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	Home  ▶ People   Current   Executive Committee   Postdocs   Visitors   Students   Research   Publications  ▶ Conferences   Workshops   Sponsorship  ▶ Talks   Seminars   Postdoc Seminars Archive   Quantum Lunch   Quantum Lunch Archive   P/T Colloquia   Archive   Ulam Scholar     Postdoc Nominations  ▶ Student Requests   Student Program  ▶ Visitor Requests   Description   Past Visitors  ▶ Services   General     History of CNLS     Maps, Directions   CNLS Office   T-Division   LANL				Thursday, April 07, 20112:00 PM - 2:45 PMCNLS Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 1690) Postdoc Seminar Thermomechanics of DNA Cristiano NisoliT-4 and CNLS A theory for thermomechanical behavior of homogeneous DNA at thermal equilibrium predicts critical temperatures for denaturation under torque and stretch, phase diagrams for stable B–DNA, supercoiling, optimally stable torque, and the overstretching transition as force-induced DNA melt- ing. Agreement with available single molecule manipulation experiments is excellent. Host: Peter Loxley, loxley@lanl.gov