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BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard |
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Squishy, Gooey, Stretchy: The Science of Making Pizza
Holiday Lecture for Families H.A. Stone and A. Rowat
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Defects in Thin Nematic Shells
D.R. Nelson and D.A. Weitz |
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Biomimetic Thin Film Muscles K.K. Parker and G.M. Whitesides
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Behavior of Microtubules in Cells
L. Mahadevan and D.A. Weitz |
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Shear Transformation Zones in Colloidal Glasses F. Spaepen and D.A. Weitz |
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Rheometer Facility |
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Industrial Outreach Workshop |
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Holiday Lecture for Children and Parents Howard A. Stone |
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Gender Equity Workshop Cynthia M. Friend |
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A Biophysical and Biomechanical Analysis of Worm Motile Behavior Aravintham Samuel and Lakshminarayan Mahadevan |
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Optimal Vein Density in Artificial and Real Leaves M. Zwienicki, N.M. Holbrook, L. Mahadevan, and D.A. Weitz |
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How Bumps on Whale Flippers Delay Stall Ernst van Nierop, Silas Alben, and Michael P. Brenner |
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Surface Tension Driven Motion Jacques Dumais |
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Optical Tweezers Mara Prentiss |
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Probing Neuronal Origin of Behavior in C. Elegans Samuel Chung, Aravinthan Samuel, Eric Mazur, and Jonathan Kamler |
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Hybrid Structures of Hard and Soft Materials of Small Features Zhigang Suo |
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Fundamental Structural Rearrangements in a Flowing Glass Frans Spaepen and David A. Weitz |
2006 |
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The P-nDSC: A Combinatorial Approach to Thermal Analysis of Materials |
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Nanoindentation of Colloidal Crystals |
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Sub-Cellular Nanosurgery in Live Cells Using Ultrashort Laser Pulses |
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Cells on Asymmetric Patterns |
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Nematic Textures in Spherical Shells |
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Microfluidic Assembly of Colloidal Armor |
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Surface Tension Rockets |
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Self-Assembly of Supported and Unsupported Thin Films |
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Public Presentations |
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Postdoctoral Professional Development: Cool Labs, Hot Topics at the Museum of Science, Boston |
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Frontiers of Soft Condensed Matter Workshop: Inter-MRSEC and Industry Partnership |
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Creation of New High Tech Jobs |
2005 |
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Double Emulsions: Droplets inside Droplets D.A. Weitz |
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Public Presentations/Strange Matter Exhibit |
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Enriching Teacher Professional Development and K12 Education through RET |
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A Low-Cost and Portable Medical and Diagnostic Devices Targeted for the Third World
G.M. Whitesides and D.A. Edwards |
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Biomechanics at the Scale of the Cell and below Using Laser Surgery D. Ingber, E. Mazur and D.A. Weitz |
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Direct Visualization of Shear in a Colloidal Glass F. Spaepen and D.A. Weitz |
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Crawling of C. Elegans: How a Worm’s Motion Leads to Fundamental Understanding at the Interface of Biomechanics and Neuroscience A. Samuel and L. Mahadevan |
2004 |
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Career Development for Young Scientists Educational Programs |
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Fracture in Drying Nanoparticle Suspensions Weitz, Hutchinson, and Xie |
2003 |
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From Bosnian Emigré to Graduate Study. Tanja Hadzic, (Department of Immunolgy, University of Iowa) |
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How Research Opportunities Shape Scientific Careers. Dr. Nadya Mason, (Society of Junior Fellows, Harvard University). |
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Colloidosomes: Self-Assembled Permeable Solid Shells Weitz |
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Packing Spheres on a Spherical Surface: New Solution to a 100-year-old Problem Nelson and Weitz |
2002 |
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Attractive Interactions Between Like-Charged Colloidal Particle on Surfaces Michael Brenner and David Weitz |
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Stress Evolution During E-Beam Deposition of Amorphous Alumina Frans Spaepen |
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Novel Laser Patterning of Silicon Surfaces Cynthia Friend and Eric Mazur |
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CARS Imaging of Cells Sunney Xie |
2001 |
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Avalanche Photodiode using Microtextured Silicon Eric Mazur and Cynthia Friend |
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Ab-initio Multiscale Simulation of Piezoelectric Response Efthimios Kaxiras and Jim Rice |
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Fabrication of Complex, 3-D Microstructures George Whitesides |
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Generating Microgradients George Whitesides and Howard Stone |
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Photodisruption in Cells using Femtosecond Laser Pulses Eric Mazur and Donald Ingber |
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Micromachining Transparent Materials with Femtosecond Laser Pulses Eric Mazur |
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Atom Cloud Trapped by Magnetic Laminate inside a Magneto Optical Trap Mara Prentiss |
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Electron Flow in a High Mobility Two Dimensional Electron Gas Eric Heller and Robert Westervelt |
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Fluctuating Spin g-tensor in Small Metal Grains Bertrand Halperin |
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Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy and Spectroscopy. BEEM/BEES. Venky Narayanamurti |
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Three-dimensional Networks of Fluid Channels in PDMS George Whitesides |
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Optical Waveguides Eric Mazur |
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Ultrathin Uniform Nanowires Michael Tinkham |
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Micro-electromagnet Atom Guide Mara Prentiss and Robert Westervelt |
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GaSb Self-assembled Quantum Dots on GaAs Venky Narayanamurti |