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
January 31
Professor Victor Galitski, UMCP
Dual Approach to Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanics and Topological Dynamical Systems
February 7
Professor Jan Sengers, UMCP
New developments in nonequilibrium fluctuations in fluids
February 14
Dr. Nick Mecholsky
Continuum modeling of the equilibrium and stability of animal flocks
February 21
Professor Gregory Chirikjian, Johns Hopkins University
Entropy and Self-Replicating Robots
February 28
APS March Meeting
No Seminar
March 6
Dr. Jordan Horowitz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Thermodynamics with Feedback: Extracting Work from Information
March 13
Cell Dynamics Symposium
No Seminar
March 20
SPRING BREAK
No Seminar
March 27
Mr. Shule Liu
Amphiphilic Liquids Near Hydrophilic Silica Surfaces: Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Experiments
April 3
Dr. Sergio Hassan
Water in the Living Cell: Combining Liquid Structure and Dielectric Theories in Simulations of Biological Environments.
April 10
Mr. Rick Remsing
Dissecting Hydrophobic Solvation in Water from Small to Large Length Scales
April 17
Dean Jayanth Banavar, UMCP
The Geometry of Life
April 24
Professor Austen Angell, Arizona State University
Glass Transitions and Critical Points in Orientationally Disordered Crystals and Structural Glassformers: "Strong" Liquids are More Interesting Than We Thought