BSS Formal Seminar

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Active self-organization of the actin cytoskeleton driven by molecular motors

User Dr. Gijsje Koenderinck.

Friday 07 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wires, Reporters and Information Capsules: Cellular journalism with DNA.

User Dr. Yamuna Krishnan ( National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India).

Friday 19 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

How disordered is a pile of marbles? Numerical techniques to quantify disorder.

User Prof. Daan Frenkel, University of Cambridge, Theoretical Chemistry.

Friday 12 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

What keeps sand-castles standing? The physics of wet granular matter

User Prof. Stefan Herminghaus, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany.

Friday 29 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

In Vivo studies with Optical Tweezers

User Prof. Lene B. Oddershede, Niels Bohr Institute, Univ. Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.

Friday 15 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

DNA homology recognition: love on first sight

User Prof. Alexei A. Kornyshev, Imperial College London.

Friday 04 December 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Flow-Induced “Shish-kebab” Formation: A New-Scenario of Kinetic Pathways for􀀁Entangled Polymer Solutions

User Takeji Hashimoto, Prof. Emeritus, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Monday 16 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Intracellular signalling in a molecular jungle: insights from bacterial chemotaxis

User Prof. Dennis Bray.

Friday 13 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Colloidal Characterization and Thermodynamic Stability of Binary Protein Mixtures

User Prof. Giuseppe Foffi.

Friday 06 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Engineered protein pores as components of soft micromachines

User Hagan Bayley.

Friday 30 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Cells Under the Tip

http://www.pellinglab.net/people.htm

User Prof. Andrew E. Pelling, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Friday 23 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Protein dynamics and amyloid formation: two sides of the same coin

User Alfonso de Simone (University of Cambridge).

Friday 16 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Dipolar Gels

User Dr Mark Miller (University of Cambridge).

Friday 09 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Protein dynamics and amyloid formation: two sides of the same coin

User Alfonso de Simone (University of Cambridge).

Friday 18 September 2009, 14:00-15:00

The Flexibility Window in Networks and Proteins

User Prof. Mike Thorpe, Arizona State University.

Monday 08 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

Chemically modifying surfaces and biomolecules for nanopore analysis

User Dr Stefan Howorka, Department of Chemistry, University College London.

Friday 05 June 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Survival of the aligned: Modeling the cortical microtubule array in plant cells

User Bela Mulder, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wageningen University.

Friday 29 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Nucleation and growth of insulin fibrils in bulk solution and at hydrophobic polystyrene surfaces

User Dr. James Sharp, School of Physics and Astronomy and Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre, University of Nottingham.

Friday 22 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

Thick & thin: physics of polymers with sticky ends.

User Prof. Martien Cohen Stuart, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

Friday 15 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Non-equilibrium fluctuations and mechanics of active gels and living cells

User Fred Mackintosh, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit.

Friday 08 May 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Two-dimensional colloidal systems in optical and magnetic fields

User Roel Dullens, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford.

Friday 24 April 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Identification of structure-conserving correlated motions in the β-sheet of ubiquitin

User Xavier Salvatella, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, IRB Barcelona.

Friday 06 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

The Molecular Mechanism of Nuclear Protein Import

User Dr Murray Stewart, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

Friday 27 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Forms and Flows of Ferrofluids

User Dr Reinhard Richter, Experimentalphysik 5, Universität Bayreuth, Germany.

Friday 06 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Canceled

User Dr James Sharp, School of Physics and Astronomy and Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre , University of Nottingham.

Friday 23 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Experiments on cytoskeletal and “Recombinase” motors

User Dr Giovanni Cappello, Institut Curie, France.

Friday 16 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Understanding shape and traction of adherent cells

User Prof. Ulrich Schwarz, University of Karlsruhe & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Friday 05 December 2008, 14:15-15:15

A singular view of DNA transactions

User Dr Gijs Wuite, Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Friday 28 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Rare events and the flipping of genetic switches

User Dr Rosalind Allen, School of Physics, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 14 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Designing Molecular Swimmers

User Prof. Ramin Golestanian, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield.

Friday 07 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Biological Photonics: Controlling the Flow of Colour

User Dr Peter Vukusic, School of Physics, University of Exeter.

Friday 31 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

The biophysical properties of microtubules and their technological potential

User Prof. Jack Tuszynski, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Friday 10 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

House Edwards Room, Bragg building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Optical force and torque on a spheroid: Generalized Lorenz Mie Theory

User Dr Feng Xu, TU Darmstadt, Germany.

Monday 23 June 2008, 14:30-15:30

Optically-assisted interrogation of cells

User Dr Lynn Paterson, Physics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Friday 13 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Quadruplexes. What else ?

User Dr Jean-Louis Mergny, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle USM 503, Regulation et Dynamique des Genomes, Paris, France.

Friday 06 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Designing Self-Propelled Polymeric Capsules and Gels

User Prof Anna C Balazs, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh.

Friday 30 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

Force generation at dynamic microtubule ends

User Prof Marileen Dogterom, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, AmsterdamThe Netherlands.

Friday 23 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

Reverse engineering cell mechanics

User Prof. Daniel Fletcher, UC Berkeley, USA.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Capillary-Gravity Waves

User Elie Raphael, ESPCI, Paris, France.

Friday 09 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

Modelling Self-Assembled Polymer Composites

User Dr Nigel Clarke, Department of Chemistry, Durham University.

Friday 02 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Changes in skeletal muscle cell volume during exercise

User Prof Chris Huang, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Friday 07 March 2008, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Soft Matter for Hard Copy

User Dr Andrew Howe, Kodak European Research, 332 Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WN.

Friday 29 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monitoring the microscopic water distribution in soft solids with multidimensional NMR relaxometry

User Dr Brian Hills, Institute of Food Research, Norwich.

Friday 15 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tiny Hands make Light Work

User Prof Miles Padgett, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow.

Friday 01 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wormlike and Glassy Wormlike Chains

Note unusual time

User Professor Klaus Kroy ITP, Leipzig University, Postfach , Leipzig, Germany.

Friday 30 November 2007, 10:30-11:30

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

The rheology of cellular systems

User Dr Alexandre Kabla, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Friday 23 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Emergent properties in biological macromolecular assemblies

User Professor Tim Wess School of Optometry and The Institute of Vision, Cardiff University.

Friday 09 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Cancer cell mechanics

User Dr Michael Beil, Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Germany.

Friday 02 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

Understanding Cell Mechanics: From Axonal Instabilities To Oscillating Fibroblasts

User Dr Pramod A Pullarkat, Universitat Bayreuth.

Thursday 14 June 2007, 14:30-15:30

Stretching, Sorting and Twisting in Microfludics

User Dr Jonas Tegenfeldt, Lund University, Sweden.

Wednesday 13 June 2007, 09:00-10:00

From Flat Fluidics for Physiological Applications to Phase Transitions in Biological Membranes

User Dr Matthias Schneider, University of Ausburg.

Tuesday 12 June 2007, 15:00-16:00

Soft-Matter and Biological Physics at the Nanometre Scale

User Dr Ulrich Keyser, Universitat Leipzig.

Tuesday 12 June 2007, 14:00-15:00

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Magneto-optic tweezers and their application in soft mater research

User Assistant Professor Igor Poberaj, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Friday 08 June 2007, 14:15-15:15

Single Molecule Biology: Coming of Age

User Dr Liming Ying, Biological Nanoscience, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.

Wednesday 06 June 2007, 11:00-12:00

Soft Active Matter : From Polymer Physics To The Cell Cytoskeleton

User Dr Tanniemola Liverpool, Leeds University.

Tuesday 05 June 2007, 11:00-12:00

Cell Divisions During Epithelial Morphogenesis

User Dr Sebastien Courty, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Departement de Physique.

Thursday 31 May 2007, 11:00-12:00

Uncovering Buried Biological Interfaces

User Dr Simon Titmuss, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford.

Wednesday 30 May 2007, 11:00-12:00

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Fractional calculus approach for viscoelasticity at the sol-gel transition: application to sol-gel materials and biogels

User Alain Ponton, Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR 7057 CNRS & Université Denis Diderot-Paris 7, Paris, France.

Thursday 24 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

A Molecular Mechanism for Toughening and Strengthening Waterborne Nanocomposites

User Dr Joe Keddie, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey.

Friday 18 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Physical description of mitotic spindle orientation during cell division

User Dr Andrea Cecilia Jimenez Dalmaroni, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems , Dresden, Germany.

Friday 11 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Distinct tensile and adhesive forces determine germ layer organization during gastrulation

User Dr Carl Philipp Heisenberg, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Germany.

Wednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Two Dimensional Coherent Infra-Red Spectroscopy for the measurement of vibration-vibration coupling, and its application to the study of protein composition, dynamics, structure and function

User Prof David Klug, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London.

Friday 04 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Polymer Physics and DNA Topology

User Professor Giovanni Dietler, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Vivante, Institut de Physique de la Matiere Complexe , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Friday 27 April 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Nano-Structuring Surfaces by Templated Assembly

User Professor Alain Jonas Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Friday 16 March 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Emulsion stabilized by proteins – surfactant-covered drops or capsules?

User Dr Peter Fischer, Institute of Food Science and Nutrition, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.

Friday 09 March 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Studying single molecule dynamic with local probe techniques

User Professor Heinrich Hoerber, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK.

Friday 02 March 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Title to be confirmed

This talk has been canceled/deleted

User Professor David Klug.

Friday 23 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

How filament assembly dynamics can power the crawling motion of amoeboid cells

User Dr Murray Stewart, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Friday 16 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

New Functions for Glial Cells: From Soft Guideposts for Neuronal Migration to Living Light Guides in the Retina

User Kristian Franze from the University of Leipzig.

Monday 12 February 2007, 14:00-15:30

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

DSM Innovation: Functional Coatings and Biomedical Materials

User Dr Jens Thies.

Friday 09 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Using thermal probes for analysis and characterisation of materials on a micro and nano scale

User Professor Mike Reading, School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Friday 02 February 2007, 14:15-15:15

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory (**Note non-standard location**).

Building from bottom up: Fabrication of novel materials using designer self-assembling peptides

User Dr Shuguang Zhang Center for Biomedical Engineering NE47-379, 500 Technology Square, Center for Bits & Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA..

Friday 26 January 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Bio-Inspired Growth of Crystals: Hydrogels and Self-Assembled Monolayers

User Assistant Professor Lara Estroff.

Friday 19 January 2007, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Rheology of Viscoelastic Suspensions of Rigid Spheres

User Prof Pier Luca Meffettone.

Friday 24 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Some Like it Hot: High Temperature Experiments in the ESEM

User Dr Sarah Hainsworth, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester.

Friday 17 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

C Dots: Highly Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles for Materials and Life Sciences Applications

User Prof Uli Wiesner, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University.

Friday 10 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Laser Manipulation in Liquid Crystals: an approach to microfluidics and micromachines

User Prof Helen Gleeson, Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Manchester University.

Friday 03 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Some properties of microgel particles

User Dr Alex Routh, Department of Chemical Engineering and BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

Friday 27 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Compact self-wired cultured neural networks

User Dr Yael Hanein, School of Electrical Engineering; Physical Electronics, Tel-Aviv University.

Friday 20 October 2006, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Explaining the Broadband Absorbance of Melanins

User Jennifer Riesz, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Tuesday 04 July 2006, 14:15-15:15

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Nanopores for Biological and Soft-Matter Physics

User Dr. Ulrich F. Keyser, Delft University of Technology.

Monday 19 June 2006, 12:00-13:00

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Nanomechanics of self-assembled protein filaments

User Dr Laurent Kreplak.

Friday 16 June 2006, 14:15-15:15

House Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

The Interaction of Light with Cells

User Dr Jochen Guck (Universität Leipzig).

Thursday 15 June 2006, 11:00-12:00

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Kinetics and Pathways in Self-Assembly: Light Scattering and Theoretical Studies on Human Papillomavirus Capsids

User Professor David Wu, Chemical Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines.

Friday 09 June 2006, 14:15-15:15

House Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Ultrafast and low barrier motions in the photoreactions of the Green Fluorescent Protein

User Dr Jasper van Thor.

Friday 02 June 2006, 14:15-15:15

House Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Single Molecule Force-Spectroscopy Maps the Details of the Protein Free Energy Landscape

User Dr Jasna Brujic (Fernandez Lab, University of Columbia).

Friday 02 June 2006, 11:00-12:00

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

3-D cryo-EM in biology: specimen preparation and imaging for tomography

User Michael Marko.

Friday 26 May 2006, 14:15-15:15

House Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Single Molecule Approaches to Biology

User Dr Liming Ying.

Friday 26 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

House Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

CANCELLED

User Dr Mark Leake.

Tuesday 23 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

House Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Applying Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine to Understand Cardiac Arrhythmias and Epilepsy

User Dr Jennifer Simonotto.

Friday 19 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

House Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

DNA-based supramolecular structures and devices

User Dr Friedrich Simmel.

Monday 15 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

House Small Lecture Theature, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Interfaces, Films and Membranes: Soft Matter Physics in 2 Dimensions

User Dr Pietro Cicuta.

Friday 12 May 2006, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Polyelectrolyte multilayer microcapsules as a novel biomimetic system

User Prof. Dr. Olga Vinogradova, http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~vinograd.

Friday 21 April 2006, 14:15-15:30

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Measuring Intermolecular Forces in Biology

User Dr Erik Schffer, Dresden.

Friday 24 March 2006, 14:15-15:15

PLEASE NOTE SEMINAR CANCELLED

User Jochen Guck, Universitt Leipzig.

Monday 13 March 2006, 10:00-11:00

Granular materials with even circuits: Ball-bearings and dry quicksand

User Professor Nick Rivier, Laboratoire de Physique Thorique, Universit Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.

Friday 10 March 2006, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Signal processing in bacterial chemotaxis

User Victor Sourjik.

Friday 03 March 2006, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Fission yeast interphase microtubules: self-sufficient and self-centred!

User Rafael Edgardo Carazo Salas, CCL Cancer Research UK, London.

Friday 24 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Ligand-receptor interactions in proteins and membranes

User P-L Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Friday 17 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

House IRC Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Polymers in motion

User Dick J. Broer, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Friday 27 January 2006, 14:15-15:15

House IRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Atomic force microscopy and force spectroscopy of membrane proteins - Joint seminar with Nanoscience

User Sonja Contera, Dept. of Physics, University of Oxford.

Friday 25 November 2005, 15:30-16:30

In situ experiments in the ESEM - a challenge for both the scientist and the engineer

User Dr Armin Zankel, Research Institute for Electron Microscopy, Graz University of Technology.

Friday 11 November 2005, 14:15-15:15

Functional nanoporous materials from reactive block copolymers

User Marc Hillmyer, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota.

Friday 04 November 2005, 14:15-15:15

Protein Assisted Assembly of Carbon Nanotube into Functional Materials - joint with Nanoscience

User Dr. Alan B. Dalton, Department of Physics and the Unis Materials Institute, University of Surrey.

Friday 21 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

Granular Segregation as a Critical Phenomenon

User Prof. Tom Mullin, Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics.

Friday 14 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

Dynamics of single molecular motors labeled to quantum dots in a living cell

User Sebastien Courty, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Dpartement de Physique, Ecole Normale Suprieure, Paris.

Friday 07 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

Differences between non-specific and bio-specific, and between equilibrium and non-equilibrium, interactions in biological systems

User Professor Jacob Israelachvili, University of Calirfornia Santa Barbara.

Friday 24 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

Thin film and interface effects in electroactive and responsive polymers

User Prof Richard Jones, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield.

Friday 10 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

Bio-Inspired Crystal Growth

User Dr Fiona Meldrum, Biomineralisation, University of Bristol.

Friday 20 May 2005, 14:15-15:15

The Outstanding Magnetic Behaviour of Nematic Suspensions of Goethite Nanorods

User Patrick Davidson, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay, France.

Friday 13 May 2005, 13:30-14:30

House HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

The properties of free polymer surfaces and their effect upon the glass transition in thin polymer films

User Dr James Sharp, University of Nottingham.

Thursday 21 April 2005, 01:15-02:15

House HEP Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Sudden Cardiac Death. Medicine is not enough, we need physical sciences as well

User Dr Richard Saumarez.

Friday 28 January 2005, 14:00-15:00