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From: Joel Yuen <joelyuen@fas.harvard.edu>
Date: Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:53 PM
Subject: Tuesday Theochem visit of Frank Brown for Theochem
To: A-G Group <aspuru-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu>
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From: Joel Yuen <joelyuen@fas.harvard.edu>
Date: Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:53 PM
Subject: Tuesday Theochem visit of Frank Brown for Theochem
To: A-G Group <aspuru-list@lists.fas.harvard.edu>
Harvard is hosting Frank Brown on Tuesday afternoon from 1:45 to 6 PM and unfortunately no professor has signed up to speak to him :(. Therefore, I will change the format of meetings and ask students who are interested in meeting him to reply to me with a 30 min suggested time slot (e.g. 4 to 4:30), instead of everyone being in the same room speaking, so that we can effectively cover the time he'll be with us.
Also, let me know if you want to come to dinner with him. This time there will be slightly fewer slots because the Shakhnovich people might come.
Best,
Joel.
Continuum Models for Biomembrane Dynamics
4/25/12 4:00pm
MIT Building 4, Room 231
Frank Brown
University of California, Santa Barbara
Simulation of biomembranes and lipid bilayers over length and time
scales relevant to cellular biology is not currently feasible with
Molecular Dynamics
or similarly detailed methods. Barring an unforeseen revolution in
the computer industry, this situation will not soon change. Two aspects
of mesoscopic
membrane dynamics will be discussed: in-plane flow/diffusion in
inhomogeneous membrane systems and out-of-plane membrane undulations.
Both problems are
treated within the context of stochastic continuum models, which
allow thermodynamically and hydrodynamically consistent access to length
and time scales
up to and beyond the micron and second regimes, using simple
numerical methods. Applications to phase separation kinetics and domain
boundary fluctuations
in ternary “model membrane” systems, membrane shape fluctuations
above a solid supporting matrix and diffusion of curved membrane
proteins will be discussed.
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Joel Yuen-Zhou
PhD candidate in Chemical Physics
Harvard University CCB,
12 Oxford St. Mailbox 107,
Cambridge, MA, USA.
Joel Yuen-Zhou
PhD candidate in Chemical Physics
Harvard University CCB,
12 Oxford St. Mailbox 107,
Cambridge, MA, USA.