Condensed and Living Matter Seminars

Upcoming Condensed and Living Matter Seminars



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Self-propelled particles"

Hartmut Löwen (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Ordinary materials are "passive" in the sense that their constituents are typically made by inert particles which are subjected to thermal fluctuations, internal interactions and external fields but do…

Past Condensed and Living Matter Seminars



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Rough fitness landscapes: from protein evolution to protein design"

Francesco Zamponi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory A8

Rough (energy, or free energy, or fitness) landscapes are ubiquitous in disordered systems, from material science to biology. These landscapes feature a multitude of local energy minima…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Ultrafast manipulation of electronic interactions in quantum materials"

Matteo Mitrano (Harvard University)

Nov 30, 2022 - Nov 23, 2022 at - - See Zoom link

Intense ultrashort electromagnetic fields are an increasingly important tool to realize and control novel emergent phases in quantum materials. Among a variety of nonthermal excitation pathways, a…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "TBA"Many-body physics and self-organization with atoms and photons"

Ana Asenjo-Garcia, Columbia University
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Dissipation and fluctuations are known to be sources of order in complex non-linear systems formed by many agents, as they lead to the generation of self-organized spatial or temporal structures. However…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "TBA" --- CANCELLED

Patrick Vora ( George Mason University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory A8


Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Short stories in fluid dynamics: Thin films, self-similarity, an N-body problem, and particle motions near rough surfaces"

Howard Stone (Princeton University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

In this talk, I provide a glimpse into fluid mechanics and soft-condensed matter flow problems that we have studied in recent years.  In particular, I will first describe experiments of the drainage of a liquid film…