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[Illinois] GEM4 2012: The Measurement of Cellular Traction Forces
18 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Christopher Chen
Our objective is to educate researchers and graduate students about the fundamentals of cell and molecular biomechanics, and to provide an intense learning experience, and to facilitate interactions among engineers, biologists and clinicians. The goals are to help train a new generation of...
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[Illinois] GEM4 2012: Cell Mechanosensing: A Step by Step Process
18 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Michael Sheetz
Our objective is to educate researchers and graduate students about the fundamentals of cell and molecular biomechanics, and to provide an intense learning experience, and to facilitate interactions among engineers, biologists and clinicians. The goals are to help train a new generation of...
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[Illinois] GEM4 2012: Molecular Mechanics
13 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Wonmuk Hwang
Our objective is to educate researchers and graduate students about the fundamentals of cell and molecular biomechanics, and to provide an intense learning experience, and to facilitate interactions among engineers, biologists and clinicians. The goals are to help train a new generation of...
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[Illinois] GEM4 2012: Developmental Biology II
13 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Ray Keller
Our objective is to educate researchers and graduate students about the fundamentals of cell and molecular biomechanics, and to provide an intense learning experience, and to facilitate interactions among engineers, biologists and clinicians. The goals are to help train a new generation of...
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[Illinois] GEM4 2012: Cell Mechanics
13 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Jeffrey Fredberg
Our objective is to educate researchers and graduate students about the fundamentals of cell and molecular biomechanics, and to provide an intense learning experience, and to facilitate interactions among engineers, biologists and clinicians. The goals are to help train a new generation of...
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[Illinois] GEM4 2012: Developmental Biology I
12 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Ray Keller
Our objective is to educate researchers and graduate students about the fundamentals of cell and molecular biomechanics, and to provide an intense learning experience, and to facilitate interactions among engineers, biologists and clinicians. The goals are to help train a new generation of...
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[Illinois] GEM4 2012: Basic Optics, Optomechanics, Lens and Magnification
12 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Steven Wasserman
Our objective is to educate researchers and graduate students about the fundamentals of cell and molecular biomechanics, and to provide an intense learning experience, and to facilitate interactions among engineers, biologists and clinicians. The goals are to help train a new generation of...
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[Illinois] GEM4 2012: Tissue Mechanics
12 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Jay Humphrey
Our objective is to educate researchers and graduate students about the fundamentals of cell and molecular biomechanics, and to provide an intense learning experience, and to facilitate interactions among engineers, biologists and clinicians. The goals are to help train a new generation of...
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[Illinois] GEM4 2012: Cellular and Molecular Foundations of Developmental Biology
12 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Leslie A. Houghton
Our objective is to educate researchers and graduate students about the fundamentals of cell and molecular biomechanics, and to provide an intense learning experience, and to facilitate interactions among engineers, biologists and clinicians. The goals are to help train a new generation of...
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[Illinois] Biophotonics 2012: Optical Coherence Tomography
10 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Stephen Boppart
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[Illinois] Molecular Dynamics Software (NAMD)
09 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Emad Tajkhorshid
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[Illinois] Advanced Materials Characterization Workshop 2012: Recent Developments in a Novel Dynamical Testing Technique
05 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Jeffrey Schirer
Nanomechanical testing, often nanoindentation, has been well-established at a basic level for characterization of small volumes of material and low-dimensional structures, with the size scale of the applications dictating the physical testing size scale required. The aspiration to understand...
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[Illinois] Advanced Materials Characterization Workshop 2012: Technical Requirements For Successful Tip Enhanced Raman (TERS) Imaging: Towards Label-Free Chemical Imaging At The Nano-scale
05 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Emmanuel Leroy
Since the mid 1980’s, Scanning Probe Microscopy has been a catalyst for research on nanotechnologies,making the study of nano-materials affordable, and has greatly enhanced the analysis of mechanical andelectrical properties of those materials, yet it has limited chemical specificity.Raman...
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[Illinois] Advanced Materials Characterization Workshop 2012: Tutorial 3: X-ray Electron Spectroscopy / Auger Electron Spectroscopy
05 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Rick Haasch
This workshop provides a critical, comparative and condensed overview of mainstream analytical techniques for materials characterization with emphasis on practical applications. The workshop will cover the following techniques:Atomic force microscopy (AFM)X-ray diffraction, reflectivity and...
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[Illinois] Advanced Materials Characterization Workshop 2012: Tutorial 4: X-ray Diffraction and Reflectometry
05 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Mauro Sardela
This workshop provides a critical, comparative and condensed overview of mainstream analytical techniques for materials characterization with emphasis on practical applications. The workshop will cover the following techniques:Atomic force microscopy (AFM)X-ray diffraction, reflectivity and...
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[Illinois] Advanced Materials Characterization Workshop 2012: The Schmidt-Czerny-Turner Spectrograph
05 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Jason McClure
The Czerny-Turner type imaging spectrograph is by far the most commonly usedresearch instrument in dispersive optical spectroscopy. Image aberrations inherent inthis type spectrograph impart distortions to recorded spectra that affect resolution bothspatially and spectrally. Understanding the...
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[Illinois] Advanced Materials Characterization Workshop 2012: Tutorial 5: Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry/Rutherford Backscattering
05 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Timothy P. Spila
Secondary ion mass spectrometry is an analytical technique based on the measurement of themass of ions ejected from a solid surface after the surface has been bombarded with high energy (1-25 keV) primary ions.
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[Illinois] Advanced Materials Characterization Workshop 2012: Nanofabrication of Plasmonic Devices in the Helium Ion Microscope
05 Jul 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Larry Scipioni
Helium ion microscopy (HIM) is being used both to create and to inspect nanostructures for photonic and plasmonic devices. As part of a program exploring photoelectrons as sources for multiple beam electron beam lithography, fractal apertures are being developed to generate a sub-20nm light...
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[Illinois] Two Recent Regularization Frameworks for Computer Vision Applications
29 Jun 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Bingbing Ni
In this talk we will introduce two recently developed regularization frameworks for 1) image spatial context modeling and 2) multi-dimensional time sequence classification. In the first part of the talk, we will present a novel omni-range image spatial context modeling method for encoding both...
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[Illinois] Neuroengineering IGERT 2012: High Resolution Brain Machine Interfaces Using Flexible Silicon Electronics
28 Jun 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Jonathan Viventi
The first annual student-led IGERT Neuroengineering Symposium, to be held on June 16th, 2011, this one day event is designed to highlight the growing neuroengineering presence at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In addition, we hope that the symposium will expose students, faculty,...