Bio/Soft Talks

An Interdisplinary and Multi-institute Seminar and Journal Club  

Time: Monday 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm followed by free discussion with dessert till 4 pm

Place: Old Physics Building Room 332, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica

Traveling Information:

There are buses run between Sinica, NTU, NCU and NTHU.  Please see http://www.sinica.edu.tw/as/misc/bus-route.html.

The goal of this seminar is to build up the interactions between different research groups and create a soft matter community where the interfaces between chemistry, physics, material science and biology happen. The scope covers self-assembly, soft nanotechnology, biological aspects of soft matter or technologies, surfaces, interfaces and interactions, building blocks, theory, modeling, simulations and so on.

The talk format is informal. They can be new results, ideas or some specialty in your research group to stimulate discussion and interests among the audience. We especially encourage students and postdocs to give presentations. 

If you want to receive the email announcement with detailed information about each week's talk, please email me (Keng-hui Lin, khlin AT phys.sinica.edu.tw) to add you into the list.  (Strongly recommended. Sometimes we arrange lab tours and meetings with the speaker and we will announce it in the email.)

Talk at fall, 2007

Speakers wanted! Please volunteer or recommend.

Only columns in yellow are set schedules. All the rest of time slots are flexible and available. (Name) means tentative schedule. You are welcome to contribute talks in any slots with ( ).

If you would like to give a talk or receive email notices, please contact Keng-hui Lin (khlin AT phys.sinica.edu.tw).

Past Activities:

2007 Jan 8,9 Penn-Sinica Symposium

2007 Jan 4-6 Taiwan-US Soft Materials Symposium

Interdisciplinary Research Consortium

Talk at Fall, 2006.

Talk at Spring, 2006.

Talk at Spring, 2007

In case if you are curious who are the stable participants.  There are PIs, postdocs, research assistants and students from the following groups who are fun loving, curiosity driven and knowledge hungry. We passionately invite you to join us. 

From time to time, we also have audience from Institute of Chemistry, Research Center for Applied Science, Genomics Research Center, and Institute of Cellular and Organic Biology. This is truly an interdisplinary seminar.