Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar archive

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Date	Title	Speaker(s)
2022
29 Aug 2022	Multiscale modelling of DNA elasticity	Yair Augusto Gutierrez Fosado
09 May 2022	How can snails help us understand memory formation?	Jelena Baranovic (University of Edinburgh)
11 Apr 2022	On kirigami mechanics R Additional Resources are available for this event	Marcelo Dias (University of Edinburgh)
04 Apr 2022	A larger view on tiny things: multi-proxy approaches for the understanding of Earth earliest fossils	Corentin Loron (University of Edinburgh)
21 Feb 2022	Multiscale modelling of solid/liquid interfaces	Paola Carbone (University of Manchester)
24 Jan 2022	Cleaning by impinging liquid jets : scabs and blisters	Ian Wilson (University of Cambridge)
2021
13 Dec 2021	Studying motility to investigate the physiology of starving bacteria	Lucas Le Nagard
06 Dec 2021	The inevitable emergence of density-dependent diffusion in expanding phage populations	Diana Fusco (University of Cambridge)
29 Nov 2021	Differential dynamic microscopy for in situ characterization of nanoparticles in biological environments	Marine Le Goas (Université de Montréal)
22 Nov 2021	Critical micelle concentrations in surfactant mixtures and blends by simulation	Patrick Warren
15 Nov 2021	Designer protein assemblies with tunable phase diagrams in living cells	Lorenzo Rovigatti (Sapienza Università di Roma)
08 Nov 2021	Combining optical tweezers with various imaging methods: the power of manipulation in dynamic single molecule studies	Emma Verver (LUMICKS)
18 Oct 2021	Compositional ripening in water-in-oil systems	Raj Tadi
04 Oct 2021	Structural and Thermal Studies of Soft Matter Systems for Industrial Applications	Denise Li
21 Sep 2021	Dynamics of nanoparticles in polydisperse polymer networks: From free diffusion to hopping	Valerio Sorichetti (Paris-Saclay University)
30 Aug 2021	Jamming of multiple persistent random walkers in arbitrary spatial dimension	Matthew Metson
2019
09 Dec 2019	Ions and Life	Charles Cockell
24 Nov 2019	Bacterial Growth on a Dynamical Surface - Vibration Induced Spreading
18 Nov 2019	Polymer Modelling of Genome Organisation in Healthy and Ageing Cells
11 Nov 2019	Building towards bio-mechanical fluidic machines	Tyler Shendruk (Loughborough Univeristy)
28 Oct 2019	Novel Bacterial Membrane Mimics: Investigating the Mechanosensitive Ion Channel MscL in the presence of antimicrobial molecules.	Sophie Ayscough
07 Oct 2019	Bacterial and Complex Fluids	Debasish Das (University of Cambridge)
30 Sep 2019	Surface active microgels: a step towards soft stabilisers	David Crosby
16 Sep 2019	Integrated Photonic Manufacturing Enabled by Ultrafast Laser Technology	Ajoy Kar (Heriot Watt University)
09 Sep 2019	Pseudomonas aeruginosa growth as suspended aggregates in high viscosity environment	Yasuhiko Irie (University of Tartu)
26 Aug 2019	Emergent interactions in conditioned processes: a route to smart matter?	Emil Mallmin Francesco Cagnetta
19 Aug 2019	Shear-switched bi-stability in binary suspensions	Yujie Jiang
17 Jun 2019	Towards a physical understanding of volume regulation in bacteria	Sven van Teeffelen (Pasteur Institute)
10 Jun 2019	Single-cell responses to environmental cues	Stefano Pagliara (University of Exeter)
20 May 2019	Wet and dirty: the habitability of aqueous environments in the solar system	Adam Stevens
13 May 2019	A Genius Story	Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne
29 Apr 2019	Record models for temperature and rainfall	Joachim Krug (Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne)
08 Apr 2019	Effects of phenotypic delay on the evolution of drug resistance and the Luria-Delbrück distribution	Martin Carballo Pacheco
01 Apr 2019	Simultaneously Occurring Extremes: Charting the Boundaries of Habitability Space on Earth	Andrew Dickinson
18 Mar 2019	Autonomous analysis of confocal images: using machine learning to recognize bijels	Emily Gould
11 Mar 2019	Liquid migration during extrusion of shear thickening suspensions	Rory O'Neill
04 Mar 2019	Fracking Bacteria: The mechanics of submerged colonies	Ed Muir
25 Feb 2019	We will BioRock you: experiments on Sphingomonas desiccabilis in preparation for the International Space Station.	Rosa Santomartino
18 Feb 2019	The Sticky Particle Model - Ising meets SEP	Graeme Ackland
14 Feb 2019	The Geometry of Colonization	Luca Giomi (Universiteit Leiden)
11 Feb 2019	The (un-)predictability of antibiotic resistance	Elin Lilja
04 Feb 2019	Suspensions of particles and bubbles in yield stress fluids	Guillaume Ovarlez (University of Bordeaux)
28 Jan 2019	Active growth and pattern formation in membrane-protein systems	Francesco Cagnetta
21 Jan 2019	Biofilm spatial structure: Active layer dynamics and transitions in surface roughness	Ellen Young
14 Jan 2019	Stochastic field equations for 1D flocking.	Eoin Ó Laighléis
2018
20 Dec 2018	Early-Time Dynamics of Bacillus Subtilis Biofilm Formation	Ryan Morris
10 Dec 2018	Dipeptide hydrogel film deformation in response to extensional flow.	Fernando Avino
03 Dec 2018	Non-equilibrium phase transition in a model for supercoiling-dependent DNA transcription	Alessandro Bentivoglio
26 Nov 2018	Breakup of Colloidal Aggregates by Motile Bacteria	Samuel Griffiths
19 Nov 2018	A Quantitative Approach to Life in Extreme Environments	Rosie Cane
12 Nov 2018	Computational rheology of active matter	Fraser Mackay
05 Nov 2018	A recipe to generate low order models of the transition to turbulence	James Hitchen
29 Oct 2018	Manipulating structured materials: paper making and mud swimming	Duncan Hewitt (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge)
22 Oct 2018	Characterising colloidal silica particle interactions using atomic force microscopy	Joseph French
01 Oct 2018	Rabbits, dust devils, volcanoes, planets: The surprising science of granular tribocharging	Scott Waitukaitis (AMOLF and Leiden University Physics)
24 Sep 2018	Interaction and Flow of Colloidal Spheres at an Oil-Water Interface	Iain Muntz
21 Jun 2018	Methods to characterize microstructural transitions in suspensions	Erin Koos ( Department of Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven)
15 Jun 2018	Work & Dissipation in the Cell Cytoskeleton	Michael Murrell (Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science)
04 Jun 2018	Equality in Physics & Astronomy	Kimberley Tucker-Hood
28 May 2018	Computationally cheap soft matter modelling: an introduction to dynamic density functional theory	Ben Goddard (School of Mathematics)
21 May 2018	Stochastic nature of bacterial eradication using antibiotics	Minsu Kim (Emory University)
14 May 2018	Robustness of the microtubule cytoskeleton self-organisation	Aleksandra Plochocka (School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh)
30 Apr 2018	Woodbury and Lippmann: A new approach to continuous tone and full colour non-impact printing	Susanne Klein (Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England)
23 Apr 2018	Liquid crystal laser droplets	Margaret Normand (Engineering & Scottish Microelectronics Centre, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh)
16 Apr 2018	Computer Aided Formulation	Richard Anderson (Hartree Centre, STFC)
26 Mar 2018	More than just location- expanding the use of PAINT for multi-dimensional imaging	Mathew Horrocks (Chemistry, University of Edinburgh)
21 Mar 2018	Fire Ants Build a Raft In Two Minutes, Grubs Eat A Pizza In Two Hours	David Hu (Gerogia Institute of Technology)
26 Feb 2018	Physiological model of the mechanism of action of DNA targeting antibiotic: Stochastic simulations of the growth-inhibition curve	Nikola Ojkic
19 Feb 2018	Self-assembled sterol organogels	Andrew Matheson
12 Feb 2018	Mathematical modelling unravels a novel mechanism of gene expression regulation	Bartlomiej Waclaw Justyna Cholewa-Waclaw (School of Biological Sciences Edinburgh)
05 Feb 2018	Computer Simulations of Chromatin in Yeast - Generating nucleosome contact maps using nucleosome positions in simple model simulations	Oliver Wiese
29 Jan 2018	The Physics of Cellular Identity	Davide Michieletto
2017
11 Dec 2017	Bacterial population dynamics in presence of antibiotics
27 Nov 2017	Strategic synthesis and local scale characterisation of new materials for energy storage	Serena Corr (School of Chemistry, Glasgow University)
13 Nov 2017	Gel formation in nematic liquid crystals	Navneeta Katyan
06 Nov 2017	Geomicrobiological Experiments in Altered Gravity	Natasha Nicholson
30 Oct 2017	Rényi entropy of the totally asymmetric exclusion process	Anthony Wood
23 Oct 2017	Transforming soft materials into engines by coupling the Leidenfrost effect to elastic deformations	Scott Waitukaitis (Leiden University)
16 Oct 2017	Phase inversion in Pickering emulsions: A new perspective.
09 Oct 2017	Bacterial Antibiotic Response in Micro-Environments	Daniel Taylor
02 Oct 2017	Rheology of deformable droplet suspensions: a lattice Boltzmann study
25 Sep 2017	Microbiology of extreme radiation environments	Jennifer Wadsworth
04 Jul 2017	How does a simple virus self-assemble?	Vinny Manoharan (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Physics, Harvard University)
03 Jul 2017	Engineering many-body dissipative dynamics with ultracold atoms in optical lattices	Andrew Daley (University of Strathclyde)
26 Jun 2017	Prions and Protein Misfolding – Unravelling the Evidence.	Neil McKenzie (National CJD Research and Surveillance Unit, Edinburgh)
19 Jun 2017	Oleosomes ? Natural Oil Droplets: What can we learn from their physico-chemical properties?	David Gray (University of Nottingham)
15 Jun 2017	Using Rheology to Determine the Phase Behavior: A Case Study of Colloidal Suspension of Charged Discotic Particles	Yogesh M. Joshi (IIT Kanpur)
05 Jun 2017	The refractive index of keratocyte cells and implications on the model of corneal transparency
25 May 2017	Linear Viscoelasticity of Time Dependent Materials	Yogesh M. Joshi (IIT Kanpur)
17 May 2017	Towards Topological Microfluidics — Harnessing surface, elastic and viscous interactions at micro-scales	Anupam Sengupta (ETH Zurich)
10 Apr 2017	A universal entrainment dominates the interaction of flagellated microorganisms with micron-sized objects	Marco Polin (Department of Physics, University of Warwick)
10 Apr 2017	A universal entrainment dominates the interaction of flagellated microorganisms with micron-sized objects	Marco Polin
03 Apr 2017	The Role of Polymer-Mediated Cohesion in Bacterial Suspensions	Gavin Melaugh
27 Mar 2017	Instabilities in Bacterial Biofilms	Carine Douarche (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris Sud)
20 Mar 2017	A minimal model for the unsteady flow of shear-thickening suspensions
16 Mar 2017	Growing Buildings with Bacteria: An Architect's approach to microbiology	Martyn Dade-Robertson (University of Newcastle)
13 Mar 2017	Dynamics of self-propelled particles in viscoelastic fluids	Ruben Gomez Solano (University of Stuttgart)
06 Mar 2017	Controlling the Properties of Supramolecular Hydrogels	Dave Adams (University of Glasgow)
27 Feb 2017	Pattern formation in polymerizing actin flocks	Thomas Le Goff
13 Feb 2017	Cross-stream migration of spherical active particles	William Uspal (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart)
06 Feb 2017	Diversity of flagellate swimming gaits	Kirsty Wan (University of Cambridge)
30 Jan 2017	The colonisation of land masses – what controls community assembly and habitability?	Hanna Landenmark
23 Jan 2017	A recipe for making glasses at any temperature through topology	Davide Michieletto
16 Jan 2017	Watching self-assembly dynamics at the nanoscale using liquid-phase TEM	Qian Chen ( University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
2016
12 Dec 2016	Charges in confined binary fluids : from electroosmosis to emulsion stabilization	Julien Lombard (University of Barcelona)
05 Dec 2016	Title: 'Colloids as a model system for proteins at interfaces'	Rudi Mears
28 Nov 2016	Self-propulsion of swimmers driven by chemical reactions: mesoscopic modelling of a synthetic biological system	Tannie Liverpool (University of Bristol)
21 Nov 2016	Biophysics of Bacterial Biofilms	Knut Drescher (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology Marburg Germany)
17 Nov 2016	Chemotaxis and auto-chemotaxis of self-propelling artificial droplet swimmers	Chenyu Jin (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization Gottingen Germany)
14 Nov 2016	Active Microtubule Droplets	Alys Jepson
07 Nov 2016	Directly Investigating Ions and their Dynamics at Biological Interfaces: an AFM Perspective	Will Trewby (Durham University)
31 Oct 2016	Lattice Boltzmann simulations of active gels: spontaneously rotating droplets and self-assembled nonequilibrium cholesterics	Ana Fialho
24 Oct 2016	Microfluidic Pumping by Micromolar Salt Concentrations	Joost de Graaf
17 Oct 2016	Topological Patterns in Gel Electrophoresis of DNA Knots	Davide Michieletto
10 Oct 2016	BslA - how does the bacterial raincoat stick together?	Marieke Schor
03 Oct 2016	A simulation perspective on DNA condensation in bacterial and human cells	Carolina Pereira
26 Sep 2016	Soft meets hard: a microscopic view of the freeze-thaw stability of Pickering emulsions	Katy Dickinson
13 Jun 2016	Adhesion of E. coli to glass surfaces	Teun Vissers
06 Jun 2016	Universal asymptotic clone size distribution for general population growth	Michael Nicholson
30 May 2016	Dynamic shear jamming in dense suspensions	Ivo Peters (University of Southampton)
23 May 2016	A Single Nucleotide Resolution Model of Double Stranded DNA
16 May 2016	The role of surfactants in chocolate: structural studies at the sucrose/oil interface	Iva Manasi
09 May 2016	Mechanics in Bacterial Colonies	Joshua Williams
02 May 2016	Diverse high-torque bacterial flagellar motors assemble wider stator rings using a conserved protein scaffold	Morgan Beeby (Imperial College London)
25 Apr 2016	Biological evolution in microbial colonies	Bartlomiej Waclaw
18 Apr 2016	What triggers the gravitational collapse of a colloidal gel?	Xuemao Zhou
24 Mar 2016	Shear-induced Rigidity in Athermal Materials	Balbul Chakraborty (Brandeis University)
14 Mar 2016	Kinetic models for intrinsically disordered peptides from molecular dynamics simulations	Bettina Keller (Freie Universitat Berlin)
07 Mar 2016	The photophysics of charge generation and separation in an organic photovoltaic blend	Andrew Matheson
22 Feb 2016	Clustering and Pattern Formation with Chemically Interacting Microswimmers	Benno Liebchen
18 Feb 2016	Time and relatedness in microbes and humans	Jonathan Birch (London School of Economics)
08 Feb 2016	Spatially controlled activity of light-driven E. coli suspensions	Jochen Arlt
25 Jan 2016	Model of antibiotic action on bacterial population growth	Martin Evans
18 Jan 2016	Dynamic behaviours during biofilm development	Munehiro Asally (University of Warwick)
11 Jan 2016	Predicting the three-dimensional folding of cis-regulatory regions in mammalian genomes using polymer models	Chris Brackley
2015
14 Dec 2015	Bridging the gap between drop coalescence and interfacial rheology	David Harbottle (University of Leeds)
07 Dec 2015	Hard discs: Anomalous statics, anomalous dynamics and a new kind of gearbox	Paddy Royall (University of Bristol)
23 Nov 2015	Directed self-assembly of complex colloidal particles	Daniela Kraft (Leiden University)
16 Nov 2015	Liquid crystal lasers	Philip Hands (University of Edinburgh (Engineering))
09 Nov 2015	On the programmed assembly of colloidal matter	Dwaipayan Chakrabarti (University of Birmingham)
02 Nov 2015	Multiple and composite emulsions stabilised by the interfacial protein BslA	Keith Bromley
26 Oct 2015	Rock-microbe interactions and their contribution to shale weathering and erosion	Toby Samuels
19 Oct 2015	Active time scales for passive particles in bacterial baths	Nick Koumakis
15 Oct 2015	Dynamics of all-aqueous emulsion drops	Anderson Shum (Hong Kong University)
12 Oct 2015	Nature of collective motion in dilute suspensions of self-propelled particles	Alexander Morozov
05 Oct 2015	Language change in individuals and populations	Richard Blythe
03 Sep 2015	Mass transfer induced phase separation of ternary mixtures: From onion emulsions to asymmetric bijel structures and the analysis of their mechanical properties	Martin Haase (University of Pennsylvania)
24 Aug 2015	High-speed video methods in biophysics	Laurence Wilson (University of York)
14 Jul 2015	Roles of growing structural order in slow glassy dynamics and crystal nucleation	Hajime Tanaka (Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan)
15 Jun 2015	Defining entropy classically: Lessons from colloidal experiments	Mike Cates
08 Jun 2015	Swarming in the dirt: Flocking in the presence of quenched disorder	John Toner (University of Oregon)
01 Jun 2015	Propulsion Mechanisms of Catalytic Microswimmers	Aidan Brown
18 May 2015	Understanding the Biophysical Mechanism of Ranaspumin-2 Surface Activity
27 Apr 2015	Application of the Markov chain tree theorem to a system with timescale separation in its transition rates	Alexander Slowman
20 Apr 2015	Micro-Capsules for Use in Food Products	Anne Pawsey
13 Apr 2015	The Influence of Fluidity on Interactions with Models for the Bacterial Membrane	Laura McKinley
23 Mar 2015	Computer Simulation of Topological Domain Formation in Chromatin
16 Mar 2015	Centrifugal Compression of the Bijel
09 Mar 2015	The piezoelectric transistor (PET) - a novel paradigm in electronics	Ioan Magdau
02 Mar 2015	Colloidal liquid crystals, plastic crystals and glasses of rod-like silica particles	Thijs Besseling (Utrecht University)
23 Feb 2015	Microrheology with Optical Tweezers: Principles and Applications	Manlio Tassieri (University of Glasgow)
16 Feb 2015	The life of a bicontinuous Pickering emulsion: structure, dynamics and the role of particle size	Matthew Reeves
09 Feb 2015	The optimization of swimming	Tom Ives
02 Feb 2015	Biphasic Active Nematics	Matthew Blow
26 Jan 2015	The Physics of Plasmid Transfer on Microbial Colonies	Jakub Pastuszak
19 Jan 2015	Role of Solution Conductivity in Self-Electrophoresis	Jeffrey Moran (MIT)
16 Jan 2015	Diffusiophoretic Drive for Catalytic Janus Particles	Joost de Gaaf (University of Stuttgart)
12 Jan 2015	Thermal fluctuations: a tool to study simple fluids and binary mixtures at the micrometre scale	Clemence Devailly
2014
08 Dec 2014	Life in Deep Salts	Samuel Payler
24 Nov 2014	On Bone, Shells, and More: Understanding Nature?s Strategies for the Formation of Mineralised Tissues	Fabio Nudelman (School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh)
17 Nov 2014	Kinetic and mechanical aspects of metastasis	Chay Paterson
10 Nov 2014	Modelling biological evolution: phenotype switching in a static landscape	Andrew Tadrowski
03 Nov 2014	Purely Elastic Turbulence and Exact Coherent Structures	Toby Searle
27 Oct 2014	The Soft Face of Graphene	Dongyu Cai
20 Oct 2014	Overview of Disordered Systems and some Progress with the Replica Method	Peter Mottishaw
13 Oct 2014	Assembling Ellipsoidal Particles at Fluid Interfaces using Switchable Dipolar Capillary Interactions	Gary Davies (University College London)
29 Sep 2014	Mechanics of the cell interface studied by model membrane systems	Margarita Staykova (Durham University)
22 Sep 2014	Self-assembly of dipeptides at interfaces	Tao Li
11 Aug 2014	Extracting equilibrium and dynamic properties from molecular dynamics simulations	Antonia Mey (School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh)
07 Aug 2014	Determining molecular orientation in organic semi-conductor thin films	Eva Herzig (University of Edinburgh)
05 Aug 2014	'We happy few, we band of brothers' : Cooperation and spatial structure in bacterial biofilms	Vernita Gordon (University of Edinburgh)
28 Jul 2014	Time resolved infrared spectroscopy for the study of solar energy conversion processes in plants and bacteria	Gary Hastings (Georgia State University)
14 Jul 2014	Breaking immiscibility : Dissolving large ratios of natural gas in water under extreme conditions	Ciprian Pruteanu
07 Jul 2014	High-pressure Hydrogen Inclusion Compounds	Mary-Ellen Donnelly
30 Jun 2014	Bridging the gap between colloidal and granular rheology
20 Jun 2014	Self-assembly of Janus ellipsoids	Michael J. Solomon (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
16 Jun 2014	The Princess and the Pea: mechanical transparency in a marginal bead pack	Thomas A. Witten (University of Chicago)
09 Jun 2014	Two stage diamond anvil cells for higher pressure	Mungo Frost
02 Jun 2014	Physicochemical constraints on the habitability of extreme, Mars relevant brines	Mark Fox-Powell
26 May 2014	Active Matter at high density	Silke Henkes (Leiden University)
19 May 2014	Self-assembling bacterial colonies & the need for the third dimension	Alexander McVey
12 May 2014	Functional bionanomaterials from the assembly of protein-polymer surfactant conjugates	Adam Perriman (University of Bristol)
05 May 2014	A mean field theory for relaxor piezoelectrics and the piezoelectric transistor	Flaviu Cipcigan
28 Apr 2014	How do proteins adsorb at water/oil interfaces? The example of a bacterial hydrophobin	Giovanni Brandani
14 Apr 2014	The Role of Contact Angle in High Shear Granulation	Daniel Hodgson
07 Apr 2014	Don't Forget Your Tail! A Moving Condensate Maintained by its Tail	Justin Whitehouse
31 Mar 2014	Tuning the electronic properties of Sr3Ir2O7 via electron doping	Emily Hunter
24 Mar 2014	Confirmed	Ruud van der Sman (Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research)
17 Mar 2014	The impact of microscale fluid motion on the ecology of marine phytoplankton and soil bacteria	William Durham (University of Oxford)
03 Mar 2014	How does MRSA grow and divide?	Bob Turner (University of Sheffield)
24 Feb 2014	Assessing the Optimum Geometry of Pre-formed Aggregates in Biofilms	Gavin Melaugh
17 Feb 2014	The Composition of Caramel and its Rheology	Simon Weir
10 Feb 2014	Modelling and simulation of deformable particles in external flow fields at negligible and finite inertia	Timm Kruger (School of Engineering)
03 Feb 2014	Interactions of Short Antimicrobial Peptides with Bacteria	Benjamin Little
27 Jan 2014	Making and breaking bridges in Pickering emulsions	David French
20 Jan 2014	Three faces of condensation	Juraj Szavits Nossan
14 Jan 2014	Wetting and sticking on soft surfaces	Rob Styles (University of Yale)
13 Jan 2014	Particle-Based Methods for Simulation of Complex Fluids	Ron Larson (University of Michigan)
10 Jan 2014	Efficient collective motion of molecular motors	Ignacio Pagonabarraga (University of Barcelona)
07 Jan 2014	Reversible and irreversible dynamics in a sheared Wigner crystal	Bruno Eckhart (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
2013
16 Dec 2013	Bacterial chemotaxis in confining geometries	Elliot Marsden
09 Dec 2013	How does biodiversity occur?	Catherine Mills
25 Nov 2013	Designing and Understanding Microporosity in Liquids	Mario G. del Popolo (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo Argentina)
18 Nov 2013	Sources of organic electron donors for microbial iron reduction in the subsurface of Earth and Mars	Sophie Nixon
11 Nov 2013	Rheology of emulsions: is jamming a phase transition?	Daniel Bonn (The University of Amsterdam)
04 Nov 2013	Micelle-like behaviour in a pure fluid of spherical particles with competing interactions	Martin Sweatman (University of Edinburgh)
28 Oct 2013	Mixed Lipid- and Particle-Covered Interfaces	Joe Forth
21 Oct 2013	Bioinspired Soft Machines	Adam Stokes (University of Edinburgh)
14 Oct 2013	On small bacterial colonies as active 2d nematics	Dario Dell'Arciprete
09 Oct 2013	Clay particles in suspension and at interfaces	Jeroen Van Duijneveldt (University of Bristol)
07 Oct 2013	Antimicrobial Peptide Induced Electroporation of Lipid Bilayers using Molecular Dynamics	Matthew Carr
30 Sep 2013	On the rocks: nutrient uptake from the planetary crust	Casey Bryce
12 Sep 2013	Oscillatory pipe flow of a wormlike micellar solution	Jordi Ortin (Universitat de Barcelona)
02 Sep 2013	Complex molecules at interfaces - insights from simulation	David Cheung (University of Strathclyde)
27 Jun 2013	What buoyancy really is: Archimedes stepping into a crowded bath	Roberto Piazza (Dipartimento CMIC Giulio Natta Politecnico di Milano)
24 Jun 2013	Pillar formation in drying polymer droplets	David Fairhurst (University of Edinburgh)
17 Jun 2013	Swimming droplets: squirmers, topological droplets and their collective dances	Shashi Thutupalli (Princeton University)
10 Jun 2013	Competition between phase separation and crystallization in attractive colloids	Barbara Frisken (Simon Fraser University Canada)
03 Jun 2013	Motility-induced phase separation in suspensions of active Brownian particles	Joakim Stenhammar
27 May 2013	The dispersion of swimming algae: consequences for photobioreactors	Ottavio Croze (University of Edinburgh)
20 May 2013	Imaging the microstructure of colloidal suspensions to understand their non-Newtonian flow behavior	Neil Lin (Physics Department Cornell University)
06 May 2013	Motility control in suspensions of swimming cells	Vasily Kantsler (University of Cambridge)
29 Apr 2013	High Temperature Studies of Hydrogen and Deuterium at Extreme Pressures	Philip Dalladay-Simpson
22 Apr 2013	Equality and Diversity: What you need to know and why you need to know it	Toni Collis
15 Apr 2013	Nutrient-dependent switching in microbial ecosystems	Timothy Bush
08 Apr 2013	Evolution of combinatorial communication	Richard Blythe
25 Mar 2013	What happens at freezing. A perspective from suspension of hard sphere-like particles	Bill van Megen (RMIT University Australia)
18 Mar 2013	How many different cancers are in a solid tumour?	Bartlomiej Waclaw
11 Mar 2013	The self-assembly of the tooth enamel protein, amelogenin	Keith Bromley
08 Mar 2013	Predicting the mechanisms of H-NS – DNA assembly	Jocelyne Vreede (University of Amsterdam)
04 Mar 2013	The propulsion mechanism of catalytic Janus swimmers	Aidan Brown
25 Feb 2013	Super-resolution imaging of rapid biological processes in real-time	Rory Duncan (Heriot-Watt University)
18 Feb 2013	Studying the Nano-scale Kinetics of Radiation Damaged Surfaces	Terri Amos
11 Feb 2013	Enriched Uranium – The Heavy Fermion Antiferromagnet UAu<sub>2</sub>	Julian Schmehr
04 Feb 2013	X-rays mark the spot: grain mapping in polycrystals	William Whitley
28 Jan 2013	Fluid entrainment by individual microswimmers	Mitya Pushkin (University of Oxford)
21 Jan 2013	Magnetic and transport measurements at very high pressures and low temperatures	Chris O'Neill
14 Jan 2013	Structural Studies of Europium at High Pressure	Rachel Husband
2012
10 Dec 2012	The beginning and end of HIPE	Paul Clegg
03 Dec 2012	Listening to Magnetism: Using ultrasound at high pressures as a probe to study uranium intermetallics	Michal Kepa
26 Nov 2012	A possible key role of hydrodynamic interactions in colloidal gelation	Akira Furukawa (University of Tokyo)
19 Nov 2012	Competition for space in growing bacterial populations: what determines the winners and losers?	Diarmuid Lloyd
12 Nov 2012	High pressure gas hydrates of the H2O-CO2 system	Daniel Amos
05 Nov 2012	Identifying the molecular processes leading to the formation of fibrillar protein aggregates	Jason Kalapothakis
31 Oct 2012	Aqueous phase structuring and rheology in food and personal care products	William J. Frith (Unilever)
29 Oct 2012	Elucidating the locking mechanism of peptides onto growing amyloid fibrils	Marieke Schor
22 Oct 2012	Walking the back alleys: a modelling study of symplastic transport	Eva Deinum (FOM Institute AMOLF Amsterdam)
15 Oct 2012	The bacterial colonisation of microplastic debris in coastal marine sediments	Jesse Harrison
08 Oct 2012	Superparamagnetic colloidal flats: A route to studying the non-linear mechanics of actin networks	Joe Tavacoli (PMMH-ESPCI Paris)
04 Oct 2012	Catalytic Swimming Devices	Stephen Ebbens (University of Sheffield)
01 Oct 2012	Burning Titanium	Graeme Ackland
10 Sep 2012	EXTRA SEMINAR: Understanding Chemical Engineering Processes Based on Colloid and Interfacial Science	Xianfeng Fan (Chemical Engineering UoE)
27 Aug 2012	EXTRA SEMINAR: Topology and statistical properties of polymers using DNA with an application to gene expression control	Giovanni Dietler (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland)
30 Jul 2012	EXTRA SEMINAR: Using Bijels for Advanced Materials Synthesis	Ali Mohraz (University of California Irvine)
23 Jul 2012	EXTRA SEMINAR: Nonlinear Rheology of Dilute Colloidal Gels	Ali Mohraz (University of California Irvine)
02 Jul 2012	Emergence of motifs in model gene regulatory networks	Marcin Zagorski (Institute of Physics at Jagiellonian University)
25 Jun 2012	Antimicrobial peptide action on E.coli	Alys Jepson
18 Jun 2012	Ionomer Design Principles for Ion-Conducting Energy Materials	Ralph Colby (Penn State University)
11 Jun 2012	Novel molecular design and dielectrophoretic manipulation for enhancing biosensors	Mira Nishimura
28 May 2012	An Alternative Protein Aggregation Pathway	Jay Gillam
21 May 2012	Biophysics of protein aggregation	Tuomas Knowles (University of Cambridge)
17 May 2012	Spontaneous emulsification by ionic surfactants and responsive nanoparticles, and theoretical models of inhomogeneous, correlated Coulomb fluids	Jos Zwanikken (Northwestern University)
14 May 2012	Wetting of Simple Liquids and Cohesive Cells on Soft Surfaces	Eric Dufresne (University of Yale)
07 May 2012	Molecular dynamics simulations of radiation damage in metals	Graham Galloway
30 Apr 2012	Surface functionalized particles for Pickering stabilization	Elena Blanco
23 Apr 2012	Modelling Ribosome Traffic in mRNA translation: Balancing Supply and Demand	Chris Brackley
16 Apr 2012	Colloids in active fluids: simulations of microrheology experiments	Giulia Foffano
26 Mar 2012	Entropy-driven self-assembly of novel phases	Laura Filion (University of Cambridge)
23 Mar 2012	From wrinkly elastomers to Janus Particles	Paulo Teixeira (University of Lisbon)
19 Mar 2012	Pattern formation in active matter systems	Fred Farrell
12 Mar 2012	Simulating biochemical pathways	Steven Court
05 Mar 2012	The early stages of insulin fibrillogenesis explored with mass spectrometry and molecular modelling	Massimiliano Porrini
27 Feb 2012	Evolution of antibiotic resistance in the presence of antibiotic gradients	Bartlomiej Waclaw
20 Feb 2012	Granular rheology near jamming and engineering models	Jin Sun (University of Edinburgh)
13 Feb 2012	Non-equilibrium fluctuations of intracellular filaments generated by motor activity	Ines-Kristin Weber
06 Feb 2012	A New Phase of Hydrogen at High Pressure	Ross Howie
23 Jan 2012	The Alkali Elements at Extreme Compressions: Static and Dynamic Compression Techniques	Emma McBride
16 Jan 2012	A Physicists view on measuring poverty	Graeme Ackland
2011
12 Dec 2011	Mixed Singlet Magnetism of PrPtAl	Gino Abdul-Jabbar
28 Nov 2011	Investigation of the FexOy - H2O - CO2 system at high P - T	Donna Marie Morton
14 Nov 2011	Simulation and modeling of materials with atomic detail at IBM: From biophysics to high-tech application	Glenn Martyna (Materials Research Laboratory at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center NY USA)
07 Nov 2011	The Transformations and Nature of Amorphous Ices	John Loveday
31 Oct 2011	To be confirmed	Matthew Turner (Warwick University)
24 Oct 2011	Hard sphere crystal growth	Michiel Hermes
17 Oct 2011	Using dielectrophoretic manipulation with nucleic acid sensors	Mira Nishimura
10 Oct 2011	The rheology of nanoparticle layers and the relation to foam stability	Duyang Zang (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
03 Oct 2011	Collective Cell Movements and their role in Tissue Dynamics and Morphogenesis during Development	Kees Weijer (University of Dundee)
26 Sep 2011	Squeezing particle-stabilized emulsions into biliquid foams	Job Thijssen
27 Jun 2011	Yielding and flow of colloidal glasses and gels	Nikos Koumakis (Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH))
20 Jun 2011	Noise-induced dynamical transition in systems with symmetric absorbing states	Dominic Russell
16 Jun 2011	Phase Stability of Titanium Alloys	Bengt Tegner
13 Jun 2011	Transition Metal-Hydrogen Systems at High Pressures	Thomas Scheler
09 Jun 2011	Colloidal Particles at a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal interface	Anne Pawsey
06 Jun 2011	The role of particle size and shape in highly size-asymmetric mixtures	Douglas Ashton (University of Bath)
23 May 2011	A Non-Markovian Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process	Robert Concannon
16 May 2011	Deformation of Crystalline Materials: Molecular Dynamics Simulations	Con Healy
09 May 2011	Metastable intermediate phases on molecular crystallisation pathways	Jan Sefcik (Strathclyde University)
05 May 2011	Rotator phases and twist solitons in polyethylene and n-alkanes	Scott Milner (The Pennsylvania State University)
18 Apr 2011	The Structure of Ammonia Monohydrate Vb: Implications for the ammonia-water system	Craig Wilson
11 Apr 2011	Polydispersity in Colloid-Polymer Mixtures	Siobhan Liddle
04 Apr 2011	Exploring the Role of Primary Nucleation and Secondary Processes During Insulin Amyloid Fibril Formation
28 Mar 2011	Simulating the Adsorption of Food & Beverage Biomolecules at Fluid Interfaces	Stephen Euston (School of Life Sciences & International Centre for Brewing & Distilling Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh)
24 Mar 2011	Modeling of mild fractionation of suspensions	Martijntje Vollebregt (Wageningen University)
21 Mar 2011	A dynamical phase transition in a model for evolution with migration	Bartlomiej Waclaw
14 Mar 2011	Modelling swimmers in a bag using hydrodynamics	Elsen Tjhung
07 Mar 2011	The blistering of viscoelastic filaments	Christian Wagner (University of Saarlandes)
28 Feb 2011	Colloids in Phase Separating Binary Liquids: Towards Rod-like Particles	Niek Hijnen
21 Feb 2011	Particles at Interfaces: from Bijels to Oscillating Pickering Drops	Joe Tavacoli
17 Feb 2011	Exploring early stage processes involved in amyloid fibril formation	Kim Eden-Jones (University of Edinburgh)
07 Feb 2011	Simulating particle stabilised thin films using surface evolver	Gareth Morris (Imperial College London)
31 Jan 2011	Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of osmosis	Tom Lion (University of Edinburgh)
24 Jan 2011	Analysis of slurred transients in brass instrument playing	Shona Logie
2010
13 Dec 2010	A Most Unnatural Act! Investigating some of the Questions Surrounding the Way in which We Speak and Sing	Adam Apostoli
06 Dec 2010	Colloids in cholesteric	Juho Lintuvuori
29 Nov 2010	Analytical Study of a Genetic Toggle Switch	Juan Venegas-Ortiz
15 Nov 2010	Active transport on random filament networks	Philip Greulich
08 Nov 2010	What it takes to grow at pressure	Lucas Black
01 Nov 2010	Spatiotemporal regulation of chemical reactions by active cytoskeletal remodeling	Abhishek Chaudhuri (University of Oxford)
25 Oct 2010	Small particles in liquid crystal phases	Ingo Dierking (School of Physics and Astronomy University of Manchester)
18 Oct 2010	Entangled liquid crystal colloids: knots and links	Miha Ravnik (University of Oxforf)
11 Oct 2010	Protein structure prediction and folding dynamics	Katrin Wolff
04 Oct 2010	How do (fluorescent) surfactants affect particle-stabilized emulsions?	Job Thijssen
27 Sep 2010	Swimming bacteria: from individual swimmers to dense suspensions	Jochen Arlt
07 Sep 2010	The puzzle of delayed gel collapse	Paul Bartlett (University of Bristol)
19 Jul 2010	Understanding the sol-gel transition in DSMO/lysozyme/water mixtures	Ilja Voets (University of Friburg)
05 Jul 2010	Ordering by random copying on complex networks	Richard Blythe
28 Jun 2010	Simulation studies of phase behaviour in highly size asymmetrical mixtures	Nigel Wilding (University of Edinburgh)
21 Jun 2010	High-Pressure Incommensurate Structures in Nanomaterials	Wanruk Chaimayo (University of Edinburgh)
07 Jun 2010	Irreversible Aging Dynamics and Phase Behavior of Aqueous Suspensions of Laponite	Yogesh M. Joshi (Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
31 May 2010	Coarse-grained simulations of DNA nanostructures, the self-assembly of virus-like objects, and the evolution of protein complexes	Jon Doye (Oxford University)
24 May 2010	Discontinuous Transition in a Boundary Driven Contact Process	Andre Costa
10 May 2010	Scattering techniques applied to reveal internal structure and orientational behaviour of colloidal particles	Mathias Reufer (University of Edinburgh)
03 May 2010	Live Cell imaging of Host-Virus interactions using CARS and Two-Photon microscopy	Christine Wong
26 Apr 2010	Shear localization in colloidal glasses	Rut Besseling
12 Apr 2010	Crystallization of hard aspherical particles	William Miller (Columbia University New York)
29 Mar 2010	Computer models for DNA organisation: bacteriophages and the human nucleus	Davide Marenduzzo
22 Mar 2010	Charge models of disordered alloys for electron spectroscopy	Tom Underwood
15 Mar 2010	Deformation of elastic nanotubes via self-assembly of surface-adhesive nanoparticles	Josep Pamies (University of Edinburgh)
08 Mar 2010	Investigating Early Aggregation Processes using Mass Spectrometry	Harriet Cole
01 Mar 2010	Lattice Dynamics Studies of High-Pressure Phases Using Thermal Diffuse Scattering	Jenny Jeppsson
22 Feb 2010	Microscopic swimmers at surfaces	Jens Elgeti (University of Edinburgh)
18 Feb 2010	DNA-directed self-assembly of micro- and nano-particles: towards self-replicating materials	Mirjam Leunissen (University of Edinburgh)
15 Feb 2010	Statics and dynamics of a zero-range process with saturated condensation	Alasdair Thompson
08 Feb 2010	Capillary filling and drop dynamics on structured surfaces	Bortolo Mognetti (University of Edinburgh)
01 Feb 2010	Secondary Structure Determination of gp41(659-671)	Craig Gregor
25 Jan 2010	Large Scale Lattice-Boltzmann Simulation of Liquid Crystals	Oliver Henrich
18 Jan 2010	The Importance of Disclinations: Colloidal Dispersions in a Themotropic Nematic Solvent	Tiffany Wood
11 Jan 2010	Investigating the assembly of actin networks	Linda Hirst (University of Edinburgh)
2009
07 Dec 2009	A soft-core spherocylinder model for coarse-grained simulations of self-assembling system	Juho Lintuvuori
30 Nov 2009	Quantum Drude Oscillators for Accurate Many-body Intermolecular Forces	Andrew Jones
23 Nov 2009	Hard Spheres: Crystallization and Glass Formation	Peter Pusey
16 Nov 2009	Growth and dynamics in a size-structured spatial population	Tom Adams
13 Nov 2009	Nanoparticle self-assembly at liquid-liquid interfaces (SALI): what's the point?	Lucio Isa (University of Edinburgh)
09 Nov 2009	Localization of maximal entropy random walk	Bartlomiej Waclaw
02 Nov 2009	Phase diagrams of low valence patchy particles	Flavio Romano (University of Edinburgh)
26 Oct 2009	Metastable Dynamics of Colloidal Hard Spheres	Vincent Martinez
19 Oct 2009	Quantitative snapshots of bacterial motility	Laurence Wilson
12 Oct 2009	Scaling of the current-current time correlation function of a suspension of hard sphere-like particles; Exposing when the motion of particles is Brownian	Bill van Megen (RMIT University Australia)
05 Oct 2009	Game theory, chaos and noise	Tobias Galla (University of Manchester)
28 Sep 2009	Investigations of the coalescence of emulsion droplets with microfluidics	Nicolas Bremond (Laboratoire Colloides et Materiaux Divises ESPCI Paris)
22 Sep 2009	Interfacial water structure, peptide adsorption and ion-specificity	Roland Netz (Technical University Munich)
10 Sep 2009	Particle Stabilised Emulsions with Hydrophobic Additives	Paul FitzGerald (University of Sydney Australia)
30 Jul 2009	Strong Mobility in Weakly Disordered Systems	Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
29 Jun 2009	Statistical physics of switching bacteria	Paolo Visco (University of Edinburgh)
22 Jun 2009	Nucleation of crystals: Experimental studies of protein crystallisation and computer simulations of simple models	Richard Sear (Department of Physics University of Surrey)
15 Jun 2009	Understanding the lag phase variability of insulin fibrillation	Line Jourdain (University of Edinburgh)
08 Jun 2009	Aspects of Protein Aggregation: An Introduction to Work on the Proteins alpha B Crystallin and Ovalbumin	Caroline Miles
01 Jun 2009	Emulsion Engineering: A convenient route to structured oils using polymer mediated, reversible emulsion droplet assembly	Jon Weaver (Materials Discovery Liverpool University)
25 May 2009	To be confirmed	Toni Collis
11 May 2009	Constitutive Equations for Colloidal Glasses from Statistical Mechanics	Mike Cates
04 May 2009	Time-resolved fluorescence microspectroscopy of visible fluorescent proteins in isolated form and in their natural cellular environment	Ton Visser (Wageningen University)
27 Apr 2009	To be confirmed	Job Thijssen
06 Apr 2009	Two-dimensional colloidal systems in optical and magnetic fields: micromechanics and band-formation	Roel Dullens (University of Oxford)
30 Mar 2009	The long-term fate of the attractive colloidal glass	Wilson Poon
23 Mar 2009	An Introduction to Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells	Alastair Mailar (University of Edinburgh)
16 Mar 2009	Critical Behaviour of Colloidal Interfaces Probed by Gravity	Dirk Aarts (University of Oxford)
09 Mar 2009	Aggregation and solvent electrostriction in a simple dipeptide: a molecular dynamics investigation	Paul Tulip
23 Feb 2009	Complex Fluids Characterization Through Expert System & High Frequency Rheometry	Samiul Amin (Malvern Instruments Limited)
16 Feb 2009	Flow and Jamming of 2D foams	Gijs Katgert (Leiden University The Netherlands)
09 Feb 2009	Porous media, Surfactants, and Petrodollars	Kevin Stratford
02 Feb 2009	Statistical Mechanics of Convergent Evolution	Bhavin Khatri
26 Jan 2009	The Electrophoresis Of Colloidal Particles or How to use the new Zetasizer Nano	Andrew Schofield
19 Jan 2009	What's a physicist got to do with 'ecological genetics'? Diffusion in population genetics and ecology	Neelofer Banglawala
12 Jan 2009	Condensed phases of paramagnetic colloids	Jure Dobnikar (Jozef Stefan Institute Department for Theoretical Physics Ljubljana Slovenia and University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry Cambridge UK)
2008
15 Dec 2008	Large Scale Simulations of Blue Phases of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals	Oliver Henrich
08 Dec 2008	1. Water Interactions with Calcium Carbonate Nanoparticles and 2. Catching up on Bijels	Joe Tavacoli
01 Dec 2008	To be confirmed	Toni Collins (University of Edinburgh)
17 Nov 2008	Relaxation towards a nonequilibrium steady state: an unexpected spectral property of the asymmetric exclusion process	Arno Proeme
10 Nov 2008	Cellular networks of colloids via the demixing and remixing of binary liquids	Job Thijssen
03 Nov 2008	Colloidal Liquids, Crystals, and Glasses	Eric Weeks (Harvard University)
27 Oct 2008	Nonequilibrium Phase Transition in a System of Sedimenting Reproducing Particles	Conrad Barrett-Freeman
20 Oct 2008	Advanced optical microscopy techniques	Jochen Arlt
13 Oct 2008	Orbital ordering, reduced dimensionality and spin gap in correlated oxides	Daniel Khomskii (University of Cologne)
06 Oct 2008	The Statistical Mechanics of Word Learning	Richard Blythe
29 Sep 2008	Purely-elastic flow instabilities	Rob Poole (University of Liverpool)
22 Sep 2008	Hopping particles on a growing lattice	Kate Sugden (University of Edinburgh)
19 Sep 2008	A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Phase Separation	Juergen Vollmer (MPI Dynamics & Self-Organization Goettingen)
08 Sep 2008	The Physics of DNA in Bacteriophages	Davide Marenduzzo
01 Sep 2008	Some Optical Tweezers-Based Rheology Conclusions, and a New Microscopy Technique	Laurence Wilson
18 Aug 2008	To be confirmed	Martin Li
11 Aug 2008	Bacterial motility in polymer solutions	Wilson Poon
21 Jul 2008	To be confirmed	Tom Adams
14 Jul 2008	To be confirmed	Andrew Harrison
30 Jun 2008	Microfluidic devices: surface modification and analysis	Sally McArthur (University of Sheffield)
09 Jun 2008	Sickle hemoglobin fibers - self assembly, interactions, growth and depolymerisation	Matthew Turner (Warwick University)
02 Jun 2008	Direct simulation of rare events following Darwin	Julien Tailleur
12 May 2008	Altruism: a bluffer's guide	Lawrence Mitchell
28 Apr 2008	Time dependent quantum transport and nuclear motion	Claudio Verdozzi (Lund University)
14 Apr 2008	Crystal nucleation in ionic and covalent systems	Chantal Valeriani
07 Apr 2008	Lost in the thicket: how agar can suppress bacterial chemotaxis	Ottavio Croze (University of Edinburgh)
31 Mar 2008	Probing nanoscale structure and dynamics of soft matter by synchrotron X-ray scattering	Theyencheri Narayanan (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Grenoble)
26 Mar 2008	Computer simulations of microrheology in dense colloidal systems	Antonio M. Puertas (University of Almeria)
17 Mar 2008	Simulating ''Swimmers'': Point-like self-propelled particles in lattice Boltzmann	Rupert Nash
25 Feb 2008	Out of equilibrium processes in oppositely charged colloidal suspensions	Eduardo Sanz
18 Feb 2008	The Bijel in Real Life	Kathryn White
11 Feb 2008	Slip of glassy hard-sphere colloidal suspensions	Pierre Ballesta (University of Edinburgh)
04 Feb 2008	Laser manipulation and transfer of angular momentum in liquid crystal systems	Helen Gleeson (University of Manchester)
28 Jan 2008	A structural route for dynamical arrest: locally favoured structures in colloidal gels and glasses	Paddy Royall (University of Bristol)
21 Jan 2008	Cytoplasmic streaming: Helical shear flows in giant algal cells and their implications for molecular transport	Jan Willem van de Meent (DAMTP University of Cambridge)
14 Jan 2008	Harnessing Patterning in Polymeric Materials: From Creating Defect-free Devices to Sorting Damaged Cells	Anna Balazs (University of Pittsburgh)
2007
17 Dec 2007	Nonlinear Rheology of Colloidal Suspensions	Oliver Henrich
10 Dec 2007	Power injected in a granular gas	Paolo Visco (University of Edinburgh)
26 Nov 2007	Clustering, wetting and demixing in colloid-microemulsion composites	Danielle Van't Zand
19 Nov 2007	Characterisation of Photonic Colloidal Crystals in Real and Reciprocal Space: A Tale of Two Cities	Job Thijssen
12 Nov 2007	Steady-State Chemotactic Response in E. coli	Yariv Kafri (Technion)
05 Nov 2007	Are glasses hot ?	Tiffany Wood
29 Oct 2007	Non-linear instabilities in parallel shear flows of visco-elastic fluids	Alexander Morozov
22 Oct 2007	Electrostatic interactions across a charged lipid bilayer	Alexander Wagner (University of Edinburgh)
15 Oct 2007	Sex and Sensitivity: the (In)fidelity of DNA Homologous Recombination	Joel Stavans (Weizmann Institute of Science)
08 Oct 2007	Modelling dissipation in statistical mechanics	Richard Blythe
01 Oct 2007	The hydrodynamics of active fluids	Davide Marenduzzo
24 Sep 2007	Ionic Assemblies: Patterns and Symmetries	Monica Olvera de La Cruz (Department of Materials Science Northwestern University)
10 Sep 2007	Nanoparticles in binary mixture of liquid crystal and dodecanol	Chethan Lobo (University of Edinburgh)
03 Sep 2007	Colloidal Particle Structures at Liquid Interfaces	Tommy Horozov (University of Hull)
27 Aug 2007	Coupling electrostatic and polymeric surface interactions in soft matter and biology	Ottavio Croze (University of Edinburgh)
20 Aug 2007	The simulations of complex colloidal fluids by Lattice Boltzmann	Grace Kim (University of Edinburgh)
13 Aug 2007	Reporting the noise: physics looks at finance	Lawrence Mitchell
30 Jul 2007	Nucleation in the 2D Ising model under shear	Rosalind Allen
02 Jul 2007	To be confirmed	Martin Evans
18 Jun 2007	Structure and Deformation of Soft Colloidal Co-crystals	Lynn M. Walker (Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University)
04 Jun 2007	Piconewton forces in dense colloids, applied and measured by optical tweezers	Laurence Wilson
14 May 2007	Antisite disorder and the magnetic groundstate of an experimental spin 1/2 kagome antiferromagnet	Mark de Vries (University of Edinburgh)
30 Apr 2007	On the expansion of bacteria through soft agar	Ottavio Croze (University of Edinburgh)
23 Apr 2007	Experimental work on interconnected super-emulsions	Eva Herzig (University of Edinburgh)
02 Apr 2007	Phase separating proteins and cellular switches	Richard Sear (Department of Physics University of Surrey)
26 Mar 2007	Complex dynamics of shear banded flows	Suzanne Fielding (University of Edinburgh)
19 Mar 2007	Point forces in lattice Boltzmann: Approaching unsettled questions in sedimentation and learning to swim	Rupert Nash
26 Feb 2007	Understanding cell-cell interactions for biological aggregation: Working at the interface between engineering and biology	Catherine Biggs (Sheffield)
19 Feb 2007	Lipid domain formation in binary/ternary Giant Unilamellar Vesicles	Zhijun Zhao (University of Edinburgh)
12 Feb 2007	Micro-channel flow of high volume fraction colloidal glasses: velocity profiles, fluctuations and Antoni Gaudi	Lucio Isa (University of Edinburgh)
05 Feb 2007	Nonequilibrium Kinetics of the Triangular Antiferromagnetic Ising model	Grace Kim (University of Edinburgh)
29 Jan 2007	Drops on Chemically Patterned and Superhydrophobic Surfaces	Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford)
22 Jan 2007	Atomistic simulations of martensitic transformations in 2D Lennard-Jones solids	Oliver Kastner (University of Edinburgh)
15 Jan 2007	Faraday instability in complex fluids	Pierre Ballesta (University of Edinburgh)
2006
11 Dec 2006	Chain reactions, hexosomes and unexpected shades of the colour blue	Kathryn White
04 Dec 2006	Colloids in Surfactant Systems	Danielle Van't Zand
27 Nov 2006	Self-assembly of polypeptides as inspiration for new materials	Cait MacPhee
20 Nov 2006	Imaging and rheology of colloidal glasses under steady shear	Rut Besseling
13 Nov 2006	Phonons and Structures in Rubidium and Oxygen at High Pressure	Malcolm McMahon
06 Nov 2006	Nonequilibrium Steady States in Sheared Binary Fluids	Mike Cates
23 Oct 2006	Connecting simulation and experiment: classical molecular dynamics of simple peptides in water	Susie Allison (University of Edinburgh)
09 Oct 2006	Proline - of ants, tubes and quantum corrections	Raph Troitzsch (University of Edinburgh)
02 Oct 2006	Modelling soft active materials	Davide Marenduzzo
25 Sep 2006	Non linear rheology and dynamic yielding of a simple glass: A molecular dynamics study	Fathollah Varnik (Max-Planck Institut fuer Eisenforschung Duesseldorf)
21 Aug 2006	Poly-N-Methylpyrrole Modified Electrodes to Investigate Bile Salt-Lecithin Aggregation	Dilec Madenci (University of Edinburgh)
14 Aug 2006	Colloidal glasses	Peter Pusey
07 Aug 2006	Evolutionary genetics and thermodynamics	Neelofer Banglawala
31 Jul 2006	Bacterial gene networks and the cell cycle	Rosalind Allen
24 Jul 2006	Get Orf Moi Land	Graeme Ackland
27 Jun 2006	Modelling Hard Spheres via Monte Carlo Methods	Andrew Jackson (University of Edinburgh)
19 Jun 2006	Statistical Physics and Fungal Growth	Kate Sugden (University of Edinburgh)
09 Jun 2006	Directional Interactions Amongst Encapsulated Clusters	Dana Breed (University of California Santa Barbara)
05 Jun 2006	Topological mixing in viscous fluids	Emmanuelle Gouillart (CEA Saclay)
29 May 2006	Getting to the bottom of rugged energy landscapes	Richard Blythe
19 May 2006	Weak Agitations, Zero Yield Stress and Smooth Flows in Granular Media	Martin van Hecke (Leiden University)
15 May 2006	Spatially Competing Shops	Lawrence Mitchell
08 May 2006	Pattern formation in thin film suspensions	Mark Buchanan (University of Oslo)
02 May 2006	How to Make a Neurocrystal: Modeling the Developmental Patterning of the Fly's Eye	David Lubensky (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
24 Apr 2006	Techniques for trapping and studying colloids on liquid-liquid interfaces	Eva Herzig (University of Edinburgh)
27 Mar 2006	Optical Trapping Experiments in Hard Sphere Colloidal Systems	Laurence Wilson
20 Mar 2006	Controlling drop impact by additives	Volfango Bertola (School of Engineering)
01 Mar 2006	A simple model for the excess entropy of mixing of methanol-water mixtures	Rowan Hargreaves (University of Edinburgh)
27 Feb 2006	The OCR Protein: gels, bananas and DNA	Rik Higham (University of Edinburgh)
13 Feb 2006	Mode-coupling glasses and liquid structure	Martin Greenall (University of Edinburgh)
30 Jan 2006	Finding the Center Reliably: Robust Patterns of Developmental Gene Expression	Martin Howard (University of Edinburgh)
23 Jan 2006	Spatial and temporal inhomogeneities in the flow of dense colloidal suspensions into geometrical constrictions	Lucio Isa (University of Edinburgh)
16 Jan 2006	Phase separation in lipid bilayers	Vernita Gordon (University of Edinburgh)
2005
19 Dec 2005	The OCR Protein: gels, bananas and DNA	Rik Higham (University of Edinburgh)
07 Dec 2005	X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy as a new tool to investigate the dynamics of soft condensed matter	Aymeric Robert (University of Edinburgh)
05 Dec 2005	Conducting Organic Molecule Micropatterns on Functionalised Glass Surfaces	Iris Coe
28 Nov 2005	An introduction to networks	Tom Hanney (University of Edinburgh)
21 Nov 2005	Mutation of albedo and growth response produces oscillations in a spatial Daisyworld	Jamie Wood (University of Edinburgh)
14 Nov 2005	Investigating Extreme Condition Microbiology	Gail Ferguson (Structural & Molecular Biology and CSEC)
07 Nov 2005	Realtime 3D microscopy of colloidal glasses under shear	Rut Besseling
31 Oct 2005	Noise in Biochemical Reaction Networks	Patrick Warren
31 Oct 2005	Condensed matter neutron science down-under: From magnetic cobaltates to polymer substrates for biosensing applications	Michael James (Bragg Institute Sydney)
24 Oct 2005	Diffuse Scattering from Incommensurate Rb-IV	Malcolm McMahon
17 Oct 2005	Phase Transitions in Stochastic Models of Flow	Martin Evans
10 Oct 2005	Opening up into two dimensions: insights into liquid structure	Susie Allison (University of Edinburgh)
03 Oct 2005	Correlation spectroscopy with photons and electrons - insight into medium-range order in amorphous materials	J. Murray Gibson (Argonne National Laboratory)
05 Sep 2005	Self Assembled Monolayers and Soft Lithography	Nhan Pham
22 Aug 2005	Weighted Networks and the Multi-Species Zero-Range Process	Andrew Angel (University of Edinburgh)
01 Aug 2005	Colloidal glasses under shear	Nhan Pham
04 Jul 2005	From interparticle potentials to free energies - or the challenge of doing atomistic simulations with the right thermodynamics	Alfredo Caro (University of Edinburgh)
22 Jun 2005	Colloids in external fields: theory and simulation	Hartmut Löwen (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
20 Jun 2005	Colloidal Analog of the Ionic Fluid: computer simulation study	José B. Caballero (University of Edinburgh)
06 Jun 2005	The Physics of Filamentous Fungi	Wilson Poon
30 May 2005	Armadillos, a dead dinosaur and the glass transition	Martin Greenall (University of Edinburgh)
16 May 2005	Recent Developments in Lattice Boltzmann for Complex Fluids	Kevin Stratford (EPCC, University of Edinburgh)
11 May 2005	The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter	Sriram Ramaswamy (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
09 May 2005	Simulating the flipping of genetic switches and other rare events	Rosalind Allen (AMOLF)
19 Apr 2005	To be confirmed	Fred Mackintosh (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
21 Mar 2005	MC measurement of the isotropic nematic interfacial tension in suspensions of soft rods	Tanja Schilling (Mainz)
14 Mar 2005	Microimmiscible aqueous alcohols: dynamics and thermodynamics	Simon Bates
07 Mar 2005	With these statistical mechanics I language change and population genetics wed	Richard Blythe
28 Feb 2005	Dilatancy, Jamming, and the Physics of Granulation	Mike Cates
21 Feb 2005	Attraction and Repulsion in Glasses	Thomas Voigtmann (University of Edinburgh)
09 Feb 2005	Interaction between Colloids and Cells	Didier Roux (Centre de recherche Paul Pascal CNRS Pessac France)
04 Feb 2005	How industrial problems expose gaps in fundamental colloid science	Richard Buscall (ICI Strategic Technology Group Redcar)
31 Jan 2005	Pattern formation in particle laden viscous fluid thin film flow	Mark Buchanan (University of Oslo)
24 Jan 2005	An exactly solvable phase transition in an Ising system with a grain boundary	Jamie Wood (University of Edinburgh)
17 Jan 2005	Phase separation in lipid bilayers	Vernita Gordon (University of Edinburgh)
2004
13 Dec 2004	The Gel Phase of OCR, a DNA Mimic	Rik Higham (University of Edinburgh)
06 Dec 2004	Conducting Polymer Micropatterns	Iris Coe
29 Nov 2004	An Einstein relation for nonequilibrium steady states	Tom Hanney (University of Edinburgh)
22 Nov 2004	Instabilities and Collective Phenomena in Plastic Flow of Crystalline Solids	Michael Zaiser (University of Edinburgh)
15 Nov 2004	Clusters in methanol-water mixtures	Rowan Hargreaves (University of Edinburgh)
08 Nov 2004	Statics and dynamics of poly(ethylene glycol)-stabilized colloids	Johan Bergenholtz (University of Gothenburg Sweden)
01 Nov 2004	Gels, clusters and phase separation in sticky particle systems	Helen Sedgwick (University of Edinburgh)
25 Oct 2004	Bridging in Colloidal Sediments	Matt Jenkins (University of Edinburgh)
18 Oct 2004	Unbinding Books and Demixing Mixtures	Jeroen S. van Duijneveldt (School of Chemistry University of Bristol)
11 Oct 2004	The Aqueous Environment: Lessons from Small Molecules	Lorna Dougan (University of Edinburgh)
04 Oct 2004	Jamming in 2-Dimensional Granular Flow	Ki Wing To (Institute of Physics Academia Sinica Nankang Taipei Taiwan)
13 Sep 2004	Untangling hair conditioners: The swelling of surfactant bilayer phases	David Fairhurst (University of Edinburgh)
06 Sep 2004	The hydrodynamic interaction in confined suspensions	Haim Diamant (Tel Aviv University Israel)
23 Aug 2004	Myelin Formation	Stefan Egelhaaf (University of Edinburgh)
09 Aug 2004	Remoteness: studying the structure of concentrated particulate systems	Mark Haw (University of Edinburgh)
02 Aug 2004	Self-Assembled Monolayers, Soft Lithography and Ezyme Activity at Surfaces	Nhan Pham
26 Jul 2004	Limited Coalescence in Particle-Stabilised Emulsions: Experiment and Theory	Bernard P. Binks (Surfactant & Colloid Group Department of Chemistry University of Hull)
19 Jul 2004	Overshooting Currents and Condensation Transitions in the Zero-Range Process	Andrew Angel (University of Edinburgh)
12 Jul 2004	Domain Formation in Binary Lipid Vesicles	Paul Beales (University of Edinburgh)
05 Jul 2004	Chain melting in the Incommensurate Host-Guest Phase of Rb-IV	Malcolm McMahon
28 Jun 2004	Molecular Motors: Observation and Theory	Michael Fisher (University of Maryland)
07 Jun 2004	Adsorption of hydrocarbon mixtures in porous materials	Joe Fox (University of Edinburgh)
31 May 2004	Mesoscopic and Nanoscale Thermodynamics: Fundamentals for Emerging Technologies	Mikhail Anisimov (Department of Chemical Engineering and Institute for Physical Science and Technology University of Maryland)
10 May 2004	The shape memory effect and the synthetic midge	Graeme Ackland
03 May 2004	Hard Spheres Revisited	Andrew Schofield
26 Apr 2004	Depinning, Ordering and Melting of Vortex Matter in Mesoscopic Channels	Rut Besseling
29 Mar 2004	Wetting transitions and surface geometry	Martin Greenall (University of Edinburgh)
15 Mar 2004	Jamming: an overview	Colin Holmes (University of Edinburgh)
01 Mar 2004	Phase transition and fractionation in polydisperse colloids	Nhan Pham
23 Feb 2004	Behaviour of globular protein solutions in lipid cubic phase	Shinpei Tanaka (University of Edinburgh)
17 Feb 2004	Patterns, templates and ordering in thin films: from magnetic garnets to polymer films and beyond	David Andelman (Tel Aviv University Israel)
09 Feb 2004	Flowing smectics with defects	David Lu (Physics Department National Central University Taiwan)
02 Feb 2004	Liquid crystals embedded in gels	Paul Clegg
26 Jan 2004	Diffusion of particles in polymer solutions	Peter Pusey
19 Jan 2004	Mixing effects in dense binary hard-sphere fluids	Thomas Voigtmann (University of Edinburgh)
12 Jan 2004	The Penna Model -- a solvable model of evolutionary ageing	Jonathan Coe (Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge)
2003
15 Dec 2003	Shake, Rattle and Roll	M. Siddick (University of Edinburgh)
08 Dec 2003	Bridges and arches - extended structures in particulate deposits	Gary Barker (Institute of Food Research (Norwich))
01 Dec 2003	Microscale Mechanical Responses and Properties in Bio-Relevant Materials: Glioblastoma and Self-Assembled Polymer Capsules	Vernita Gordon (University of Edinburgh)
24 Nov 2003	Soggy Matter Physics	Malcolm Robertson (University of Edinburgh)
17 Nov 2003	Phase transitions in one-dimensional driven systems and the zero-range process	Tom Hanney (University of Edinburgh)
10 Nov 2003	Analysing Structure in (almost) Colloidal Sediments	Matt Jenkins (University of Edinburgh)
03 Nov 2003	Topological Gel	Kohzo Ito (University of Tokyo)
27 Oct 2003	Quantum versions of random walks for quantum computing	Vivien Kendon (Imperial College London)
20 Oct 2003	Interactions of particulate inclusions in a columnar phase	Ronojoy Adhikari (University of Edinburgh)
13 Oct 2003	The Hydrophobic Interaction	David Fairhurst (University of Edinburgh)
06 Oct 2003	Modelling granular avalanches	Achod Aradian (University of Edinburgh)
29 Sep 2003	The Polymerisation Motor	Helen Sedgwick (University of Edinburgh)
01 Sep 2003	Flow instabilities and shear banding in complex fluids	Suzanne Fielding (University of Edinburgh)
25 Aug 2003	Network formation in mixtures of nematic liquid crystal and colloid particles	Julie Cleaver (University of Edinburgh)
18 Aug 2003	Shock formation in driven flows	Martin Evans
11 Aug 2003	The Paris-Edinburgh neutron pressure cell -- The world's smallest large volume cell	John Loveday
04 Aug 2003	The tellurium delirium or a crystallographer's paradise	Clivia Hejny (University of Edinburgh)
14 Jul 2003	Determination of Free Energy Differences of Crystalline Solids	Amit Acharya (University of Edinburgh)
07 Jul 2003	Application of QCM to the evaporation of colloidal suspension drops	Nhan Pham
30 Jun 2003	Experiments on jamming in colloids	Mark Haw (University of Edinburgh)
23 Jun 2003	If at first you don't succeed - add more dimensions	Malcolm McMahon
16 Jun 2003	Simple Molecules Ain't So Simple	Simon Bates
09 Jun 2003	2D evaporation: a controlled environment	F. Clement (University of Edinburgh)
03 Jun 2003	Viscoelasticity and Structural Aging in Colloidal Gels	Maria Kilfoil (Harvard University)
26 May 2003	Epidemic processes with immunization	Andrea Jimenez-Dalmaroni (Theoretical Physics University of Oxford)
12 May 2003	Electronic structure theory: Tight-binding models and phase transformations	Robert Albers (Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA))
05 May 2003	Local perturbations of colloidal suspensions	Poitr Habdas (Department of Physics Emory University (Atlanta USA))
28 Apr 2003	Supercoiled DNA	Stefan Egelhaaf (University of Edinburgh)
15 Apr 2003	Screening phenomena in macroion suspensions	Emmanuel Trizac (LPTMS, Université Paris-Saclay)
07 Apr 2003	Using Monte Carlo simulations to help understand cracking	Joe Fox (University of Edinburgh)
31 Mar 2003	Kinetics of Micelle Formation	Anniina Salonen (University of Edinburgh)
24 Mar 2003	Orienteering, daisies and spilt coffee: Simulations with non-Hamiltonian Dynamics	Graeme Ackland
17 Mar 2003	When Hard Spheres Get Soft	Helen Sedgwick (University of Edinburgh)
11 Mar 2003	Systematics of the nonmetal-metal transition in highly compressed low-Z fluids at extreme conditions	B. Nellis (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
10 Mar 2003	The physics of the complex mixture inside E. coli	Richard Sear (Department of Physics University of Surrey)
03 Mar 2003	Phase Separation in Mixed Lipid Membranes	Paul Beales (University of Edinburgh)
24 Feb 2003	Working on small systems: beyond the Second Law of Thermodynamics	Alastair Bruce (Formerly School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
17 Feb 2003	Protein crystallization in lipid cubic phase	Shinpei Tanaka (University of Edinburgh)
10 Feb 2003	Percolation and phase separation in a fluid of sticky spheres	Mark Miller (FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics Amsterdam The Netherlands)
03 Feb 2003	Recent Experiments on Binary Colloidal Crystals	Andrew Schofield
27 Jan 2003	Flow and Slip of Pastes	Steven Meeker (Laboratoire matire molle et chimie ESPCI Paris France)
23 Jan 2003	Dynamical properties of wormlike micelles	J. Candau (Laboratoire de dynamique des fluides complexes Universit Louis Pasteur Strasbourg France)
20 Jan 2003	Crystal structure of elements under high pressure: recent findings and surprises	Olga Degtyareva
13 Jan 2003	Simulating shear flow: Leave it to chance?	Mike Evans (University of Edinburgh)
2002
09 Dec 2002	The Dielectric Mafia Returns: How the Polymer Network Infiltrated Charged Lamellars..	Ottavio Croze (University of Edinburgh)
02 Dec 2002	Heterogeneities of the dynamics close to the glass transition in van der Waals liquids in the bulk and in thin films	Didier Long (University of Edinburgh)
25 Nov 2002	Networks	Miriam Clincy (University of Edinburgh)
18 Nov 2002	Klaus's Klusters, or: When is a Gel a Glass?	Mike Cates
11 Nov 2002	Spinning Two Glasses	Nhan Pham
04 Nov 2002	An Introduction to Confocal Microscopy	Paul Smith (University of Edinburgh)
28 Oct 2002	Thinning processes in soap films	Achod Aradian (University of Edinburgh)
21 Oct 2002	Density expansion for the critical point of a polydisperse system	Carlos Rascon (University of Edinburgh)
14 Oct 2002	From silicon carbide to the removal of George W Bush by way of Kinlochleven	Graeme Ackland
07 Oct 2002	Complex Structures in 'Simple' Metals	I. R. Macleod (University of Edinburgh)
29 Sep 2002	Bose Condensation and Jamming Transitions	Martin Evans
23 Sep 2002	Physics of the Knee	Wilson Poon
02 Sep 2002	Kinetic Pathway of Vesicle Formation	Jacques Leng (University of Edinburgh)
26 Aug 2002	An MCT model of suspension rheology	Colin Holmes (University of Edinburgh)
19 Aug 2002	Soap Froth: Some Universal Topological Properties	Kwok Yip Szeto (University of Edinburgh)
12 Aug 2002	How to avoid unwanted encounters in a crowd	Richard Blythe
29 Jul 2002	Overdamped Euler buckling	Oskar Hallatschek (University of Edinburgh)
22 Jul 2002	High pressure behaviour of Caesium	Clivia Hejny (University of Edinburgh)
15 Jul 2002	Spinodal decomposition in a temperature ramp	Alexander Wagner (University of Edinburgh)
08 Jul 2002	Fudge the Fudge	Klaus Kroy (Leipzig University )
01 Jul 2002	Mixtures of Colloids and Liquid Crystals	Doris Vollmer (University of Edinburgh)
24 Jun 2002	Kinetics of surfactant dissolution	Jacques Leng (University of Edinburgh)
17 Jun 2002	Hunting for Snarks in the Phase Diagram	James Magee (University of Edinburgh)
10 Jun 2002	Things Fall Apart	Mark Haw (University of Edinburgh)
27 May 2002	Crystal structures of hydrogen bonded small molecules	Pamela A. McGregor (University of Edinburgh)
13 May 2002	Computing the density of states by Monte Carlo	Alastair Bruce (Formerly School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
06 May 2002	Solvable models for entropic quasicrystals	Bernard Nienhuis (University of Edinburgh)
29 Apr 2002	Crystallization and phase behaviour of protein solutions	Shinpei Tanaka (University of Edinburgh)
22 Apr 2002	Hydrodynamic Boundary Conditions	Klaus Kroy (Leipzig University )
25 Mar 2002	SAXS & XPCS at ESRF	Abdellatif Moussaid (University of Edinburgh)
18 Mar 2002	The Gallium Story	Olga Degtyareva
11 Mar 2002	Charged Non-Aqueous Colloids	Andrew Schofield
04 Mar 2002	From colloidal gels to biological systems	Sara Romer (University of Edinburgh)
25 Feb 2002	Pressure effect on manganites with layered perovskite structure	Dmitriy Sokolov (University of Edinburgh)
18 Feb 2002	Phase separation in polymer mixtures	Ellen Reister (University of Edinburgh)
11 Feb 2002	Fluids in porous media	Ruslan Sokolovskii (University of Edinburgh)
04 Feb 2002	Lipid bilayers	Stefan Egelhaaf (University of Edinburgh)
28 Jan 2002	Hard sphere glasses under oscillatory shear (The final Episode?)	George Petekidis (University of Edinburgh)
21 Jan 2002	45 years of Directed Percolation	Martin Evans
14 Jan 2002	Scaling Approaches to Nonequilibrium Systems	Tom Hanney (University of Edinburgh)
07 Jan 2002	Glass and jams - one and the same?	Colin Holmes (University of Edinburgh)
2001
03 Dec 2001	The Dielectric Mafia: How the Fat Macromolecules Got Away Without Being Charged	Ottavio Croze (University of Edinburgh)
26 Nov 2001	Shearing Crowded Sticky Balls	Paul Smith (University of Edinburgh)
19 Nov 2001	Features of Driven Diffusive Systems	Miriam Clincy (University of Edinburgh)
12 Nov 2001	Drop breakup in 2d	Lyn Wilson (University of Edinburgh)
05 Nov 2001	Two glassy states of 'sticky hard spheres'	Nhan Pham
29 Oct 2001	To be confirmed	Helen Sedgwick (University of Edinburgh)
22 Oct 2001	What is Rheological Chaos?	Mike Cates
15 Oct 2001	Adsorption in microporous materials	Vincent Rooy (University of Edinburgh)
08 Oct 2001	Computational Complexity & Physics	Klaus Kroy (Leipzig University )
01 Oct 2001	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. What? How? Why?	Malcolm Robertson (University of Edinburgh)
24 Sep 2001	Mesoscale Modelling of Fluidised Bed Binder Granulation	Frantisek Stepanek (Statistics and Modelling Unit Unilever Research Port Sunlight UK)
10 Sep 2001	Colloidal gels and glasses inside a computer	Antonio Puertas (University of Edinburgh)
03 Sep 2001	Hierarchical self-assembly of polyelectrolytes at interfaces	Christiane A Helm (Universität Greifswald Germany)
27 Aug 2001	Partial structure factors in star polymer/colloid mixtures	Jörg Stellbrink (IFF/KFA Jülich Germany)
20 Aug 2001	The Minority Game and Econophysics	Mike Cates
13 Aug 2001	Weird Metals - Modulations within Hosts within Guests	Malcolm McMahon
06 Aug 2001	Fancy Vesicles	Jacques Leng (University of Edinburgh)
30 Jul 2001	The Physics of Explosive Detonation	Iain MacLeod (University of Edinburgh)
23 Jul 2001	Lennard-Jones Devonshire Cell Theory: A Cautionary Tale	James Magee (University of Edinburgh)
09 Jul 2001	Wrapping threads around spheres	Matthias Fuchs (University of Edinburgh)
02 Jul 2001	Squeezing sandwiches, or how to tune useful properties of magnetic multilayers with pressure	Konstantin Kamenev (CSEC & School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh)
25 Jun 2001	Should we all buy stripy glasses?	Mike Cates
18 Jun 2001	To be confirmed	Alexander Wagner (University of Edinburgh)
11 Jun 2001	What I also did in Paris:<br> Watching Paint Dry in Reciprocal Space	Wilson Poon
04 Jun 2001	To be confirmed	Mark Haw (University of Edinburgh)
14 May 2001	''Croissants de sable'' and other delicatessen	Klaus Kroy (Leipzig University )
07 May 2001	High-Pressure Structural Studies Of Organic Small-Molecule Systems	David R Allan (University of Edinburgh)
30 Apr 2001	Replica Theory without tears	Martin Evans
23 Apr 2001	Cluster aggregation: a space odyssey	Mike Evans (University of Edinburgh)
02 Apr 2001	To boldly grow..	Richard Blythe
26 Mar 2001	Have you got a tin or would you prefer a glass?	Graeme Ackland
19 Mar 2001	Phase Behaviour of Colloid-Wormlike Micelle Mixtures	Linda Galloway (University of Edinburgh)
12 Mar 2001	Proteins as Colloids	Wilson Poon
05 Mar 2001	Statistical geometry...and freezing of a few hardspheres	Alastair Bruce (Formerly School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
26 Feb 2001	What are 'glasses', and do colloids have any relevance to their study?	Kenneth Dawson (Department of Chemistry University College Dublin)
19 Feb 2001	Brownian motion and the diffusion equation	Matthias Fuchs (University of Edinburgh)
12 Feb 2001	Dynamics of aging soft matter	Luca Cipelletti (Université Montpellier II)
05 Feb 2001	Universal features of jamming in a model of frictionless granular media	David Head (University of Edinburgh)
22 Jan 2001	The influence of the geometry on adsorption isotherms: From complete wetting to capillary condensation	Carlos Rascon (University of Edinburgh)
15 Jan 2001	Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do	Graeme Ackland
08 Jan 2001	Brownian dynamics simulation of colloidal aggregation	Antonio Puertas (University of Edinburgh)
2000
18 Dec 2000	Colloidal Epitaxy	Andrew Schofield
11 Dec 2000	Simulation (and perhaps even control) of surface reactions	Simon Bates
04 Dec 2000	Neutrons and Biology	Stefan Egelhaaf (University of Edinburgh)
27 Nov 2000	Simulation in the Social Sciences: Progress towards a Computational History?	Alexander Wagner (University of Edinburgh)
20 Nov 2000	A beginners guide to First Principles Simulation	Iain MacLeod (University of Edinburgh)
13 Nov 2000	Shear induced gelation of micelles -- A ring-driven thing?	Mike Cates
06 Nov 2000	Introduction to Stochastic Processes: Comparison between Non-interacting and Interacting Systems	Isao Hiyane (University of Edinburgh)
30 Oct 2000	Lattice Boltzmann simulations of drop break-up	Lyn Wilson (University of Edinburgh)
23 Oct 2000	In Search of Configurational Entropy	Martin Evans
16 Oct 2000	Effects of Pressure Induced Electron Transfer	Stewart Reed (University of Edinburgh)
09 Oct 2000	Colloidal Glasses under Shear Strain	George Petekidis (University of Edinburgh)
02 Oct 2000	Studies of colloidal systems by confocal microscopy	Eric Weeks (Harvard University)
25 Sep 2000	Chicagoan Things	David Head (University of Edinburgh)
04 Sep 2000	Freezing by Monte Carlo	Nigel Wilding (University of Edinburgh)
28 Aug 2000	Dynamic light scattering study of Onion phase	Abdellatif Moussaid (University of Edinburgh)
21 Aug 2000	Kinetics of the Micelle-to-Vesicle Transition	Jacques Leng (University of Edinburgh)
14 Aug 2000	Why is the DNA Denaturation Transition First Order?	David Mukamel (Department of Physics of Complex Systems Weizmann Institute of Science Israel)
07 Aug 2000	Entropies of fragmented configuration spaces	Alastair Bruce (Formerly School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
31 Jul 2000	When Hard Spheres Crystallize (and get it wrong)	Mike Evans (University of Edinburgh)
24 Jul 2000	Suspensions far from shifting equilibrium	Mark Haw (University of Edinburgh)
17 Jul 2000	Ab initio molecular dynamics studies of structure and solvation in polar liquids	Mark Tuckerman (NYU)
10 Jul 2000	Evidence of Liquid-Liquid Phase Transitions in Real Systems	James Magee (University of Edinburgh)
03 Jul 2000	Plumbing for Physicists	Richard Blythe
26 Jun 2000	Atomic Force Microscopy on Polymers	Vasileios Koutsos (Centre for Materials Science and Engineering)
19 Jun 2000	The cage effect in liquids	Mattias Fuchs (University of Edinburgh)

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