(WAM) Seminars

Seminars are held at 3:00 PM on Tuesdays in Lyman 425.

Contact Matthieu Wyart or Heidi Schafer for more information, or if you would like to meet a speaker.
 
See Fall 2007 Seminars

SPRING 2008


January 29: Mark Henle, UCLA (Chemistry & Biochemistry Dept.)
The Effects of Curvature and Topology on Membrane Hydrodynamics

February 5: Evan Hohlfeld, Harvard University (SEAS)

Creases and the spontaneous breaking of scale-symmetry


February 12: Erel Levine, UCSD

Silence and Noise in Small RNA Regulation


February 19: Bence Ölveczky, Harvard University (MCB)

Singing in the Brain: The neurobiology of birdsong


February 26: No Seminar, Steve Block Loeb Lecture, 3:00P, J250
 

March 4: Michael Desai, Princeton University

Natural selection and the shape of diversity in asexual populations


March 11 :Greg Lakatos , Harvard University

Models of One Dimensional Biological Transport Processes


March 18: Laurent Boué , Ecole Normale Superieure

A statistical physics approach to packing problems


March 25 : Spring Break
 

April 1 : no seminar
 

April 8:Ilya Nemenman , Los Alamos National Laboratory

Systems biophysics and information processing in biological networks


April 15 :Sidney Redner , Boston University

Dynamics of Microtubule Growth and Catastrophe


April 22 :Greg Huber , University of Connecticut

The domino effect and the flagellar motor


April 29 :Petia Vlahovska , Dartmouth

Microhydrodynamics of vesicles


May 6 :Mark Bowick , Syracuse University

Curvature Driven Structure in Condensed Matter Order


May 13: no seminar

 


May 20 :Narayanan Menon , University of Massachusetts Amherst

Wrinkling, folding and crumpling of elastic sheets

 


June 3 :Stefano Zapperi , University of Modena, Italy

Dislocation avalanches, strain bursts, and the problem of plastic forming at the micron scale

 


June 10 :Mederic Argentina, University of Nice, France

Titla TBA

 


 

 

 
 

Harvard Widely Applied Mathematics (WAM) Seminars

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