Condensed and Living Matter Seminars

Upcoming Condensed and Living Matter Seminars



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Robots that evolve on demand"

Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio (Yale)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory A8

Abstract: Soft robots have the potential to adapt their morphology and behavioral control policy to changing tasks and environments. Inspired by the dynamic plasticity of living materials and general adaptability of…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Van der Waals magnets and antiferromagnets interacting with electron spins

Dan Ralph (Cornell University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory A8

This talk will discuss two projects.  The first concerns topological insulator/magnet samples made by mechanical stacking of exfoliated van der Waals flakes.  The proximity interaction of the…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Search and Response Mechanisms in Active Soft Matter

Alireza Abbaspourrad (Cornell University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory A8


Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Bacterial Swarm, An Active Matter State Enriched by Interfacial Fluid Dynamics

Jay Tang (Brown University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory A8

Soft matter, a term not used often a few decades ago, has become a recognized branch of physics studied by researchers worldwide from multiple disciplines. My own random walk in this field started with experiments on…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: TBA

Johnpierre Paglione (University of Maryland)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory A8

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Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Multicellular is different: the biophysical basis of multicellular growth

Peter Yunker (Georgia Tech)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory A8

Cells often live in groups, such as surface attached communities of unrelated bacteria (e.g., biofilms) to multicellular organisms (e.g., animals). Living in groups provides cells with a range of…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Computing with Physical Systems

Peter McMahon (Cornell University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory A8

Conventional digital computing technology based on complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) devices has accumulated a performance increase in excess of 1,000,000x versus the first CMOS digital…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Hybrid superconducting photonic circuits and quantum frequency conversion

Hong Tang (Yale University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Microwave-to-optical converters represent an indispensable component for quantum networks. Integrating photonics with superconductors is challenging because optical excitations…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Topology, Spin and Orbital in DNA-type Chiral Quantum Materials

Binghai Yan (Weizmann Institute of Science)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

In chemistry and biochemistry, chirality represents the structural asymmetry characterized by non-superimposable mirror images for a material like DNA. In physics, however, chirality commonly refers…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Critical points and Bifurcations integrate and amplify sensory information.

Ben Machta (Yale University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Biological systems must integrate and amplify signals which are faint and insignificant at the level of individual sensory receptors. In this talk I will argue that organisms can use the diverging…