THE CENTER FOR STUDIES IN PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY

Current seminar series

Seminars are usually held on Tuesdays at 4.00pm in Smith Hall Annex B-level conference room. They are preceded by tea at 3.30pm only for talks which occur on a Tuesday. Members of the academic community from Rockefeller University and beyond are welcome.

2006 seminar organizers:

Amos Tanay, (212) 327-8835, fax (212) 327-8544, atanay@rockefeller.edu
Maria Geffen, (212) 327-8835, fax (212) 327-8544, mgeffen@rockefeller.edu

past talks: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, Spring 2005, 2005/6

2006/7

Sep. 12 -host: N.Buchler
Steve Busby, University of Birmingham
Regulation at simple and complex bacterial promoters

Sep. 19 -host: E.Siggia
Sharad Ramanathan, Harvard
TBD

Sep. 26 -host: A. Libchaber
Paul Chaikin, NYU
Hard Packing Problems: Spheres, Ellipsoids, Tetrahedra; Colloids, Candies, Dice

Sep. 28 (note - Thursday!) -host: M.Geffen
Tony Zador, CSHL
TBD

Oct. 3 -host: M.Feigenbaum
Jerry Gollub, Haverford College and University of Pennsylvania
Origins of Irreversibility in Fluid Dynamics: Chaotic Particle Interactions and Chaotic Mixing

Oct. 10 -host: A.Tanay
Bruce Lahn, University of Chicago
TBD

Oct. 12 (note Thursday 4pm!!) -host: A. Morozov
Alexei Finkelstein, Institute for Protein Research, Moscow, Russia
Key problems of protein folding in nature and in silico

Oct. 17 -host: E.Siggia
Jim Sethna, Cornell
TBD

Oct. 24 -host: M.Geffen
Shihab Shamma, University of Maryland College Park
TBD

Oct. 31 -host: M.Geffen
Eve Marder, Brandeis
TBD

Nov. 7 -host: M.Geffen
Cynthia Moss
University of Maryland, College Park

Nov. 14 -host: A.Tanay
Rotem Sorek, LBNL
TBD

Nov. 21 -host: A.Tanay
Eric Alm, MIT
TBD

Dec. 5 -host: A.Tanay
Andrew Capaldi, Harvard
TBD

Dec. 12 -host: S.Leibler
Michael Mackey, McGill University
TBD

Further ahead:

Jan. 16 -host: E.Siggia
Ravi Iyengar, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
TBD

Mar. 13 -host: A.Tanay
Trey Ideker, UCSD
TBD

Apr. 17 -host: M.Geffen
Gilles Laurent, Caltech
TBD