Colloquia and Seminars

Fall 2006

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE and ABSTRACT
Sept 1	Eduardo Lopez Los Alamos National Laboratory	Physics of Flow in Complex Networks
Sept 8	Chris Jarzynski University of Maryland	Nonequilibrium thermodynamics at the microscale
Sept 15	Andrew Kraynik Sandia National Laboratory	Foam structure and rheology: the shape and feel of soap froth
Sept 22	Mark Newman University of Michigan	Epidemics, Erdos numbers, and the Internet: The structure and function of networks
Sept 29	Timothy Buchman Washington University in St. Louis	The times of our lives: Physiologic variability in critical illness and recovery
Oct 6	TBA
Oct 13	Anirvan Sengupta Rutgers University	Phase Transitions in the State of the Genome
Oct 20	Angelo Bongiorno Georgia Institute of Technology	Oxidative damage to DNA: role of sequence and strand direction
Oct 27 >> 3:30p!<<	Tom Lubensky University of Pennsylvania	Rotational and Translational Diffusion of Rigid Rods
Oct 27 >> 6:00p<< White Hall 208	Carlos Bustamante University of California, Berkeley	Recent Developments in the Biophysics of Single Molecules Note special time and place!
Nov 3	Harry L. Swinney University of Texas at Austin	Fractal Fingers and Torn Garbage Bags
Nov 10	Ann Kenworthy Vanderbilt University	The search for lipid rafts: chasing a moving target
Nov 17	Michael Geller University of Georgia	Quantum gate design
Nov 24	Thanksgiving
Dec 1	Meredith Betterton University of Colorado	Motor protein interaction with obstacles and helicase unwinding of DNA
Dec 8	Langoussis, Riddle, and Willamon	Under the Southern Cross

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