This list includes seminars that were presented to the group, from the present day back to the academic year 2010-2011.
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| Phil Jones (University College London) | Optical pendula, optical chains and optical stretching | 16/06/2015 15.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room |
| Christoph Schmidt (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen) | Mechanics and dynamics of active biological matter | 09/06/2015 15.15 | Dennis Sciama LT, DWB |
| Mustansir Barma (TIFR Mumbai) | Aggregation-dominated transport: Phase transitions and intermittency | 02/06/2015 15.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room |
| Sriram Ramaswamy (TIFR Hyderabad) | Flocking hydrodynamics: mesoscale mechanisms | 26/5/2015 15.15 | Dennis Sciama LT, DWB |
| Andreas Zoettl (TU Berlin) | Micro-swimmers in confinement and in flow | 19/05/2015 15.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room |
| Johan Elf (Uppsala University) | Randomness in E. coli growth and division | 12/5/2015 15.15 | Dennis Sciama LT, DWB |
| Francesc Sagues (University of Barcelona) | Liquid crystals for conditioning actuated or active soft matter | 05/05/2015 15.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room |
| Achillefs Kapanidis (Oxford Physics) | Transcription in high resolution: spatial distribution of RNA polymerases in single bacterial cells | 28/4/2015 15.15 | Dennis Sciama LT, DWB |
| Patrick Tabeling (ESPCI, France) | Colloidal microfluidics | 10/03/2015 15.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room |
| Jean-Francois Allemand (ENS-Paris) | Mechanical approach to DNA sequencing | 3/3/2015 15.00 | Dennis Sciama LT, DWB |
| Gijsje Koenderink (AMOLF, The Netherlands) | Some aspects of soft interfaces with trapped colloids | 24/02/2015 15.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room |
| Mark Wallace (Oxford Chemistry) | Droplet Interface Bilayers: From high-throughput DNA sequencing to lipid rafts | 17/02/2015 15.15 | Dennis Sciama LT, DWB |
| Olivier Dauchot (ESPCI, France) | Walking grains, rolling colloids, swimming droplets ... How universal are transitions to collective motion in active matter | 10/02/2015 15.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room |
| Enrico Carlon (KULeuven) | Anomalous dynamics of DNA hairpin folding | 03/02/2015 15.15 | Dennis Sciama LT, DWB |
| Dr Adar Sonn (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) | Viscoelastic response of actin networks at intermediate distances | 27/1/2015 15.00 | Lindemann Lecture Theatre |
| Kristian Franze (University of Cambridge) | Neurons feel the force: mechanics in nervous system development and disorder | 20/1/2015 15.15 | Lindemann Lecture Theatre |
| Daniela Kraft (University of Leiden) | Self-assembly of anisotropic colloidal particles | 2/12/2014 15.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room |
| Hugues Chate (CEA-Saclay) | Alignment vs noise: a simple yet non-trivial setting for dry active matter | 25/11/2014 15.00 | Lindemann Lecture Theatre |
| Martin Oettel (Eberhard Karls Universitat) | Some aspects of soft interfaces with trapped colloids | 18/11/2014 15.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room |
| Berenike Maier (University of Cologne) | Coordination of bacterial motors in motility and biofilm formation | 11/11/2014 15.00 | Lindemann Lecture Theatre |
| Kazem Edmond (PTCL, Oxford) | Rheology of self-assembling colloidal chains | 4/11/2014 15.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room |
| Thomas Fink (London Institute for Mathematical Sciences) | Repairabitility as an alternative to robustness | 28/10/2014 15.00 | Lindemann Lecture Theatre |
| Rob Style (OCCAM, Oxford) | Why surface tension gives soft solids some unexpected, but useful physical properties | 21/10/2014 15.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford) | Bouncing droplets on superhydrophobic and asymmetric surfaces | 14/10/2014 15.00 | Lindemann Lecture Theatre
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| Prof Ger Koper (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) | Thermodynamics of Dissipative Self-Assembly | 15/7/2014 16.00 | CRL basement room
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| Prof Paul van der Schoot (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) | Role of solvent in supramolecular polymerisation | 17/6/2014 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Francesco Sciortino (Rome, "La Sapienza") | Providing valence to colloids: equilibrium gels and ultrastable liquids | 10/6/2014 16.00 | Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
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| Ard Louis (University of Oxford) | Modelling DNA: nanotechnology and biophysics | 27/5/2014 16.00 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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| Prof Itai Cohen (Cornell University, United States) | Flight of the Fruit Fly | 20/5/2014 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Dr Maciej Lisicki (University of Warsaw, Poland) | Near-wall translation and rotational diffusion of spherical Brownian particles | 6/5/2014 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Dr Raphal Jeanneret (ESPCI, Paris, France) | Structural and dynamical transition in microfluidic echo experiment | 11/3/2014 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Chris Miller (Brandeis) | A divalent potassium ion as probe of K+ channel pores | 4/3/2014 16.00 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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| Dr Luca Giomi (SISSA, Italy) | Active fluids: from liquid crystals to living systems | 25/2/2014 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Eric Grelet (CRPP Bordeaux, France) | Viruses as model system of colloidal rods in soft matter | 18/2/2014 16.00 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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| Prof Enzo Orlandini (University of Padua, Italy) | DNA chains in nano-slits and nano-channels | 11/2/2014 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Pieter Rein ten Wolde (AMOLF, Amsterdam) | Fundamental limits to cellular sensing | 4/2/2014 16.00 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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| Prof Jan Dhont (Forschungzentrum Jlich, Germany) | Electric-field induced phases and dynamical states in colloidal suspensions | 28/1/2014 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Joachim Spatz (MPI-IS, Stuttgart) | Geometrical and Mechanical Cues Guide Collective Cell Migration | 21/1/2014 16.00 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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| Dr Benoit Loppinet (FORTH, Crete, Greece) | Polydienes solutions and soft matter non linear optics | 3/12/2013 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Zvonimir Dogic (Brandeis) | Colloidal rafts in a flatland | 26/11/2013 16.00 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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| Prof Sigurdur Thoroddsen (KAUST, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) | Using drop impacts to study the breakup of submicron liquid and air sheets | 19/11/2013 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Richard Jones (University of Sheffield) | TBA {notice: different venue} | 12/11/2013 16.00 | Sciama Lecture Theatre
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| Dr Dominic Vella (OCCAM, University of Oxford) | Elasticity and attraction (from Elastocapillarity to Magnetoelasticity) | 5/11/2013 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Paul Verkade (University of Bristol) | Correlative Light Electron Microscopy: 1 + 1 = 3 | 29/10/2013 16.00 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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| Edouard Hannezo (Institut Curie) | Epithelial cell morphology in 3D: a model of active foams | 24/10/2013 14.30 | Seminar Room 501 Denys Wilkinson Building
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| Dr Yongxiang Gao (PTCL, University of Oxford) | Probing large-scale structural dynamics of spinodal decomposition en route to colloidal gelation | 22/10/2013 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Prof Dirk Aarts (PTCL, University of Oxford) | Contact line - Quo vadis? | 15/10/2013 16.00 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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| Pietro Tierno (Barcelona) | Depinning and collective dynamics of magnetically driven colloidal monolayers | 11/6/2013 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Paddy Royall (Bristol) | The role of structure in the glass transition | 20/5/2013 16.45 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Stefan Egelhaaf (Düsseldorf) | Colloidal suspensions in external fields | 14/5/2013 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Daan Frenkel (Cambridge) | Hinshelwood Lecture 6: Multivalency: why one plus one is not two | 9/5/2013 11.15 | PTCL Main Lecture Theatre
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| Daan Frenkel (Cambridge) | Hinshelwood Lecture 5: Simulations: the dark side | 7/5/2013 11.15 | PTCL Main Lecture Theatre
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| Daan Frenkel (Cambridge) | Hinshelwood Lecture 4: Experiments as simulations | 2/5/2013 11.15 | PTCL Main Lecture Theatre
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| Daan Frenkel (Cambridge) | Hinshelwood Lecture 3: Packing and over-packing | 1/5/2013 11.15 | PTCL Main Lecture Theatre
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| Daan Frenkel (Cambridge) | Hinshelwood Lecture 2: The birth of a crystal | 25/4/2013 11.15 | PTCL Main Lecture Theatre
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| Sarah Keller (Washington) | Direct observation of dynamics within lipid membranes, a (roughly) 2D system influenced by bulk water in 3D | 24/4/2013 16.00 | Wolfson Seminar Room, CRL
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| Igor Muševič (Jožef Stefan Institute Ljubljana) | Topology and self assembly of nematic colloids | 23/4/2013 16.00 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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| Daan Frenkel (Cambridge) | Hinshelwood Lecture 1: Order from disorder | 23/4/2013 11.15 | PTCL Main Lecture Theatre
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| Kamal Dingle (Oxford) | Algorithmic complexity and evolution (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 16.20 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Petr Šulc (Oxford) | Coarse-grained modelling of nucleic acids (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 16.00 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Ryan Harrison (Oxford) | Simulating DNA bending (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 15.40 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Douwe Bonthuis (Oxford) | Electrokinetics in nanopores (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 15.00 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Dayinta Perrier (Oxford) | Colloids in ionic liquids (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 14.40 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Alex Smith (Oxford) | Interactions in ionic liquids (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 14.20 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Nico Cousens (Oxford) | The electrochemical surface force apparatus (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 14.00 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Rodrigo Ledesma (Oxford) | Microswimming in an elastic tube (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 12.40 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Anatolij Gelimson (Oxford) | Chemotactic colloids/bacteria (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 12.20 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Rachel Bennett (Oxford) | Chlamydomonas (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 12.00 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Sumesh Thampi (Oxford) | Velocity Correlations in an Active Nematic (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 11.40 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Lisa Moevius (Oxford) | Bouncing pancakes (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 11.20 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Sitiaminah Setu (Oxford) | Drop spitting instability at ultralow interfacial tension (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 10.30 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Sam Ivell (Oxford) | Emerging structural disorder in a suspension of uniformly dimpled colloidal particles (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 10.10 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Colin Reynolds (Oxford) | Field-induced assembly in magnetic colloidal systems (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 09.50 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Francois Lavergne (Oxford) | Grain boundary dynamics in 2D colloidal crystals (Softbio Day) | 17/4/2013 09.30 | Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
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| Urs Gasser (Paul Scherrer Institute) | Form factor of pNIPAM microgels in overpacked states | 5/3/2013 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Stefan Egelhaaf (Düsseldorf) | Colloidal suspensions in external fields | 19/2/2013 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Susan Perkin (Oxford) | Colloidal forces and friction across films of electrolytes and ionic liquids | 12/2/2013 16.00 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory
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| George Jackson (Imperial) | Defining the pressure and interfacial tension in inhomogeneous systems: the devil is in the virial | 5/2/2013 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Rene van Roij (Utrecht) | Harvesting “blue” energy from mixing river and sea water with carbon (super) capacitors | 28/1/2013 14.15 | PTCL Main Lecture Theatre
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| Bob Cohen (MIT) | Hysteretic wetting phenomena: characterisation and applications | 22/1/2013 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Sylvie Roke (EPFL) | The origin of the charge on the surface of water: impurities, OH− or charge transfer? | 27/11/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Judy Armitage (Oxford) | Bacterial swimming and taxis | 20/11/2012 16.00 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory
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| Björn Högberg (Karolinska Institute) | Design challenges in DNA origami for biomedicine | 13/11/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| David Bensimon (LPS-ENS, Paris) | Are bacteria playing tit-for-tat? | 6/11/2012 16.00 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory
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| Rodrigo Soto (Chile) | Fluctuations, phase transitions, and capillary phenomena in confined granular matter | 30/10/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Robijn Bruinsma (UCLA & Leiden) | The physics of hearing | 23/10/2012 16.00 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory
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| Arran Curran (Oxford) | Tuning into noise using holographic optical tweezers | 16/10/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Achilles Kapanidis (Oxford) | Single molecules meet systems biology: nucleic acid polymerases at work in single E. coli cells | 9/10/2012 16.00 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory
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| Wilma Olson (Rutgers) | Simulated looping propensities of protein-decorated DNA | 10/9/2012 16.00 | Audrey Wood Room, Martin Wood Building
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| David Swigon (Pittsburgh) | DNA elasticity and its biological implications | 10/9/2012 15.00 | Audrey Wood Room, Martin Wood Building
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| Stefano Sacanna (New York) | Shaping colloids for self-assembly | 29/5/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Felix Ritort (Barcelona) | Unraveling free energy landscapes of nucleic acids by mechanically unzipping single molecules | 15/5/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| William Durham (Oxford) | The impact of flow on microbial ecology: phytoplankton patchiness and bacterial biofilm development in porous media | 1/5/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Kamaludin Dingle (Oxford) | Simplicity bias in genotype-phenotype maps | 26/4/2012 13.00 | DWB Fisher Room
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| Rava da Silveira (Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'ENS, Paris) | The orchestral brain: coding with correlated neurons | 24/4/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Georg Maret (Konstanz) | KTHNY in two-dimensional colloidal crystals | 6/3/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Ramin Golestanian (Oxford) | Hydrodynamic synchronisation, co-ordination and signalling | 2/3/2012 10.00 | Audrey Wood Room, Clarendon Laboratory
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| Roberto Piazza (Milano) | What is buoyancy? Surprises and puzzles in sedimentation | 21/2/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Marco Leoni (Bristol) | Order and hydrodynamic fluctuations in active suspensions | 16/2/2012 13.00 | DWB Fisher Room
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| Tom Duke (UCL) | Force generation in the lamellipodia of crawling cells | 14/2/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Olivier Martin (Paris Sud) | Biological networks: from function to structure | 7/2/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Enkeleida Lushi (Imperial) | The importance of hydrodynamic interactions in the colonial dynamics of micro-organisms | 31/1/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Dušan Babič (Ljubljana) | Colloidal structures of low dimensionality | 24/1/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Anne-Florence Bitbol (Paris-Diderot) | Statistics and dynamics of complex membranes | 19/1/2012 13.00 | DWB Fisher Room
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| Daniel Beysens (CEA & ESPCI, Paris) | Dew | 17/1/2012 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Andrew Goodwin (Oxford) | Structure determination of disordered materials | 29/11/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Peter Keim (Konstanz) | Dynamic arrest in an amorphous 2D colloidal system | 22/11/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Douwe Jan Bonthuis (Freie Universität Berlin) | Dielectric profile of interfacial water and its effect on double layer capacitance, electrophoretic mobility and surface conductivity | 17/11/2011 13.00 | DWB Fisher Room
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| David McGloin (Dundee) | Development of optical control techniques for aerosols, emulsion droplets and microbubbles | 15/11/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Mustansir Barma (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) | TBC | 8/11/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Jürgen Horbach (Düsseldorf) | From localisation transitions to micro-rheology: one-particle dynamics in glassforming soft-sphere mixtures | 1/11/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Kamaludin Dingle (Oxford) | Phenotypic bias in genotype-phenotype maps | 27/10/2011 13.00 | DWB Fisher Room
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| Roland Winkler (Forschungszentrum Jülich) | Mesoscale hydrodynamic simulation of polymers in flow fields | 25/10/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Dominic Vella (Oxford) | The physics of floating and sinking | 20/10/2011 13.00 | DWB Fisher Room
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| Karsten Kruse (Universität des Saarlandes) | Spontaneous actin waves | 18/10/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Ho-Young Kim (Seoul National University) | Hydrodynamics of writing with ink | 11/10/2011 11.15 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| David B. Searls (Pennsylvania) | Macromolecules, languages and automata | 3/10/2011 14.00 | DWB Seminar Room
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| Mark Curtis (Oxford) | Linked sphere swimmers in a linearly (Maxwell) viscoelastic fluid | 5/7/2011 10.00 | Audrey Wood Room, Martin Wood Building
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| Eugenia Corvera Poiré (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) | Slippage, stratification and flow control in microfluidics | 9/6/2011 13.00 | DWB Fisher Room
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| Sarah Harris (Leeds) | Molecular mayhem! Dynamics, defects and disorder: modelling biomacromolecules with supercomputers | 7/6/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Josef Käs (Leipzig) | Are biomechanical changes necessary for tumour progression? | 31/5/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Albert Philipse (Utrecht) | Cubic crystals from cubic colloids | 24/5/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Vinodkumar Saranathan (Oxford) | Evolutionary photonics: Structure, function, self-assembly and evolution of bio-photonic nanostructures | 19/5/2011 13.00 | DWB Fisher Room
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| Peter Lenz (Marburg) | How a bacterial cell organizes its interior – a theoretical physics approach | 17/5/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Christoph Schmidt (Göttingen) | Active biomaterials: from model systems to cells | 3/5/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Philip Tinnefeld (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) | DNA origami meets single-molecule spectroscopy | 1/4/2011 10.00 | Dobson Room, Atmospheric Physics
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| Kristian Müller-Nedebock (Stellenbosch) | Some equilibrium and non-equilibrium perspectives on actively cross-linked networks | 30/3/2011 16.00 | DWB Fisher Room
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| Helmut Schiessel (Leiden) | Euler's elastica and their applications to DNA, nucleosomes and chromatin fibres | 8/3/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Seth Fraden (Brandeis) | Active emulsions | 1/3/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Stephen Peppin (OCCAM, Oxford) | Dynamics of colloidal particles in ice | 22/2/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Jens Eggers (Bristol) | The physics of receding contact lines | 15/2/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Peter Holmqvist (Forschungzentrum Jülich) | Dynamics in charged colloidal suspension in liquid, crystal and glass state | 8/2/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Marco Polin (Cambridge) | Locomotion of a green flagellate | 1/2/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Stephen Mann (Bristol) | Integrative assembly of nanoscale constructs: from hybrid nanostructures to solvent-less proteins | 25/1/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| William Sampson (Manchester) | Modelling interdependence of pore size and specific surface area in electrospun polymer fibre networks | 18/1/2011 16.00 | PTCL JSR Seminar Room
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| Ian Griffiths (Oxford) | Mathematical modelling of complex fluids: colloids and surfactants | 2/12/2010 13.00 | DWB Fisher Room
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| Agnes Noy (Oxford) | The 3D code of DNA | 21/10/2010 13.00 | DWB Fisher Room
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