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SUMMARY:[Biophysics seminar] Marc Cabases: "Interaction of SARS-CoV-2 with surfaces and surfactants: Molecular dynamics simulations"
DESCRIPTION:I will talk about the work accomplished for two years of my PhD. First\, I will explain the simulations of the interaction between the spike protein and human skin. Using all-atom (AA) simulations we showed which are the relevant residues of the S protein interacting with the skin. I will also talk about surfactants-SARS-CoV-2 interaction. Surfactants are typycally used as disinfection agents in personal care products against bacteria and viruses\, including SARS-CoV-2. However\, there is a lack of understanding of the molecular mechanisms of the inactivation of viruses by surfactants. We employed coarse grain (CG) and AA molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the interaction between surfactants and the SARS-CoV-2 virus.\n\n\nThe seminar will take place in the seminar room of physics (106).
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/biophysics-seminar-marc-interaction-sars/
LOCATION:Seminar room of physics (106)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230302T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230302T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221028T002250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230205T014210Z
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SUMMARY:Sašo Grozdanov: TBA
DESCRIPTION:https://indico.ijs.si/event/1485/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/saso-grozdanov-tba/
LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (Zoom)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230223T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230223T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20230214T095030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230216T195958Z
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SUMMARY:[Biophysics journal club] Marin Šako: "Bicelle-to-Vesicle Transition"
DESCRIPTION:Vesicles are of great research interest as they not only form naturally but are also artificially produced as liposomes\, primarily used as a drug (including vaccines) delivery mechanism\, owning to their biocompatibility with the cell membrane. An essential step of liposome formation is the transition from a bicelle to a vesicle. In this seminar\, I will talk about the aforementioned transition\, under what conditions it occurs\, and how temperature and lipid composition affect the transition process.\n\n\nThe meeting will take place in the seminar room of physics (106).\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/biophysics-journal-club-marin-sako-bicelle-vesicle/
LOCATION:Seminar room of physics (106)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230223T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230223T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221026T095033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230205T014210Z
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SUMMARY:Ilja Doršner: Fully Testable Axion Dark Matter within a Minimal SU(5) Unification Model
DESCRIPTION:I will present a minimal Grand Unified Theory model\, based on an SU(5) gauge symmetry and a global U(1) Peccei-Quinn symmetry\, that predicts the existence of an ultralight axion dark matter within a narrow mass range between 0.1 neV and 4.7 neV. This mass window is determined through an interplay between gauge coupling unification constraints\, partial proton decay lifetime limits\, and the need to reproduce the experimentally observed fermion mass spectrum. The entire parameter space of the proposed model will be probed through a synergy between several low-energy experiments that look for proton decay (Hyper-Kamiokande)\, axion dark matter through axion-photon coupling (ABRACADABRA and DMRadio-GUT) and nucleon electric dipole moments (CASPEr Electric).\nhttps://indico.ijs.si/event/1541/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/salvador-rosauro-alcaraz-neutrino-electroweak-baryogenesis/
LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (F1 tea room)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230216T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230216T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221129T131423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T130011Z
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SUMMARY:[DBS lunch seminar] Denis Kutnjak: "Environmental virology and virus ecology: from plant virus diversity to monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nViruses likely represent the most diverse part of the biosphere; nevertheless\, a large part of their diversity is still unknown. Viromics approaches\, based on high-throughput sequencing\, enable the studies of virus diversity inside and outside of their hosts\, in different environments\, where some viruses can persist for long periods of time. In the past few years\, we have addressed the diversity of viruses in crop and wild plants\, invertebrates\, and different water types. We discovered several previously unknown viruses\, mostly in wild plants and in surface water samples. Using viromics\, we have also discovered a diverse set of nucleic acids of viruses infecting plants in wastewater and demonstrated their infectivity even after wastewater treatment using classical virology approaches. During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic\, we have extended wastewater analyses to measurements of the concentrations and detection of variants of this virus in wastewater from different Slovenian wastewater treatment plants. This resulted in a very early establishment of such monitoring on a national scale\, which now helps us to better understand the epidemiological trends of SARS-CoV-2. In this lecture\, different cases of research from the fields of virus discovery\, environmental virology\, virus ecology\, and wastewater epidemiology will be presented. \n\n\n\n\nEvent information\nThe seminar will take place at 14h in the seminar room of physics (106) in the main building of Jožef Stefan Institute. The seminar will start with a snack (pizza) and will be followed by an informal discussion.
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/dbs-seminar-denis-kutnjak/
LOCATION:Seminar room of physics (106)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230216T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230216T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221118T021149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230205T014209Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Harlander: TBA
DESCRIPTION:https://indico.ijs.si/event/1547/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/robert-harlander-tba/
LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (Zoom)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230202T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230202T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20230127T171351Z
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SUMMARY:[Biophysics seminar] Fabio Staniscia: "Heat release effect in domain relaxation of long-range interacting systems"
DESCRIPTION:The meeting will take place in the seminar room of physics (106).
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/biophysics-seminar-fabio-staniscia-heat-release-interacting-systems/
LOCATION:Seminar room of physics (106)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230202T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230202T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221104T005240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230202T105733Z
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SUMMARY:Oliver Gould: Effective field theory for cosmological phase transitions
DESCRIPTION:A cosmological first-order phase transition would have given rise to a stochastic gravitational wave background which may be observable today. Phase transitions are driven by thermal loop fluctuations\, which modify background fields at leading order. This breaks the usual loop expansion and leads to large theoretical uncertainties in typical calculations\, especially for gravitational wave predictions. I will give an overview of our present understanding of these uncertainties\, and of the tools that have been developed to overcome them. Effective field theory has been at the forefront of this development\, and I will outline how it solves a number of long-standing theoretical problems.\n \nhttps://indico.ijs.si/event/1551/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/oliver-gould-tba/
LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (F1 tea room)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230126T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230126T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221121T131224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230123T182938Z
UID:6153-1674741600-1674745200@web-f1.ijs.si
SUMMARY:[Biophysics seminar] Tanmoy Sarkar
DESCRIPTION:I will present a new approach to studying epithelial mechanics\, which is based on representing the tissue structure by a graph. As a proof of concept\, I will study a tissue with random cell rearrangements and compare the results with an alternative approach\, based on a Markov chain.\n\n\nThe meeting will take place in the seminar room of physics (106).
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/biophysics-seminar-tanmoy-sarkar/
LOCATION:Seminar room of physics (106)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230119T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230119T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221130T091337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230118T072713Z
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SUMMARY:[DBS lunch seminar]: Marko Gosak\, "Quantifying Calcium Activity Patterns in Normal and Diabetic Pancreatic Islets of Langerhans with Network Analyses"
DESCRIPTION:Islets of Langerhans consist of a large functional syncytium of beta cells that produce pulses of insulin\, a key component for controlling metabolic homeostasis. In response to stimulation\, the islet cells display rather well-coordinated intercellular activity patterns\, which was found crucial for ensuring normal secretory patterns. However\, it is not clear how coordinated cellular rhythmicity emerges within the heterogeneous cellular collectives and how it is altered in diabetes. To address these questions\, we combined multicellular calcium imaging in mouse pancreatic tissue slices as well as in isolated human islets with advanced network analyses. Describing the intercellular activity patterns by means of network language has not only revealed that intercellular networks in islets share many architectural similarities with several other real-life networks\, such as small-worldness\, heterogeneity\, and modularity\, but also leads to important new insights into the relationship between cellular metabolic activity and the orchestration of collective behaviour [1\,2]. Importantly\, analyses of islets from diabetic donors have revealed that the intercellular activity in these islets is characterized by a lower fraction of global calcium waves and more segregated network structures [3]. However\, there was a rather large variability in responses in islets from donors with diabetes\, with some exhibited striking pathophysiological changes\, whilst others behaved rather normally. This great heterogeneity in susceptibility of different islets towards diabetogenic insults should be considered as an important aspect by conducting further research on the pancreatic islets. \n\n\n\n\nFigure: Analysis of calcium activity in the pancreatic cells in the islets of Langerhans and the generation of functional intercellular networks.\n\n\n\n[1] Gosak M\, et al.\, Network science of biological systems at different scales: A review\, Physics of Life Reviews 2018\, 24. \n[2] Stožer A\, et al.\, From isles of Königsberg to islets of Langerhans: Examining the function of the endocrine pancreas through network science\, Frontiers in Endocrinology 2022\, 922640. \n[3] Gosak M\, et al.\, Ca2+ oscillations\, waves\, and networks in islets from human donors with and without type 2 diabetes\, Diabetes 2022\, 71. \n\n\n\nThe seminar will take place in the lecture hall of the International Postgraduate School (MPŠ\, https://www.mps.si/en/o-nas/lokacija/) at the Jožef Stefan Institute. It will be followed by discussion and snacks.
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/dbs-seminar-marko-gosak/
LOCATION:Lecture hall of IPS (MPŠ)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230119T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230119T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221026T095035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T111740Z
UID:5319-1674126900-1674130500@web-f1.ijs.si
SUMMARY:Luka Leskovec: A lattice QCD study of B → π π l 𝜈
DESCRIPTION:$V_{ub}$ is the smallest and least known of all CKM matrix elements; it’s currently determined primarily through the exclusive process B → π l 𝜈. I will present progress toward a lattice QCD determination of the $V_{ub}$​ matrix element from a novel transition — the B → π π l 𝜈 process\, where the π π system is in a P-wave and features the ρ(770) resonance as an enhancement. The calculation is performed an ensemble with $N_f​=2+1$ isotropic clover fermions wiht $L≈3.6$ fm and a pion mass of 320 MeV; for the b-quark we use the anisotropic clover action. After a brief overview of the theoretical framework\, I will discuss some preliminary results.\nhttps://indico.ijs.si/event/1548/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/jonathan-kriewald-tba/
LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (Zoom)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230112T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230112T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221121T131149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T165730Z
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SUMMARY:[Biophysics journal club] Urška Andrenšek: "Muscular hydraulics drive larva-polyp morphogenesis"
DESCRIPTION:The meeting will take place in the seminar room of physics (room 106).
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/biophysics-journal-club-urska-andrensek/
LOCATION:Seminar room of physics (106)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230112T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230112T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221103T105713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230112T111051Z
UID:5504-1673522100-1673525700@web-f1.ijs.si
SUMMARY:Maciej Kierkla: Conformal model for gravitational waves and dark matter. A status update
DESCRIPTION:We present an updated analysis of the first-order phase transition associated with symmetry breaking in the early Universe in a classically scale-invariant model extended with a new SU(2) gauge group.\nIncluding recent developments in understanding supercooled phase transitions\, we compute all of its characteristics and significantly constrain the parameter space. We then predict gravitational-wave spectra generated during this phase transition and by computing the signal-to-noise ratio we conclude that this model is well testable (and falsifiable) with LISA. We also provide predictions for the relic dark matter abundance. It is consistent with observations in a rather narrow part of the parameter space\, as we exclude the so-called supercool dark matter scenario based on an improved description of percolation and reheating after the phase transition as well as inclusion of the running of couplings.\nFinally\, we pay special attention to renormalisation-scale dependence of the results and even though our main results are obtained with the use of renormalisation-group improved effective potential\, we also present the outcome of a fixed-scale analysis. It proves that the dependence on the scale is not only qualitative but also quantitative.\nhttps://indico.ijs.si/event/1555/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/maciej-kierkla-conformal-model-for-gravitational-waves-and-dark-matter-a-status-update/
LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (F1 tea room)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230110T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230110T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221223T184118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T081419Z
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SUMMARY:[Biophysics seminar] Jan Rozman: "Shape-tension coupling produces nematic order in an epithelium vertex model"
DESCRIPTION:We study the vertex model for epithelial tissue mechanics extended to include coupling between the cell shapes and tensions in cell-cell junctions. This coupling represents an active force which drives the system out of equilibrium and leads to the formation of nematic order interspersed with prominent\, long-lived +1 defects. The defects in the nematic ordering are coupled to the shape of the cell tiling\, affecting cell areas and coordinations. This intricate interplay between cell shape\, size\, and coordination provides a possible mechanism by which tissues could spontaneously develop long-range polarity through local mechanical forces without resorting to long-range chemical patterning.\n\n\nThe seminar will take place in the tearoom of the F1 department.
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/biophysics-seminar-jan-rozman-shape-tension-coupling-produces-nematic-order-in-an-epithelium-vertex-model/
LOCATION:F1  tearoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230105T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20230105T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221121T131059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230103T142126Z
UID:6149-1672927200-1672930800@web-f1.ijs.si
SUMMARY:[Biophysics journal club] Domen Vaupotič: "Elastic properties and shape of the Piezo dome underlying its mechanosensory function"
DESCRIPTION:We will be discussing the following paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2208034119 (“Elastic properties and shape of the Piezo dome underlying its mechanosensory function”).\n\n\nThe meeting will take place in the seminar room of physics (106).
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/biophysics-seminar-domen-vaupotic/
LOCATION:Seminar room of physics (106)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221222T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221222T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221026T095034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221220T101627Z
UID:5318-1671707700-1671711300@web-f1.ijs.si
SUMMARY:Jure Zupan: TBA
DESCRIPTION:https://indico.ijs.si/event/1549/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/jure-zupan-tba/
LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (F1 tea room)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221220T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221220T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221110T105628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221220T143651Z
UID:5765-1671530400-1671552000@web-f1.ijs.si
SUMMARY:6th Trilateral meeting
DESCRIPTION:The trilateral meetings are a series of one day events designed to strengthen the scientific relations in particle\, astroparticle physics and cosmology between Trieste\, Nova Gorica and Ljubljana.\nThe 6th event will take place at the Jožef Stefan Institut in Ljubljana.\nThe program:\n	09:30 — 10:00: Welcome Coffee\n	10:15 — 11:00: Aleks Smolkovič: “Smelli Tails: Rare $b$ decays and high-mass Drell-Yan in the SMEFT” (35′ + 10′) \n	11:00 — 12:00: LHCb CERN Seminar ($R_K$ update) (indico here)\n	12:00 — 14:00: Lunch\n	14:00 — 14:30: Coffee\n	14:30 — 15:15: Jan Hajer: “Pseudo-Dirac heavy neutrinos in low scale seesaw models” (35′ + 10′)\n	15:15 — 16:00: Jure Zupan: “Neutrino polarizability” (35′ + 10′)\nOrganizing committee:\n	Aleksandr Azatov (SISSA)\n	Nejc Košnik (IJS)\n	Jonathan Kriewald (IJS)\n	David Marzocca (INFN)\n	Miha Nemevšek (IJS)\n	Andrea Romanino (SISSA)\n	Michele Tammaro (IJS)\n	Lorenzo Ubaldi (Uni Genova & INFN)\n	Gabrijela Zaharijas (UNG)\nPast meetings\n	Trieste Meeting\, Thursday 23 Jun 2022\, at IFPU\n	Nova Gorica meeting\, 15 September 2021 at Vipava\n	Ljubljana meeting\, 16 December 2021 at IJS\n	Trieste meeting\, 5 February 2020\, at IFPU\n	Ljubljana meeting\, 17 October 2019\, at IJS\n \nhttps://indico.ijs.si/event/1559/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/6th-trilateral-meeting/
LOCATION:Velika predavalnica IJS (IJS)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221212T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221213T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20220930T080832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T082430Z
UID:5269-1670839200-1670940000@web-f1.ijs.si
SUMMARY:16th Xmas Biophysics Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The 16th Xmas Biophysics Workshop returns the series to the old tracks and will take place on December 12th and 13th at Elegans Hotel in Brdo\, Slovenia. The workshop traditionally brings together researchers in biophysics from Croatia\, Italy\, Austria\, Slovenia\, and other countries in the region. \n  \nVisit the workshop webpage for program\, registration\, and other details: xbw2022.ijs.si
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/16th-xmas-biophysics-workshop/
LOCATION:Elegans Hotel Brdo\, Predoslje 39\, Kranj\, 4000\, Slovenia
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221208T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221208T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221124T094426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T105829Z
UID:6233-1670498100-1670501700@web-f1.ijs.si
SUMMARY:Fotis Koutroulis: Thermal effects in Ising Cosmology
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nWe consider a real scalar field in de Sitter background and compute its thermal propagators. Using arguments from holography we propose\, in a dS/CFT context\, that non-trivial thermal effects as seen by an ‘out’ observer can be encoded in the anomalous dimensions of the d = 3 Ising model. One of these anomalous dimensions\, the critical exponent η\, fixes completely a number of cosmological observables and is almost entirely responsible for the deviation of the cosmological spectral index nS of scalar fluctuations from unity.\nA connection with standard Inflation may be possible at the late time regimes where the time-dependent part of the field dominates.\nhttps://indico.ijs.si/event/1570/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/davide-dal-cin-planck-scale-physics-and-the-peccei-quinn-inflation-model/
LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (Zoom)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221208T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221208T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221026T095033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221128T073345Z
UID:5315-1670498100-1670501700@web-f1.ijs.si
SUMMARY:Emmanuel Ortiz Pacheco: TBA
DESCRIPTION:https://indico.ijs.si/event/1487/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/emmanuel-ortiz-pacheco-tba/
LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (Zoom)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221201T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221201T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221026T095032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221201T111131Z
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SUMMARY:Axel Maas:  New effects in precision Brout-Englert-Higgs physics
DESCRIPTION:Since more than 40 years several formal results hinted for additional effects beyond perturbation theory even at weak coupling in theories with a Brout-Englert-Higgs effects. In this talk analytical and lattice results are presented for processes\, like vector boson scattering and lepton colliders\, demonstrating that these effects are present and possibly detectable in experiments. Furthermore\, in many BSM scenarios the same effects yield qualitative\, rather than quantitative consequences\, as will be briefly surveyed.\nhttps://indico.ijs.si/event/1506/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/axel-maas-new-effects-in-precision-brout-englert-higgs-physics/
LOCATION:Z9/0-0 – F1 čajnica (Jamova)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221130T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221130T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
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LAST-MODIFIED:20221129T182855Z
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SUMMARY:[Biophysics seminar] Matej Kanduč: "What can we learn from chicken eggs about polymer transitions?"
DESCRIPTION:Polymer brushes with stimuli-responsive properties have attracted substantial research interest in the past few years\, as they offer a wealth of opportunities to design materials that trigger structural and physico-chemical changes as a response to applied external stimuli. I will discuss our current experimental/theoretical study on conformational changes in nonionic polymer brushes induced by hydrostatic pressure and temperature variations. Interestingly\, we can learn a lot about these polymers from our everyday food – eggs.\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/biophysics-seminar-matej-kanduc-proteins-polymer-transitions/
LOCATION:F1  tearoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221124T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221124T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20220929T071957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221121T130958Z
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SUMMARY:[Biophysics journal club] Veronika Bukina: "Packaging-signal mediated assembly of phage MS2"
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URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/biophysics-journal-club-veronika-bukina/
LOCATION:Seminar room of physics (106)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221124T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221124T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221026T095032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221124T111106Z
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SUMMARY:Davide Dal Cin: Planck-Scale Physics and the Peccei-Quinn inflation model
DESCRIPTION:The radial direction of the Peccei–Quinn field can drive cosmic inflation\, given a non-minimal coupling to gravity. This scenario has been considered to be capable of explaining inflation\, the strong $CP$ problem\, and dark matter. We argue that Peccei–Quinn inflation is extremely sensitive to higher-dimensional operators. Further combining with the discussion on the axion quality required to solve the strong $CP$ problem\, we examine the validity of this scenario. We also show that a resonant amplification of the axion field is unavoidable after Peccei–Quinn inflation.\nhttps://indico.ijs.si/event/1501/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/davide-dal-cin-tba/
LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (Zoom)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221121T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221121T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221115T135751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221121T111809Z
UID:5989-1669029300-1669032900@web-f1.ijs.si
SUMMARY:Martín Novoa-Brunet: Probing CP violation in semi-leptonic b-decays through time-evolution
DESCRIPTION:We discuss the role of time-dependent observables in probing CP-violation in b –> s l+ l- and b –> s nu nubar decays. We identify a set of new observables by looking at the time evolution of the differential decay rate of B_d\,s –> P(S) l+ l- and B_{d\,s} –> P(V) nu nubar where the interference of B_{d\,s}-barB_{d\,s} meson mixing and decay is probed. We show that these observables do not require a time-dependent analysis but could be obtained by time-integrated or time-asymmetries if flavour tagging is available. \nThese observables are precisely predicted in the SM\, are unaffected by NP in models with real contributions to SM and chirally flipped operators\, are independent of form factors and are unaffected by hadronic uncertainties. They are however sensitive probes of NP scenarios involving new CP-odd phases.\nhttps://indico.ijs.si/event/1563/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/martin-novoa-brunet-tba/
LOCATION:Z9/0-0 – F1 čajnica (Jamova)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221117T141500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221117T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221115T113820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221115T113820Z
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SUMMARY:[Biophysics Journal Club] Matej Krajnc: "Modeling epithelial tissues as active-elastic sheets"
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URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/biophysics-journal-club-matej-krajnc-modeling-epithelial-tissues-as-active-elastic-sheets/
LOCATION:Seminar room of physics (106)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221117T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221117T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221026T095031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221117T102927Z
UID:5312-1668683700-1668686400@web-f1.ijs.si
SUMMARY:Tim Höhne: Vector-like Fermion Portals into Higgs Stability
DESCRIPTION:We address the notorious metastability of the standard model (SM) Higgs potential and promote it to a model building task: What are the new ingredients required to stabilize the SM up to the Planck scale without encountering subplanckian Landau poles? Using the SM extended by vector-like fermions\, we chart out the corresponding landscape of Higgs stability. We find that the gauge portal mechanism\, triggered by new SM charge carriers\, opens up sizeable room for stability in a minimally invasive manner.\nWe also find models with Yukawa portals into Higgs stability opening up at stronger coupling. Several models allow for vector-like fermions in the TeV-range\, which can be searched for at the LHC. For nontrivial flavor structure of Yukawa couplings severe FCNC constraints arise which complement those from stability\, and push lower fermion masses up to O(10^3 TeV).\nhttps://indico.ijs.si/event/1523/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/tim-hohne-tba/
LOCATION:Z9/0-0 – F1 čajnica (Jamova)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221114T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221114T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221103T131945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T111555Z
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SUMMARY:Luiz Vale Silva: New physics in meson mixing
DESCRIPTION:The mixing of neutral mesons has been playing a key role in the formulation and testing of the Standard Model. It is also sensitive to some of the highest Beyond the Standard Model scales probed in laboratory experiments. In light of the planned LHCb Upgrades\, Belle~II and its possible upgrade\, and the broad interest in flavour physics in the tera-$Z$ phase of the proposed FCC-$e e$ program\, I discuss constraints on New Physics contributions to $B_d$ and $B_s$ mixing which can be obtained in these benchmark scenarios. Then\, I discuss the leading-order renormalization of double-insertions of dimension-6 four-fermion operators that change quark flavor by one unit (i.e.\, $ | Delta F | = 1 $\, $ F = $ strange-\, charm-\, or bottom-flavor)\, by dimension-8 operators relevant to meson mixing (i.e.\, $ | Delta F | = 2 $) in SMEFT\, setting then bounds on the Wilson coefficients of operators of dimension-6.\nhttps://indico.ijs.si/event/1556/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/luiz-vale-silva-tba-2/
LOCATION:Z9/0-0 – F1 čajnica (Jamova)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221110T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221110T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20220929T071857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221103T075126Z
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SUMMARY:[Biophysics seminar] Maria Pedrosa Bustos: "Langmuir monolayers as membrane models to study anticancer drugs"
DESCRIPTION:When designing novel anticancer drugs\, it is crucial to analyze how they interact with cell membranes. For this purpose\, Langmuir monolayers have been widely used to mimic half of a cell membrane under controlled conditions. In this study\, healthy and tumor cell membranes are emulated using different mixtures of phospholipids and cholesterol. Their interaction with a model anticancer drug (curcumin) is analyzed experimentally by means of a Langmuir through. These studies are complemented by molecular dynamics simulations\, which offer additional molecular-level insight into the drug-monolayer interactions.\n\n\nThe meeting will take place in the tearoom of the F1 department.
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/biophysics-seminar-maria-pedrosa-bustos-langmuir-monolayers/
LOCATION:F1  tearoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221110T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Ljubljana:20221110T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T235411
CREATED:20221107T000051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221110T105625Z
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SUMMARY:Sašo Grozdanov: Journal club on "Noninvertible Global Symmetries in the Standard Model"
DESCRIPTION:Journal club presentation by Sašo Grozdanov on Y. Choi\, H. T. Lam\, S.-H. Shao\, Noninvertible Global Symmetries in the Standard Model\, Phys. Rev. Lett.\, 129\, 161601 (2022)\n \nhttps://indico.ijs.si/event/1558/
URL:https://web-f1.ijs.si/event/saso-grozdanov-journal-club-on-noninvertible-global-symmetries-in-the-standard-model/
LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (Zoom)
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