torque to Biological Molecules with Optical Tweezers |
| Feb 28 |
Ivan Rasnik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Understanding the mechanisms of molecular motors: Single molecule Fluorescence Resonant Energy Transfer experiments |
| March 4 |
Chris DePree
Department of Physics, Agnes Scott College
|
Shells, Comets and Peanuts: What Ultracompact HII Region Morphologies Tell Us About the Formation of Massive Stars |
| March 11 |
Hernan Makse
Levich Institute and Department of Physics, CCNY |
Complex Networks are Self-Similar |
| March 18 |
Spring Break
No colloquium |
No Colloquium |
| March 25 |
APS Meeting
|
No Colloquium |
| April 1 |
David W. Piston
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics,
Department of Physics,
Vanderbilt University |
Sub-cellular and Multi-cellular Signaling Mechanisms Revealed by Quantitative Laser Microscopies |
| April 8 |
Joseph Izatt
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Duke University |
Anatomic, Functional, and Molecular Imaging Using Optical Coherence Tomography |
| April 15 |
Jacqueline Krim
Department of Physics, North Carolina State University |
Nanotribology: The Atomic-Scale Origins of Friction |
| April 22 |
Lillian Hoddeson
Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Problem-solving Secrets of a Double Nobel Laureate: The Scientific Creativity of John Bardeen |
| April 29 |
David Weitz
Department of Physics, Harvard University |
Composite Actin Networks: How a Cell Holds it Together |
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