2005 Seminars

Oct 25 Srdjan Ostojic (UvA) Scale invariance and universality of force networks in static granular matter
Nov 1 John van Noort (Leiden) Dynamics of Chromatin
Nov 15 Karin Vastenhoud (Leiden) Three Lipid Anchors and a Raft?
Nov 29 Derek Stein (Delft) Pressure-driven DNA polymer transport in confined channels
Dec 12 Gijsje Koenderink (Harvard) Soft matter physics of active cytoskeletal protein networks
Dec 20 Suzanne Fielding (Manchester) Shear banding in complex fluids

2006 Seminars

Jan 10 Gerard Barkema (Utrecht) Simulation of polymer dynamics: demixing and translocation
Jan 17 Swati Bhattacharya (Calcutta) Turing patterns in a spherical geometry
Jan 24 Peter Bolhuis (UvA) Nucleation, self-assembly and protein folding: simulating activated processes in complex fluids and biophysics
Jan 31 Marjolein Dijkstra (Utrecht) From effective interactions to new structures and materials in soft matter
Feb 7 Deb Panja (UvA) Supercooled liquids phenomenology: what can we learn from colloidal suspensions?
Feb 14 Patrick Onck (Groningen) Stiffening of cross-linked semflexible networks
Feb 21 Iwan Schaap (VU) Mechanical properties from protein and DNA assemblies
Feb 28 Beerend Hierck (LUMC) Go with the flow: shear stress as a key modulator of heart development
Mar 7 Eric Sultan (Leiden) Statistics of crumpled paper and singularities in swelling gels
Mar 21 Matthias Möbius (Chicago) Clustering in a freely falling granular jet
Mar 28 Zorana Zeravcic (Belgrade University) Shape of the Milky Way dark halo from the 511keV line
Apr 4 Benjamin Dollet (TU Twente) Two-dimensional flow of foam around obstacles: An alternative way to study foam rheology
Apr 25 Brian Tighe (Duke University) Force distributions and stress fluctuations in a granular lattice model
May 29 Jan Willem van de Meent (Leiden) Weak Turbulence in a Model Fluid -- An Investigation of the Formation of Coherent Structures using Disppative-Particle Dynamics Modeling
Jun 12 Arezki Boudaoud (LPS-ENS) Coalescence and non-coalescence : from bouncing droplets to wet hair
Jun 21 Timon Idema (Leiden) Membranes, tubes and barbapapas
July 7 Anshuman Roy (UMich Ann Arbor) Unraveling the physics of polymer turbulent drag reduction using low-dimensional models
Aug 8 Daniel Aalberts (Williams College) Pseudoknot folds and RNA splicing
Aug 22 Eberhard Bodenschatz (Cornell University) Chemotaxis and cell migration: experiments using microfluidic devices
Sep 5 K.B. Jinesh (Leiden) Capillary condensation in atomic scale friction: Ice formation at room temperature
Sep 19 Francisco Fontenele Araujo (Twente) High Rayleigh number thermal convection
Sep 26 Michel Orrit (Leiden) Single-molecule fluorescence and macroscopic rheology of supercooled glycerol
Oct 16 Liesbeth Huisman (LPN-CNRS) Modeling the deformation of three-dimensional f-actin networks
Oct 17 Peter Prinsen (Delft) Statistical theory of protein solutions: the optimized Baxter model
Oct 23 Matthias Schröter (Texas) Granular temperature: Does one size fit all?
Oct 31 Benny Davidovitch (Harvard) Patterns on eroded solids: continuum dynamics of ion sputtered surfaces
Nov 24 Ralf Blossey (Lille) Electrostatics of proteins in water: a structured continuum approach
Dec 4 Johan Padding (Twente) The interplay of hydrodynamic and Brownian fluctuations

2007 Seminars

Jan 31 Marjolein Dijkstra From effective interactions to new structures and materials in soft matter
Feb 1 Matthias Sperl The jamming transition in granular systems
Feb 8 Tjerk Oosterkamp and Allard Katan Nanotube tips and miniature AFM cantilevers: towards a quantitative measurement of hydrophobic interactions at the molecular scale
Feb 13 Raymond Bergmann Void collapse and jet formation
Mar 13 Stephen Picken Soft polymer matters
Mar 20 Bob Ecke Granular flow on an inclined plane: Avalanches, homogeneous flow and stripe instability
Apr 3 Daniel Ben-Avraham (Clarkson) Anomalous Transport and Applications to Scale-Free Nets
Apr 3 Dion Houtman (UvA) Are hydrodynamic interactions important in plant cells?
Apr 17 Charles Radin (Texas) Hard Spheres Models for Colloids and Sand Piles
Apr 20 Daniel Ben-Avraham (Clarkson) Diffusion-Limited Reactions and the Bethe Lattice
May 22 Patrick Charbonneau (AMOLF) Dynamical arrest in model colloidal systems
Jun 5 Frederic Lechenault (CEA Saclay) Super-diffusive and long-ranged dynamical heterogeneities : Criticality at the Jamming transition
Jun 11 Karen Daniels (NC State) Faults & Earthquakes as Granular Phenomena: Controls on Stick-Slip Dynamics
Jun 26 Rhoda Hawkins (AMOLF) Modelling self-assembly in the plant microtubule cytoskeleton
July 2 Meenakshi Dutt (Cambridge) Microstructural Studies of Compressed Dense Granular Media: The Importance of Particle Size and Material Property
July 9 Carlos Ruiz-Suarez (Cinvestav Merida) Entropy and Enthalpy in Granular Crystallization
Oct 16 Alan Champneys (Bristol) Localised pattern formation
6 Nov Henry Amuasi (AIMS) Fluctuations in a melt of flexible polymers with bond-directed dipolar monomers
8 Nov Jan-Willem van de Meent (Cambridge/Leiden) Cytoplasmic streaming: Hydrodynamics of intracellular circulation and its implications for molecular transport
13 Nov Joris Remmers (Delft/Eindhoven) The partition of unity method for the simulation of fracture in a two-phase medium
20 Nov Daniel Bonn (UvA) Coiling and spirals
27 Nov J.M.J. van Leeuwen (Liden) Statistics of Fluctuating Colloidal Interfaces
4 Dec Laurette Tuckerman (ESPCI) Turbulent-laminar patterns in plane Couette flow
11 Dec Debabrata Panja (UvA) Biopolymer translocation: Scaling concepts, memory effects and applications

2008 Seminars

12 Feb Axel Arnold (Fraunhofer) Segregation of flexible polymers in confinement
7 April Erik Woldhuis (Leiden) Investigating the viability of the spot model
14 April Teodor Burghelea (UBC) The solid-fluid transition in a physical gel
17 April Eli Wasserman (ESPCI) Glass transitions of interacting magnetic nanoparticles
24 April Hans Wyss (Harvard) Relaxation and Flow in Soft Materials
6 May Vincenzo Vitelli (Pennsylvania) Energy transport in model jammed solids
16 June Giovanni Lanzani (Leiden) A Phase Field Model for Supercooled Glycerol
17 June Jacco Snoeijer (Twente) Pinching bubbles, levitated drops
23 June John Weeks (Maryland) Taming Coulomb interactions in models for ionic solutions and water
30 Sep David Head (Juelich) Dynamics of jamming in freely cooling soft-sphere systems
28 Oct Alexander Morozov (Edinburg)
18 Nov Barry Koren A physical model and numerical method for compressible, two-fluid flow
2 Dec Elie Wandersman (Leiden) Transport and deformation of an elastic fiber in a lattice of vortices
5 Dec Marcel den Nijs (U. Washington) ECoG observations of power-law scaling in the human cortex
12 Dec Nikolai Denkov (Sofia) Role of surfactants in foam rheology

2009 Seminars

6 Jan Thibault Divoux (ENS, Lyon) On creeping flows in complex fluids
15 Jan Martin Howard (John Innes Centre, Norwich) Modelling noisy concentration gradients in development
17 Feb Daniel Bonn (UvA) Jamming and yield stress
19 Feb Kristian Mueller-Nedebock (Stellenbosch University) Dealing with valence of counter-ions in polyelectrolyte solutions
24 Feb Kostya Shundyak (AMOLF) Physics of noisy biological images
10 Mar G. Gonnella (Bari) Fluctuation Relations of Driven Ising Models
13 Mar Enrico Calzavarini (ENS Lyon) Particle Dynamics in Turbulence
22 Apr Adrian Cioroianu Chaos and Control in the Lorenz-Robbins-Haken system
24 Apr Jerry Gollub (Cambridge and Haverford) Diffusion of Swimming Cells, Flagella as Coupled Oscillators, and Advective Mixing
7 May Wouter Ellenbroek (Penn) Ion-induced phase separation in lipids and polymers: Electrostatics
12 May Ray Goldstein (Cambridge) Evolution of Biological Complexity
27 May Wolfgang Losert (Maryland) The inside of a sandpile: 3D imaging of particle motion in dense granular flows
8 Jun Anke Lindner (ESPCI) Pattern formation in confined granular suspensions
9 Jun Michiel Hermes (Utrecht) Random packings of polydisperse hard spheres
15 Jun Lou Kondic (NJIT) Energy transport through dense granular matter
30 Jun Jeroen van Zon (MIT) Modelling spatial organization in bacteria