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winter semester 2010/2011 top

30.03.2011 - 15:00 - PH3344
Insight into Enzymatic Activity and Specificity from Molecular Simulations
Frau Dr. Petra Imhof
IWR - Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg

02.03.2011 - 16:00 - PH3344
Osmotic manipulation of colloids
Herr Prof. Lyderic Bocquet
University of Lyon, Condensed Matter Lab - LPMCN - CNRS

02.03.2011 - 14:00 - PH3344
Linear viscoelasticity of a single semiflexible polymer chain
Herr Dr. Tetsuya Hiraiwa
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

22.02.2011 - 16:00 - PH3024
The role of surfactants, Hofmeister ions, and pH on the liquid/liquid interface of oil droplets in water: new insights from nonlinear light scattering spectroscopy
Frau Dr. Sylvie Roke
Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart

09.02.2011 - 16:00 - PH3344
Hydrodynamic effects on phase separation in multicomponent membranes
Herr Dr. Sanoop Ramachandran
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

26.01.2011 - 16:00 - PH3344
Dominant pathways in protein folding
Herr Prof. Henri Orland
Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA, Saclay, France

14.12.2010 - 16:00 - PH2074
Ising-like model for protein folding
Herr Prof. W.A. Eaton
Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

24.11.2010 - 16:00 - PH3344
Colloidal Spin Ice on Arrays of Optical Traps
Herr Prof. Andras Libal
Babes-Bolyai-University, Cluj, Romania

9.11.2010 - 16:15 - PH3024
Hydrophobic effect in proteins, On aggregates and nanopumps
Herr Cristiano L. Dias, Herr Markus S. Miettinen
University of Toronto

27.10.2010 - 16:00 - PH3344
New clues in the old Hofmeister puzzle – dramatic effects of ion type on the interaction between bodies immersed in solution
Herr Prof. Uri Sivan
Bertoldo Badler chair in physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

29.09.2010 - 16:00 - PH3344
Thermal noise as a probe for the contact between cell and silicon chip
Dr. Ralf Zeitler
Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried

16.09.2010 - 13:15 - PH3344
DNA, siRNA mechanics and interaction with Carbon nanotubes
Herr Santosh Mogurampelly
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India

16.09.2010 - 14:00 - PH3344
DFT-Rechnungen zur Interpretation von Kernresonanz-Schwingungsspektrens
Frau Dipl.-Phys. Beate Moeser
TU Kaiserslautern

08.10.2010 - 16:00 - PH3344
Dynamics of water molecules confined in nanoscale space under mechanical perturbation and electrical fields
Herr Prof. Haiping Fang
Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

summer semester 2010 top

15.07.2010 - 14:00 - PH3344
Evaporation Induced Self-Assembly of Functional and Living Nanostructures
C. Jeffrey Brinker
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,

8.07.2010 - 14:00 - PH3344
The stretching and folding of biomolecules
Prof. Yevgeni Mamasakhlisov
Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia

1.07.2010 - 14:00 - PH3344
Transport Processes in a Gas Between Parallel Surfacesat Different Temperature
Prof. Dr. Steffen Hardt
Center of Smart Interfaces, TU Darmstadt

24.06.2010 - 14:00 - PH3344
Extracting Rate Coefficients from Single-Molecule Photon Trajectories and FRET Efficiency
Histograms for a Fast-Folding Protein

William A. Eaton, M.D., Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

24.06.2010 - 16:00 - PH2074
Finite size effects in protein folding
Prof. D. Thirumalai
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park

18.06.2010 - 16:00 - PH3344
Soft Matter in Confinement: High-Energy and Resonant Soft X-Ray Reflectivity Studies
Herr Dr. Markus Mezger
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

28.05.2010 - 16:00 - PH3344
Investigating Protein Stabilization/Denaturation in the Presence of Ions and Osmolytes
Prof. Paul Cremer
Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University

27.05.2010 - 14:00 - PH3344
Self-assembled microscopic swimmers and walkers
Prof. Alexander-Katz
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT

29.04.2010 - 14:00 - PH3344
Subretinal Electro-Stimulation of the Retina: Results from the First Human Trial and Future Perspectives
Herr R. Wilke
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
University of Tuebingen, Germany

26.04.2010 - 16:00 - PH3343
Transport of colloids in a two-component solution driven by a thermal gradient
Prof. Hirofumi Wada
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University


winter semester 2009/2010 top

27.01.2009 - 14:00 - PH3344
Infinite-order wetting transitions
Prof. J.O. Indekeu
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

13.01.2009 - 14:00 - PH3344
Systematic theory for fluctuations and correlations in block copolymers and polymer blends
Prof. David Morse
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

25.11.2009 - 16:00 - PH3344
Hydration in discrete water, a cellular automata based approach to obtaining hydration free energies
Dr. Piotr Setny
Physik Department T38, TUM

18.11.2009 - 16:00 - PH3344
Planar, oriented cell-surface models studied by specular and off-specular X-ray and neutron scattering
Dr. Emanuel Schneck
Universität Heidelberg


summer semester 2009 top

16.09.2009 - 14:00 - PH3344
Monte Carlo simulation of electrolytes in the constant voltage ensemble
Prof. Kenji Kiyohara
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Osaka, Japan

24.08.2009 - 11:00 - PH3344
Modeling red blood cells and blood flow in health and disease
Dr. Dmitry Fedosov
Brown University, Providence, USA

28.07.2009 - 15:00 - PH3344
Transport in heterogeneous materials
Dipl.-Phys. Axel Kammerer
LMU München, Theoretische Physik

24.07.2009 - 15:00 - PH 3344
Ultracold molecules: formation and applications
Professor Robin Côté
University of Connecticut

16.07.2009 - 14:00 - PH 3344
Force-driven separation of short double stranded DNA: Theory and Experiment
Dipl.-Phys. Dominik Ho
LMU München, Lehrstuhl Gaub

09.07.2009 - 14:00 - PH 3344
Dynamics of molecular interactions in membranes
Dr. Eugene P. Petrov
Technische Universität Dresden

02.07.2009 - 14:00 - PH 3344
Coarse-grained simulations of charge, current and flow in heterogeneous media
Dr. Benjamin Rotenberg
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

29.05.2009 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Polymer translocation through a nano-pore: scaling, universality and prospective application
Prof. Aniket Bhattacharya
University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida, USA

28.05.2009 - 14:00 - PH 3344
Intricate knots in proteins: statistics, function and evolution
Dr. Peter Virnau
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz

07.05.2009 - 14:00 - PH 3344
Electrostatically coupled diffusion of short ds-oligonucleotides on cationic lipid membranes
Frau Hanna Engelke
LMU, Munich

30.04.2009 - 14:00 - PH 3344
Co-solute effects on single molecule adhesion mechanics
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hugel, Dr. Michael Geisler
TU Munich, Garching

21.04.2009 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Molecular simulations of peptides and membranes
Herr Dr. Volker Knecht
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam

20.04.2009 - 16:00 - PH 3343
The mechanics of swimming microorganisms
Prof. Tom Powers
Division of Engineering, Brown University


winter semester 2008/2009

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modern topics in bio-soft matter
(Bio-Soft Oberseminar, Prof. R. Netz)

04.02.2009 - 16:15 - PH 3344
Statistical Mechanics of Semiflexible Loop Polymers in Two Dimensions
Herr Prof. Hirofumi Wada
Kyoto University, Japan

07.01.2009 - 16:00 - PH 3344
The Role of Thermodynamics in Lipid Membranes - Mimicking a Critical State
Herr Dr. Matthias F. Schneider
Universität Augsburg

11.12.2008 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Simulating Electrohydrodynamic Effects in Charged Colloidal Dispersions
Kang Kim
Institute for Moleclar Science, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan

3.12.2008 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Molecular Simulations of intermolecular and surface interactions mediated by water
Nico van der Vegt
Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz

26.11.2008 - 16:00 - PH 3344
How Proteins Find and Recognize Their Targets on DNA
Prof. Kolomeisky
Rice University, USA

19.11.2008 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Dynamics of ions in electrolyte solutions: from bulk solutions to confined media
Dr. Jean-Francois Dufreche
University P. et M. Curie, Paris, France

11.11.2008 - 14:45 - PH 3024
Impact on Liquids: Void Collapse and Jet Formation
Stephan Gekle
University of Twente, The Netherlands

22.10.2008 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Some Thoughts on Protein Folding
Dr. Roland Roth
Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart

27.06.2008 - 13:00 - PH 127
Quantum Surprises: Cross-Component Spin Correlations, Spin-Glass Ferromagnetism, and Superconductor/Antiferromagnet Reverse Impurity Effects
Prof. A. Nihat Berker
Koç University and Munich Technical University


summer semester 2008

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modern topics in bio-soft matter
(Bio-Soft Oberseminar, Prof. R. Netz)

30.05.2008 - 13:00 - PH 127
The Nature and Characterization of Order in High-Density DNA Meso-Phases
Prof. Rudolf Podgornik
Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

21.05.2008 - 14:15 - PH 3344
Anomalous Small-Angle X-ray Scattering
Guenter Johannes Goerigk
Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich

03.04.2008 - 11:00 - PH 227
Multi-blob representation of semi-dilute polymer solutions
Prof. Jean-Pierre Hansen
University of Cambridge, UK

02.04.2008 - 13:00 - PH3344
Visualizing DNA: evidence from multiscale computer simulations
Maria Fyta
Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA


Statistical Mechanics of Biological Systems (Bio-Soft-Prosem)
Prof. R. Netz, Dr. J. Dzubiella, Dr. D. Horinek, Dr. V. Lobaskin
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winter semester 2007/2008

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modern topics in bio-soft matter
(Bio-Soft Oberseminar, Prof. R. Netz)

23.11.2007 - 10:00 - PH 3344
Slow dynamics in glassy systems
Prof. Antonio Coniglio
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Universita' di Napoli "Federico II"

20.11.2007 - 13:00 - PH 3344
Fluid structure and dynamics near hydrophobic surfaces: from protein folding to microfluidic flow control
Dr. David M. Huang
LPMCN, Universität Claude Bernard - Lyon 1

15.11.2007 - 14:15 - PH 3343
Electrochemistry on the nanoscale and single-molecule level
Prof. Tim Albrecht
Department of Chemistry and London Centre for Nanotechnology
Imperial College London

14.11.2007 - 14:00 - PH 3024
Molecular Isolation on the Nanoscale
Prof Dr. Joshua B. Edel
Department of Chemistry Theoretical & Experimental Physical Chemistry section
Imperial College London


9.10.2007 - 10:00 - PH 3344
Theory of the force-induced BS transition in DNA
Prof. Jürgen Kreuzer
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science Dalhousie,
University Halifax, Canada


16.10.2007 - 13:00 - PH 2244
Ions at the Protein/Water and Ice/Water Interfaces - A Molecular Dynamics Study
Dr. Lubos Vrbka
Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Regensburg

26.09.07 - 11:00 - PH 3344
Thermodynamics and Kinetics from Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy
Dr. Gerhard Hummer
Theoretical Biophysics Section, Laboratory of Chemical Physics
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA


Bio-Soft Matter: Theoretical Concepts and Methods
Prof. R. Netz
Schedule:
  • 23.11.2007 - Felix Sedlmeier
    Principles and Properties of the Gecko Adhesive System
  • 29.11.2007 - Douwe Bonthuis
    Ion adsorption on neutral surfaces
  • 18.12.2007 - Vladimir Lobaskin
    Critical Casimir forces
  • 20.12.2007 - Thomas Einert
    The BS-Transition of DNA
  • 24.01.2007 - David Hofmann
    fluid-fluid interfaces and capillary waves
  • 31.01.2007 - Immanuel Kalcher
    electrostatics of the oil-water interface



summer semester 2007 top

modern topics in bio-soft matter
(Hauptseminar, Prof. R. Netz)

10.07.07 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Polyelectrolytes and Counterion condensation investigated by PFG and Electrophoresis NMR
Dr. Ulrich Scheler
Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden

29.06.07 -14:00 - PH 3344
Polyelectrolyte adsorption
Dr. Rene Messina
Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

19.06.07 - 16:00 - PH 3343
Multiscale modeling of lipid bilayers
Dr. Alexander Lyubartsev
Division of Physical Chemistry, Arrhenius Lab, Stockholm University, Sweden

5.6.2007 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Unusual Phase Transitions in Complex Networks
Michael Hinczewski, Ph.D.
Feza Gursey Institute, Istanbul, Turkey

22.05.07 - 16:00 - PH 3344
DNA: Self assembled nanostructures and complexation with hyper branched polymer
Dr. Prabal K. Maiti
Center for Condensed Matter Theory Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

15.5.2007 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Density depletion at solid-liquid interfaces probed with neutron reflectometry
Dr. Marco Maccarini
Institut Laue-Langevine, Grenoble, France

25.04.07 - 14:00 - PH 3343
Molecular Simulations of Biological Systems
Jarmila Repakova, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

19.04.07 - 16:30 - PH 3343
Why intermolecular forces follow Hofmeister Sequences
Mathias Boström
Department of Physics, Linköping University, Sweden
Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Regensburg, Germany

17.04.07 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Interfacial properties of colloidal platelet dispersions
Dr. Matthias Schmidt
Department of Physics, University of Bristol, United Kingdom


Statistical Mechanics of Biological Systems
(Proseminar, Prof. R. Netz, Dr. J. Dzubiella, Dr. D. Horinek, Dr. V. Lobaskin, program)


winter semester 2006/2007 top


Locomotion, Reaction, and Diffusion in Biological Systems
(Proseminar, Prof. R. Netz, program: .ppt)


Modern Topics in Bio-Soft Matter
(Hauptseminar, Prof. R. Netz)

15.03.07 - 11:00 - PH 3344
Electrokinetic power generation and DNA confinement in nanofluididic channels
Douwe Jan Bonthuis
Rowland Institute at Harvard, Cambridge

14.03.07 - 15:00 - PH 3344
Neural networks for optimization of magnetic recording media
Dipl.-Ing. Immanuel Kalcher
Institute for Solid State Physics, TU Wien

07.03.07 - 15:00 - PH 3344
Charging behavior of polyamines in solution, at surfaces and in “frozen” micelles:
An experimental study

Dr. Dusko Cakara
Bayer Schering Pharma

02.02.07 - 14:30 - PH 3344
Stochasticity and gene regulation
Prof. Ralf Metzler
Biological Physics, Physics Dept, University of Ottawa

26.01.07 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Spontaneous extension of DNA in a two-dimensional fluidic nanoslit
Madhavi Krishnan
Institut für Biophysik, Universität Dresden

25.01.2007 - 11:00 - PH3344
The force on DNA in a solid-state nanopore
Dr. Ulrich Felix Keyser
Institut für Experimentelle Physik I, Universität Leipzig
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands


12.01.07 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Multiscale Modeling of Block-Copolymer-Nanomaterials
Dr. Stephan A. Baeurle
Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Regensburg

15.12.2006 - 16:30 - PH 3344
Osmotic loading of simple viruses
Prof. Rudi Podgornik
Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology, Bethesda, MD
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

8.12.06 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Modelling, simulation and experiment in nonlinear beam theory
Stefan Knauf
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Universität Heidelberg

24.11.2006 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Pattern formation in plant development
Dr. Christian Fleck
Universität Freiburg

24.11.06 - 14:00 (s.t.) - B 0.22, MPQ
Ultracold polar molecules: forming, trapping, cooling, and using them
Prof. Robin Coté
Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs

03.11.06 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Interfacial flows, from nano- to macro- scales
Prof. Lydéric Bocquet
Université Lyon I, France

23.10.06 - 10:00 - PH 127
Molecular mechanisms of cellular mechanics
Prof. Klaus Schulten
Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

11.10.06 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Coupling nonpolar and polar solvation free energies in implicit solvent models
Dr. Joachim Dzubiella
Emmy-Noether-Fellow, TU Garching

05.10.06 - 13:00 - PH 3344
Diffusion in a one-dimensional system with nearest and next nearest neighbor interactions: exact analysis based on the kinetic lattice gas model
Prof. Jürgen Kreuzer
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science Dalhousie, University Halifax, Canada

27.09.06 - 16:00 - PH 3344
The mechanical response of single polymers
in and out of equilibrium
Felix Hanke
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science Dalhousie, University Halifax, Canada

25.09.06 - 16:00 - PH 3344
Erythrocyte membrane fluctuations – a new approach
Dr. Thorsten Auth
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel


symposium: soft-matter meets hard-matter

09.11.06 - 11:00 - PH 3344 - Dr. habil. Thomas Franosch
Transport in complex environments - from non-equilibrium phase transitions to cellular crowding 

09.11.06 - 14:00 - PH 3344 - Prof. Peter Lenz
Physics issues in metabolism of bacteria

09.11.06 - 17:15 - PH HS3 - Dr. Hans-Andreas Engel
Spins in halbleitenden Nanostrukturen

10.11.06 - 10:00 - PH 3344 - Dr. Tanja Schilling
Statistische Mechanik harter Stäbchen - Ein Modellsystem für Materialforschung und Biophysik

10.11.06 - 13:00 - PH 3344 - Prof. Ralf Metzler
Functional properties of DNA and its active role in DNA-protein interactions

10.11.06 - 15:00 - PH 3344 - Dr. Simon Trebst
Numerical simulations of slowly equilibrating systems

10.11.06 - 17:00 - PH 3344 - PD. Dr. Andreas Komnik
Von der Mikroelektronik zur Nanoelektronik: Herausforderungen aus der Quantenwelt


symposium: simulation of biomolecules

19.10.06 - 15:15 - HS3 - Ph. D. Willi Wriggers
Pleiomorphism of Supramolecular Assemblies

19.10.06 - 17:15 - HS3 - Prof. Dr. Marcus Elstner
Computersimulation biophysikalischer Prozesse: Umwandlung von Licht in chemische Energie bei der bakteriellen Photosynthese

20.10.06 - 13:15 - PH 3344 - Dr. Pavel Jungwirth
Ions at Surfaces of Hydrated Proteins and Other Interfaces

20.10.06 - 15:45 - HS3 - Dr. Emanuele Paci
Computer simulations: a bridge between physics and biology

26.10.06 - 15:15 - HS3 - Prof. Dr. Heinrich Sticht
Veränderte Proteindynamik als Ursache von Krankheitsentstehung

26.10.06 - 17:15 - HS3 - Dr. Wolfgang Wenzel
All-atom protein folding with free-energy models

27.10.06 - 9:15 - HS3 - Dr. Martin Zacharias
Computersimulation of biomolecules: The role of flexibility during molecular recognition



summer semester 2006 top


Modern Computational Techniques in Biosciences (BioComp)
(Dr. Lobaskin, Dr. Horinek)


winter semester 2005/2006 top


Genetic Analysis: Statistical and Computational Principles
(Prof. R. Netz)
course material (program):
Dr. Vladimir Lobaskin Statistics in the biological Sciences (8.2 MB)
Andreas Serr Gene Isolation, Manipulation & Sequence Analysis (0.2 MB)
Christian Sendner Random Networks, Small Worlds & Scale free Networds (7.2 MB)


13.02.2006 - 16.02.2006
Winter School in Antholtz

group seminar
09.11.2005
Introduction to fluctuating hydrodynamics and mode-coupling theory
Dr. Hirofumi Wada
Physics Department - T37, TU Munich

02.11.2005
Negative compressibility and nonequivalence of two statistical ensembles in
the first-order escape-transition
Prof. Alexander Skvortsov
Chemical-Pharmaceutical Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia

26.10.2005
Self organization in a mixture of molecular motors and microtubules
Prof. P.B. Sunil Kumar
Department of Physics, IIT Madras, India

19.10.2005
Theory of Surface Processes
Prof. H. Juergen Kreuzer
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 3J5 Canada


summer Semester 2005: top


Theoretical Bio-Soft-Matter Physics Seminars
(Prof. R. Netz, program)

group seminar
01.06.2005
Design and assembly of a hybrid ellipsometer and its application to the adsorption of soluble proteins at the air/solution interface
Dominique Verreault
Laval University, Quebec City , Canada

25.05.2005
Artificial Molecular Rotors on a Gold Surface:A Single Molecule Parametric Oscillator“
Dr. Horinek
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prag

11.05.2005
Ions at the Air/Water Interface: Towards a unified picture of surfaces of aqueous acid, base, and salt solutions
Prof. Dr. Pavel Jungwirth
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prag

27.04.2005
Nonlinear elasticity of single charged polymers in strong coupling
Dr. Hirofumi Wada
Department of physics, University of Tokyo

01.04.2005
Some Thoughts on the Hydrophobic Interaction
Prof. Phil Pincus
Material Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara

11.01.2005
Exploring RNA secondary repertoire through graphs
Dr. Samuela Pasquali
Department of Physics, New York University