Events Archive

Sep
27
2013
3rd Annual SESICB Meeting
We are pleased to announce that the 3rd Annual SESICB Southeastern Regional conference will be held on Friday, September 27, 2013 at Georgia Institute of Technology, located in the midtown district of Atlanta, Georgia. The conference will be held in Technology Square Research Building, Auditorium, located at 85 Fifth Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332.  The meeting will begin...
Sep
24
2013
Isostatic Lattice: From Jamming to Topological Surface Phonons
Sep
23
2013
What Low Surface Brightness Galaxies Tell Us About Dark Matter
Dark matter plays an important role in our current understanding of the universe.  Low surface brightness spiral galaxies are particularly excellent laboratories for probing the dark matter distribution and placing constraints on theoretical models.  I will discuss the observational techniques used to study these galaxies and their dark matter halos.  I will also discuss how well current dark matter models describe the observations and suggest how they might need to be updated.
Sep
18
2013
Vortex Dynamics in Cerebral Aneurysms
Computational fluid dynamic simulations are providing new insights into the connections between patient-specific hemodynamic flows and the initiation, progression and treatment of cerebral aneurysms. Recent studies linking aneurysm rupture to the formation of vortices have motivated the need for a more fundamental understanding of swirling blood flow patterns and their evolution during the cardiac cycle. In this talk, I describe how dynamical systems theory is being used to advance our knowledge of vortex dynamics within cerebral aneurysms.
Sep
16
2013
Observation of Astrophysical Neutrinos by IceCube
Sep
11
2013
Models and measurements of myriad molecular motors in muscle -- new directions in force generation.
Sep
09
2013
Micromechanical studies of protein-DNA interactions and chromosome structure
Sep
05
2013
Holographic Quantum Matter
Sep
04
2013
Quantum Matter and the Entanglement Frontier
Entanglement has recently emerged as an important conceptual tool in quantum many-body physics.  I will explain why we care about entanglement in quantum matter and why we are interested in the physics of highly ntangled quantum states.  I will also show how entanglement has led us to new phases of matter, new ways to characterize phases and phase transitions, novel numerical techniques, and useful conceptual advances. I will conclude with a discussion of the prospects for measuring...
Sep
03
2013
Exerting Mechanical Force on Proteins
Using force spectroscopy mode of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) one can measure physiologically relevant pN forces between an AFM tip and a biomolecule with a mean displacement resolution of about 0.1 nm. The last 15 years have witnessed an explosion of interest in single molecule force spectroscopy fueled by: 1) new possibilities to advance in protein folding, 2) possibilities to elucidate molecular mechanisms of various cellular processes, and diseases, and 3) efforts to understand...

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