Gulliver: CNRS Laboratory UMR 7083

ESPCI. 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris cedex 05.

Research activity 2004-2007

Biological Physics

• Transistor based electronic detection of DNA
• Active membrane models for biomimetic systems
• Modeling the membrane of red blood cells
• Stochastic dynamics and energetics
• Dynamics of plasticity and memory
• Mechanical properties of the cellular interface
• Modeling molecular motors
• Biological membranes out of equilibrium
• Single molecule dynamics of RNA and DNA

Physical Hydrodynamics

• Electro-osmosis: beyond the standard model
• On a slow moving object at the surface of water
• Microfluidics

Soft Matter

• Dewetting of thin polymer films
• Multiple light scattering in complex media
• Roughening transition in a moving contact line

Numerical Methods in Statistical Physics

• The jamming transition and constraint satisfaction
• Studies of dispersion forces
• Thermodynamics of electrostatic interactions
• Multiscale Monte Carlo simulation of simple liquids