| Date |
Discussion Leader |
| September 28th |
David Quint |
| Paper to be discussed : "Dynamic Fluctuations of Semiflexible Filaments" by R. Everaers, F. Jülicher, A. Ajdari, and A. C. Maggs
; Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol 82, 3717 (1999) |
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| October 5th |
Liang Cao |
| Paper to be discussed : "Quantum Conductance on a Cayley Tree" by B. Shapiro; Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol 50, 747 (1983) |
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| October 12th |
Aparna Baskaran |
| Paper to be discussed: "Sedimentation, trapping and rectification of dilute bacteria" by J. Tailleur and M. E. Cates ; Europhys. Lett Vol 86 60002 (2009) |
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| October 19th |
Shradha Mishra |
| Paper to be discussed: "Crowding Induced Self-Assembly and Enthalpy-Entropy Compensation"
by J. F. Douglas, J. Dudowicz and K. F. Freed; Phys. Rev. Lett Vol 103 135701 (2009) |
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| October 26th |
Shiliang Xu |
| Paper to be discussed: "Solvable Model of a Spin-Glass"
by D. Sherrington and S. Kirkpatrick; Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol 35, 1792 (1975) |
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| November 2nd |
Shiladitya Banerjee |
| Paper to be discussed: "Nonlinear elasticity of amorphous solids"
by L. Golubovic and T. C. Lubensky; Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol 63, 1082 (1989) |
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| November 9th |
Gulmammad Mammadov |
| Paper to be discussed: "Geometry and Physics of Wrinkling" by E. Cerda and L. Mahadevan
Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol 90, 074302 (2003) |
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| November 16th |
Zhenwei Yao |
| Paper to be discussed: "Liquid Marbles" by P. Aussillous and D. Quere, Nature Vol 411, 924 (2001) |
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| November 23rd |
Yaouen Fily |
| Paper to be discussed: "Depinning and Creep Motion in Glass States of Flux Lines" by M. Luo and X. Hu, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 98, 267002 (2007) |
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| Date |
Discussion Leader |
| February 3rd |
Shiladitya Banerjee |
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Paper to be discussed : "Spontaneous Oscillations in Acto-myosin systems" by P.-Y. Placais, M. Balland, T. Guerin, J.-F. Joanny and P. Martin ; Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 103, 158102 (2009) |
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| February 10th |
Aparna Baskaran |
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Paper to be discussed : "Effect of Poisson Ratio on Cellular Structure Formation" by I. B. Bischofs and U. S. Schwarz ; Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 95, 068102 (2005) |
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| February 17th |
Yaouen Fily |
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Paper to be discussed : "Thermal effects in the dynamics of disordered elastic systems" by S. Bustingorry, A.B. Kolton, A. Rosso, W. Krauth, T. Giamarchi ;
Physica B, Vol. 404, 444 (2009)
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| February 24th |
Liang Cao |
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Paper to be discussed : "Bootstrap percolation on a Bethe lattice" by J. Chalupa, P. L. Leath and G. R. Reich ;
J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys., Vol. 12, L31 (1979) |
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| March 3rd |
Shrada Mishra |
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Paper to be discussed : "Concentration Dependent Diffusion of Self-Propelled Rods" by A. Kudrolli ; Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 104, 088001 (2010) |
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| March 10th |
Gulmammad Mammadov |
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Paper to be discussed : "Spontaneous Creation of Macroscopic Flow and Metachronal Waves in an Array of Cilia" by B Guirao and J-F Joanny ; Biophysical Journal, Vol. 92, 1900 (2006) |
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| March 17th |
None |
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Spring Break / March Meeting |
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| March 24th |
Xu Ma |
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Paper to be discussed : "An analogy between superconductors and smectics A" by P.G. de Gennes ; Solid State Communications, Vol. 10, 753 (1972) |
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| March 31st |
David Quint |
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Paper to be discussed : "Boundary effects on the end-to-end distance statistics of confined semiflexible polymers" by F. Thuroff, F. Wagner and E. Frey ; Arxiv/cond-mat:1002.1826v1 |
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| April 7th |
Shiliyang Xu |
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Paper to be discussed : "Entropic origin of disassortativity in complex networks" by S. Johnson, J. J. Torres, J. Marro and M. A. Munoz ; PRL Vol. 104, 108702 (2010) |
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| April 14th |
Zhenwei Yao |
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Paper to be discussed : |
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Condensed Matter Theory Journal Club