Condensed and Living Matter Seminars

Upcoming Condensed and Living Matter Seminars

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Past Condensed and Living Matter Seminars



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Orientational Order in Biological Development - Superfluid Shrimp

Mark Bowick (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Morphogenesis, the process through which genes generate form, establishes tissue scale order as a template for constructing the complex shapes of the body plan. The extensive growth required to build…



Special Condensed & Living Matter Seminar: Mechanobiology in vivo and in 3D

Keng-hui Lin (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 2N3

This talk will have two parts. The first part concerns the mechanical wave observed in the wound healing of zebrafish tailfin. Highly regenerative animals can regrow lost appendages and the rate of regrowth is…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Topological Defects in Computational Meshing

David Palmer (Harvard University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

The topological structure of a hexahedral mesh is characterized by its singularities, which look like line disclinations in a crystal. In field-based meshing, one first computes a so-called octahedral…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Magnetic imaging of domain walls and surface transition in antiferromagnetic topological insulators

Weida Wu (Rutgers University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Layered antiferromagnets with topological band structure are promising platforms to host many interesting topological phenomena. Thus, it is imperative to visualize domains or…