[Assistant-faculty] Colloquium starting in 5 minutes

["Grant, Gayle" <Gayle Grant tufts edu>]

Good afternoon:

There is a Colloquium starting in five minutes.  Faculty, Graduate 
students and Undergraduates are encouraged to attend.  


TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

"Dripping, jetting, drops and wetting:  the magic of microfluidics"

David Weitz
Harvard University

This talk will discuss the use of microfluidic devices to precisely 
control the flow and mixing of fluids to make drops, and will explore a 
variety of uses of these drops.  These drops can be used to create new 
materials that are difficult to synthesize with any other method.  These 
materials have great potential for encapsulation and release and for drug 
delivery.  I will also show how the exquisite control afforded by the 
microfluidic devices provides enabling technology to use droplets as 
microreactors to perform biological reactions at remarkably high rates 
using very small quantities of fluids.  I will demonstrate how this can be 
used for new fundamental and technological applications.  
  .
 
3:00 pm
Friday, March 30, 2012
Robinson 253
Medford Campus
Refreshments served at 2:30 in The Knipp Library, Room 251

Thanks.

Gayle