“Genetics of dyslipidemias: beyond the
Genome Wide Association Studies”
Jean Albert Kuivenhoven, PhD
Professor of Genetics
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN
GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS
Tuesday, February 3rd 2015
13.00‐14.00
Room 7A‐0.1, Post‐Graduate Building, Medical School
Host: Dimitris Kardassis
Tel. 4549
Supported by: THALIS MIS 377286
Time:
16:00
Description:
Friday, February 6th, 2015
Speaker
Paris Tzallas
Affiliation
IESL-FORTH
Title
On the generation, characterization and applications of intense attosecond pulses
Location
Department of Physics Bldg., Voutes, 3rd floor Seminar Room
Time
16:00
Language
English
Abstract
Real-time observation of ultra-fast dynamics in all states of matter requires temporal resolution on the atomic unit of time (24.189 asec) (1 asec =10^-18 s). Tools for tracking such ultra-fast dynamics are ultra-short light pulses. During the last decade, continuous efforts in ultra-short pulse engineering led to the development of light pulses with duration close to the atomic unit of time. Attosecond (asec) pulses have been synthesized by broadband coherent extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation generated by the interaction of gases or solids with an intense IR fs pulse. For the realization of studies of ultra-fast dynamics intense asec pulses are preferable. If the pulses are intense enough to induce a non-linear process in a target system, they can be used for ultra-fast dynamic studies in an XUV pump-XUV-probe configuration.
Here, I'll review on the recently developed approaches, on the generation and the temporal characterization of intense asec pulses.
The utilization of these pulses on tracking ultrafast dynamical processes in an XUV-pump-XUV probe configuration will be also presented.
Time:
13:00 - 14:00
Description:
The University of Crete Medical School
Graduate Program in Molecular Basis of Human Disease
SEMINAR
“Type I Interferon in Human Lupus”
Timothy B. Niewold, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic, Division of Rheumatology
Department of Immunology
Rochester, MN, USA
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
13.00-14.00
Room 7A-0.1, Post-Graduate Building, Medical School
Host: George Goulielmos
Tel. 4626
Time:
16:00
Description:
Speaker
Joris Sprakel
Affiliation
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Title
"Packing and stacking of squishy colloids"
Location
Department of Physics Bldg., Voutes, 3rd floor Seminar Room
Time
16:00
Language
English
Abstract
Systems of microgel particles, polymer gels of colloidal dimensions which are swollen in a solvent, form an interesting hybrid between
polymeric and colloidal soft materials. This duality in behavior can be exploited to sensitively tune their mechanical and optical
properties, interactions and responsivity to external triggers. This gives rise to new possibilities to create microstructured materials and to study the physics of soft and squishy matter. In this talk I will highlight some of our recent work in the synthesis and study of microgel systems in bulk and at liquid interfaces. I will, for example, show how we use microgels to study the classical problem of
the packing of spheres of unequal size, where we surprisingly find that mixtures of particles at a size ratio previously thought to be an ideal glass former, actually allows co-crystallisation at low doping fractions by the formation of a new type of substitutional defect. I will also discuss how microgel particles spontaneously yet
irreversibly anchor to a wide variety of liquid interfaces and how the interactions between the particles at these interface can be changed
from isotropic to quadrupolar, giving rise to the formation of aligned fractal clusters and non-close packed square crystals.
Time:
12:00
Description:
Kyriaki SIDIROPOULOU
Assistant Professor of Neurophysiology
Department of Biology, University of Crete
Title: "Neurophysiological mechanisms of Cognition".