BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore - ECPv6.15.12.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.mbi.nus.edu.sg X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20150101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161207T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161207T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T042628 CREATED:20161121T175215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161121T175215Z UID:16149-1481128200-1481130000@www.mbi.nus.edu.sg SUMMARY:Shape Transitions in Some Systems Involving Surface and Line Energy by Prof Elliot Fried DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce a seminar talk by Prof. Elliot Fried who is visiting us at the MBI. \nThe seminar is on Dec 7th (Wed) at 4.30 pm\, T Lab Level 5 seminar room. If you are interested to speak to him before the seminar please feel free to write to me () or Jeff (mbijr@nus.edu.sg) \nShape transitions in some systems involving surface and line energy\nWe will present a variational problem for finding energetically preferred equilibrium configurations of a system consisting of a closed\, inextensible\, unshearable loop endowed with elastic resistance to bending that is spanned by a liquid film endowed with constant surface tension. Aside from presenting results from bifurcation and stability analyses based on the first and second variations of the relevant energy functional\, we will discuss generalizations of the problem. In particular\, we will describe the consequences of incorporating elastic resistance to twisting the bounding loop and bending the spanning film. We will also mention applications to experiments involving discoidal high-density lipoprotein particles and synthetic nanodiscs. URL:https://www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/event/shape-transitions-in-some-systems-involving-surface-and-line-energy-by-prof-elliot-fried/ LOCATION:MBI Seminar Room Lvl 5\, T-Lab\, Level 5\, 5A Engineering Drive 1\, Mechanobiology Institute\, National University of Singapore\, 117411\, Singapore CATEGORIES:MBI Theory Group END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR