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Our seminars have moved! Seminars are on Tuesdays at 4 pm in Smith Hall Annex, B-Level, Physics Library preceded by tea at 3:45, unless otherwise noted.
Upcoming Talk :
PAST SEMINARS:
1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, Spring 2005, 2005-6,
Fall 2006,
Spring 2007,
Fall 2007
January 08
-host: A. Libchaber
H. Eugene Stanley, Boston University
Water's Unsolved Mysteries: Some Recent Clues from Studies of Protein
Hydration Water and Nanoconfined Water
January 15
-host: M. Feigenbaum
Leo P. Kadanoff, University of Chicago
Computer Simulation and Prediction-- The Good the Bad and the Awful
January 22
-host: M.Geffen
Ken Miller, Columbia University
Feedforward and recurrent processing in cat primary visual cortex
January 24 (2PM, coffee prior)
-host: Eric Siggia
Justin Block Kinney, Princeton University
DNA sequence analysis in the large N limit
January 25 (2PM, coffee prior)
-host: Stan Leibler
Joao Xavier, Harvard University
Cooperation and Conflicts in Microbial Biofilms
January 28 (2PM, coffee prior)
-host: Stan Leibler
Eleni Katifori, Harvard University
Folding of Pollen Grains
January 29
-host: A.Libchaber
W. Bialek, Princeton University
Information flow in biological networks: Ingredients for a theory
January 30 (2PM, coffee prior)
-host: M. Magnasco
Sandro Azaele, Princeton University
From Dynamics of Forests to Protein Population in Cells: the Role of Stochastic Noise
February 05
-host: M. Geffen
Vijay Balasubrahmanian, University of Pennsylvania
Towards a theory of the structural and functional organization of the retina
February 12
-host: A. Libchaber
N. Seiberg, Institute for Advanced Study
The World’s Largest Experiment
February 14
-host: A. Libchaber
Jacob Klein, Weizmann Institute of Science
Molecular Origins of Biological Lubrication
February 19
-host: P. Kumar
Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
What PCA and Clustering applied to mtDNA sequences and microarray data reveal about Human Migration and Cancer
February 22 (2PM)
-host: John Agapiou
Jasmine Bailey, MRC Institute of
Hearing Research
Responses to conspecific communication
calls in Guinea pig auditory cortex
March 04
-host: P. Kumar
William Ryu, Princeton Univesity
From Temperature to Pain: thermal responses and
motor behavior of E. coli/and C. elegans
March 11
-host: M. Geffen
K. Harris, Rutgers
Stability of the fittest: organizing learning
through retroaxonal signals
March 18
-host: P. Kumar
N. N. Khuri, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Rockefeller University
Is there a fundamental length in Space-Time ?
Existing upper limits, and planned experiments exploring a new short distance domain
March 20 (2PM, coffee prior)
-host: Peter Veerman
Eric Vanden-Ejinden, Courant Institute
Transition Pathways of Rare Reactive Events
March 25
-host: J. Hudspeth
David Weitz, Harvard University
Properties of Active Biopolymer Networks as Models for Cell Mechanics
March 27
-host: Mitchell Feigenbaum
Peter Veerman, Portland State University
Flocks and Formations : ODE's coupled along graphs
April 01
-host: E.G.D. Cohen
Mark Dykman, Michigan State University
Activated Switching in Nonequilibrium Systems
April 04 (2PM, coffee prior)
-host: Peter Veerman
Michael Handel, CUNY and Lehman College
Relative Mapping Class Group Techniques in Surface Dynamics
April 08
-host: A. Libchaber
Ben Widom, Cornell University
Effect of a solute on the structure and energetics
of its solvent -- and vice versa
April 10 (2PM, coffee prior)
-host: P. Veerman
William Bialek, Princeton University
Optimization of Information Flow in Gene Regulation
April 15
-host: A. Libchaber
Jonathan Widom, Northwestern University
The Genomic Code for Nucleosome Positioning
April 15 (11:30am, Weiss Building, Rm 1223)
-host: Konstantin Goulianos
Dr. Philippe Di Stephano, Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon
Dark Matter, Cryogenic Detectors, and Earthquakes
April 17 (2PM, coffee prior)
-host: P. Veerman
Percy Deift, Courant Institute
Universality for mathematical and physical systems
April 22
-host: E. D. Siggia
Leslie Valiant, Harvard University
Biology As Computation
April 24 (2PM, coffee prior)
-host: P. Veerman
Hugo Touchette, Queen Mary College, London
Large Deviations and Statistical Mechanics
April 29
-host: M.Geffen
Joshua Tennenbaum, MIT
Finding structure in the world
May 01 (2PM, coffee prior)
-host: P. Veerman
Yuefan Deng, Stonybrook University and Brookhaven National Laboratories
Simulation of Biomolecules on Supercomputers
May 6
-host: M. Geffen
Phil Holmes
Models of legged locomotion, or How cockroaches run stably without thinking about it.
May 08 (2PM, coffee prior) -host: P. Veerman
Yakov Sinai, Princeton University
Blow-up of Complex Solutions in Fluid Dynamics
May 8 (4PM, coffee prior)
-host: Jan Skotheim
John Bush, MIT
Surface tension and wetting in biology
May 13
No Talk Today!
May 15 (2PM, coffee prior) -host: P. Veerman
Murat Arcak, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mathematical Theory of Control
May 22 (2PM, coffee prior) -host: P. Veerman
Yair Minsky, Yale University
Geometry and Rigidity
May 29 (2PM, coffee prior)
-host: P. Veerman
Gerard Ben Arous, Courant Institute
Slow Relaxation and Aging
June 05 (2PM, coffee prior)
-host: P. Veerman
Sinan Gunturk, Courant Institute
Power Series and Tilings
June 12 (2PM, coffee prior)
-host: P. Veerman
Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island (CUNY)
Knot Theory and Orbits
June 19 (2PM, coffee prior)
-host: P. Veerman
Misha Lyubich, University of Toronto and SUNY at Stony Brook
Yang-Lee zeros for diamond lattices and 2D rational dynamics
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