Lapham 160

Rafael C. Bernardi, Visiting Research Scientist, The Beckman Institute; the Univ. of IL - Urbana/Champaign

Combining in vitro and in silico Single-molecule Force Spectroscopy to Characterize Protein Mechanics

Steered Molecular Dynamics (SMD) simulations have been used to depict the underlying molecular details of protein mechanics. At the molecular level, these behaviors are governed by mechanically active proteins.

Sami Mitra, PhD -- Editor, Physical Review Letters (APS)
Physics after the lab & the desk: Your work in PRL
In a talk structured to encourage interspersed Q and A, I will discuss the dissemination of your physics results that follows the lab, the keyboard, and the desk.

There is no speaker currently scheduled for this week.

Kevin M. Koch, PhD - Medical College of Wisconsin and MCW/MU

Physics as Applied to Transitional MRI Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin

Hong Qi, PhD Candidate, UWM Department of Physics.
Studies in Gravitational-wave Astronomy & Tests of General Relativity

Modern astronomical data sets provide the opportunity to test our physical theories of the Universe at unprecedented levels of accuracy. This dissertation examines approaches to testing gravitational theories using a) observations of stars orbiting the center of the Milky Way; b) observations of the pulsations of Cepheid variable stars in dwarf galaxies; and c) gravitational-wave observations of compact binary mergers.

Allison Doerr, Senior Editor for Nature Methods.

Getting Published in High-Impact Journals: A Perspective from a Nature Methods Editor

A major goal of most scientific researchers is obtaining exciting results and publishing them in high-visibility, well-regarded journals. As a Senior Editor at Nature Methods with 13 years of experience, I will take you inside the editorial world to describe how we select, review, improve, and disseminate important research to a broad scientific community.

Debnandini Mukherjee, PhD Candidate, UWM Department of Physics.

Listening to hte Universe with Gravitational Waves!

Gravitational waves were observed for the first time on September 14, 2015. A 36 and a 29 M_⊙ black holes were seen to inspiral around each other and merge about ∼ 410 Mpc away. This gave momentum to the areas of gravitational wave astrophysics and astronomy. While the universe could be perceived in the electromagnetic spectrum so far, enabling us to ”see” it with telescopes, it could now be ”listened to” using gravitational waves.