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Seminars Fall 2009

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.

PAST SEMINARS:

Sep 16: Howard Stone, Princeton University

Cellular-Scale Hydrodynamics

Host: E. Katifori
Sep 29: Jin Wang, Stony Brook University

Potential landscape and flux framework of nonequilibrium networks: robustness, dissipation, and coherence of biochemical oscillations

Host: E. Katifori
Oct 13: Sergey V. Buldyrev, Yeshiva University

What can simple models teach us about protein folding?

Host: P. Kumar
Oct 15: Yves Couder, University of Paris Diderot

The dynamical properties of a classical wave-particle association.

Host: A. Libchaber

(4PM, coffee prior)
Oct 20: Rudi Winklbauer, University of Toronto

Mechanics of embryonic tissues: random and oriented cell motility

Host: E. Siggia
Oct 27: Wesley Wong, Rowland Institute

Single-molecule kinetics under force: probing protein folding and enzymatic activity with optical tweezers

Host: E. Katifori
Nov 03: Erel Levine, Harvard University

A unifying view of RNA regulation

Host: E. Katifori
Nov 10: Mehran Kardar, MIT

Thymic Selection of T-Cell Receptors as an Extreme Value Problem

Host: P. Kumar
Nov 17: Christopher Shera, Harvard Medical School

The Fire Within the Ear

Host: T. Reichenbach
Dec 01: Azadeh Samadani, Brandeis University

A geometric model for the chromosome architecture in the yeast nucleus

Host: E. Katifori
Dec 08: Boris Shraiman, UCSD

Evolution, sex and surfing

Host: E. Siggia
Dec 15: Cancelled!! (rescheduled for Feb 11, 2010)

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