Come and learn about the research carried out in the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). The AP298r lectures will be given by a team of faculty members associated with the MRSEC, and will be pedagogical in style. The seminar course will provide a broad overview of topics in materials research and engineering with examples drawn from areas of research of current interest to members of the MRSEC, including mechanisms of deformation, confined fluids and biophysics. The requirements of the course will include a paper and an oral presentation on one of the topics.
Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:00-1:30 p.m. in Pierce 209
First class: Wednesday, February 1
AP298r Schedule
Mechanisms of Deformation |
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Date | Instructor | Topic |
Feb. 1 | David A. Weitz | Introduction |
Feb. 6 | Vinothan Manoharan | Introduction to colloids |
Feb. 8 | Vinothan Manoharan | Colloid engineering |
Feb. 13 | Joost Vlassak | Mechanical behavior of thin films and coatings |
Feb. 15 | Frans A. Spaepen | Dislocations in colloidal crystals |
Feb. 20 | School Holiday | President's Day - School Holiday |
Feb. 22 | Zvonimir Dogic | Entropy and chirality in the self-assembly of biopolymers |
Feb. 27 | Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan | Bulk elastic and inelastic behavior of solids |
Mar. 6 | Frans A. Spaepen | Dislocations in colloidal crystals |
Confined Fluids |
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Mar. 8 | Howard A. Stone |
Fluid dynamics: Physical ideas, the Navier-Stokes equations, and thin film flows |
Mar. 13 | Melissa Holbrook | How to build a hydraulic rope: Stabilizing water under tension in the xylem of tall trees |
Mar. 15 | Armand Ajdari | Electro-hydrodynamic couplings in the world of colloids and microfluidics |
Mar. 22 | Debra Auguste | Tumor biology and liposome delivery |
Mar. 27 | Spring Break | Spring Break |
Mar. 29 | Spring Break | Spring Break |
Apr. 3 | George Whitesides | Bubbles and droplets in microfluidic systems |
Apr. 5 | Howard A. Stone | Microfluidics: Basic ideas and applications |
Biophysics |
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Mar. 1 | Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan | Low dimensional elastic and inelastic behavior of solids |
Mar. 20 | Naama Barkai | Patterning networks: Focus on the fruit fly Drosophila |
Apr. 10 | Amit Meller | Single molecules fluorescence technique |
Apr. 12 | Mara G. Prentiss | Probing the elastic properties of single DNA molecules |
Apr. 17 | Donald Ingber | Cellular biophysics, mechanotransduction and developmental control |
Apr. 19 | Kevin K. Parker | Mechanotransduction in the heart |
Apr. 24 | David R. Nelson | Polymers and Biophysics |
Apr. 26 | David J. Mooney | Using material mechanical properties as a variable to regulate cell fate |
May 1 | Howard C. Berg | Bacterial chemotaxis: Coping with life on the micron scale |
May 3 | Aravinthan Samuel | Low Reynolds number swimming through viscous fluids |
May 8 | Reading Period | |
May 10 | Reading Period | |
May 15 | Reading Period | |
May 17 | Exams | |
May 22 | Exams | |
May 24 | Exams |
Updated 4.4.06.