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2008 Events

December 5, 2008	37th New England Complex Fluids Meeting at Harvard University
September 12, 2008	36th New England Complex Fluids Meeting at Brandeis University
June 27, 2008	35th New England Complex Fluids Meeting at University of Rhode Island
June 15 - August 23, 2008	MRSEC summer 2008 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program
June 11, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Surita Bhatia, UMass Amherst Using stereochemistry to control rheology in associative polymer gels
June 4, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Einat Lev, MIT Anisotropic viscosity in viscous flow models—implications for the Earth's mantle
May 28, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Leonid Mirny, MIT How does a protein find its site on DNA?
May 21, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Ron Lebofsky, Harvard Medical School Intranuclear Quorum Sensing During Eukaryotic DNA Replication
May 14, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Roy Bar-Ziv, Weizmann Institute Gene brushes: from crowding and the search problem to synthetic systems
May 7, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Zvonimir Dogic, Brandeis University Chiral Self-Assembly
April 30, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar John Bush, MIT The fluid trampoline: droplets bouncing on a soap film
April 23, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Catherine Klapperich, Boston University Microfluidic Sample Preparation for Molecular Detection of Infectious Disease
April 16, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Roman Stocker, MIT Life in a drop of ocean: microfluidic insights into microbial ecology
April 9, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Hans Wyss, Harvard Glass formation and structuring in soft materials
April 2, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Chris Love, MIT Microtools for profiling heterogeneous populations of cells
March 26, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Igor Kulic, Harvard University The origin and function of cytoskeletal noise
March 21, 2008	34th New England Complex Fluids Meeting at Yale University
March 19, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Shashi Murthy, Northeastern University Microfluidic Cell Separation: Applications & Challenges in Cardiac Tissue Engineering
March 12, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Debbie Chacra, Olin College Biological Materials: Characterization of Composites and Biopolymers
March 5, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Eric Anton Verploegen, MIT Self assembly of liquid crystalline and block copolymers
February 27, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Stefan Münster, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität-Erlangen-Nürnberg Mechanical Properties and Morphology of Collagen Networks—Laying the Groundwork to Obtain Cell Traction Forces in 3 Dimensions
February 20, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Jeff Palmer, MIT Constitutive Modeling of the Stress-Strain Behavior of F-Actin Filament Networks
February 13, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Christopher J Bettinger, MIT Synthesis and Microfabrication of Elastomeric Biomaterials for Advanced Tissue Engineering Scaffolds
February 6, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Mathilde Reyssat, Harvard University Non-sticking drops
January 30, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Raphael Bruckner, Massachusetts General Hospital Non-sticking drops
January 23, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Jane' Kondev, Brandeis University Chemistry in a box: Effect of confinement on diffusion limited reactions
January 16, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Etienne Reyssat, Harvard University Three liquid jet stories
January 9, 2008	Squishy Physics Seminar Natalie Arkus, Harvard University Directed Self-Assembly of Spherical Particles at Low N
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2006-2007 Events
December 19, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Patrick McCluskey, Harvard University Parallel measurement of thermal properties in nanoscale coatings
December 15, 2007	Squishy, Gooey, Stretchy: The Science of Making Pizza at Harvard University Holiday Lecture for Families with H.A. Stone and A. Rowat - Flyer
December 12, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Jeremy Munday, Harvard University Casimir forces and quantum electrodynamic torques
December 5, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Wesley Wong, Rowland Institute Probing single-molecule dynamics and structure with optical tweezers
November 30, 2007	33rd New England Complex Fluids Meeting at Harvard University
November 28, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Johan Paulsson, Harvard Medical School General Principles for Randomness in Cells
November 21, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Sebastian Rammensee, Technical University Munich Assembly of Spider Silk in a Microfluidic Device
November 14, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Patrick Doyle, MIT Microfluidic Technologies to Create Complex Microparticles
November 7, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Katharina Ribbeck, Harvard University Physical Properties of Mucus
October 31, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Nathan Israeloff, Northeastern University Fluctuations in Squishy Imitators
October 24, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Jacques Dumais, Harvard University Fluctuations in Squishy Imitators
October 17, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Vikram Prasad, Emory University Microrheology at Interfaces: On the Surface of things, Brownian Motion is Correlated
October 10, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Adam Feinberg, Harvard University Engineering the Biotic-Abiotic Interface: From Anti-fouling Surfaces to Soft Robotics to Cardiac Disease Models
October 3, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar George Lauder, Harvard University Biomechanics of Squishy Fish Locomotion
September 28, 2007	32nd New England Complex Fluids Meeting at University of Connecticut, Storrs
September 26, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Irene Chen, Harvard University Lipid Vesicles During the Origin of Life
September 19, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Vinny Manoharan, Harvard University Holographic Particle Tracking
September 12, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Joshua Vaughan, Harvard University Chasing Poliovirus in Live Cells
August 29, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Goran Vladisavljevic, Loughborough University Controlled Production of Emulsions Using Membrane and Silicon Microchannel Array Devices
August 22, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Emmanuel Boucrot, Harvard Medical School Mammalian Cells Change Volume and Membrane Area During Mitosis
August 15, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Christian Reich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität X-ray and Fluorescence Studies of Planar Lipid Bilayers
August 8, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Christopher Pipe, MIT Microfluidic Rheology
August 1, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Trevor Ng, MIT Rheology of Bread Dough and Gluten Gels
July 25, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Jennifer Kirchhoff, Florida State University Understanding Complex Smectic Phases through Doping
June 15, 2007	31st New England Complex Fluids Meeting at Brown University
June 13, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Gregg Lois, Yale University The Jamming Transition in Systems with Attraction
June 6, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Matthieu Wyart, Harvard University Soft Modes and Dynamics in Amorphous Solids
May 9, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Emilie Verneuil, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique Adhesion on Microstructured Surfaces
Apr. 17, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Sang-Hyuk Lee, NYU Brownian motion in complex potential energy landscape created with light
Apr. 10-11, 2007	Nanomaterials in Biology and Medicine: Promises and Perils at the National Academy of Sciences Building, Washington, DC
Mar. 28, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Silke Henkes, Brandeis Univ. A Statistical Ensemble for Soft Granular Matter
Mar. 21, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Shomeek Mukhopadhyay, Duke Univ. Fingers, Starbursts and Kinks: Dynamics of driven contact lines
Mar. 15, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Erwin Frey, LMU Munich Floppy modes and non-affine deformations in biopolymer networks
Mar. 14, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Gi-Ra Yi, KBSI Korea Colloidal crystallization under centrifugal force field
Mar. 2, 2007	30th New England Complex Fluids Workshop at Yale University
Jan. 10, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Yi-Chia Lin, Harvard University Elastic behavior of composite actin and microtubule networks
Dec. 13, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Adeline Perro, University of Bordeaux Synthesis of colloidal particles with controlled morphologies and surface properties
Dec. 6, 2007	Squishy Physics Seminar Wouter Ellenbroek, Leiden Institute for Physics Linear response of jammed granular media: critical behavior at the jamming transition
Dec. 1, 2006	Science by Candlelight: A Holiday Lecture for Children and their Parents at Harvard University
Dec. 1, 2006	29th New England Complex Fluids Workshop at Harvard University
Nov. 29, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Matthias Schneider, University of Augsburg Planar Microfluidics - Blood Flow on a Chip
Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2006	Materials Research Society Fall Meeting Hynes Convention Center & Sheraton Boston Hotel Boston, MA
Nov. 15, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Anita Mehta, Radcliffe/S.N. Bose National Centre, Calcutta Sand in a Jam
Nov. 8, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Loren Hough, UC Boulder Optical Activity and Layer Curvature in Bent-Core Liquid Crystals
Oct. 25, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Harvard University
Oct. 18, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar David Sessoms, Harvard University Spatial Heterogeneities in the Structural Relaxation Dynamics of Confined Foams
Oct. 11, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Xavier Trepat, Harvard University Universal Physical Responses to Stretch in the Living Cell
Oct. 4, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Giovanni Romeo, Harvard University Structure and dynamics of polymer nanocomposites. From technological to model systems
Sept. 27, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Matt Lynch, Proctor and Gamble Collapse of depletion-induced vesicle gels
Sept. 20, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Yaqian Liu, Harvard University Gravitationally Induced Deformation and Delayed Collapse of Emulsion Gels
Sept. 15, 2006	28th New England Complex Fluids Workshop at Brandeis University - Flyer
Sept. 13, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Ashish Orpe, Clark University Structure and velocity fluctuations in dense granular flows observed with internal imaging
Sept. 6, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Daeyeon Lee, MIT Surface Engineering of Non-planar Geometries Using Layer-by-Layer Assembly
Aug. 23, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Irmgard Bischofberger, Univ. of Fribourg Complex solvation of H-bond sensitive materials in water-alcohol mixtures
Jul. 12, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Brent Hoffman, UPenn A consensus mechanical response of the mammalian cytoskeleton
May 24, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Long Cai, Harvard University Life at Low Copy Numbers: A Single Molecule Adventure in Gene Expression
May 17, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Roberto Kolter, Harvard Medical School On the Biological Function of Surfactants
May 10, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Andre Studart, ETH Zurich How Can Colloid Science Help the Fabrication of Novel and Better Ceramics?
May 5, 2006	SEAS Industry Partnership Workshop Bioengineering, Materials Science, and Nanosystems: A Confluence of Innovation
April 22, 2006	Encore Einstein Lecture: It's Elementary, My Dear Einstein: A Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Einstein's Miraculous Year Science Center Lecture Hall D More Info
April 7, 2006	Research Experience for Teachers Program Application Deadline More Info
April 5, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Per Lyngs Hansen, MEMPHYS - University S. Denmark Physics of Electrifying Biomatter
March 22, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Oliver Dauchot, CEA, Sacley Glassy Dynamics of Granular Media: Caging and Dynamical Heterogeneities
March 1, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Pabitra Sen, Schlumberger Research Self-Assembly in Asphaltenes—Enthalpy, Entropy of Depletion and Dynamics at Crossover
February–May 2006	Applied Physics 298r: Interdisciplinary Chemistry, Engineering and Physics
February 27, 2006	Summer 2006 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program Application Deadline Apply Online More Info
February 22, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Pavel Kraikivski, Max Planck Institute, Golm Polymer Manipulation and Motility on Substrates
February 8, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Peter Domachuk, University of Sydney Squishy and Shiny Physics: Optofluidics
January 18, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Armand Ajdari, ESPCI Paris/Harvard University Droplet Traffic in Microfluidic Trees: Complexity and Passive Control
January 11, 2006	Squishy Physics Seminar Suliana Manley, MIT Organization in Model Membranes: Proteins and Phase Separation
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2004-2005 Events
December 11, 2005	2005 Holiday Lecture
December 7, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Hans Wyss, Harvard University Structure and Dynamics of Soft Glassy Materials
December 2, 2005	25th New England Complex Fluids Workshop at Harvard University Download PDF Flyer
November 30, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Vesna Damljanovic, Boston University Traction Assays for Studies of Cell Mechanotransduction
November 9, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Oliver Reubenacker, University of Connecticut Worm Algorithm in Microrheology
October 26, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Vinny Manoharan, Harvard University What's Shakin' Inside a Foam
October 19, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Patrick Johnson, Simmons College Anisotropic Silica Particles for Confocal Microscopy
October 12, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Adam Engler, University of Pennsylvania Mechano-chemical Signaling Directs Cell State
October 5, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Roger Gaudreault, Cascades Corp. Salt Necessary for PEO-Cofactor Association: The Role of Molecular Modelling in PEO Flocculation Mechanisms
August 17, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Chinlin Guo, Harvard University The Long-range Cooperativity in Yeast Mating Polarization
June 13 – August 19, 2005	Research Experience for Undergraduates Program
July 7, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Benny Davidovich, Harvard University Jarzynski Equality and Possible Applications at Various Scales
June 22, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Corey O'Hern, Yale University Random Close Packing Revisited: How Many Ways can we Pack Frictionless Disks?
June 15, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Gregor Knoener, Queensland University Twist and Pull: Optical Micromanipulation Applied to (Bio)physics
Summer 2005	Research Experience for Teachers
May 25, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Anita Bowles, Harvard University Stress and Relaxation in Polymer Thin Films
May 18–20, 2005	Frontiers of Soft Condensed Matter Workshop, ExxonMobil Corporate Research Lab Clinton, New Jersey More Info
May 18, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Zvonomir Dogic, Rowland Institute Bacterial Flagellum as a Model Chiral Polymer
May 11, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Stephan Koehler, Emory University Cutting of Viscoelastic Materials
April 27, 2005	SEAS Industrial Outreach Program (IOP) Materials in Bioengineering and Medicine Conference Registration and Info
April 20, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Jan Groenewold, Delft University Collapse of the Cluster Phase
April 15, 2005	Summer 2005 Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program deadline More Info
April 13, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Phil Segre, Emory University Marangoni Convection and Deviations from Maxwells' Evaporation Model
April 6, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Yun Liu, MIT An Effective Long-Range Attraction Between Protein Molecules in Solutions Studied by Small Angle Neutron Scattering
March 30, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Allison Ferguson, Brandeis University Stress and Large-Scale Spatial Structures in Dense, Granular Flows
March 18, 2005	PPG Lecture and Condensed Matter Seminar, Professor Ludwik Leibler Laboratoire Matière Molle et Chimie ESPCI, Paris, France, From Nanostructured Plastics to Green Supramolecular Rubbers: Joys of Self-assembling Pierce Hall, Room 209, 4:00 p.m. Download flyer for more info (pdf)
March 9, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Margaret Gardel, Scripps Institute Mechanical Feedback in Cell Motility: 'Dude, This Floor is so Soft, it's Hard to Grip on'
February 25, 2005	Summer 2005 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program Application Deadline More Info
February 23, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Christoph Merten, Cambridge University Compartmentalization-based Techniques to Screen for Inhibitors of Viral Infections
February 9, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Ian Morrison, Cabot How to Calculate Contact Angles from Spreading Pressures
January 19, 2005	Squishy Physics Seminar Alberto Fernandez de las Nieves, The University of Almeria, Spain Liquid Crystal Drops and Shells
December 18, 2004	The Squishy Physics of Complex Fluids, a talk by Itai Cohen at the Museum of Science, Boston More Info
December 11, 2004	What Kind of Strange Matter is Metallic Glass? a talk by Professor Mike Aziz at the Museum of Science, Boston More Info
December 11, 2004	2004 Holiday Lecture A Playground of Polymers: From Strings and Worms to Bouncing Balls and Glowing Goo More Info Download a Flyer and Map.
December 8, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Pablo Hurtado, Boston University Nonequilibrium Behavior of a Simple One-dimensional Fluid
December 5, 2004	21^st Quarterly Complex Fluids Workshop at Harvard University Download PDF Flyer
December 1, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Amy Rowat, The University of Southern Denmark Nuclear Biophysics: The Hard Core of Soft Matter
November 24, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Dominic Vella, DAMTP, Cambridge University The Cheerios Effect
October 6, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Matthieu Wyart, Saclay and University of Chicago Geometric Origin of Excess Soft Vibrational Modes in Amorphous Solid
September 29, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Azadeh Samadani, MIT Non-genetic Individuality in the Gradient Sensing Response of Dictyostelium
September 15, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Markus Heutter, MIT Structure of Colloidal Particle Networks: Characterization of Heterogeneity and Porosity
August 4 & 5, 2004	End of the Summer Seminar Series (REU Participants) Maxwell Dworkin G115
July 28, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Sarah Keoster, Boston University Biomaterials in Confined Geometry
July 21, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Raghuveer Parthasarathy, UC Berkeley Protein Patterns at Inter-membrane Junctions
July 14, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Christophe Riera, Harvard University Hydro-dynamical Models for the Chaotic Dripping Faucet
June 30, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Ido Braslavsky, Ohio University Step by Step up the DNA Ladder: Single Molecule DNA Sequencing by Synthesis
June 16, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Zhao Tong, University of Maryland Current Induced Instabilities in Vicinal Si Surfaces
June 14, 2004	Research Experience for Undegraduates (REU) program begins
May 26, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Stefan Klumpp, MPI Golm Movements of Molecular Motors: Random Walks and Traffic Phenomena
May 20–21, 2004	Industrial Outreach Program: Frontiers in Materials and Nanoscience
May 12, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Peter Virnau, MIT Monte Carlo Simulations of Polymers in Supercritical Solution
May 5, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Arpita Upadhyaya, MIT Actin' Pushy and Pulling Springs: Two Forms of Cell Motility
April 28, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Ryan Hayward, UCSB Organic Templating of Nanostructured Inorganic Oxide Thin Films
April 21, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Bill Ristenpart, Princeton University Electric-field Induced Assembly of Colloidal Particles
April 14, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Jamie Forrest, MIT Protein Adsorption and Stability at Biomaterial Interfaces
April 7, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Markus Zahn, MIT Ferrohydrodynamic and Electrohydrodynamic Flow Phenomena
March 17, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Kirstin Purdy, Brandeis University Nematic Phase Transitions in Mixtures of Thin and Thick Colloidal Rods
March 10, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Patrick Tabeling, ESPCI Paris Playing with Chaos, Particles, Drops, or Other Things in Microfluidic System
March 1, 2004	Peer Instruction Workshop for Science and Math Teachers at Harvard University Time: 5:30-8:00 pm Location: Harvard University, 209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Click here for More Info Flyer for Peer Instruction 2004 (pdf)
February 27, 2004	Application Deadline for 2004 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program
February 25, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Oliver Mullins, Schlumberger Research Molecular Structure and Primary Aggregation of Asphaltenes: And the Future of Petroleum Science Petroleomics
February 18, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Jan Skotheim, Harvard University Mechanics of the Venus Fly Trap
February 11, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Jane Kondev, Brandeis University Physics of DNA Packaging in Viruses
February 4, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Chris Harrison and Dan Angelescu, Schlumberger Research Air Entrainment Through Viscous Liquid
January 28, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Elise Lorenceau, Harvard University Air Entrainment Through Viscous Liquid
January 21, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Robert Prud'homme, Princeton University Soft Self Assembly with Amphiphilic Polymers: Making Drug Nanoparticles and Complex Liquid Crystal Phases
January 14, 2004	Squishy Physics Seminar Joshua Bloustine, Brandeis University Compaction, Ordering and Phase Transitions in Vibrated Granular Rods: Preliminary Results
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2002-2003 Events
December 5, 2003	17th Quarterly Complex Fluids Workshop at Harvard University More Info (PDF Flyer) Map (PDF)
December 5, 2003	PPG Lecture, Professor Jerome Bibette, ESPCI, Paris, Self-Assembly of Magnetic Colloids as Biosensors Pierce Hall, Room 209 at 4:00 p.m. Click here for more info (PDF)
December 3, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Marc Lavine, Science Magazine Communicating Science, Communicating in Science: A View from inside Science Magazine
November 12, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Martin Bazant & Jaehyuk Choi, MIT Diffusion and Mixing in Dense, Granular Drainage
November 5, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Pankaj Doshi, MIT Non-Universal Drop Break-Up
October 29, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Thomas Hallsey, ExxonMobil Kinematics of Rolling Grains
October 22, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Andrew Lee, University of Texas, Austin Crater Formation: Dynamics of Projectile Impact in Granular Media
October 15, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Animangsu Ghatak, Harvard University Tearing of a Thin Solid Sheet Using a Blunt Tool
October 8, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Clark University Physics of Red Blood Cell Shapes
October 1, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Andrea Freitag, Cabot Corporation Electrical Properties of Carbon Black Using Impedance Spectroscopy
September 24, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Yitzhak Rabin, Bar-Ilan University/Rowland Institute Polymer Gels: Static Inhomogeneities and Thermal Fluctuations
September 17, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Paula Hammond, MIT From Energy Applications to Biomaterials:Nano- to Microscale Patterning and Assembly of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers
August 27, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Jonathan Rothstein, Umass Amherst Extensional Flows of Wormlike Micelle Solutions
August 20, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Yossi Klafter, Tel Aviv University Fractional Kinetics in Transport and Relaxation
August 5 & 7, 2003	End of the Summer Seminar Series (REU and RET Participants) Maxwell Dworkin G115
August 1, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Stephan Koehler, Emory University Physics of Cutting Soft Materials
July 23, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Surita Bhatia, U Mass Amherst Rheology of Micellar Block Polyelectrolyte Gels
July 7, 2003	Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program begins
June 18, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Mason Klein and Leo Tsai, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics The Role of Interstitial Gas in the Segregation of vertically Vibrated Granular Media
June 13, 2003	15th Quarterly Complex Fluids Workshop at Yale University More Info
June 9, 2003	Research Experience for Undegraduates (REU) program begins
June 4, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Jeffrey Andrews, Atlas Venture How to Found a Venture-Backed Startup Company
May 28, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Roger Adami, Pfizer, Inc. Stabilization of DNA From a Pharmaceutical Perspective
May 7, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Predrag Bursac, Harvard University School of Public Health Cell Rheology and Dynamics as Seen by Tracer Beads Attached to Cell Cytoskeleton
May 2, 2003	Final School Group for Cambridge and Brighton Public Schools participating in Project TEACH on campus (resumes in Fall, 2003)
April 30, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Piotr Habdas, Emory University Local Perturbations of Colloidal Suspensions
April 23, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Chris Gabel, Harvard University Energy Response of the Flagellar Rotary Motor of Escheria Coli Bacteria
April 16, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Cornelius Storm, University of Pennsylvania Strain Stiffening in Biopolymer Networks
April 11, 2003	Application Deadline for the Summer 2003 Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program (6-8 week summer research program for middle and high school science teachers)
April 10–11, 2003	Industrial Outreach Program with special MRSEC program More information
April 10, 2003	MRSEC Advisory Board Meeting (in conjunction with IOP meeting)
April 9, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Yariv Kafri, Harvard University DNA Denaturation
April 2, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Jim Martin, Sandia National Labs Generating Strange Magnetic Interactions in Particle Suspensions
March 21, 2003	14th Quarterly Complex Fluids Workshop at UMass-Boston
March 12, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Davide Iannuzzi, Harvard University Casimir Forces in MicroElectroMechanical Systems
February 28, 2003	Application Deadline for 2003 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program
February 26, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Andrew Loxley, A123Systems, Boston Microcapsules: Controlled Release to Printable Electronic Displays
February 7, 2003	Harvard President Larry Summers visit to MRSEC and NSEC
January 29, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Zhengdong Cheng, Harvard University Control of Colloids With Gravity, Temperature Gradient, and Optical Fields
January 22, 2003	Squishy Physics Seminar Matthew Lynch Proctor & Gamble, Colloid and Surfactant Laboratory Advances Towards the Practical Usage of Cubosomes
January 15, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Len Sander, University of Michigan Growth Patterns of Microscopic Brain Tumors
December 11, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Meredith Betterton, New York University Helicase Opening of DNA: Active Versus Passive Opening
December 6, 2002	13th Quarterly Complex Fluids Workshop at Harvard Download PDF application with map
November 27, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Serpil Kocabiyik, Memorial University of Newfoundland Flow Induced by a Circular Cylinder Subject to Forced Oscillations Combined with Applied Mechanics
November 21 2002	Symposium on Fluid Flow Focusing and Microfluidics
November 20, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Shelley Anna, Harvard University Designing Emulsions One Drop at a Time
November 13, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Nagu Nagarajan, Pennsylvania State University Predicting Surfactant Self-Assembly
November 6, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Joyce Wong, Boston University Novel Microgradient Compliant Hydrogels to Probe Cell Behavior
October 30, 2002	PPG Lecture, Professor Kathleen J. Stebe, Department of Chemical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University Using Surfactants to Direct Pattern Formation from an Evaporating Drop Pierce Hall, Room 209 at 4:00 p.m. Click here for more info (PDF)
October 23, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Megan Valentine, Harvard University Mechanics of Cellular Cytoplasm
October 16, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Alan Parker, Switzerland Gravity-driven Unjamming of Emulsion Gels
October 9, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Jean-Francois Berret, CNRS Universite de Montpellier II and Rhodia, New Jersey The Shear Banding Transition in Wormlike Micelles
October 2, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Arijit Bose, University of Rhode Island Microstructure Evolution and Materials Synthesis in Aerosol OT-based Gels and Microemulsions
September 4, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Gady Frenkel, Tel Aviv University The Structure of the Memory Kernel in the Generalized Langevin Equation
August 28, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Greg Buck, St. Anselm's College Untangling DNA
June 12, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Gijsje Koenderink, Utrecht University Rotational and Translational Diffusion in Colloidal Mixtures
June 5, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Phil Jones, Imerys Kaolinite and its Use in Paper Applications
May 22, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Denis Bendejacq, Rhodia Structures of Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymers
May 15, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Stephen Arnason, UMass Boston Electron Glass Behavior in Amorphous Indium Oxide FETs
May 8, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Stella Park, MIT Explaining Polyelectrolyte Multilayers with Stickers and Loops
May 1, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Sid Redner, MIT Explaining Polyelectrolyte Multilayers with Stickers and Loops
April 24, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Darren Link, Harvard University Bent-core Liquid Crystals: Chiral Phases from Achiral Molecules
April 17, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Horatio Castillo, Boston University Heterogeneous Aging in Spin Glasses
April 10, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Zhiqun Lin, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Surface and Interfacial Structures Induced by Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities
April 3, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Ryoichi Yamamoto, Kyoto University Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Rheology of Glassy Materials
March 13, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Ross Mair, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics Applications of Laser Polarized Noble Gases to NMR Studies of Complex Media
February 13, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Thomas Peacock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Micro-active Control of a Jet Flow
January 30, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Dan Blair, Clark University Clustering Transitions in Excited Dipolar Hard Spheres
January 23, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Christian Clasen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gels in Beer
January 16, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Ralf Metzler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Why Knot — Equilibrium Shapes of Knots
January 9, 2002	Squishy Physics Seminar Itai Cohen, Harvard University Topological Transitions in Two-fluid Flows
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2001-2002 Events
May 15, 2002	Application Deadline for the 2002 Industrial Internship program
April 12, 2002	Application Deadline for the Summer 2002 Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program (6-8 week summer research program for middle and high school science teachers)
March 15, 2002	Application Deadline for the 2002 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program
December 7, 2001	9th Quarterly Complex Fluids Workshop at Harvard (led by D.A. Weitz and S. Fraden.) Download PDF application with map
October 12, 2001	PPG Lecture, Professor Norman Wagner, University of Delaware Engineering Colloidal Interactions to Control Reversible Shear Thickening in Concentrated Dispersions Click here for more info (PDF)
October 5, 2001–May 11, 2002	Project TEACH, Fridays (each seventh grade class in the Cambridge Public School visits Harvard for the day, science presentations made by Center faculty)
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2000-2001 Events
Summer 2001	Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program (10 week summer research program for undergraduates) Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program (6-8 week summer research program for middle and high school science teachers)
May 8, 2001	Visit by 35 Italian Chemists, Physicists, Engineers from Universities and Industry, Scientific Attaches, and Specialized Journalists
April 27, 2001	Application Deadline for the 2001 Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program
March 23, 2001	Application Deadline for the 2001 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program. Application Deadline for the 2001 Industrial Internship program
March 17, 2001	Presentation for the Harvard Foundation (K-8 students in Cambridge)
February 22–23, 2001	NSF Site Visit Review
December 15, 2000	5th Quarterly New England Complex Fluids Workshop (led by D.A. Weitz and S. Fraden)
October 20–April 27, 2000	Project TEACH, Fridays (each seventh grade class in the Cambridge Public School visits Harvard for the day, science presentations made by Center faculty)
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1999-2000 Events
Summer 2000	Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program (10 week summer research program for undergraduates) Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program (4-,6-,or 8-week research and education program for teachers)
May 26, 2000	Deadline for applications: Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program
May 18, 2000	Peer Instruction Workshop for Middle and High School Math and Science Teachers led by Eric Mazur
May 13, 2000	Visit to Harvard and MRSEC by Kipp Academy, Texas
May 12, 2000	PPG Lecture. Professor William Russel, Princeton
April 26, 2000	Career Day, Peabody Middle School, Cambridge, MA
April 4, 2000	Visit to MRSEC by Hopi High School (AZ) students
March 24, 2000	Deadline for applications: Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program
March 18, 2000	Experimental Facilities Workshop for Saturday Science Academy high school students
March 18, 2000	Presentation for Harvard Foundation (K-8 students in Cambridge)
February 2–May 3, 2000	AP298 Materials Chemistry and Physics, survey course for graduate students in materials science, chemistry, physics, biology and engineering (led by E. Kaxiras, M.J. Aziz, H.A. Stone, D.A. Weitz, with 11 other Center faculty)
December 17, 1999	Complex Fluids Workshop (led by D.A. Weitz and S. Fraden)
December 3, 1999	NSF/MRSEC Directors Meeting, hosted by the Harvard MRSEC
October 22, 1999	PPG Lecture, Professor Paul Laibinis, MIT
October 22, 1999-May 12, 2000	Project TEACH, Fridays (each seventh grade class in the Cambridge Public School visits Harvard for the day, science presentations made by Center faculty)

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