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June 29 – Wednesday – 11 am – Summer Active Matter Seminar series.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Johnson Auditorium. \u00a0Coffee\/cookies in the Physics common area before the talk.<\/p>\n

Title: Active Fluids : Applying the tools of soft materials theory to
\nbiological systems<\/p>\n

Speaker: Professor Aparna Baskaran, Physics Department, Brandeis University<\/p>\n

Active fluids are made up of particle units that consume energy from
\ninternal or external sources and dissipate it by moving through the
\nmedium they inhabit. This paradigm unifies such varied systems as
\nactin-motor mixtures, bacterial swarms and bird flocks. The key
\ndifference of these systems from conventional non equilibrium systems
\nis that the energy input that drives the system out of equilibrium is
\nat the level of each unit rather than through a global body force or a
\ndriving at the boundary of the system. In this talk, I will illustrate
\nthe consequences of this microscopic energy input to emergent behavior
\nby considering three phenomena exhibited by these systems –
\nrectification, enhanced ordering and exotic pattern formation.<\/p>\n

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June 8. Wednesday, 11:00 am – Noon.\u00a0 Active Matter Seminar<\/strong>
\nLocation: Sackler Sciences Center, Room S-120 – Johnson Auditorium<\/p>\n

Title: Parametrization and Graph Algorithms for Multibody Configurational Problems<\/p>\n

Speaker: Professor Li Han, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nDept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clark University<\/p>\n

Abstract: Configurations (positions and orientations, also called conformations in biochemistry) of multibody systems are of great practical and theoretical interests, with important scientific and engineering applications in diverse fields such as computational structural biology, computer simulation, and robotics. In practice, it is very challenging to effectively compute valid system configurations and motions, since multibody systems generally have many degrees of freedom and complicated constraints such as no collision for physical objects and low energy for protein conformations. An important, but largely overlooked, issue is system parametrization: a given constraint can have very different formulations in terms of different parameters, which may affect the solvability of the constraint, the structure of the system configuration space, and the complexity of configuration and motion generation problems.<\/p>\n

In this talk, we will present our newly developed simplex-based parameters and algorithms that have achieved orders of magnitude improvement over existing work.\u00a0 We will also briefly describe graph based algorithms that were originally developed in the robotics community but have been successfully adapted for the computational study of many configurational problems, such as protein and RNA folding, ligand binding, and simulation of animal group behaviors.<\/p>\n

Date and Time: Wednesday, 11:00 am – Noon.
\nLocation: Sackler Sciences Center, Room S-120 – Johnson Auditorium<\/p>\n

NanoWorcester Symposium<\/h1>\n

Symposium Program:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 12, 2011 <\/strong><\/p>\n

_______________________________________________________<\/p>\n

8:00 am \u2013 9:00 am:<\/strong> Registration and Continental Breakfast<\/p>\n

8:30 am-9:00 am:<\/strong> Business Meeting<\/p>\n

9:00 am \u2013 9:15 am:<\/strong> Opening remarks<\/p>\n

Michael J. Malloy, PharmD<\/strong>, Dean, School of Pharmacy Worcester\/Manchester, Masshachusetts Colleges of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Worcester, MA.<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

MORNING SESSION<\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

9:15 am \u2013 9:40 am <\/strong><\/p>\n

Davis<\/strong> Baird<\/strong>, Ph.D<\/strong>., Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Clark University, Worcester, MA.<\/p>\n

From Laboratory to Society: Developing an Informed Approach to Nanoscale Science and Technology<\/em><\/p>\n

9:40 am \u2013 10:05 am <\/strong><\/p>\n

Nancy Burnham, Ph.D<\/strong>., Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

Atomic Force Microscopy, the Eye and Hand of Nanotechnology <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:05 am \u2013 10:20 am: <\/strong>Coffee Break (15 minutes)<\/p>\n

10:20 am- 10:45 am <\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Campbell, Ph.D., <\/strong>Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Worcester, MA.<\/p>\n

Exploiting Tumor Features for Therapeutic Gain using Cationic Nanotherapeutics <\/em><\/p>\n

10:45 am \u2013 11:10 am <\/strong><\/p>\n

T. J. (Lakis) Mountziaris<\/strong>, Ph.D<\/strong>., Professor & Department Head, Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

Direct Sensing of Biomolecular Interactions using ZnSe Quantum Dots<\/em>.<\/p>\n

11:10 \u2013 11:20 am: <\/strong>Coffee Break (10 minutes) <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keynote Address<\/span><\/strong>: 11:20 am -12:00 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keynote Speaker: Kevin O\u2019 Sullivan<\/strong>, President & Chief Executive Officer, Massachusetts Biomedical Initiative, Worcester, MA.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

Moving Nanotechnology from the Bench to the Marketplace <\/em><\/p>\n

12:00 noon – 1:00 pm:<\/strong> Lunch<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

AFTERNOON SESSION<\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

1:00 pm – 1:25 pm <\/strong><\/p>\n

Sergio Granados-Focil, Ph.D<\/strong>., Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Clark University, Worcester, MA.<\/p>\n

Ionic transport through polymeric matrices <\/em><\/p>\n

1:25 pm \u2013 1:50 pm <\/strong><\/p>\n

Terri Camesano, Ph.D.,<\/strong> Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.<\/p>\n

Probing Bacterial Adhesion at the Nanoscale <\/em><\/p>\n

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm:<\/strong> Poster Session<\/p>\n

3:00 pm \u2013 4:00 pm:<\/strong> Wine and Cheese reception<\/p>\n

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm:<\/strong> Tour of the labs of Pharmaceutical Sciences<\/p>\n

The event will be taking place on Feb 12, at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Worcester, MA. We invite interested people to consider presenting a poster on their research during this event. A link to our website (NanoWorcester) exists at the Colleges of Worcester Consortium at:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cowc.org\/faculty-staff-resources<\/a><\/p>\n

and a direct link to the program at:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/nanoworcester\/events\/first-annual-nanoworcester-symposium<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information, please feel free to contact any of the members of the symposium advisory committee:<\/p>\n

Terri Anne Camesano, Ph.D., WPI, Email: terric@wpi.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Robert Campbell, Ph.D., MCPHS, Email: robert.campbell@mcphs.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Eihab Jaber, Ph.D., Worcester State University, Email: ejaber@worcester.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Arshad Kudrolli, Ph.D., Clark University, Email: akudrolli@clarku.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Reema Zeineldin, Ph.D., MCPHS, Email: reema.zeineldin@mcphs.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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