Condensed and Living Matter Seminars

Upcoming Condensed and Living Matter Seminars



Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Far-from-Equilibrium Statistical Physics: Information and Response in Living Matter

Zhiyue Lu (UNC)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Statistical mechanics, first developed for equilibrium systems, stands as one of physics' greatest triumphs. Living systems, however, operate far from equilibrium, processing information and…



Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar

Matteo Mitrano (Harvard)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8


Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar

Julien Tailleur (MIT)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8


Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Physical approaches to understanding and predicting viral evolution

John Barton (University of Pittsburgh)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

How predictable is evolution? This question has inspired biological research for decades, but it remains challenging to address quantitatively. In this talk, I will describe how we adapted methods from…



Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar

Jie Wang (Temple University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Past Condensed and Living Matter Seminars



Condensed, Soft & Living Matter Seminar: Robust prediction of moiré material topology

Valentin Crepel (Flatiron Institute)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Moiré materials have recently been envisioned as condensed-matter quantum simulators [1] due to their highly tunable low-energy properties controlled by chemical composition, stacking configurations, twist…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Driven molecular fluxes control the number size and position of an essential phase-separated organelle in algae

Linnea Lemma (Princeton)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Phase separation of biological molecules has emerged as a key mechanism by which cells organize their interior spaces. Investigating the physical principles by which these biomolecular condensates facilitate cellular…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Understanding spontaneous assembly in biology: How self-assembly and phase separation work together to build biological structures.

LaNell Williams (Princeton)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

How does nature build complex structures from repetitive strands of nucleic acid lipids and proteins? Furthermore how does nature decide upon what physical principles to use to build these structures? We hope to…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Living systems in crowded spaces: from microbial communities to biomolecular condensates

Alejandro Martinez-Calvo (Princeton)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Spatial organization in living systems is crucial for their functioning and is typically achieved in complex environments—from molecular processes in the crowded cytoplasm to microbial collectives growing in…



Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Cellular collective behavior in spatially complex environments

Emily Hager (Boston University)
- David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8

Collective behaviors are processes in which large-scale patterns arise from fundamentally local interactions among individuals; in biological systems, these can be organisms, cells, or molecules. A critical open…