Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar
Jens Chluba (Johns Hopkins University)
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~jchluba/Science_Jens/Science_Jens.html
Department Colloquium: TBD
Carl Haber, LBL
Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Adaptive modeling of dynamic periodicity and trend with heteroscedastic and dependent errors---with clinical applications"
Hau-Tieng Wu, Stanford University
Periodicity and trend are features describing an observed sequence, and extracting these features is an important issue in many scientific fields. However, it is not an easy task for existing methods to analyze…
Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Revolving door evolution of essential DNA packaging proteins"
Mia Levine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Our genomic DNA is packaged into distinct compartments that support essential, highly conserved cellular processes. Paradoxically, the 'chromatin' proteins that establish and maintain these compartments are…
Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Hydrodynamics and collective behavior of the tethered bacterium Thiovulum majus"
Alexander Petroff, Rockefeller University
The ecology and dynamics of many microbial systems, particularly in mats and soils, are shaped by how bacteria respond to evolving nutrient gradients and microenvironments. Here we show how the response of the…
Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Identifying key processes in the evolution of language"
Christine Cuskley, Università La Sapienza
Language forms the bedrock for all of our social interactions, be they interpersonal, performative, or economic. Understanding language therefore has the potential to further our understanding of a whole host of…
Condensed Matter Seminar: "The memory of sand"
Matthieu Wyart, New York University
Complex systems are characterized by an abundance of meta-stable states. To describe such systems statistically, one must understand how states are sampled, a difficult task in general when thermal equilibrium does…
Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar
Samaya Nissanke (Caltech)
High Energy Theory Seminar
Alejandro Satz