| Past Seminars |
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| Date | Technical talks | Research presentations | ||||
| 2008 | ||||||
| Mar 27 | Eric Weeks (Emory-PHYS) | Elisa Riedo (GT-PHYS) | ||||
| Particle Tracking Techniques & Tips | Nonlinear Viscoelastic Dynamics of Nanoconfined Wetting Liquids | |||||
| Apr 17 Apr 17 | Sven Behrens (GT-ChBE) ------ --- --- --- - - --- - - | Andrew Lyon (GT-CHEM) / Victor Bre Victor Breedveld (GT-ChBE) | ||||
| Notes on Total Internal Reflection Microscopy | Short and Long Time Dynamics of Soft & Sticky Colloidal Assemblies | |||||
| May 9 May 9 May 9 | 1st Southeast Soft Materials Workshop (no Bag Lunch in May) featuring David Weitz (Harvard), Dan Goldman (GT), Andrew Lyon (GT), and James Kindt (Emory) as principal speakers | |||||
| Jun 25 | Jennifer Curtis (GT-PHYS) | Valeria Milam (GT-MSE) | ||||
| Dynamic Holographic Optical Tweezers | Exploring the Kinetics of DNA-Mediated Disassembly - Why So Slow? | |||||
| Jul 24 | Marcel Lucas (Riedo group, | Carson Meredith (GT-ChBE) | ||||
| GT-PHYS) | ||||||
| Elastic Properties of Nanostructures: A Modulated Nanoindentation Study | Adhesion Forces in Biological - Environmental Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| Aug 21 | Alberto Fernandez-Nieves ---- | Kazem Edmond (Weeks group, | ||||
| (GT-PHYS) | (Emory-PHYS) | |||||
| Making Emulsions Using Glass Capillaries | Confinement Finds a Length Scale for the Colloidal Glass Transition | |||||
| Sep 25 Sep 25 | Melinda Ogden (Payne group, GT-CHEM) . . . .. . . .. . . . | Mohan Srinivasarao (GT-CHEM, PTFE). . . .. . . . | ||||
| Fluorescence Microscopy . . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . | Intriguing Issues in Soft Matter: Patterns on Beetles | |||||
| Oct 25 Oct 25 Oct 25 | 2nd Southeast Soft Materials Workshop (no Bag Lunch in October) with Arjun Yodh (U Penn), Hang Lu (GT), Valeria Tohver Milam (GT), and Connie Roth (Emory) as principal speakers | |||||
| Dec 3 Dec 3 | Vamsi Kodali (Curtis group, GT-PHYS) . . . .. . . .. . . . | Sven Behrens (GT-CHBE) ------ ------ ------------ | ||||
| Orthogonal Nanopatterns as Templates for Multiple Bioactive Proteins. . .. . . .. . . .. | Emulsification by Particle-Surfactant Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . .. | |||||
| 2009 | ||||||
| Jan 28 Jan 28 | Pedro Zapata (Meredith group, GT-CHBE) . . . .. . . ... . | Rui Zhang (Nguyen group, GT-PHYS) . . . .. . . .. . . . | ||||
| Combinatorial and High Throughput Methods | Kinetics of HIV Budding and Assembly . . . | |||||
| Feb 25 Feb 25 | Sandeep Patel (Dickson group, GT-CHEM) | Minami Yoda (GT-ME) Minami Yoda (GT-ME) | ||||
| Tunable Emission from DNA-Encapsulated Silver Nanoclusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Near-Wall Transport of Colloidal Suspended Particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| Apr 1 Apr 1 | Jae Kyu Cho (Breedveld group, GT-CHBE) | Michael Schatz (GT-PHYS) Michael Schatz (GT-PHYS) | ||||
| Three-Dimensional In Situ Temperature Measurements in Microsystems Using the Brownian Motion of Nanoparticles | Turbulence: A Dynamical Systems Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| May 15 May 15 May 15 | 3rd Southeast Soft Materials Workshop (no Bag Lunch in May) with Harold Craighead (Cornell), Cheng Zhu (GT), Moonhor Ree (PAL Synchrotron, Korea), and Jennifer Curtis (GT) as principal speakers | |||||
| Jun 4 Jun 4 | Jan Scrimgeour (Curtis group, GT-PHYS) | Daniel Borrero (Schatz group, GT-PHYS) Michael Schatz (GT-PHYS) | ||||
| Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP) | Transient Turbulence in Taylor-Couette Flow | |||||
| Jul 9 . . . . . . | Yang Ding (Goldman group, GT-PHYS) | Rigoberto Hernandez (GT-CHEM) . . . . . . | ||||
| Modeling of sand swimming lizards | The far-from-equilibrium chemistry of driven colloidal suspensions | |||||
| Aug 13 Aug 13 | Jack Wei Chen (Zhu group, GT-BME) | Venkata Gundabala (Fernandez-Nieves group, GT-PHYS) . . . . . . | ||||
| Biomembrane force probe and single molecule kinetic assay | Co-flowing liquids and electric fields . . . . . . | |||||
| Sep 10 | Julie Champion (GT-ChBE) | Ivan Rasnik (Emory-PHYS) . . . . . . | ||||
| Engineering Polymer Micro/Nanoparticles with Complex Shapes | Single Molecule FRET Studies of Mismatch Repair Proteins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| Oct 8 | David Gottfried (MiRC) | Keith Berland (Emory-PHYS) | ||||
| New Research Tools at Georgia Tech's Nanotechnology Research Center | Investigating Amyloid Nucleation and Growth Using Single Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy | |||||
| Dec 8 Dec 8 | Jonathan Rubin (Bommarius group, GT-ChBE/CHEM) | Adriana San Miguel (Behrens group, GT-ChBE) | ||||
| Correlation of Aggregation Kinetics and Stationary Diffusion in Protein Solutions Observed with Dynamic Light Scattering | Colloidosomes with a Dissolution Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| 2010 | ||||||
| Mar 31 | Angelo Bongiorno (GT-CHEM) |
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Melting and Entropy |
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| May 13 May 13 May 13 | 4th Southeast Soft Materials Workshop with Paul Chaikin (NYU), Laura Finzi (Emory), Alberto Fernandez-Nieves (GT), and Marta Dark McNeese (Spelman) as principal speakers | |||||
| Jun 15 Jun 15 | Joaqium Clara-Rahola (Fernandez-Nieves group, GT-PHYS) | Vikram Prasad (Breedveld group, GT-CHBE). . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | ||||
| Single Scattered Light from Multiply Scattering Systems:3D Dynamic & Static Light Scattering. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Rheology of Algae Suspensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| Aug 24 | Eric Weeks (Emory-PHYS) | David Safranski (Gall group, GT-MSE) | ||||
| On Measuring Colloidal Volume Fractions | Toughening Degradable Poly(amino ester) Networks: Role of glass transition temperature | |||||
| Sep 28 Sep 28 | Qiong Guo (Behrens group, GT-ChBE) | Tomas Barker (GT-BME) . . . . . . . . . . . . | ||||
| Nanogels from Microemulsions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Molecular unfolding of fibronectin domains during fiber strain: mythical or physiologically relevant mechanotransduction | |||||
| Oct 26 | Sven Behrens (GT-ChBE) | Carson Meredith (GT-ChBE) | ||||
| Thoughts on inter- vs. intra-molecular interactions in synthetic polymers & proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Facile preparation of metal-nanoparticle coatings on polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| 2011 | ||||||
| Jan 21 | Vivek Sharma, MIT | |||||
| Soft Matter 'Odes': from the life an death of viscoelastic jets to the structural color of jeweled beetles . . .. . . . . . . | ||||||
| Feb 17 | Norbert Willenbacher, Anna Kowalczyk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | |||||
| Multiple Particle Tracking Study on Highly Elastic Acrylic Thickener Solutions: Treatment of Particle Localization Errors | ||||||
| Mar 16 Mar 16 | Deborah Ortiz (Riedo group, GT-CHEM) | Nick Gravish (Goldman group, GT-PHYS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | ||||
| Water nano-hydrodynamics: the interplay between interfacial viscosity, slip, and surface chemistry. . . . . . . | Vibro-fluidized melting of geometrically cohesive granular materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| Apr 26 Apr 26 | Adriana San Miguel (Behrens group, GT-CHBE) | Ed Greco (GT-PHYS) . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | ||||
| Surfaces with tunable roughness studied by AFM and contact angle measurements | Thermo-capillary migration of interfacial droplets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| May 15 May 15 May 15 | 5th Southeast Soft Materials Workshop with Christina Marchetti (Syracuse), Juana Mendenhall (Morehouse), Susanne Ullrich (UGA), Elisa Riedo (GT), and Paul Goldbart GT) as principal speakers | |||||
| Jun 28 Jun 28 | Keith Carroll (Curtis group, GT-PHYS) | Hassan Masoud (Alexeev group, GT-ME) | ||||
| Methods towards efficient and controlled gradients with thermochemical nanolithography (TCNL) | Polymer networks: modeling and emerging applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| Sep 27 Sep 27 | Ekapop Pairam (Fernandez-Nieves group, GT-PHYS) | Louis McLane (Curtis group, GT-PHYS) . . . . . . . . . . . . | ||||
| Method for Generating and Stabilizing Toroidal Liquid Droplets . . . . . . . . . . . | Polymer Physics at the Cell Surface: Estimating the mesh size profile and grafting density of the cell coat | |||||
| Oct 25 Sep 27 | Tingnan Zhang (Goldman group, GT-PHYS) | Tung Le (Kim group, GT-PHYS) | ||||
| Lightweight Robot Locomotion on Granular Media | Sequence Dependent DNA Bending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| Nov 29 Sep 27 | Won Min Park (Champion group, GT-ChBE) | Anton Souslov (Goldbart group, GT-PHYS) . . . . | ||||
| Self-Assembled Biomaterials Based on Protein Building Blocks | Soft Elasticity in Nearly Isostatic Periodic Lattices . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| Feb 21 -- -- | Victor Breedveld (GT-ChBE) ------ --- | Kimberly Clarke (Lyon group, GT-CHEM) -- | ||||
| Amphiphilic Fabrics: Controlling the Flow of Immiscible Fluids | Multi-Responsive Microgel Thin Films _____ _____ _______ _____ _____ | |||||
| Mar 13 Mar 16 | Dan Kovari (Curtis group, GT-PHYS) __ __ __ | Emily Peterson (Breedveld group, GT-ChBE) ___ ___ | ||||
| Investigating Biomechanical Force Generation During Phagocytosis | Shear-Induced Demixing in Polymeric Membrane Dopes _____ _____ _______ _____ _____ ________ ___ | |||||
| Apr 17 | Zhiqun Lin (GT-MSE) | Mohan Srinivasarao (GT-MSE) | ||||
| Crafting Functional Uniform Nanoparticles from Star-Like Diblock Copolymers | Line Defects in Liquid Crystals_ _______ ______ _______ _____ _____ ________ ___ | |||||
