Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held at 4:30 pm in Doherty Hall A310 at CMU or at 104 Thaw Hall at Pitt.
CARNEGIE MELLON
UNIVERSITY -
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Condensed Matter and Biological Physics Seminar Series for 2008/2009
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held at 4:30 pm in Doherty Hall A310 at CMU or at 104 Thaw Hall at Pitt.
| Sept. 4 | ||
| Sept. 11 | CMU | Pulak Dutta, Northwestern University, "Biomimetic Crystal Growth at Organic-Inorganic Interfaces" |
| Sept. 18 | ||
| Sept. 25 | ||
| Oct. 2 | PITT | Dr. Chungwei Lin, Columbia University, "Theory of Manganite Superlattices" |
| Oct. 9 | ||
| Oct. 16 | CMU | Jian-Jun Pan, Physics Dept. Carnegie Mellon, Annual Review, "The Superstructure of an Antimicrobial Peptide, Alamethicin, in Lipid Membranes", 4:30 PM, Wean 7316*, CMU (*Note the special location) |
| Oct. 17 | PITT | Prof. Martin Weinelt, Max Born Institute, Berlin, "Hot Spots and Spin Waves", 4:30 PM, 319 Allen Hall (Note the special day and location) |
| Oct. 23 | CMU | Prof. Hanna Salman, Univ. Pittsburgh, "Population Effects on Bacterial Thermotaxis" |
| Oct. 24 | PITT | Dr. Vito Scarola, ETH Zurich, Switzerland and University of California, Berkeley, "Discerning Incompressible and Compressible Phases of Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices", at 3:00 PM, 319 Allen Hall. (Note the special day, time and location) |
| Oct. 30 | PITT | Prof. Arun Paramekanti, University of Toronto, "Superfluid Insulator Transition and Dynamical Instabilities of Cold Atom Fermi Superfluids" |
| Nov. 6 | ||
| Nov. 13 | CMU | Prof. Christian Salesse, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada, "Preferential Binding, Organization and Structure of Membrane-Associated Proteins onto Monolayers at the Air-Water Interface" |
| Nov. 20 | CMU | Maumita Mandal, Chemistry Dept., Carnegie Mellon Univ., "Mechanical Forces to Probe RNA Structural Dynamics in Single-Molecules using Optical Tweezers" |
| Dec. 4 | ||
| Dec. 11 | CMU | Ralf Heilmann, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Space Nanotechnology Laboratory, "From Nanometers to Gigaparsecs - Critical Angle Transmission Gratings and the WHIM" |
| Dec. 18 | ||
| Jan. 8 | ||
| Jan. 15 | CMU | Jay Gupta, Ohio State Univ., "Cross-Sectional Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Spin-Spin Interactions in GaAs" |
| Jan. 22 | ||
| Jan. 29 | CMU | Glenn Edwards, Duke University, "Surgery with Pulsed, Infrared Lasers: Applications, Mechanisms, and Technology" |
| Feb. 5 | CMU | Gal Bitan, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, "Inhibitors of Amyloid Assembly - Challenges and Solutions" |
| Feb. 12 | ||
| Feb. 19 | ||
| Feb. 26 | ||
| Mar. 5 | ||
| Mar. 12 | ||
| Mar. 19 | ||
| Mar. 24 (Tues.) | PITT | Han Pu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, "Dipolar Quantum Gases", Condensed Matter Lunch Seminar, 12:00 PM, Room 319 Allen Hall, (Pizza will be provided. Please note special time, day and location) |
| Mar. 26 | ||
| Apr. 2 | CMU | Jeffrey L. Brodsky, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, "Doing the 'Impossible': Stripping Proteins from Biological Membranes" |
| Apr. 9 | CMU | Tobias Baumgart, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, "On the Sorting of Lipids and Proteins in Membrane Curvature and Composition Gradients" |
| Apr. 16 | ||
| Apr. 23 | ||
| Apr. 30 | CMU | Cross-posted Chemistry Seminar: Alexey Ladokhin, University of Kansas Medical Center, "pH-Triggered Membrane Protein Insertion: Thermodynamic and Kinetic Aspects", 4:45 PM, Mellon Institute Conference Room, Refreshments served at 4:30 PM. (*Please note the special time and location) |
| May 7 | CMU | Young Kuk, National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Geometric and Electronic Structure in One Dimensional Nanosystems", Wean 7316 (*Please note the special location) |
| Aug 20 | CMU | Gil Markovich, Tel Aviv University, "STM studies of Magnetic Nanoparticles", 3:30 PM, Wean 7316. (*Please note the special time and location) |
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