Events

Upcoming events for all programs and departments in the Division of Science for the next week.
Goldford -- The Emergence and Evolution of Metabolic Networks

March 24, 2023

Friday, 3/24/2023 11:10 am-12:10 pm Rosenstiel 118
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Joshua Goldford (Physics of Living Systems, MIT, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech)
"The Emergence and Evolution of Metabolic Networks"
Host: Niels Bradshaw.

Huang & Maunu -- Math Faculty Undergraduate Research Talks

March 24, 2023

Friday, 3/24/2023 12:30 pm-1:30 pm Goldsmith 300
Math Faculty Undergraduate Research Talks
Prof. An Huang (Brandeis University)
"Are certain arithmetic questions optimization problems in disguise?"
Prof. Tyler Maunu (Brandeis University)
"Recovering Structured Matrices"
Host: Math UDRs Lucca Raabe and Nicole Meng. Contact Catherine Broderick (cbroderi@brandeis.edu) for more information.
Pizza will be served.

Bates & Clements -- Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars

March 24, 2023

Friday, 3/24/2023 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123/Online
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars
Sam Bates (Sengupta Lab)
Kelsey Clements (Griffith Labs)
Please contact bioevents@brandeis.edu for zoom password.

Holy -- Towards a system-wide understanding of olfactory receptive fields

March 27, 2023

Monday, 3/27/2023 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124/Online
Neurobiology Journal Club
Tim Holy (Department of Neuroscience, Washington University Science of Medicine St. Louis)
"Towards a system-wide understanding of olfactory receptive fields" See: https://sites.wustl.edu/holylab/

Tuesday, 3/28/23, -- Combinatorics Seminar

Tuesday, 3/28/2023
Combinatorics Seminar

Stine -- Thesis Seminar

March 28, 2023

Tuesday, 3/28/2023 8:30 am-9:30 am Virtual/Online
Thesis Seminar:
Charles Stine (Advisor: Daniel Ruberman)
"TBD"

López -- Entwinement and bulk reconstruction in AdS3/CFT2

March 28, 2023

Tuesday, 3/28/2023 11:10 am-12:10 pm Abelson 333
Quantum/Gravity Seminar
Alejandro Vilar López (Brussels U., PTM)
"Entwinement and bulk reconstruction in AdS3/CFT2"

Holy -- Spatial topography in olfaction

March 28, 2023

Tuesday, 3/28/2023 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123/Online
Joint Biology/Neuroscience Colloquium
Tim Holy (Department of Neuroscience, Washington University Science of Medicine St. Louis)
"Spatial topography in olfaction" See: https://sites.wustl.edu/holylab/
Host: Sacha B. Nelson.
For more information or the zoom password, please contact Cathy Lauinger at clauinger@brandeis.edu

Vasu Tewari -- Combinatorics of forest polynomials

March 28, 2023

Tuesday, 3/28/2023 1 pm-2 pm Goldsmith 300
Combinatorics Seminar
Vasu Tewari (University of Hawaii)
"Combinatorics of forest polynomials"
Host: Oliver Bernardi, Te Cao, Shizhe Liang.

Francesco Lin -- Homology cobordism and the geometry of hyperbolic three-manifolds

March 28, 2023

Tuesday, 3/28/2023 2:15 pm-3:15 pm Goldsmith 317
Topology Seminar
Francesco Lin (Columbia)
"Homology cobordism and the geometry of hyperbolic three-manifolds"
Host: Carolyn Abbott, Ruth Charney, Kiyoshi Igusa, Ian Montague, Danny Ruberman.

Silverstein -- The accelerating universe and rigid Einstein manifolds

March 28, 2023

Tuesday, 3/28/2023 4 pm-5 pm Abelson 131/Online
Eisenbud Lecture Series in Mathematics and Physics
Eva M. Silverstein (Stanford University)
"The accelerating universe and rigid Einstein manifolds"
Host: Albion Lawrence.

Wednesday, 3/29/23, 11 am-12 noon -- Silverstein -- The accelerating universe and integrable deformations of quantum field theories

Wednesday, 3/29/2023 11 am-12 noon Abelson 333/Online
Eisenbud Lecture Series in Mathematics and Physics
Eva Silverstein (Stanford University)
"The accelerating universe and integrable deformations of quantum field theories"
Host: Albion Lawrence, Bong Lian.

Ryan & Penix -- Molecular Genetics Journal Club

March 29, 2023

Wednesday, 3/29/2023 11:15 am-12:05 pm Gerstenzang 124
Molecular Genetics Journal Club
Alexis Ryan (Bradshaw Lab)
Suhaily Penix (Bradshaw Lab)

Eduardo Sontag -- Some Control Theory and Dynamical Systems Ideas in Systems Biology

March 29, 2023

Wednesday, 3/29/2023 12:10 pm-1:10 pm Goldsmith 117
Mathematical BIology Seminar
Eduardo Sontag (Northeastern University)
"Some Control Theory and Dynamical Systems Ideas in Systems Biology"
Host: Kana Ishimatsu, Thomas Fai, Jonathan Touboul.

Silverstein -- Optimization and sampling from energy-conserving Hamiltonian dynamical systems

March 30, 2023

Thursday, 3/30/2023 10 am-11 am Abelson 333/Online
Eisenbud Lecture Series in Mathematics and Physics
Eva Silverstein (Stanford University)
"Optimization and sampling from energy-conserving Hamiltonian dynamical systems"
Host: Albion Lawrence, Bong Lian.

Holy -- The Julia programming language: features, status, and why neuroscientists might care

March 30, 2023

Thursday, 3/30/2023 11:15 am-12:15 pm Volen 201
Computational/Systems Neuroscience Journal Club
Tim Holy (Department of Neuroscience, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis)
"The Julia programming language: features, status, and why neuroscientists might care" See: https://sites.wustl.edu/holylab/

Akshat Das -- Dynamics and Number Theory

March 30, 2023

Thursday, 3/30/2023 12:10 pm-1:10 pm Goldsmith 117
Dynamics and Number Theory
Akshat Das (University of Connecticut)
"TBA"
Host: Dmitry Kleinbock, Lam Pham.

Rosa -- Brain-Computer Interfaces

March 31, 2023

Friday, 3/31/2023 10 am-11 am Volen 201/Online
Computer Science Seminar
Prof. João Luis Rosa (Visiting Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, UMass Lowell)
"Brain-Computer Interfaces"
Host: Tim Hickey.

Pranske & Gray -- Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars

March 31, 2023

Friday, 3/31/2023 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Gerstenzang 123/Online
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars
Zach Pranske (Paradis Lab)
Thomas Gray (Katz Lab)
Please contact bioevents@brandeis.edu for zoom password.

Hosted Bernardi -- Mathematics Undergradute Curriculum and Orientation Event

March 31, 2023

Friday, 3/31/2023 12:45 pm-1:45 pm Virtual/Online
Mathematics Undergraduate Curriculum and Orientation Event
Hosted by Olivier Bernardi (Brandeis University)
"Mathematics Undergradute Curriculum and Orientation Event"
Host: Olivier Bernardi, Mathematics Faculty.