JOURNAL CLUB, Tuesdays 12:30-2:00PM (room 352)
Water, Proteins, Alzheimer's Disease, Aging, and More

6 Feb. 2007: Limei Xu, Relation between liquid-liquid phase transition and thermodynamic and dynamic anomalies
L. Xu, P. Kumar, S.V. Buldyrev, S.-H. Chen, P.H. Poole, F. Sciortino, and H.E. Stanley, Relation between the Widom line and the dynamic crossover in systems with a liquid-liquid phase transition. PNAS 102 16558-62 (2005). [PDF]
L. Xu, S.V. Buldyrev, C.A. Angell, and H.E. Stanley, Thermodynamics and dynamics of the two-scale spherically symmetric Jagla ramp model of anomalous liquids. PRE 74, 031108 (2006). [PDF]

13 Feb. 2007: Alfonso Lam
K.H. Lim, H.H. Collver, Y.T. Le, P. Nagchowdhuri, and J.M. Kenney, Characterizations of distinct amyloidogenic conformations of the Abeta (1-40) and (1-42) peptides. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 353, 443-9 (2007). [PDF]

27 Feb. 2007: Zhenyu Yan
Yan et al., Structural Order in the First and Second Shell of Water. [PDF]

13 Mar. 2007: Marco Mazza

27 Mar. 2007: Andrew Inglis
Current advances in measuring spatial arrangement of neurons.

10 Apr. 2007: Pradeep Kumar
Thermal conductivity in water.

17 Apr. 2007: Marcia Barbosa
Water-like anomalies in a single component system with a continuous isotropic potential.

24 Apr. 2007: Sungho Han
Dynamics of confined water molecules.

1 May 2007: Kevin Stokely
Lattice-like model of liquid water.

15 May 2007: Gene Stanley
THE PUZZLING CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS OF LIQUID WATER.

5 June 2007 (PRB-261): Jiayuan Luo
Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition in Jagla Ramp Model of Water.

13 June 2007 (PRB-261): Prof. Chin-Kun Hu (Taiwan)
Water

26 June 2007: Alfonso Lam
In silico studies of Alzheimer's amyloid beta-protein folding.

3 July 2007: Daniel L. Roe
An examination of the molecular basis of structural changes in the aging brain.

19 July 2007 (Thursday!): Andrew Inglis
Current Advances in Machine Learning.