Multicomponent Dark Matter: Possible Signatures at Colliders, Satellites, and Underground Experiments
When: Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 11:00 amWhere: DA 218
Speaker: Gregory Peim
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Preliminary Reserach Seminar
When the Beat Goes Off: Mutually Interacting Complex Systems
When: Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 1:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Dr. Holger Hennig
Organization: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard university, Visiting Scholar, University of Bremen, Germany
Sponsor: CCNR
Social Behavior Optimizes Bacterial Swarming
When: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Mark Alber
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Biocomplexity, Departments of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics and Physics
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity of Retroviral Nucleocapsid Proteins
When: Monday, June 10, 2013 at 1:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Hao Wu
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Thesis Defense
The Unexpected Photolability of Heme Cyanide
When: Thursday, June 06, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Paul Champion
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Pretreatment Deconstruction of Nanoscale Architecture in Corn Stover
When: Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Lee Makowski
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Multi-Scale Mechanics and Mechano-Adaptation in Bone
When: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at 11:00 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Associate Professor Sandra Shefelbine
Organization: Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
Sponsor: CIRCS
Biomolecule Analysis with Nanopores in Graphene and Other Thin Solid-State Membranes
When: Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Marija Drndić
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
The Structure and Implications of the Global Language Network
When: Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 1:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Cesar Hidalgo, Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Asahi Broadcast Corporation Career development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
Organization: Shahar Ronen, Master's Candidate, Macro Connections Group, MIT Media Lab
Sponsor: CCNR Joint Network Seminar
Bottom-Up Biological Interfaces on 2D Materials
When: Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Gina-Mirela Mustata
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
What, If Anything, Do We Learn by Fitting an Exponential-Family Random Graph Model?
When: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Cosma Shalizi (CMU)
Sponsor: Co-sponsored by NULab, Lazer Lab, CCNR
New Tests of General Relativity: Next Generation Lunar Laser Ranging
When: Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Douglas Currie
Organization: Physics, U. Maryland
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Propagation of Errors in Local Cortical Circuits
When: Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Julio Chaperton
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Popularity Versus Similarity in Growing Networks
When: Thursday, May 09, 2013 at 1:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Maksim Kitsak
Organization: Physics Department, Northeastern University
Sponsor: CCNR Joint Network Seminar
Effects of Duschinsky Mixing on Proton Transfer Kinetics in Green Fluorescent Protein
When: Thursday, May 09, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Bridget Salna
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Light-Matter Interaction in Graphene-Silicon Cavity
When: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Tingyi Gu
Organization: PhD Candidate, Columbia University
Sponsor: Joint Physics/Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar
New Metrics for Economic Complexity: Measuring the Intangible Growth Potential of Countries
When: Friday, May 03, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Luciano Pietronero
Organization: Institute of Complex Systems, ISC-CNR, and University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Sponsor: MoBS
Definitive Detection of Dark Matter with Directional Devices
When: Thursday, May 02, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: James Battat
Organization: Bryn Mawr College
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Applications of Confocal Microscopy
When: Thursday, May 02, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Jennifer Lipps
Organization: Department of Physiology, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Statistical Inference, Machine Learning, and Large-Scale Structure in Networks
When: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Mark Newman
Organization: University of Michigan
Sponsor: CCNR
Quantum Criticality in Condensed Matter: Field Theory Versus Gauge-Gravity Duality
When: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Subir Sachdev
Organization: Harvard University
Sponsor: Condensed Matter Theory
Statistical Physics in the Era of Big Data
When: Friday, April 26, 2013 at 2:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Dashun Wang
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Thesis Defense
Network Physiology: Mapping Interactions Between Complex Physiological Systems
When: Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 1:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Plamen Ch. Ivanov, PhD, DSc
Organization: Physics Department, Boston University, Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Sponsor: CCNR Joint Network Seminar
Single Enzymes Kinetics Using Nanopores and Microscopy
When: Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Andrey Demidov
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Synthesis, Properties and Applications of GaN Nanowires
When: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Zhen Ma
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Thesis Defense
Investigations of Mechanical Properties of Polymer Brushes and Hydrogels Through Molecular Dynamics Simulation
When: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Yangpeng Ou
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Thesis Defense
Loss of Stability and Resilience Before a Tipping Point Leading to Population Collapse
When: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Lei Dai
Organization: PhD Student, GORElaboratory, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsor: CCNR
Statistical Mechanics of Temporal and Interacting Networks
When: Monday, April 22, 2013 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Kun Zhao
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Thesis Defense
Cellular Mechanisms of Calcium-Mediated Triggered Activity
When: Monday, April 22, 2013 at 11:00 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Zhen Song
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Thesis Defense
Toward Whole-Cell Models for Bioengineering
When: Monday, April 22, 2013 at 3:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Jonathan Karr
Organization: Graduate Student, Biophysics and Translational Medicine, Stanford University
Sponsor: CCNR
Phase-Field Crystal Modeling of Polycrystalline Materials
When: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 11:00 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Ari Adland
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Thesis Defense
The Asymmetry of Life: From Phase Transitions to Astrobiology
When: Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Marcelo Gleiser
Organization: Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Optical Tweezers Reveal How Proteins Alter Replication
When: Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 1:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Kathy Chaurasiya
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Thesis Defense
The Asymmetry of Life: From Phase Transitions to Astrobiology
When: Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Marcelo Gleiser
Organization: Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
Sponsor: Physics Colloqium
Graphene-based Photodetectors
When: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Fangze Liu
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Mechanics of Ribosomal Translocation
When: Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dmitri Ermolenko
Organization: University of Rochester Medical Center
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Statistical Physics in the Era of Big Data
When: Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 1:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Dashun Wang
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: CCNR Joint Network Seminar
Architectural Role of HMO1 in Bending, Bridging, and Compacting DNA
When: Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Divakaran Murugesapillai
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Neural Circuit Tracing
When: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Rohan Gala
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Co-op Experiences – Josh Kuperstein
When: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Josh Kuperstein
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Co-op Experiences: Rahul Desai
When: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 12:20 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Rahul Desai
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Co-op Experiences: Illiana Athanasiou
When: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 12:40 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Illiana Athanasiou
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Nonequilibrium Nanoscale Self-Organization Under Irradiation
When: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Mike Aziz
Organization: Harvard University
Sponsor: CIRCS
Shedding New Light on High Tc Electronic Infrastructure: From Top Down
When: Thursday, April 04, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Ruihua He
Organization: Boston College
Sponsor: Physics Colloqium
Resilience: Measurement Framework and Applications
When: Thursday, April 04, 2013 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Igor Linkov, PhD
Organization: Risk and Decision Science Focus Area Lead, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Adjunct Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Sponsor: CCNR Joint Network Seminar
Progress in the Nanoscale Biophysics Lab
When: Thursday, April 04, 2013 at 12:00 PMWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Assistant Professor Meni Wanunu
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Nanopores: Detecting DNA Sequence and Secondary Structure
When: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Spencer Carson
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Nano-Bio Innovation Seminar
When: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 at 4:40 pmWhere: SH 335
Speaker: Paul Glavin, PhD
Organization: Life Sciences Interface Group, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Science & Technology
Nano-Bio Innovation Seminar
When: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 at 5:30 pmWhere: SH 335
Speaker: Adnan Nasir, MD, PhD
Organization: Clinical Professor of Dermatology, UNC Chapel Hill
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Science & Technology
Iron Superconductors: A Brief Introduction to Effective Low-Energy Models and Some RPA Results
When: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Martins
Organization: Oakland University, Michigan
Sponsor: Condensed Matter Physics
Dynamical Correlation Length Scales and Dynamical Heterogeneity in Colloidal-Hard-Sphere Systems Approaching the Glass Transition
When: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Mackenzie Bennett
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Rebuilding a Human: An Exploration of the Advancements of Prosthetic Limbs
When: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 at 12:30Where: EG 306
Speaker: Dave Margolius
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Spring-Block Model Reveals Geographic Regions
When: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Gabriell Máte
Organization: PhD Student, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University
Sponsor: CCNR
Quantified Curiosity
When: Monday, April 01, 2013 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Amy Robinson
Organization: Creative Director, Eyewire, the Seung Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsor: CCNR Seminar
ATLAS Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
When: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Katherine Copic
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Control of Synchronization Patterns in Neural-like Boolean Networks
When: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: David Rosin
Organization: Research Scientist, Physics Department, Duke University
Sponsor: CCNR Seminar
Disrupting Nucleosome Core Particles
When: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Micah McCauley
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Growth and Properties of Magnetic MnxGa Nanostructures
When: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Michelle Jamer
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Co-op Experiences: James Jaconetta
When: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: James Jaconetta
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Nano-Bio Innovation Seminar
When: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 4:40 pmWhere: SH 335
Speaker: Professor Thomas Webster
Organization: Chairman and Professor, Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Science & Technology
Order Through Disorder: Entropy Driven Self-Assembly
When: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Zvonimir Dogic
Organization: Brandeis University
Sponsor: Physics Colloqium
Fast CO Binding to Heme Proteins
When: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Abdelkrim Bennabas
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Architectural role of HMO1 in Bending, Bridging and Packaging DNA
When: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Divakaran Murugesapillai
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Nano-Bio Innovation Seminar
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 4:40 pmWhere: SH 335
Speaker: Marie D'Iorio
Organization: Executive Director, NRC, National Institute for Nanotechnology
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Science & Technology
Nano-Bio Innovation Seminar
When: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 5:30 pmWhere: SH 335
Speaker: Job Elders
Organization: Director, Zinnergy Innovation Fund
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Science & Technology
Geometric Algebra
When: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Patrick Wong
Organization: President SPS, Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Liquid State of (Elastomeric) Proteins
When: Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Régis Pomès
Organization: Senior Scientist, Molecular Struture and Function, Hospital for Sick Children, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Recoiling Nuclei Probe Biomolecular Structure and Elasticity
When: Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Tim Sage
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Smashing Atoms for Medicine
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Ron Moore
Organization: Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Evidence of Optical Band Gap in Few-layered Topological Insulator Bismuth Selenide
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Anthony Vargas
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Doped Antiferromagnetic Mott Insulators in Two Dimensions
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 218
Speaker: Lev Vidmar
Organization: Department of Physics and Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Sponsor: Condensed Matter Seminar
Co-op Experiences: Nick Perry – Fabrication of Waveguides and Photonic Crystals for Electric Field Sensors
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Nick Perry
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Co-op Experiences: Stefan Halvorsen
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 12:30 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Stefan Halvorsen
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Co-op Experiences – Nicholas Perry
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Nicholas Perry
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Graphene: A Physicist VIew of the “Wonder Material”
When: Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Eva Andrei
Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Slowing Down DNA with Nanopores in Ultra-thin Solid State Membranes
When: Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Joseph Larkin
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Lévy Flight Strategies in Human Mental Searches
When: Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 1:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Andrea Baronchelli
Organization: MoBS, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Joint Network Seminar
Synthesis, Properties and Application Of GaN Nanowires
When: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Zheng Ma
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Physics and Geometry of Large Networks
When: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dmitri Krioukuv
Organization: Senior Research Scientist, Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), University of California San Diego (UCSD)
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Nano-Bio Innovation Seminar
When: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 4:40 pmWhere: SH 335
Speaker: Jonathan Fleming
Organization: Managing Partner, Oxford Biosciences Partners
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Science & Technology
Universal Properties of Citation Distributions
When: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Filippo Radicchi
Organization: Senior Researcher, Departament d'Enginyeria Quimica, University Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
The Versatility of Dirac Electrons in Graphene
When: Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Pablo Jarillo-Hererro
Organization: MIT
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Using Molecular Simulation to Understand Cellulose Dissolution Mechanisms
When: Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Ahmed E. Ismail
Organization: Department of Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Interacting and Multi-type Networks
When: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Elizabeth A. Leicht
Organization: Senior Research Fellow, Said Business School, University of Oxford
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Mirage Models Confront the LHC: Kahler-Stabilized Heterotic String Theory
When: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Bryan Kaufman
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Nano-Bio Innovation Seminar
When: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 4:40 pmWhere: SH 335
Speaker: Douglas W. Jamison
Organization: Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Harris & Harris VC
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Science & Technology
The Interplay Between Networks and Bayesian Models in the Analysis of Cell Phone Data
When: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 3:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Adrian Dobra
Organization: Associate Professor of Statistics & Nursing, University of Washington
Sponsor: CCNR Seminar
Stochastic Movement Variability in Humans: Cognitive Developmental Effects
When: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Jorge Jose
Organization: Vice President for Research, Indiana University
Sponsor: CIRCS
Multiscale Modeling of Membrane Transporters
When: Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Ronald Hills
Organization: University of New England
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Quantifying DNA Interactions with Smaller Molecules
When: Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Mark Williams
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Class of Variational Wave-Functions for the Spin-Coherent Ground State of a Luttinger Liquid Coupled to a Spin Bath
When: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Mohammad Soltanieh ha
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Co-op Experiences – Max Turnquist
When: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 12:00 PMWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Max Turnquist
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
21st Century Innovation/Technology
When: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 4:40 pmWhere: SH 335
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Donofrio
Organization: Former Vice Chairman of IBM
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Science & Technology
The PDS Biotechnology Story
When: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 5:30 pmWhere: SH 335
Speaker: Dr. Frank Bedu-Addo
Organization: President and CEO, PDS Biotechnology Corporation
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Science & Technology
Why Humans and Animals Create Networks
When: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Lazaros Gallos
Organization: Research Associate, Department of Ecology, Rutgers University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
SPS Journal Club Meeting
When: Friday, February 08, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 140
Speaker: Informational Meeting
Sponsor: SPS
Networks for Public Health: Social Mixing Among School Children
When: Thursday, February 07, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Hasan Guclu
Organization: Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Public Health Dynamics Lab, University of Pittsburgh
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Fabrication, Simulation, and Application of Solid-State Nanopores
When: Thursday, February 07, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Spencer Carson
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Translating Cancer Nanomedicines from Lab to Clinic: the NCI Cancer Nanotechnology Initiative
When: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 at 4:40 pmWhere: SH 335
Speaker: Dr. Piotr Grodzinski
Organization: Director, NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Science & Technology Center
Random Partitioning of Molecules at Cell Division
When: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Mathew Chamberlain
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Kuramoto Model with Frequency-Degree Correlations on Complex Networks
When: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Bruno Coutinho
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Critical Dynamics in Balanced Excitable Networks: Neuronal Avalanches, Dynamic Range, and Ceaseless Activity
When: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Daniel Larremore
Organization: Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Sponsor: CCNR Seminar
Hunting for the Higgs Boson at ATLAS
When: Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Sarah Demers
Organization: Yale University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Measuring the Energy Landscape of Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity
When: Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Micah McCauley
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
General Theory and Experiments on Low Energy Nuclear Transmutations [LENT]
When: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Yogendra Srivastava
Organization: Emeritus Professor of Physics, Northeastern University, INFN & Department of Physics, Director Project Preparata, Universita Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Sponsor: SPS
The Thiel Foundation and Breakout Labs: Accelerating Innovation and Redefining Early Stage Start-Up Funding
When: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 4:40 pmWhere: SH 335
Speaker: Lindy Fishburne
Organization: Executive Director, Breakout Labs
Sponsor: Nano-Bio Innovation Web Seminar, IGERT Nanomedicine Science & Technology Center
Magnetotransport in Topological Materials
When: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Badih Assaf
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Primordial Non-Gaussianity and Fundamental Physics in the Very Early Universe
When: Monday, January 28, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Xingang Chen
Organization: Stephen Hawking Advanced Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
Sponsor: High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutrino Physics with the Enriched Xenon Observatory
When: Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Michelle Dolinski
Organization: Drexel University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Automated Neural Circuit Reconstruction
When: Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Rohan Gala
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Funding Your Venture with Federal SBIR and STTR Grants
When: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 4:40 pmWhere: SH 335
Speaker: Dr. Ben Schrag
Organization: Program Director, NSF
Sponsor: Nano-Bio Innovation Web Seminar, IGERT Nanomedicine Science & Technology Center
Surface Composition and Electronic Structure of Colloidal CdSe and PbSe Nanocrystals Probed by Positron Annihilation
When: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Bernardo Barbiellini
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Green Sulfur Bacteria: Nature’s Proton Junkie
When: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Alan Aspuru-Guzik
Organization: Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Understanding Spatially Extended Active Sites in Enzymes
When: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Mary Jo Ondrechen
Organization: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Commercializing Nanotechnology: The NanoTerra Approack
When: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 4:40 pmWhere: SH 335
Speaker: Myer Berlow
Organization: Chairman/Founder Nano Terra
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Science & Technology Center
The Electromagnetic Equation
When: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Patrick Wong
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
TBA
When: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Colin Rees
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Chiroptical Effects from Achiral Plasmonic Structures
When: Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Ben Moaz
Organization: Tel Aviv University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Semantic Networks of Interests in Online NSSI Communities
When: Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 1:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Dmitry Zinoviev and Dan Stefanescu of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department; Lance Swenson and Gary Fireman of the Psychology Department
Organization: Suffolk University
Sponsor: CCNR Seminar
Structure-Function Relations in Proteins from Rangifer Tarandus Northpolica [Evolutionary Adaptations in Santa's Reindeer]
When: Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Lee Makowski
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Aspects of Quantum Magnetism in Quasi One-Dimensional Materials
When: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Francesco Casola
Organization: ETH, Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Exact Calculations in the 1D Continuum for DFT and Beyond
When: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Miles Stoudenmire
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Synthesis, Properties and Application of GaN Nanowires
When: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 10:00 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Zheng Ma
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Preliminary Research Seminar
Dynamics of and on Complex Networks
When: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Arda Halu
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Preliminary Research Seminar
Measuring and Propagating Influence in Networks
When: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Sinan Aral
Organization: Assistant Professor and Microsoft Faculty Fellow
Sponsor: CCNR
Interacting Networks with Antagonistic Interactions
When: Thursday, December 06, 2012 at 1:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Ginestra Bianconi
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Joint Network Seminar
Detection of Nucleic Acid Tertiary Structure Using a Solid State Nanopore
When: Thursday, December 06, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Daniel Stoloff
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Statistical Mechanics of Collective Dynamics
When: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Dashun Wang
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Preliminary Research Seminar
Discussion on Simplicial Gravity
When: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: CSC 342
Speaker: Patrick Wong
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Nanomedicine, Nano-optics, and Neurotechnologies
When: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Srinivas Sridhar
Organization: Director, IGERT Nanomedicine Science and Technology NCI/NSF Program Director, Electronic Materials Research Institute, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Modeling Electronic Structure and Spectroscopy in Correlated Materials and Topological Insulators
When: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Yung-Jui Wang
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Thesis Defense
Tʹ Symmetry and the Neutrino Mixing Revolution
When: Monday, December 03, 2012 at 4:15 pmWhere: DA 218
Speaker: David Eby
Organization: University of North Carolina
Sponsor: High Energy Theory Seminar
Statistical Mechanics of Temporal and Interacting Networks
When: Monday, December 03, 2012 at 4:15 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Kun Zhao
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Preliminary Research Seminar
Network Analysis of Patent Citations
When: Monday, December 03, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Jan Tobochnik
Organization: Distinguished Professor of Natural Science, Departments of Physics and Computer Science, Kalamazoo College
Sponsor: CCNR
Structural Chromosome Maintenance in Bacteria
When: Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Valentin V. Rybenkov
Organization: University of Oklahoma
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Synaptic Connectivity in a Metabolically Constrained Neural Network Model
When: Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Julio Chapeton
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Co-op Experiences: Behavior of Microspheres in a Colloidal System
When: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: CSC 342
Speaker: Christopher Wagenbach
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Experimental Particle Physics at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
When: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Emanuela Barberis
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Conservation of Complex Knotting and Slipknotting Patterns in Proteins
When: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Joanna I. Sulkowska
Organization: University of Warsaw & Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California San Diego
Sponsor: Special Physics Seminar
Approximate Cloaking Using Tranformation Optics and Negative Index Materials
When: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 11:00 amWhere: LA 511
Speaker: Hoai-Minh Nguyen
Organization: University of Minnesota
Sponsor: Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics Seminar
Weakening Gravity at Short Distances and Times
When: Monday, November 26, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Anupam Mazumdar
Organization: Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Sponsor: HET Seminar
Visual and Exploratory Network Analysis for Social Scientists
When: Monday, November 19, 2012 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Paul Girard
Organization: Sciences Po medialab, Paris France
Sponsor: CCNR Seminar
Lessons from Nature on Molecular Engineering
When: Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Gevorg Grigoryan
Organization: Dartmouth College
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Dynamical Modularity in Regulation of Mammalian Proliferation
When: Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 1:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Erzsébet Ravasz
Organization: Medicine at the Center for Vascular Biology Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
Sponsor: Joint Network Seminar
Lessons from Nature on Molecular Engineering
When: Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Gevorg Grigoryan
Organization: Dartmouth College
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
The Energy Landscape of Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity
When: Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Micah McCauley
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Diffusing Information and Reaching Agreement in Networks: Convergence and Resilience
When: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: DR. Shreyas Sundaram
Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
Sponsor: CCNR Seminar
Co-op Experiences – Christa Hoskins
When: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: CSC 342
Speaker: Christa Hoskins
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Modeling the Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Epilepsy
When: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Dr. Gerold Baier
Organization: Medical Systems Biology, University of Manchester
Sponsor: CCNR Seminar
Nanomechanics of Native and Engineered Musculoskeletal Tissues: Towards a Fundamental, Quantitative Mechanistic Understanding of Tissue Function, Quality, and Pathology
When: Friday, November 09, 2012 at 1:00 pmWhere: CSC 333
Speaker: Dr. Christine Ortiz
Organization: Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Seminar
Photodissociation of Cyanide from Ferric MbCN – A Study by Resonance Raman Spectroscopy
When: Thursday, November 08, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Bridge Zeng
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Quantum Matter: Topological Insulators, Superconductors and Nanodots
When: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Arun Bansil
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Physics In a Nutshell
When: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: CSC 342
Speaker: Mathew Chamberlain
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Physical Origin of Plasticity Length Scale Effects in Fracture and Deformation
When: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Srinath Chakravarthy
Organization: MIE Department, Northeastern Universy
Sponsor: CIRCS
Universality from Inflation
When: Monday, November 05, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Sean Downes
Organization: Texas A&M
Sponsor: HET Seminar
DNA Interaction Kinetics of HIV-1 NC Protein
When: Thursday, November 01, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Jialin Li
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Preliminary Research Seminar
Modeling and Forecast of Socio-Technical Systems in the Data-Science Age
When: Thursday, November 01, 2012 at 1:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Alessandro Vespignani
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: CCNR Seminar
Distinguishing Microscopic and Macroscopic Mechanisms of DNA Binding Using Optical Tweezers
When: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Mark Williams
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Neurons in Networks: Stochastic Dynamics, Synchronization, Oscillations and Waves
When: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 4:00 PMWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Vincent Hakim
Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Sponsor: CIRCS
Exploring Portraits and Caricatures in Data Visualization
When: Friday, October 26, 2012 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Pedro Miguel Cruz
Sponsor: CCNR Seminar
Temperature Dependence of Proton Transfer Kinetics in the Green Fluorescent Protein
When: Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Bridget Salna
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Theory of Everything (Cuprate)
When: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Robert Markiewicz
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Nano Carbon-based Materials for Energy Research
When: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: CSC 342
Speaker: Professor Swastik Kar
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Fighting Pandemics in the Age of Big Data
When: Friday, October 19, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: WV G 102
Speaker: Professor Alessandro Vespignani
Organization: Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor
Sponsor: PRISM
Nano-Devices for Next Generation Stem Cell Therapeutics, Medical Adhesives, and Drug Delivery Systems
When: Friday, October 19, 2012 at 1:00 pmWhere: CSC 333
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Karp
Organization: Professor in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Seminar
Novel Paradigm for Organization of Peptides on Graphitic and Graphene Surfaces
When: Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Mirela Mustata
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
SPS Journal Club
When: Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 6:00 pmWhere: DA 140
Speaker: Meeting
Sponsor: SPS
Hunting for the Higgs with the CMS Experiment
When: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Assistant Professor Toyoko Orimoto
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Effect of the Electrostatic Interactions on Friction and Lubrication in Polymeric and Biological Systems
When: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Andrey Dobrynin
Organization: University of Connecticut
Sponsor: CIRCS
Space, Time, Matter: from Einstein, Weyl and Pauli to Superstrings
When: Monday, October 15, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Gabriele Veneziano
Organization: College de France / CERN / New York University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
A Quantum Approach to Complex Networks’ Structure
When: Friday, October 12, 2012 at 4:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Silvano Garnerone, PhD
Organization: University of Waterloo, Canada
Sponsor: CCNR
NanoMedicine: Current State of Global R&D, Investment, and Future Outlook
When: Friday, October 12, 2012 at 1:00 pmWhere: CSC 333
Speaker: Dr. Mostafa Analoui
Organization: Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences, The Livingston Group, New York, NY
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Seminar
Fabrication and Properties of Nanocrystal Materials
When: Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Iriving P. Herman
Organization: Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, NY
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Toward DNA Sequencing Using Nanopores
When: Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Andrey Ivankin
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Worldsheet T-Duality and Massive States in Closed String Theory
When: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Jnan Maharana
Organization: Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
Sponsor: High Energy Physics Seminar
Nanoparticles for Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Surgery
When: Friday, October 05, 2012 at 1:00 pmWhere: CSC 340
Speaker: Dr. Hak Soo Choi
Organization: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Center for Molecular Imaging, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Seminar
Architectural Rose of HM01 in Bending, Bridging and Compacting DNA
When: Thursday, October 04, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Divakaran Murugesapillai
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Novel Magnetism, Nanostructures, and Topological Spintronics
When: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Don Heiman
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
CONNECTED: Revealing Connections Both Seen and Unseen
When: Friday, September 28, 2012 at 7:00 pmWhere: Boston Museum of Science
Speaker: Professor Albert-László Barabási
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Museum of Science Lecture
Nanopores as a Tool for Single-Molecule Biophysics
When: Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Assistant Professor Meni Wanunu
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Oligomerization Transforms A3G from a Fast Enzyme to a Slow Binding Protein
When: Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Kathy Chaurasiya
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Understanding Strongly Corrolated Quantum Matter
When: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Assistant Professor Adrian Feiguin
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Regulated Proteolysis in Bacterial Cell Cycle and Development
When: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Peter Chien
Organization: U Mass Amherst
Sponsor: CIRCS
Integration of Nanodiagnostics and Nanotherapeutics: Prospects and Challenges
When: Friday, September 14, 2012 at 1:00 pmWhere: CSC 333
Speaker: Dr. Ratnesh Lal
Organization: Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering/Bioengineering UC San Diego
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Seminar Series
Simultaneous Interaction of E. Coli Single Stranded DNA Binding Protein and Replicative DNA Polymerase III a-subunit with Single-Stranded DNA Molecule
When: Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Kiran Pant
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
First Society of Physics Students Meeting of the Fall Semester
When: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: CSC 342
Sponsor: SPS
Probing the Energy Landscapes of Biomolecular Assemblies
When: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Assistant Professor Paul Whitford
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Sudden Expansion of Interacting Fermions in One-Dimensional Optical Lattices
When: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Fabian Heidrich-Meisner
Organization: LMU Munich
Sponsor: Physics Seminar
Tackling Fluctuations: From Materials Science to Cancer
When: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 4:00 pmSpeaker: Stefano Zapperi
Organization: National Research Council of Italy, IENI, Milano
Sponsor: CIRCS
Damping of Acoustic Vibrations in Gold Nanoparticles
When: Friday, August 24, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Abdelkrim Benabbas
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Distinguishing Microscopic and Macroscopic Mechanisms of DNA Binding
When: Friday, August 17, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Mark Williams
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Optical Resonator Biosensors
When: Thursday, August 16, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Frank Vollmer
Organization: Laboratory of Biophotonics & Biosensing, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Sponsor: CIRCS
High-Energy Resolution Inelastic X-Ray Scattering at the Advanced Photon Source
When: Friday, August 10, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Bogdan Leu
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Application of Graphene to Transistors: CVD Growth, Nanoribbon Formation, and Electrical Properties
When: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: EG 206
Speaker: Shintaro Sato, PhD
Organization: Green Nanoelectronics Research Center (GNC)
Sponsor: NU Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Colloquium Series
The Transient Role of Chromosome Aneuploidy in Evolution to Stress
When: Friday, August 03, 2012 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Dr. Yitzhak (Tzachi) Pilpel
Organization: Senior Scientist, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Sponsor: CCNR
Bacterial Condensin MukBEF: Mechanism and Function of the Chromosomal Architect
When: Thursday, August 02, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Valentin V. Rybenkov
Organization: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma
Sponsor: CIRCS
Allosteric Modulation of Ras GTPase: Protein the Structural Features of a Master Signaling Protein
When: Friday, August 03, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Carla Mattos
Organization: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Automated Tracing of Neurons
When: Friday, July 27, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Stepanyants
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Searching the Human Trancriptome for Novel MAP-Kinase Substrates Utilizing a Docking Motif & Live Cell Imaging of the Tumor Suppressor P53 Oligomer Formation in Response to Ribotoxic Stress
When: Friday, July 20, 2012 at 12:00Where: DA 114
Speaker: Elizabeth Ann Gordon
Organization: UC Irvine
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Physics of Massive Superstrings
When: Monday, July 16, 2012 at 1:30 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Wan-Zhe Feng
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Dissertation Defense
Crystallography, Solution Scattering and the Molecular Basis of Drug Design
When: Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Lee Makowski
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Lepton Quark Unification at the TeV Scale
When: Monday, July 09, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Satya Nandi
Organization: Oklahoma State University
Sponsor: High Energy Seminar
Multiplicity of Ionic Mechanisms Underlying Cardiac Homeostasis and Compensation
When: Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Colin Rees
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Light and Ultrasound in Disordered Media
When: Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 12:00 PMWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Charles A. DiMarzio
Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
New Directions in Science and Technology: Two-Dimensional Crystals
When: Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Antonio Castro Neto
Organization: National University of Singapore & Boston University
Sponsor: Special College of Science Colloquium
The Free Energy Landscapes of TAR RNA & DNA Hairpins
When: Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Micah McCauley
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biiophysical Group Meeting
Holographic 3-Point Functions and Their Applications
When: Monday, June 11, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Chaolun Wu
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Virginia
Sponsor: Physics Seminar
The Road Less Traveled: Mathematical Modeling in Biological Physics with Boundary Integral Equations
When: Thursday, June 07, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Jay Bardhan
Organization: Department of Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
NC Protein Dissociation From DNA Occurs on Multiple Time Scales
When: Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Jialin Li
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Dimuon Signals From CMS
When: Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 11 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Nuno Leonardo
Organization: Purdue University
Sponsor: High Energy Physics Seminar
Chaperone Activities of Retrovirus Nucleocapsid Protein
When: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 12:30 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Hao Wu
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Preliminary Research Seminar
Effect of Base Lesions on the DNA Duplex
When: Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Megan Nunez
Organization: Mount Holyoke College
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Gold Island Films: Properties and Applications in Localized Plasmon Biosensing
When: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 406
Speaker: Professor Israel Rubinstein
Organization: The Weizmann Institute of Science
Sponsor: Special Seminar
Holographic 3-Point Functions and Their Applications
When: Monday, June 11, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Chaolun Wu
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Virginia
Sponsor: High Energy Physics Seminar
Characterizing a CMOS Lock-in Optical Sensor Array for Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy
When: Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 11:30 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Andrew Taylor
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Macromolecular Translocation through Nanopores
When: Thursday, May 03, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Murugappan Muthukumar
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Sponsor: Joint Physics and CIRCS Colloquium
A Re-Visit on Photodissociation of CN- from Ferric MbCN
When: Thursday, May 03, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Weiqiao Zeng
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Decoding Collective Wisdom in Social Networks
When: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Professor Brian Uzzi
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Co-Director, Northwestern Inst. on Complexity Systs. and Network Science (NICO), Richard L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change, Kellogg School of Management, Professor of Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick Engineering
Sponsor: CCNR and Lazar Lab Seminar
Standard Models and Moduli Stabilization in Heterotic Theories
When: Monday, April 30, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Lara Anderson
Organization: Harvard University
Sponsor: Physics Seminar
The Citation Revolution Meets the Identification Revolution: An Introduction to the “New” Economics of Science
When: Friday, April 27, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Professor Pierre Azoulay
Organization: Associate Professor , MIT's Sloan School of Management, Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research Founder, Gifts of Athena
Sponsor: CCNR and Barabási Lab Seminar
Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: Concepts and Applications
When: Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Gabriel Kotliar
Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Causal Networks in Genome-Wide Asssociation Studies
When: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Murat Tasan, PhD
Organization: Research Fellow, Roth Lab, Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto
Sponsor: CCNR and Barabási Lab Seminar
Semiconductor Nanowires: From Growth Control to Device Applications
When: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Albert Davydov
Organization: NIST
Sponsor: CIRCS
Engineering Nanopores for Single-Molecule Detection of Proteins
When: Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Liviu Movileanu
Organization: Syracuse University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Applications of Functional Site Predictor Programs for Designing Small Molecules and Assigning Function to Structural Genomics Protein Structures
When: Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Joslynn Lee
Organization: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
SPS – Final Meeting of the Semester
When: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Sponsor: SPS
Looking Beyond the Standard Model: Invisible Higgs boson Production in pp Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider
When: Friday, April 13, 2012 at 10:00 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Matthew Chasco
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Preliminary Research Seminar
The Search for Second Generation Leptoquark Pair Production in pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the CMS Detector at the LHC
When: Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 9:00 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Darin Baugartel
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Preliminary Research Seminar
TBA
When: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Divakaran Murugesapillai
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Co-op Experiences – Ryan Tuck
When: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Ryan Tuck
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Promising Tools for Innovation at Spring-8/SACLA
When: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: WV G106
Speaker: Dr. Masaki Takata
Organization: Deputy Director, RIKEN Spring-8 Center, Japan
Sponsor: Special Presentation
Confessions of a Converted Lecturer, Large Lectures: Thought-Provoking, Sleep-Inducing, or Both?
When: Thursday, April 05, 2012 at 4:30 pmWhere: SN 168
Speaker: Eric Mazur
Organization: Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and Area Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
TBA
When: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Matthew Chasco
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Epigenomics Networks and Electrical Engineering Department
When: Monday, April 02, 2012 at 5:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Minolis Kellis, Associate Professor
Organization: MIT Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department
Sponsor: CCNR
Energy Transport and Energy Conversion at the Nano-scale
When: Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Yonatan Dubi
Organization: Landa Labs, Israel
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Detect Superstrings at the Large Hadron Collider
When: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Wanzhe Feng
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Improving the Undergraduate Experience
When: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Professor Brent Nelson
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
MR Guided Focused Ultrasound of the Brain and Targeted Delivery of Therapeutics
When: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 10:30 amWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Rivka Colen MD
Organization: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Radiology
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Seminar
Social Networks and Human Evolution
When: Monday, March 26, 2012 at 5:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, MPH, PhD
Organization: Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care and Policy
Sponsor: CCNR
From Designed Molecules to Functional Biomaterials and Applications
When: Monday, March 26, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Yuri Velichko
Organization: Northwestern University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Breaking an Electron: Spin Incoherent Behavior in Strongly Correlated Low Dimensional Systems
When: Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Adrian Feiguin
Organization: University of Wyoming
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
The Search for Second-Generation Leptoquarks at the CMS Detector at the LHC
When: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Darin Baumgartel
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Imaging the Beginning of Time from the Bottom of the World: the Search for Inflation with the Keck Array Polarimeter at the South Pole
When: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 11:00 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Abigail Vieregg
Organization: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Specificity, Transport Mechanism and Membrane Organization of ATP Synthases
When: Monday, March 19, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: José Faraldo-Gomez
Organization: Max-Plank, Germany
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
The Extreme Vulberability of Networks of Networks
When: Monday, March 19, 2012 at 5:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Professor Shlomo
Organization: Bar-Ilan University, Department of Physics
Sponsor: CCNR
Molecular Biology Meets Nanotechnology: Insights from Computer Simulations
When: Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 4:00 PMWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Aleksei Aksimentiev
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
DNA Condensation by HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein (NCp7)
When: Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Kiran Pant
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Quantifying Binding Kinetics of DNA-Ruthenium Complexes
When: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Meriem Bahira
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Subcellular Modeling of Calcium Mediated Mechanisms of Triggered Activity
When: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 1:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Zhen Song
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Co-op Experiences – Matthew Frykenberg
When: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Matthew Frykenberg
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Nanoparticles for Delivery of Imaging Probes Through the Blood-Brain-Barrier In Vivo in Alzheimer’s Disease Model Mice
When: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 10:30 amWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Tara L. Spire-Jones, DPhil
Organization: Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Neuroscience, MGH
Sponsor: IGERT
Economic Complexity and the Wealth of Nations
When: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 5:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: César A. Hidalgo
Organization: Assistant Professor, MIT Media Laboratory
Sponsor: CCNR
Closing in on the Higgs Boson
When: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 11:15 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Joseph Haley
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Crystal Structure Prediction From First Principles
When: Monday, March 12, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Aleksey Kolmogorov
Organization: University of Oxford
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Resonant X-ray Absorption by 57Fe: A Site-Selective Probe of Protein Structure and Elasticity
When: Thursday, March 08, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Tim Sage
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Electroweak Physics with the ATLAS detector – From Detector Commissioning to Constraining the Standard Model
When: Monday, March 05, 2012 at 11:00 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Alberto Belloni
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
The DARKSIDE of Dark Matter
When: Thursday, March 01, 2012 at 11:00 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Luca Grandi
Organization: Princeton University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Aspects and Prospects of Local Supersymmetry
When: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Sujeet Akula
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Diphotons with the CMS Detector: A Probe for Discovery at the LHC
When: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 11:00 amWhere: dA 114
Speaker: Toyoko Orimoto
Organization: CERN
Sponsor: Physics Colloqium
The Physics of Superheroes
When: Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: Blackman Auditorium
Speaker: James Kakalios
Organization: Taylor Distinguished Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota
Sponsor: The Division of Condensed Matter, The Division of Materials Physics of the American Physical Society, & Northeastern University College of Science
Improving Density Functionals for Atoms, Molecules, and Solids
When: Friday, February 24, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Adrienn Ruzsinszky
Organization: Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Multiplexity in Networks
When: Friday, February 24, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Dr. Kwang-Il Goh
Organization: Korea University, Department of Physics
Sponsor: CCNR
Probing the Energy Landscapes of Biomolecular Assemblies Through Simulation
When: Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Paul Whitford
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Hunting Neutrino Oscillations Parameters at Fermilab
When: Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 11:00 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Jeffrey de Jong
Organization: University of Oxford
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Quantifying Ruthenium-DNA Binding Kinetics
When: Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Meriem Bahira
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Adaptive Networks and Effective Forces in Collective Motion: from Toy Models to Experiments
When: Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Dr. Cristián Huepe
Organization: Northwestern University, Applied Math Department
Sponsor: CCNR
Synaptic Connectivity in Biologically Constrained Artificial Neural Networks
When: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Julio Chapeton
Organization: Northeastern Unversity
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Guessing the Rule for Nature’s Glue in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology
When: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: John P. Perdew
Organization: Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Sponsor: Northeastern University College of Science and Department of Physics
Co-op Experiences – Jamie Charry
When: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Jamie Charry
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
First-Principles Study of Advanced Energy Materials
When: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Fei Zhou
Organization: UCLA
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Decoding the Architecture of Vascular Networks
When: Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Eleni Katifori
Organization: Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Reading Club / Quantum Field Theory Study Group
When: Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 6:00 pmWhere: DA 140
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Role of DNA Damage Response Protein UmuD in DNA Replication
When: Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Clarissa Ruslie
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Oligomerization of APOBEC3G Transforms it from a Fast Enzyme to a Slow Nucleic Acid Binding Protein
When: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Kathy Chaurasiya
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Co-op Experiences – Clarissa Ruslie
When: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Clarissa Ruslie
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Predicting the Properties of Ordinary Matter Under Extreme Conditions
When: Monday, February 13, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Jeffrey M. McMahon
Organization: Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Diffusion and Avalanches: from Metallic Glasses to Soft Particle Suspensions
When: Thursday, February 09, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Craig Meloney
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Higgs Boson – On the Road to Discovery
When: Thursday, February 09, 2012 at 11:00 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Sergo Jindariani
Organization: Fermilab
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
The Effect of Consensus Mutation on the Folding and Binding Kinetics of IκBα
When: Thursday, February 09, 2012 at 12:30 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Ingrid DeVries Salgado
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Exotic Electron Transport in Topological Insulator Thin Films
When: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Badih Assaf
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Co-op Experiences: Brittany Haffner
When: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Brittany Haffner
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
From Individual Mobility to Transportation
When: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 at 5:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Marta C. González
Organization: Assistant Professor, MIT, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Sponsor: CCNR
Searching for SUSY: What the First Year of the CMS has Taught Us
When: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 at 11:00 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Peter Wittich
Organization: Cornell University
Sponsor: Special Physics Colloquium
Materials by Design for Sustainable Energy Applications
When: Monday, February 06, 2012 at 3:30 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Yiyang Sun
Organization: Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sponsor: Special Physics Colloquium
Change Transfer Process in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Cytochrome c551
When: Thursday, February 02, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Yuhan Sun
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Microstructural Evolution of Materials in the Phase-Field Crystal (PFC) Model
When: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Ari Adland
Organization: Northeastern Unversity
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Co-op at SEMATECH
When: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Tom Cardinal
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Predicting the Behavior of Socio-technical Systems
When: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 4:00 pmWhere: Raytheon Amphitheater
Speaker: Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor Physics Alessandro Vespignani
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: College of Science Lecture
Investigation of Friction Force in Polyelectrolyte Polymers in Good Solvent Through Molecular Dynamics Simulation
When: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Yangpeng Ou
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Preliminary Research Seminar
Insights into the Mechanism of Allosteric Transition in CooA Proteins
When: Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Abdelkrim Benabbas
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Co-op Experiences – Rebecca Dally
When: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Rebecca Dally
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Mining Mobility Patterns and Profiles
When: Friday, January 20, 2012 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Fosca Giannotti, PhD
Organization: University of Pisa, Italy, KDD Lab, Institute of Science and Technology Information
Sponsor: CCNR
Tracking Conformational Changes with Small-Angle X-Ray Solution Scattering
When: Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Lee Makowski
Organization: College of Engineering, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Serial Two-Photon Tomagraphy: an Automated Method for Ex-Vivo Fluorescence 3D Imaging of Entire Organs with Subcellular Resolution
When: Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Jason Sutin
Organization: MGH
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Experimental Studies of Electron Transport and Thermopower in Strongly Correlated Two-Dimensional Electron Systems
When: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Anish Mokashi
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Dissertation Defense
Nanostructures for Single-Molecule Biophysics
When: Thursday, December 08, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Derek Stein
Organization: Department of Physics, Brown University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Nanostructures for Single-Molecule Biophysics
When: Thursday, December 08, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Derek Stein
Organization: Department of Physics, Brown University
Cortical Circuits are Designed for Efficient Associative Memory Storage
When: Thursday, December 08, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: 114 DA
Speaker: Julio Chapeton
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Theoretical Modeling of Various Spectroscopies for Cuprates and Topological Insulators
When: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Susmita Basak
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Dissertation Defense
Imaginative Introductory Physics Problems for Careers in the Life Sciences, Biophysics and Bioengineering
When: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Emeritus Professor Ronald Aaron
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Energy and Entropy in Quantum Networks
When: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 at 2:30 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: David Moser
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Dissertation Defense
High-Temperature Superconductivity: Taming Serendipity
When: Monday, December 05, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Laura Greene
Organization: Swanlund Endowed Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sponsor: Special Physics Colloquium
Environmental Health and Safety of Engineered Materials: Challenges and State of the Art
When: Friday, December 02, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: CSC 318
Speaker: Dr. Philip Demokritou
Organization: Assistant Professor of Aerosol Physics, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Sponsor: IGERT
Design and Assembly of 1D Nanostructured Materials for Solar Energy Conversion: Solar-Fuel Generation as an Example
When: Friday, December 02, 2011 at 2:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Dr. Nageh Allam
Organization: American University, Cairo, Egypt
Sponsor: Nanogroup Meeting
How Networks Drove the Rapid Evolution of Early Life: Clues from the Canonical Genetic Code
When: Thursday, December 01, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Nigel Goldenfeld
Organization: Swanlund Endowed Chair and Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sponsor: CCNR
Molecular Switches and Rectifiers: The Electronic Properties of Molecular Junctions
When: Thursday, December 01, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Kim Michelle Lewis, Ph.D.
Organization: Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Applied Physics, & Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sponsor: Nanogroup Meeting
Rotational Dynamics of DNA Melting
When: Thursday, December 01, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Micah McCauley
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Getting the Most From Solution Scattering of Biological Macromolecules at Small Angles
When: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 10:30 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Alex Shkumatov
Organization: EMBL Hamburg
Sponsor: CIRCS
The Basics of SAXS Data Analysis and Modeling
When: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Alex Shkumatov
Organization: EMBL Hamburg
Sponsor: CIRCS
Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe: Einstein’s Blunder Undone
When: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Robert Kirshner
Organization: Harvard University
Sponsor: The 2011 Physics Nobel Prize Seminar
Tunable Ferroics and Hot Electron Transfer within Nanowires
When: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Professor Jonathan Spanier
Organization: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University
Sponsor: Nanogroup Meeting
Entropy and Energy in Quantum Networks
When: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 11:00 amWhere: DA 114
Speaker: David Moser
Organization: Departments of Math and Physics, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Preliminary Research Seminar
Dendrimer-Based Drug Delivery
When: Friday, November 18, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DG 130
Speaker: Dr. Lajos Balogh
Organization: Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Northeastern University (Adjunct), Editor-in-Chief at Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine (Elsevier)
Sponsor: IGERT
The Geography of Extra Dimensions
When: Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Sergei Gukov
Organization: California Institute of Technology and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Structural and Magnetic Properties of Mn-Al-C Alloy Powders by Mechanical Milling
When: Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Dr. Ogheneyunume Obi
Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Nanogroup Meeting
Quantifying the DNA Interaction Kinetics of Wild Type and Mutant HIV-1 Gag
When: Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Jialin Li
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Theoretical Mechanisms of Biolubrication
When: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Sokoloff
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Molecular Mechanisms of Biological Membrane Curvature Generation
When: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Andrey Ivankin
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology
Sponsor: Biophysics Seminar
Simultaneous Imaging and Therapy of Cancer with Multimodal Nanoparticles
When: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 4:30 pmWhere: EL 408
Speaker: Amit Joshi, PhD
Organization: Assistant Professor of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine
Sponsor: IGERT and eMRI
Two bumps, or not two bumps, that is the question: W + 2 jet events at DZero
When: Monday, November 14, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Joseph Haley
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: High Energy Seminar
Quantitative Analysis of HIV-1 NC’s Chaperone Activities
When: Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Hao Wu
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Effect of Iron-Doping on Structural and Magnetic Properties of Titania Nanostructures
When: Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Pegah Hosseinpour
Organization: Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Nanogroup Meeting
Theory of Everything [Cuprate]
When: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Robert Markiewicz
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Live Long-Term Imaging of Mechanobiology: Human Fibroblast Dynamics
When: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Jeff Ruberti
Organization: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
Sponsor: CIRCS
Growth Mechanisms and Electronic Properties of Epitaxial Graphene
When: Monday, November 07, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Graham Creeth
Organization: Univerity of Leeds
Sponsor: Special Nanogroup Meeting
Acoustic Stimulation of Nanoparticles for Image-Guided Therapeutic Applications
When: Friday, November 04, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DG 130
Speaker: Dr. Tyrone Porter
Organization: Assistant Professor, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Associate Director, Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology, Boston University
Sponsor: IGERT and eMRI
Thermo-Responsive, Tetherless Microsurgical Tools
When: Friday, November 04, 2011 at 3:00 pmWhere: EG 206
Speaker: Dr. Evin Gultepe, Post-doctoral Research Associate
Organization: John Hopkins University
Sponsor: Nanogroup Meeting
Single Molecule Biophysics: Quantifying How Proteins Bind DNA
When: Thursday, November 03, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Kathy Chaurasiya
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Preliminary Research Seminar
A Paradise Island for Deformed Gravity
When: Thursday, November 03, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Florian Kühnel
Organization: LMU Munich, Arnold Sommerfeld Center, Germany
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Viewing of Documentary Series “The Universe”
When: Thursday, November 03, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Sponsor: SPS
A Multi-Scale Experimental Approach to Cardiac Arrhythmias: From the Molecule to the Organ
When: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Gideon Koren
Organization: Brown Medical School
Sponsor: CIRCS
Why Nanoscience is Sweet: from Swords to Solar Energy
When: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 at 3:30 pmWhere: EL, Frost Lounge
Speaker: J. Murray Gibson
Organization: Founding Dean of the College of Science, Northeastern University
Sponsor: PRISM
Use of Biological Recognition Elements for the Synthesis and Functionalization of Nanomaterials
When: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 at 4:30 pmWhere: EL 408
Speaker: Rajesh R. Naik
Organization: Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Science & Technology Program and the Electronic Materials Research Institute
Active Systems: From Liquid Crystals to Living Systems
When: Friday, October 28, 2011 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Luca Giomi
Organization: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Sponsor: Joint Physics and Math Seminar
Biophysical Studies of Molecular and Cellular Systems Using AFM
When: Friday, October 28, 2011 at 12:30 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Gina-Mirela Mustata
Organization: Northewestern University, Evanston, IL
Sponsor: Physics Seminar
Electron Transfer from Redox Proteins to Conductive Surfaces
When: Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Idan Ashur
Organization: Arizona State University
Sponsor: Special CIRCS
Vibrational Analysis of the Green Fluorescent Protein Using ONIOM
When: Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Lee Thompson
Organization: Imperial College
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Microfluidics for Synthesis and Development of Nanotherapeutics and Nano-Imaging Agents
When: Friday, October 21, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: SH 320
Speaker: Dr. Rohit Karnik, D'Arbeloff Assistant Professor
Organization: Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Sponsor: IGERT
Sequence Specific Targeting Duplex DNA
When: Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Maxim D. Frank-Kamenetskii
Organization: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Sponsor: CIRCS
Applications of Machine Learning to the Connectome Problem
When: Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Armen Stepanyants
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Evidence for Highly Suppressed Magnetostructural Transition Temperature in Nanostructured FeRh
When: Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Radhika Barua
Organization: Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Nanogroup Meeting
Tuning the Magnetostructural Transition in FeRh with Film Thickness
When: Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 12:30 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Melissa Loving
Organization: Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Nanogroup Meeting
Quantum Biology, Drugs and Computers: Complexity Defeats Decoherence
When: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Professor Gábor Vattay
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Vermont, visiting from Loránd Eötvös University
Sponsor: CCRN
Viewing of “The Elegant Universe” pt. 1
When: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Sponsor: SPS
Low Temperature Force Microscopy on a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
When: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. James Hedberg
Organization: McGill University
Sponsor: CIRCS
The Next Level of Modeling Social Interaction: How to Detect, Quantify and Utilize Emotional Influence
When: Monday, October 17, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Dr. Frank Schweitzer, Professor
Organization: Chair of Systems Designs, Department of Management, Technology and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Sponsor: CCNR and Barabási Lab Seminar
Studies on Metallo-Dielectric Nanostructures
When: Monday, October 17, 2011 at 3:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Dr. Achanta Venugopal
Organization: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Sponsor: Special NanoGroup Seminar
Electrical Coupling Between Stem Cell and Cardiomyocyte in Laser-Patterned Biochips
When: Monday, October 17, 2011 at 2:30 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Zhen Ma
Organization: Clemson University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Resolving 7 Problems with OPERA’s Superluminal Neutrino Experiment
When: Monday, October 17, 2011 at 5:00 pmWhere: DA 140
Sponsor: SPS Reading Group
Effect of Strain and Dimensionality on the Properties of Manganites
When: Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Carolina Adamo
Organization: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University
Sponsor: NanoGroup Seminar
SSB-DNA Polymerase III Interface and Its Role in DNA Replication
When: Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Kiran Pant
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Supersymmetry and String Phenomenology
When: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Brent Nelson
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Mechanobiology and Molecular Mechanics; Relevance to Joint Injury and Osteoarthritis
When: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Alan Grodzinsky
Organization: MIT
Sponsor: CIRCS
Opportunities with Photon Science for Renewable Energy
When: Friday, October 07, 2011 at 3:00 pmWhere: EG 440
Speaker: Zahid Hussain
Organization: Division Deputy for Scientific Support, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Sponsor: Special Physics Colloquium
On the Limits of Invisibility: From Cloaking to Computation
When: Thursday, October 06, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Steven G. Johnson
Organization: MIT, Applied Mathematics
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Charge Transfer in Green Fluorescent Protein
When: Thursday, October 06, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Tim Sage
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Film Review of “Strangeness Minus Three”
When: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Sponsor: SPS
Using a Worm to Study Filamin Function and Mechanotransduction in Vivo
When: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Erin Cram
Organization: Biology Department, Northeastern University
Sponsor: CIRCS
Remote Activation Strategies for Localized Drug Release from Lipid-based Nanoparticles
When: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 at 4:30 pmWhere: EL 408
Speaker: Anu Puri, PhD
Organization: CCR Nanobiology Program, NCI-Frederick, NIH, Frederick, MD
Sponsor: IGERT
Understanding the Nature of Emotion
When: Friday, September 30, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: SH 210
Speaker: LIsa Feldman Barrett
Organization: Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University
Sponsor: PRISM
Emerging Role of Magnetic Nanoparticles
When: Friday, September 30, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: CSC 333
Speaker: Mukesh Harisinghani, MD
Organization: Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Director Abdonimal MRI, Massachusetts General Hospital
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Seminar Series
Vibrational Coherence Study of Unfolded Cytochrome C
When: Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 1:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Yuhan Sun
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Co-op at the University of Delaware
When: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Bernie Worden
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Photocatalytic Properties of Nanostructured TiO2(110) Surfaces
When: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 12:30 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Lauren Moore
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
First SPS Meeting
When: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Electric Propulsion
When: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Oleg Batishchev
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Introduction to Physics Research
Single Molecule DNA Interactions of APOBEC3G
When: Friday, September 16, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Kathy Chaurasiya
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
The Unexpected Synchronization
When: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Professor Zoltán Néda
Organization: Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Theoretical and Computational Physics, Cluj, Romania
Sponsor: CCNR and Barabási Lab Seminar
Spin-Flip Scattering at Quantum Hall Transition
When: Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Victor Kagalovsky
Organization: Shamoon College of Engineering
Sponsor: Physics Seminar
Low Frequency Coherent Vibrations in Biomolecules
When: Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Paul Champion
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Diverse Interactions Promote the Flexibility of DNA-HMG Complexes
When: Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Micah McCauley
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Networks Both Social and Communications-Oriented
When: Friday, July 22, 2011 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Professor Scott Kirkpatrick
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Computer Science and Engineering
Sponsor: CCNR
Experimental Studies of Strongly Correlated Two-Dimensional Electron Liquids
When: Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Julio Chapeton
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Imaging
When: Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Lee Makowski
Organization: Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Methods of Quantifying the DNA Interaction Kinetics of Wild Type and Mutant HIV-1 Gag
When: Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Jialin Li
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity of Wild Type and Mutant FIV Nucleocapsid Proteins
When: Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Hao Wu
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
DNA Binding Properties of ABOBEC3G
When: Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Kathy Chaurasiya
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Computational Tools for String Phenomenology
When: Monday, June 13, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Jurke
Organization: MPI-Munich
Sponsor: High Energy Seminar
Nanotechnology for Medicine
When: Friday, June 10, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 406
Speaker: Professor Sakhrat Khirzroev
Organization: Florida International University
Sponsor: Nanogroup Meeting
Single Stranded Binding Proteins
When: Thursday, June 09, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Kiran Pant
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Proton Power
When: Thursday, June 02, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Tim Sage
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical group meeting
Gene Networks: Moving Beyond Single Gene Approaches to Identify Cardiovascular Risk
When: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: James N. Weiss, MD
Organization: University of California, Los Angeles, Kawata Professor of Medicine & Physiology Chief, Division of Cardiology Director, Cardiovascular Research Laboratory David Geffen School of Medicine
Sponsor: Joint CCNR and CIRCS
Electron Transfer in Cytocrome C
When: Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Yuhan Sun
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Large Volume Cosmo-Pheno Reconciliation mu-Split SUSY and Ricci-flat Swiss Cheese Metrics
When: Friday, May 20, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Aalok Misra
Organization: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Physics
Sponsor: Physics Seminar
Barnett Institute
When: Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Professors Roger Kautz, Jim Glick, and Graham Jones
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
A “Little” Roughness Goes A Long Way
When: Monday, May 09, 2011 at 10:00 amWhere: EG 440
Speaker: Robert Lamb
Organization: University of Melbourne, Australia
Sponsor: Special Seminar
Moving Electrons: Using Electrochemistry to Study Heme Enzymes
When: Thursday, May 05, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Associate Professor Sean Elliot
Organization: Boston University, Department of Chemistry
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
The Road to the Higgs pp- Collisions at √s=1.96TeV
When: Monday, April 25, 2011 at 1:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Gabriel Facini
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Dissertation Defense
DNA as Exemplary Polymer
When: Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Oleg Krichevsky
Organization: Ben-Gurion University, Israel and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Negative Refraction in Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials for Transformation Optics
When: Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 1:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Yongjian Huang
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Dissertation Defense
Deriving the Free Energy from Non-Equilibrium Experiments
When: Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Dr. Micah McCauley
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Structure, Stability and Properties of Epitaxial Graphene: Insights From Molecular Dynamics and Density Functional Theory
When: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Cristian V. Ciobanu
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
Sponsor: CIRCS
Scanning Probe Microscopy and Computational Simulation of Polymers and Biopolymers
When: Friday, April 15, 2011 at 1:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Jingyun Zhang
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Dissertation Defense
Lattice Simulations of Graphene and Dark Matter Cross Sections From Lattice QCD
When: Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Assistant Professor Joel Giedt
Organization: Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Geminate Rcombination of CO to DNA Bound CooA: Insights on the Activation Mechanism of CooA
When: Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Dr. Abdelkrim Benabbas
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Higher Spin Particle Scattering in the Superstring Theory
When: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Wangzhe Feng
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Graduate Journal Club
Dirac Materials
When: Friday, April 08, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: A.V. Balatsky, PhD
Organization: Theory and Simulation of Nanoscale Phenomena-Partner Science Leader, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
Sponsor: Special Colloquium
Nanotechnology for Medical Applications
When: Friday, April 08, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: SH 210
Speaker: Dr. Anuj Bellare
Organization: Director, Orthopedic Nanotechnology Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Seminar
Complexity and Speed Limits in Protein Folding
When: Thursday, April 07, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Lisa J. Lapidus
Organization: Michigan State University
Sponsor: Joint CIRCS and Physics Colloquium
TBA
When: Thursday, April 07, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Assistant Professor Sasha Balatsky
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Connecting String Theory to Particle Physics at the LHC
When: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 at 1:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Ismet (Baris) Altunkaynak
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Dissertation Defense
Quantifying and Modeling Gladwell’s “The Tipping Point”
When: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 at 12:30 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dashun Wang
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Graduate Journal Club
Co-op at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
When: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Michael Baker
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Understanding Antibiotic Resistance in Mycobacteria
When: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Deborah Hung
Organization: Broad institute
Sponsor: CIRCS
Publishing with Nature
When: Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Michael Segal
Organization: Associate Editor of Nature Nanotechnology
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Application of Vibrational Coherence Spectroscopy
When: Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Karunkaran Venugopal
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Graphene-Based Materials, Energy, and Sustainability
When: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Rodney Ruoff, PhD
Organization: Cockrell Family Regents Chair, The University of Texas at Austin
Sponsor: College of Engineering Special Seminar
Adventures in Network Science
When: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Emily Batt
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
The Quantum and Entropy
When: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: David Moser
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Graduate Journal Club
ROCKET (Research On Characterization of Kinetic E-field Transmition
When: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Jacob Noble
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
The Study of Neural Circuits and Behavior in C. Elegans Using Biophysical Tools
When: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Heonick Ha
Organization: Harvard University
Sponsor: Joint CIRCS and Physics Colloqium
Protein Ensembles – Characterization by X-ray Solution Scattering
When: Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Professor Lee Makowski
Organization: College of Engineering, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysics Group Meeting
Analysis of HMGB Protein-DNA Complexes Flexibility by Computational Simulation
When: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Jingyun Zhang
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Graduate Journal Club
Modeling the Functional Networks of the Primate Cortex
When: Monday, March 21, 2011 at 6:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Zoltán Toroczkai
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Department of Physics
Sponsor: CCNR
Dynamic Information Processing in Individual Cells: A Single-Molecule Approach in Systems Biology
When: Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Gregor Neuert
Organization: Department of Physics, Biology, and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT
Sponsor: CIRCS and Physics Colloquium
Laplacian-based Centrality in Directed Networks
When: Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 3:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Naoki Masuda
Organization: Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
Sponsor: CCNR
Co-op on Ultrafast Spectroscopy of GFP and Phytochrome at Imperial College
When: Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 12:00Where: EG 306
Speaker: Brendon Kellner
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
The Google Ngram Viewer
When: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Will Brockman
Organization: Software Engineer, Google, Inc.
Sponsor: CCNR
NIF: What to do with the Most Powerful Laser in the World
When: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 12:30 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Ryan Sweeney
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Experimental Studies of Strongly Correlated Two-Dimensional Electron Liquids
When: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Anish Mokashi
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Graduate Journal Club
The Physics of Nanomedicine for Cancer
When: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Mathew Chamberlain
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Criticality in Plasticity
When: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Lev Truskinovsky
Organization: École Polytechnique and Harvard University
Sponsor: CIRCS
The Structure and Dynamics of Economic Diversity
When: Monday, March 14, 2011 at 5:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Professor César A. Hildago
Organization: MIT Media Library
Sponsor: CCNR
Transport, Optical and Catalytic Properties of Titania Nanotube Arrays
When: Friday, March 11, 2011 at 1:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Mohamed AbdElmoula
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Preliminary Research Seminar
Multiscale Imaging of Cell Networks
When: Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Gil Bub
Organization: University of Oxford
Sponsor: Joint CIRCS and Physics Colloquium
Theoretical Analysis of Low Frequency Vibrational Modes of Iron Porphine Halides Detected by Coherence Spectroscopy
When: Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Dr. Alex Demidov
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Titanium Oxide Nanotubes
When: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: James Maniscalco
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Electrical Transport Properties of a Single Titania Nanotube
When: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Mohamed AbdElmoula
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Graduate Journal Club
DNA Interaction Kinetics of Wild Type and Mutant HIV-1 Gag
When: Thursday, March 03, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Jialin Li
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Life at High Reynolds Number
When: Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 5:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: David R. Nelson
Organization: Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Crystallography on Curved Surfaces
When: Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: David R. Nelson
Organization: Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Principles of X-Ray Reflectivity
When: Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 12:30 pmWhere: EG 206
Speaker: Dr. Felix Jiménez-Villacorta
Organization: Chemical Engineering Department, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Nanogroup Meeting
The Summary of HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein and Proposed Work on FIV Nucleocapsid Protein
When: Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Hao Wu
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
The Fabrication and Applications of Non-Covalently Functionalized Graphene
When: Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 206
Speaker: Dr. Xiaohong An
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Nanogroup Meeting
Chicago, the LHC, and the Search for New Particles
When: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Craig Levy
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Structure of RNase H2 Defines Roles in Replication, Repair, and Autoimmune Disease
When: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Doryen Bubeck
Organization: University of Oxford, Division of Structural Biology
Sponsor: Joint CIRCS and Physics Seminar
The Effective Fine Structure Constant of Graphene Measured With Attosecond X-Ray Imaging
When: Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Associate Professor Peter Abbamonte
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sponsor: Physics Colloquium
Vibrational Dynamics of Iron in Heme Enzymes
When: Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 12:30 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Professor Tim Sage
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Co-op at PEDot
When: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Dalmau Reig-I-Plessis
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
Supersymmetric Signatures and Potential Discovery of Cold Dark Matter at the LHC
When: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Gregory Peim
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Graduate Journal Club
Social Networks Offline
When: Monday, February 14, 2011 at 5:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, MPH, PhD
Organization: Harvard University
Sponsor: CCNR
Combining Genetics with Single Molecule Techniques to Determine Structure-Function Relationships of Bionanomachines
When: Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: James Tsay
Organization: University of California at San Diego
Sponsor: Joint CIRCS and Physics Colloquim.
Optical Tweezers and Fluorescence: Watching Proteins Bind Single-Strand of DNA
When: Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Kathy Chaurasiya
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Iron-Doped Titania Nanotubes for Multifunctional Applications
When: Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 206
Speaker: Pegah Hosseinpour
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Nanogroup Meeting
Freebase
When: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 at 3:30 pmWhere: DA 5th fl
Speaker: Tom Morris
Sponsor: CCNR & Barabasí Lab Seminar
From Correlations to Interactions: How Can One Solve the Inverse Ising Problem?
When: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 at 2:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Remi Monasson
Organization: SSchool of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (on leave from Lab. Theoretical Physics, Ecole Normale Superiere, Paris
Sponsor: Physics Seminar
Co-op Presentation – Brendon Kellner
When: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Brendon Kellner
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: SPS
When: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Where: DA 114
Speaker: Darin Baumgartel
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Graduate Journal Club
Flame Synthesis of Functional Nanoparticles: Non-toxic Nanosilver for Biosensors
When: Friday, February 04, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: CSC 333
Speaker: Dr. Sotiris E. Pratsinis
Organization: Particle Technology Laboratory, Institute for Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Sponsor: IGERT Nanomedicine Seminar
Using Physics to Study the Biology of the Cytoskeleton in Cell Division
When: Thursday, February 03, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Eugenio Marco
Organization: MIT and Harvard Medical School
Sponsor: Joint CIRCS and Physics Colloquium
Titania Nanotube Arrays: Catalytic, Transport and Optical Properties
When: Thursday, February 03, 2011 at 12:30 pmWhere: EG 206
Speaker: Mohamed Abd Elmoula
Organization: Northeastern University, Department of Physics
Sponsor: Nanogroup Meeting
Vibrational Spectroscopy Study of Unfolded Ferric Cytochrome C
When: Thursday, February 03, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Yuhan Sun
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Fabrication of Novel Magnetic Nanostructures Towards Efficient Power Generation
When: Thursday, February 03, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 206
Speaker: Mehdi Zamanpour
Organization: Northeastern University, Chemical Engineering
Sponsor: Nanogroup Meeting
When: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Where: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Wael Al-Sawai
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Graduate Journal Club
Criticality in Plasticity
When: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Lev Truskinovsky
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique and Harvard University
Sponsor: CIRCS
Nanopores: Ion Microscopes for Single Molecule Analysis
When: Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Dr. Meni Wanunu
Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsor: Joint CIRCS and Physics Colloquium
Vibrational Spectroscopy Study of Unfolded Ferric Cytochrome C
When: Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Yuhan Sun
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Documentary Showing of “Connected – The Power of Six Degrees”
When: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 5:30 pmWhere: SH 415
Sponsor: CCNR
Optical Tweezers and Fluorescence: Watching Proteins Bind Single-Strands of DNA
When: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Kathy Chaurasiya
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Graduate Journal Club
Modeling of Nonlinear Systems on Complex Graphs
When: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 4:00 pmWhere: DA 114
Speaker: Yaroslav Kholodov
Organization: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Sponsor: CIRCS
Modeling Grain-Boundary Motion with the Phase-Field Crystal (PFC) Model; Shearing and Rotation
When: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 12:00Where: DA 114
Speaker: Ari Adland
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Joint Graduate Journal Club and Biophysical Group Meeting
Chemistry, Biology and Analysis of Protein Modifications: Isoaspartic Acid, Methylation and N-Homocysteinylation
When: Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Professor Sunny Zhou
Organization: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting
Comparing the DNA Binding Affinity of HMGB Box Motifs
When: Friday, January 07, 2011 at 12:00 pmWhere: EG 306
Speaker: Dr. Micah McCauley
Organization: Northeastern University
Sponsor: Biophysical Group Meeting