Unless noted otherwise, seminars take place on Tuesdays at 1:15 p.m.
in Room 1116, IPST Building 085.
By tradition, each seminar is preceded
by an informal cafeteria lunch to which all are welcome, departing from
Room 1108 about five minutes after 12:00 noon.
This seminar is organized by
Professors Michelle Girvan, Christopher Jarzynski and John D. Weeks. Please send suggestions
for speakers to Stacey Bremerman,
sbremerm at umd.edu.
For further information, contact:
Professor Christopher Jarzynski, cjarzyns at umd.edu (301)-405-4439
Professor John Weeks, jdw at @ipst.umd.edu (301)-405-4802
Professor Michelle Girvan, girvan at @umd.edu (301)-405-1610
September 8
Professor Srinivasa Raghavan, UMCP
Advancing the Field of Self-Assembly Using "Old" Molecules and Nanoparticles
September 22
Professor Zuzanna Siwy, UC Irvine
Bioinspired Nonlinear Ionic Systems: Fluctuations and Oscillations in Single Nanopores
September 29
Christopher Bertrand (speaker) and Professor Mikhail Anisimov, UMCP
Effects of critical fluctuations on asymmetric interfaces
October 6
Dr. Sam Walcott, Johns Hopkins University
Application of Load-dependent Chemical Reactions: Biological Friction and Cell Mechanosensation
October 13
Professor Christopher Jarzynski, UMCP
Control theory under the microscope: guiding the motion of synthetic molecular motors
October 20
Dr. David Andrieux, Yale University
Emergence of molecular information in nonequilibrium copolymerizations
October 27
Dr. Amy Cassidy, NIST
Thermalization near Integrability in the 1D Bose-Hubbard model
November 3
Professor Leah Shaw, The College of William and Mary
Epidemic Spread and Control Strategies on Adaptive Networks
November 10
Maryland Biophysics Symposium
November 17
Dr. Ngo Minh Toan, UMCP
Theory of biopolymer stretching at high forces: the wormlike chain or the freely-jointed chain model?
December 1
Dr. Zhonghan Hu, Columbia University
Improving the efficiency and accuracy of LMF theory for systems with
long-ranged intermolecular interactions