Past Events
May 15, 2013
Justin Kinney, Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory
Title: "Quantum field theories for modeling biochemical systems"
May 08, 2013
Raul Kulkarni, Umass Boston
Title: "Stochastic gene expression and queueing theory: analytical results and application"
April 25, 2013
Women in Science Seminar
Thseh-Hwan Yong, Threla Cosmetics
Title: Science Entrepreneurship
April 17, 2013
Art of Science Lecture Series
Debbie Chacra, Professor, Olin College of Engineering
Info at: http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/wgs/news/womeninscience.html
April 10, 2013
IGERT Seminar
Claudio Chamon, Boston University
"Renyi entropies as a measure of the complexity of counting problems"
March 20, 2013
IGERT Seminar
Pietro Dindo, University of Pisa
Title: "Evolution and market behavior with endogenous rules"
Paper1: http://www.brandeis.edu/igert/images/documents/pietro2011.pdf
Paper2: http://www.brandeis.edu/igert/images/documents/pietro2012b.pdf
March 13, 2013
Art of Science Lecture Series
Dianna Dabby, Professor, Olin College of Engineering
Title: "Creating Musical Variation - from Chaos"
Info at: http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/wgs/news/womeninscience.html
February 06, 2013
IGERT Seminar
Olivier Bernardi, Brandeis University, Dept. of Mathematics
Title: "Random colored lattices"
October 28, 2012
IGERT Seminar
Tom Butler, MIT
Title: "Universal Critical Dynamics in High Resolution Neuronal Avalanche Data"
October 24, 2012
IGERT Seminar
Royce Zia, Virginia Tech
Title: "Survival of the Weakest? Lessons from studies of many competing species in general and four cyclic competitor in particular"
October 03, 2012
IGERT Seminar
Tony Ng, Dept. of Neuroscience, Brandeis University.
Title: "Criticality in neuronal networks: Existing evidence and models"
September 19, 2012
IGERT Seminar
Blake Stacey, Dept. of Physics, Brandeis University
"Community Formation in Nonequilibrium Spatial Ecosystems"
July 03, 2012
IGERT Seminar
Debashish Chowdhury, Physics Dep., Indian Institute of Technology
"Stochastic kinetics of template-directed bio-polymerization: machines and mechanisms"
April 25, 2012
IGERT Seminar
Taylor Hughes, UIUC
"Torsion and Viscosity in Condensed Matter Physics"
April 18, 2012
IGERT Seminar
Dr. Alvaro Sanchez, MIT
"Evolution and ecology in a feedback loop: consequences of social and antisocial behavior in microbial communities"
April 04, 2012
IGERT Seminar
Jordan Pollack, Brandeis University (Computer Science)
"Beyond Competition: Progress in Co-evolutionary Learning"
March 21, 2012
IGERT Seminar
Susan Coppersmith, U. of Wisconsin, Madison
"Quantum random walks of interacting particles and the graph isomorphism problem."
March 14, 2012
IGERT Seminar
Patrick Hayden, McGill University
"Towards the fast scrambling conjecture"
March 07, 2012
IGERT Seminar
Matthew Headrick, Brandeis University
"Some basic aspects of quantum information theory"
March 05, 2012
IGERT Seminar
Takashi Odagaki, Dept. of Physics, Tokyo Denki University
"The 99%: Who is to blame?"
February 24, 2012
IGERT Seminar
David Sivak, Lawrence Berkley national Laboratory
"The 99%: Who is to blame?"
February 15, 2012
IGERT Seminar
Albion Lawrence, Brandeis University
"An Introduction to Information and Entropy"
December 07, 2011
IGERT Seminar
Max Bi, Brandeis University
"The statistical mechanics of granular matter"
December 01, 2011
Eisenbud Lecture 2
Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research New England
"The Mathematics of Dynamic Random Networks"
Eisenbud Lecture 1
Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research New England
"The Mathematics of Dynamic Random Networks"
November 16, 2011
IGERT Seminar
Matthew Graham, Brandeis University
"Knots, invariants and how a low dimensional geometric topologist thinks"
November 9, 2011
IGERT Seminar
David Lazer, Northeastern University
"How we think together: the role of networks in collective problem solving"
October 19, 2011
IGERT Seminar
Paul Miller, Brandeis University
"Leaning to solve cognitive tasks: global function from local rules"