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INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
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Program on Electrostatic Effects in Complex Fluids and Biophysics
August 1998 - December 1998
Coordinators: W. Gelbart, V. Parsegian, P. Pincus
Speakers: Please give your transparencies to the ITP staff members in the front office (Rm 1102) for scanning. They will be returned promptly to your mailbox.
8/17 2:00 p.m. | Dr. Alexei Khokhlov ITP & Moscow State |
Self-assemby in polyelectrolyte systems |
8/19 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Henri Orland ITP & C. E. Saclay |
Field theory approaches to charged-particle systems |
8/20 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Roland Netz ITP & Max-Planck-Teltow |
Sphere-polyelectrolyte complexation[Audio] |
8/24 4:00 p.m. | Dr. A. Parsegian ITP & NIH |
Measuring Forces Between DNA's |
8/26 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Henri Orland ITP & C.E. Saclay |
Field Theory Approaches to Salt and Polyelectrolyte Solutions |
8/27 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Henri Orland ITP & C.E. Saclay |
Secondary Structure and Protein Folding |
8/31 4:00 p.m. | Dr. Marcia Barbosa ITP & UFRGS-Brazil |
Ion Condensation |
9/2 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Steven Girvin ITP & Indiana Univ |
Colloidal Attractions: Size Counts |
9/3 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Marcelo Lozada-Cassou ITP & Univ. Metropolitana |
Violation of the Electroneutrality Condition in Confined Charged Fluids |
9/9 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Niels Gronbech-Jensen ITP & LANL |
Electrostatic Interactions Derived from Atomic Scale Simulations |
9/10 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Alexei Khokhlov ITP & Moscow State Univ. |
Statistical Physics of Ionomers |
9/14 4:00 p.m. | Dr. Rudi Podgornik ITP & NIH |
DNA Mesophases and their Equations of State |
9/16 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Alexei Kornyshev ITP & IEV |
Non-local Electrostatics |
9/17 10:00 a.m. | Dr. David Andelman ITP & Tel Aviv Univ |
Polyelectrolytes at Interfaces |
9/21 12:15 p.m. | Dr. W. Gelbart ITP & UCLA |
Bio-inspired Electrostatics: Condensation and Complexation of Highly-Charged Polymers and Membranes[Audio] |
9/22 2:00 p.m. | Dr. Roland Kjellander ITP & Goteborg |
Electrostatic Correlation Attractions Between Double Layers |
9/23 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Stjepan Marcelja ITP & Australian Natl Univ |
Double-layer Repulsion Beyond the Primitive Model |
9/24 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Jie Yang ITP & University of Vermont |
The Assembly of DNA on 2-D Bilayer Membranes |
9/29 2:00 p.m. | Dr. Avinoam Ben-Shaul ITP & Hebrew Univ |
Statistical Thermodynamics of DNA/Charged Lipid Assembly |
9/30 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Christian Holm ITP & Max-Planck-Polymer |
Computer Simulations of Polyelectrolytes |
10/1 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Helmut Schiessel UCSB-MRL |
Counterion-condensation-induced Collapse of Flexible Polyelectrolytes |
10/5 12:15 p.m. | Dr. Fyl Pincus ITP & UC Santa Barbara |
When Like Charges Attract!?@%![Audio] |
10/6 2:00 p.m. | Dr. Seth Fraden ITP & Brandeis |
Critical Review of Attraction Between Like-Charged Colloids |
10/7 10:00 a.m.. | Dr. John Weeks ITP & Univ of Maryland |
Connecting Local Structure to Interface Formation: Simple Liquids and Hydrophobic Interactions in Water |
10/8 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Magdeleno Medina-Noyola ITP & San Luis Potosi |
Structure of a Colloidal Suspension Near a Charged Wall |
10/13 2:00 p.m. | Dr. Ilya Koltover MRL, UCSB |
Structure and Interactions in DNA-cationic Liposome Complexes |
10/14 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Robijn Bruinsma ITP & UCLA |
Electrostatics and Protein-DNA Interactions |
10/15 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Lesser Blum ITP & UPR |
Some Exact Results for Coulomb Systems |
10/27 2:00 p.m. | Dr. Tonya Kuhl & UC Santa Barbara |
PEG-mediated Bilayer Interactions: Role of Electrostatics |
10/28 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Robijn Bruinsma ITP & UCLA |
Electrostatics and Protein-DNA Interactions |
10/29 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Roland Kjellander ITP & Goteborg |
Renormalization of Charges and Screening in Electrolyte Systems |
11/3 2:00 p.m. | Dr. Sebastian Doniach ITP & Stanford Univ. |
The Biophysics of Protein Folding: Experiments and Some Theory |
11/4 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Robijn Bruinsma ITP & UCLA |
Electrostatics and Protein-DNA Interactions |
11/5 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Rob Coalson ITP & Univ of Pittsburgh |
Poisson-Nernst-Planck Theory of Ion Flow through Biological Channels:Application to Gramicidin A |
11/10 2:00 p.m. | Dr. Francoise Livolant ITP & Univ. Paris Sud |
Direct Observation of DNA Condensed Phases and Nucleosome Core Particles[Audio] |
11/10 3:00 p.m. | Dr. Sergey Leikin ITP & NIH Maryland |
Counterion-induced DNA Condensation |
11/11 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Monica Olvera de la Cruz ITP & Northwestern University |
Ion Condensation in Dilute Polyelectrolyte Solutions |
11/12 10:00 a.m. | To Be Announced | |
11/17 2:00 p.m. | Dr. Robijn Bruinsma UCLA |
Electrostatics and Protein-DNA Interactions |
11/18 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Tanniemola Liverpool ITP & ESPCI Paris |
Simple Problems in the Statistical Mechanics of Polyelectrolytes 1) Conformations of Flexible PEs 2) Counterion Fluctuations and Collapse of Semi-flexible PEs |
11/19 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Boris Shklovskii ITP & U of Minnesota |
Wigner Crystal Model for Screening of a Polyelctrolyte by Polyvalent Ions |
11/24 2:00 p.m. | Dr. Yan Levin ITP & UFRGS |
Simple Theories of Coulomb Systems: Salt Solutions |
12/1 2:00 p.m. | Dr. Claudine Williams ITP & College de France |
Hydrophobic Polyelectrolytes: Structural Modifications and Anomalous Counterion Condensation |
12/2 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Robert Eisenberg ITP & Rush Medical School |
Membrane Permeation in Open Ionic Channels |
12/3 10:00 a.m | Dr. Sergei Obukhov ITP & Univ of Florida |
Long-range Forces (Casimir Effect) in Dense Polymer Solutions |
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