| Past Seminars |
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| Date | Technical talks | Research presentations | ||||
| 2008 | ||||||
| Mar 27 | Eric Weeks (Emory-PHYS) | Elisa Riedo (GT-PHYS) | ||||
| Particle Tracking Techniques & Tips | Nonlinear Viscoelastic Dynamics of Nanoconfined Wetting Liquids | |||||
| Apr 17 Apr 17 | Sven Behrens (GT-ChBE) ------ --- --- --- - - --- - - | Andrew Lyon (GT-CHEM) / Victor Bre Victor Breedveld (GT-ChBE) | ||||
| Notes on Total Internal Reflection Microscopy | Short and Long Time Dynamics of Soft & Sticky Colloidal Assemblies | |||||
| May 09 May 9 May 9 | 1st Southeast Soft Materials Workshop (no Bag Lunch in May) featuring David Weitz (Harvard), Dan Goldman (GT), Andrew Lyon (GT), and James Kindt (Emory) as principal speakers | |||||
| Jun 25 | Jennifer Curtis (GT-PHYS) | Valeria Milam (GT-MSE) | ||||
| Dynamic Holographic Optical Tweezers | Exploring the Kinetics of DNA-Mediated Disassembly - Why So Slow? | |||||
| Jul 24 | Marcel Lucas (Riedo group, | Carson Meredith (GT-ChBE) | ||||
| GT-PHYS) | ||||||
| Elastic Properties of Nanostructures: A Modulated Nanoindentation Study | Adhesion Forces in Biological - Environmental Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| Aug 21 | Alberto Fernandez-Nieves ---- | Kazem Edmond (Weeks group, | ||||
| (GT-PHYS) | (Emory-PHYS) | |||||
| Making Emulsions Using Glass Capillaries | Confinement Finds a Length Scale for the Colloidal Glass Transition | |||||
| Sep 25 Sep 25 | Melinda Ogden (Payne group, GT-CHEM) . . . .. . . .. . . . | Mohan Srinivasarao (GT-CHEM, PTFE). . . .. . . . | ||||
| Fluorescence Microscopy . . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . | Intriguing Issues in Soft Matter: Patterns on Beetles | |||||
| Oct 25 Oct 25 Oct 25 | 2nd Southeast Soft Materials Workshop (no Bag Lunch in October) with Arjun Yodh (U Penn), Hang Lu (GT), Valeria Tohver Milam (GT), and Connie Roth (Emory) as principal speakers | |||||
| Dec 03 Dec 3 | Vamsi Kodali (Curtis group, GT-PHYS) . . . .. . . .. . . . | Sven Behrens (GT-CHBE) ------ ------ ------------ | ||||
| Orthogonal Nanopatterns as Templates for Multiple Bioactive Proteins. . .. . . .. . . .. | Emulsification by Particle-Surfactant Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . .. | |||||
| 2009 | ||||||
| Jan 28 Jan 28 | Pedro Zapata (Meredith group, GT-CHBE) . . . .. . . ... . | Rui Zhang (Nguyen group, GT-PHYS) . . . .. . . .. . . . | ||||
| Combinatorial and High Throughput Methods | Kinetics of HIV Budding and Assembly . . . | |||||
| Feb 25 Feb 25 | Sandeep Patel (Dickson group, GT-CHEM) | Minami Yoda (GT-ME) Minami Yoda (GT-ME) | ||||
| Tunable Emission from DNA-Encapsulated Silver Nanoclusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Near-Wall Transport of Colloidal Suspended Particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| Apr 01 Apr 1 | Jae Kyu Cho (Breedveld group, GT-CHBE) | Michael Schatz (GT-PHYS) Michael Schatz (GT-PHYS) | ||||
| Three-Dimensional In Situ Temperature Measurements in Microsystems Using the Brownian Motion of Nanoparticles | Turbulence: A Dynamical Systems Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| May 15 May 15 May 15 | 3rd Southeast Soft Materials Workshop (no Bag Lunch in May) with Harold Craighead (Cornell), Cheng Zhu (GT), Moonhor Ree (PAL Synchrotron, Korea), and Jennifer Curtis (GT) as principal speakers | |||||
| Jun 04 Jun 4 | Jan Scrimgeour (Curtis group, GT-PHYS) | Daniel Borrero (Schatz group, GT-PHYS) Michael Schatz (GT-PHYS) | ||||
| Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP) | Transient Turbulence in Taylor-Couette Flow | |||||
| Jul 09 . . . . . . | Yang Ding (Goldman group, GT-PHYS) | Rigoberto Hernandez (GT-CHEM) . . . . . . | ||||
| Modeling of sand swimming lizards | The far-from-equilibrium chemistry of driven colloidal suspensions | |||||
| Aug 13 Aug 13 | Jack Wei Chen (Zhu group, GT-BME) | Venkata Gundabala (Fernandez-Nieves group, GT-PHYS) . . . . . . | ||||
| Biomembrane force probe and single molecule kinetic assay | Co-flowing liquids and electric fields . . . . . . | |||||
| Sep 10 | Julie Champion (GT-ChBE) | Ivan Rasnik (Emory-PHYS) . . . . . . | ||||
| Engineering Polymer Micro/Nanoparticles with Complex Shapes | Single Molecule FRET Studies of Mismatch Repair Proteins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| Oct 08 | David Gottfried (MiRC) | Keith Berland (Emory-PHYS) | ||||
| New Research Tools at Georgia Tech's Nanotechnology Research Center | Investigating Amyloid Nucleation and Growth Using Single Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy | |||||
| Dec 08 Dec 8 | Jonathan Rubin (Bommarius group, GT-ChBE/CHEM) | Adriana San Miguel (Behrens group, GT-ChBE) | ||||
| Correlation of Aggregation Kinetics and Stationary Diffusion in Protein Solutions Observed with Dynamic Light Scattering | Colloidosomes with a Dissolution Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| 2010 | ||||||
| Mar 31 | Angelo Bongiorno (GT-CHEM) |
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Melting and Entropy |
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| May 13 May 13 May 13 | 4th Southeast Soft Materials Workshop (no Bag Lunch in May) with Paul Chaikin (NYU), Laura Finzi (Emory), Alberto Fernandez-Nieves (GT), and Marta Dark McNeese (Spelman) as principal speakers | |||||
| Jun 15 Jun 15 | Joaqium Clara-Rahola (Fernandez-Nieves group, GT-PHYS) | Vikram Prasad (Breedveld group, GT-CHBE). . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | ||||
| Single Scattered Light from Multiply Scattering Systems:3D Dynamic & Static Light Scattering. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Rheology of Algae Suspensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| Aug 24 | Eric Weeks (Emory-PHYS) | David Safranski (Gall group, GT-MSE) | ||||
| On Measuring Colloidal Volume Fractions | Toughening Degradable Poly(amino ester) Networks: Role of glass transition temperature | |||||
| Sep 28 Sep 28 | Qiong Guo (Behrens group, GT-ChBE) | Tomas Barker (GT-BME) . . . . . . . . . . . . | ||||
| Nanogels from Microemulsions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Molecular unfolding of fibronectin domains during fiber strain: mythical or physiologically relevant mechanotransduction | |||||
| Oct 26 | Sven Behrens (GT-ChBE) | Carson Meredith (GT-ChBE) | ||||
| Thoughts on inter- vs. intra-molecular interactions in synthetic polymers & proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Facile preparation of metal-nanoparticle coatings on polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| 2011 | ||||||
| Jan 21 | Vivek Sharma, MIT | |||||
| Soft Matter 'Odes': from the life an death of viscoelastic jets to the structural color of jeweled beetles . . .. . . . . . . | ||||||
| Feb 17 | Norbert Willenbacher, Anna Kowalczyk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | |||||
| Multiple Particle Tracking Study on Highly Elastic Acrylic Thickener Solutions: Treatment of Particle Localization Errors | ||||||
| Mar 16 Mar 16 | Deborah Ortiz (Riedo group, GT-CHEM) | Nick Gravish (Goldman group, GT-PHYS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | ||||
| Water nano-hydrodynamics: the interplay between interfacial viscosity, slip, and surface chemistry. . . . . . . | Vibro-fluidized melting of geometrically cohesive granular materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| Apr 26 Apr 26 | Adriana San Miguel (Behrens group, GT-CHBE) | Ed Greco (GT-PHYS) . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | ||||
| Surfaces with tunable roughness studied by AFM and contact angle measurements | Thermo-capillary migration of interfacial droplets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| May 15 May 15 May 15 | 5th Southeast Soft Materials Workshop (no Bag Lunch in May) with Christina Marchetti (Syracuse), Juana Mendenhall (Morehouse), Susanne Ullrich (UGA), Elisa Riedo (GT), and Paul Goldbart GT) as principal speakers | |||||
| Jun 28 Jun 28 | Keith Carroll (Curtis group, GT-PHYS) | Hassan Masoud (Alexeev group, GT-ME) | ||||
| Methods towards efficient and controlled gradients with thermochemical nanolithography (TCNL) | Polymer networks: modeling and emerging applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| Sep 27 Sep 27 | Ekapop Pairam (Fernandez-Nieves group, GT-PHYS) | Louis McLane (Curtis group, GT-PHYS) . . . . . . . . . . . . | ||||
| Method for Generating and Stabilizing Toroidal Liquid Droplets . . . . . . . . . . . | Polymer Physics at the Cell Surface: Estimating the mesh size profile and grafting density of the cell coat | |||||
| Oct 25 Sep 27 | Tingnan Zhang (Goldman group, GT-PHYS) | Tung Le (Kim group, GT-PHYS) | ||||
| Lightweight Robot Locomotion on Granular Media | Sequence Dependent DNA Bending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| Nov 29 Sep 27 | Won Min Park (Champion group, GT-ChBE) | Anton Souslov (Goldbart group, GT-PHYS) . . . . | ||||
| Self-Assembled Biomaterials Based on Protein Building Blocks | Soft Elasticity in Nearly Isostatic Periodic Lattices . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| Feb 21 -- -- | Victor Breedveld (GT-ChBE) ------ --- | Kimberly Clarke (Lyon group, GT-CHEM) -- | ||||
| Amphiphilic Fabrics: Controlling the Flow of Immiscible Fluids | Multi-Responsive Microgel Thin Films _____ _____ _______ _____ _____ | |||||
| Mar 13 Mar 13 | Dan Kovari (Curtis group, GT-PHYS) __ __ __ | Emily Peterson (Breedveld group, GT-ChBE) ___ ___ | ||||
| Investigating Biomechanical Force Generation During Phagocytosis | Shear-Induced Demixing in Polymeric Membrane Dopes _____ _____ _______ _____ _____ ________ ___ | |||||
| Apr 17 | Zhiqun Lin (GT-MSE) | Mohan Srinivasarao (GT-MSE) | ||||
| Crafting Functional Uniform Nanoparticles from Star-Like Diblock Copolymers | Line Defects in Liquid Crystals_ _______ ______ _______ _____ _____ ________ ___ | |||||
| May 25 May 1515 | 6th Southeast Soft Materials Workshop (no Bag Lunch in May) with David Pine (NYU), Carlos Santamarinai (GT), Julio Boza (The Coca-Cola Company), and Sven Behrens (GT) as principal speakers | |||||
| Jun 19 | Sven Behrens (GT-ChBE) | John Hyatt (GT-PHYS) | ||||
| A Fast and Simple-Minded Assay of Protein Stability Against Salt-Induced Aggregation | Rheology and Direct Form Factor Measurements by Small Angle Neutron Scattering of Over-Packed Microgels_ ___ | |||||
| Aug 14 Aug 14 | Annika Kriisa (Roth group, Emory-PHYS) | Peter Metaxas (University of Western Australia) | ||||
| Using Fluorescence Emission to Detect Phase Separation in Polymer Blends | Looking at Soft Interfaces with Hard Systems: Using Domain Walls in Metallic Ferromagnets to Study the Dynamics of Elastic Interfaces in Disordered Media | |||||
| Sep 18 | Luis García-Rubio (Claro Scientific, LLC, and University of South Florida) | |||||
| A Multidimensional Spectroscopy Approach for Protein Characterization | ||||||
| Nov 27 Nov 27 | Sudhir Sharma (Deng group, GT-ChBE) | Xiaodan Zhang (Deng group) . . . . . . . . . . | ||||
| Cellulose Nanofibril Barrier Films | Soft Paper Electronics | |||||
| 2013 | ||||||
| Jan 15 Jan 15 | Joohyung Lee (Behrens group,GT-ChBE) | Andrew Peters (Henderson group, GT-ChBE) | ||||
| Quantifying the Acid-Base Interaction Between Surfactants and Polymer Particles Responsible for Particle Charging in Nonpolar Solvents | Nanolithography Based on the Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers: Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations as a Predictive Learning Tool | |||||
| Mar 12 Mar 12 | Perry Ellis (Fernandez-Nieves group, GT-PHYS) | Khalid Salaita (Emory University) | ||||
| Simulating nematic textures using Jones matrices | Mechanochemistry at the Cell Surface: Molecular Tension-Based Fluorescence Microscopy to Visualize Forces in Living Systems | |||||
| Apr 14 Apr 14 | Jan Scrimgeour (Curtis group, GT-PHYS) | Lawrence Bottomley (GT-CHEM) Lawrence Bottomley | ||||
| Using Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching to Probe Macromolecule Interactions in Living Cells | Can the Conformation of a Macromolecule Adsorbed on a Surface Be Accurately Determined by Force Spectroscopy? | |||||
| May 24 May 15 | 7th Southeast Soft Materials Workshop (no Bag Lunch in May) with Maria Santore (UMass), Dong Qin, Vladimir Tsukruk, and Harold Kim as principal speakers | |||||
| Jun 11 A | Raymond Dagastine (University of Melbourne) | |||||
| Using Atomic Force Microscopy to study surfactant-mediated interactions between emulsion drops: from sub mono-layer coatings to concentrated surfactant solutions | ||||||
| Jul 16 Jul 16 | Debjyoti Bandyopadhyay (Payne group, GT-CHEM) | Ngozi Eze (Milam group, GT-MSE) Ngozi Eze (Milam group, GT-MSE) | ||||
| Organelle Mobility as a Function of Diameter: Lysosome Swelling and Single Particle Tracking | Exploring Locked Nucleic Acids to Mediate Particle-Based Hybridization Activity Exploring Locked Nucleic Acids to Mediate | |||||
| Aug 20 | Won Min Park (Champion group, GT-ChBE) | |||||
| Two-Step Protein Self-Assembly in the Extracellular Matrix | ||||||
| Sep 17 Sep 17 | Boyi Fu (Reichmanis group, GT-CHBE) | Anna Osterholm (Reynolds group, GT-CHEM) | ||||
| Donor-Acceptor Copolymers for Semiconducting Devicesate | Capturing the Potential of Electroactive Polymers as Charge Storage Materials for Supercapacitors | |||||
| Oct 22 Oct 22 | Jennifer Curtis (GT-PHYS) Jennifer Curtis (GT-PHYS) | Ekapop Pairam (Fernandez-Nieves group, GT-PHYS) | ||||
| Copolymers for Highly Angled Laser Illumination Microscopy (HALI): A Wide-Field Alternative for Single Molecule Tracking Far from the Substratete | The Evolution of Toroidal Droplets The Evolution of Toroidal Droplets The Evolution of Toroidal Droplets The Evolution of Toroidal Droplets | |||||
| Nov 26 Oct 22 | Abiola Shitta (Behrens group, GT-ChBE) J | Justin Burton (Emory-PHYS) Justin Burton | ||||
| Equilibrium Droplet Structures in Liquid Three-Phase Systems The | Leidenfrost Levitation: Ice Wind, and FireEvolution of Toroidal Droplets | |||||
| 2014 | ||||||
| Apr 24 Apr 24 | Andrew Peters (Henderson group, GT-ChBE) | Justin Pye (Roth group, Emory-PHYS) J | ||||
| Mesoscale Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Their Application to Understanding Block Copolymer Self-Assembly | Understanding Glass Transition Temperature Reductions in Ultrathin Free-Standing Polystyrene Films | |||||
| May 14 May 14May 14 | 8th Southeast Soft Materials Workshop (no Bag Lunch in May) with Mark Ediger (Wisconsin), Meisha Shofner, Alessandro Veneziani, and Victor Breedveld as principal speakers | |||||
| Jun 27 | Gregor Trefalt, University of Geneva, Switzerland | |||||
| Particle Aggregation in the Presence of Multivalent Ions and in Ionic Liquids | ||||||
| Aug 29 | Toan Nguyen, Hanoi University of Sciences, Vietnam National University | |||||
| Applying a mean field study of branched polymers: packaging of RNA inside viruses | ||||||
| Sep 26 Sep 26 | Ya-Wen Chang (Fernandez-Nieves group, GT-PHYS) | Laura Gray (Roth group, Emory-PHYS) Laura Gray | ||||
| Generation of Toroidal Hydrogels | Stability of Polymer Glasses Vitrified Under Stress | |||||
| Nov 07 Nov 7 | Discussion of NSF funding opportunities for (Soft) Materials Research with former program managers Mohan Srinivsarao and Clifford Henderson | |||||
| 2015 | ||||||
| Feb 03 Feb 3 | Joohyung Lee (Behrens group, GT-CHBE) | Bo Li (Lin group, GT-MSE) Bo Li (Lin group, GT-MSE) | ||||
| Characterizing the Acid-Base Properties of Nonpolar Surfactant Solutions | Crafting Nanomaterial Patterns via Flow-Enabled Self-Assembly | |||||
| Apr 21 | Paul Russo (GT-MSE) | Necmettin Cevheri (Yoda group, GT-ME) | ||||
| Fuzzballs, Bubbles and Blobs... unusual biological or biosimilar structures | Manipulation and assembly of colloidal particles using combined electroosmotic and Poiseuille flow | |||||
| Jun 09 | Sven Behrens (GT-ChBE) | Zifu Li (Meredith group, GT-ChBE) | ||||
| When do (isotropic) particles act like surfactants? | PNIPAM microgels at the oil-water interface | |||||
| Oct 16 | Michael Dimitriyev (Goldbart group GT-PHYS) | Zhenguan Tang (Breedveld, GT-ChBE) | ||||
| Instability of toroid-shaped hydrogels | Fabrication of hydrophilic and oleophobic paper by treatment with non-fluorinated chemicals | |||||
| Nov 20 | Eric Weeks (Emory-PHYS) with the 100th talk of the seminar series: | |||||
| Flow of amorphous solids modeled with emulsion droplets Flow of amorphous solids modeled with emulsion droplets | ||||||
| Dec 04 Dec 04 | Songcheng Wang (Behrens group GT-ChBE) | Anant Paravastu (GT-ChBE) Anant Paravastu (GT-ChBE) | ||||
| The Rise of Oil-Coated Bubbles (New Opportunities for Flotation Separations) | Peptide Self-Assembly Investigated by Solid State NMR Spectroscopy: Amyloid Fibrils, Oligomers, and Designer Hydrogels | |||||
| 2016 | ||||||
| Feb 19 Feb 3 Feb 3 | Arjan Gelissen (Richtering group, RWTH Aachen, Germany) | Cornelia Rosu (Russo group, GT-MSE) Bo Li (Lin group, GT-MSE) | ||||
| Correlative in situ imaging of internal microgel architecture by electron and superresolved fluorescence microscopy | Physical Properties of Bioderived Soft Matter Made of Polypeptide Composite Materials | |||||
| Apr 15 | Justin Pye (Burton group) ---- | Mark Losego | ||||
| (Emory-PHYS) | (GT-MSE) | |||||
| Fluid slip at an interface: A nm-level, differential quartz crystal microbalance measurement | A Burgeoning Revolution in Manufacturing Technology: Vapor-Phase Modification of Polymers, Textiles, and Paper | |||||
| May 06 May 06 | Daniel Kovary (Finzi group, Emory-PHYS)-- | Roman Baglay (Roth group,Emory-PHYS) Roman Baglay | ||||
| Length Scales of Local Glass Transition Temperature Gradients Near Soft and Hard Polymer-Polymer Interfaces | ||||||
| Dec 09 | Sabetta Matsumoto (GT-PHYS)- | Guga Gogia (Burton group,Emory-PHYS) | ||||
| What a Tangled Web We Weave Tangled Web | Dusty Plasma Colloidal Dynamics Dusty Plasma Colloidal Dynamics | |||||
| 2017 | ||||||
| Feb 22 | Sven Behrens (GT-ChBE) | Meisha Shofner (GT-MSE) Bo | ||||
| A ChBE graduate elective on Colloids & Interfaces | Tensegrity Inspired Polymer Composites | |||||
| Apr 21 | Jennifer Curtis (GT-PHYS) | Blair Brettman (GT-MSE) | ||||
| Self-healing Hyaluronan Polymer Brushes: A Novel Class of Biointerfaces | Molecular Engineering for Product Development: Polymer Brushes, Amorphous Pharmaceuticals and New Cellulose Directions | |||||
| May 12 May 14May 14 | 10th Southeast Soft Materials Workshop (no Bag Lunch in May) with Itai Cohen (Cornell), Eric Weeks (Emory), Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, Ravi Kane, and Khalid Salaita (Emory) as principal speakers | |||||
| Sep 09 | Saad Bhamla (GT-ChBE) | |||||
| How soft matter principles can guide the exploration of biological systems and building frugal tools for global health | ||||||
| Oct 23 | Zeb Rocklin (GT-PHYS) | |||||
| Crafting novel modes in soft materials via hidden topology | ||||||
| Dec 15 | Mohan Srinivasarao (GT-MSE) | |||||
| Spontaneous emergence of chirality: Here, there and everywhere | ||||||
| 2018 | ||||||
| Jan 23 | Vivek Sharma (University of Illinois at Chicago) | |||||
| Dynamics of Stratification in Micellar Freestanding Films | ||||||
