Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "The Rise and Fall of Fishes: How Macroecology and Global Events Shape Vertebrate Evolution"
Lauren Sallan, University of Michigan
Biological evolution was originally understood as a gradual, internally-driven process, and standing biodiversity entirely the result of the slow accumulation of positive changes. It is now clear that macroevolution…
Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Life and Death in a Petersham Cemetery: Dispersal and Demography Among the Fungi"
Anne Pringle, Harvard University
Fungi are uniquely organized biological systems: apparently immortal, growing with modular and indeterminate body architectures, and able to use a range of seemingly unusual genetic mechanisms, including…
Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Laboratory experiments on the linguistic consequences of communicative interaction"
Gareth Roberts, Yeshiva University
If enough people take the same shortcut across a lawn, their footsteps will eventually create a path marking the route. While such a path certainly results from human action, it is not deliberately designed in the…
Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Analysis of Organic Biomarkers Using Integrated Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis Systems for In Situ Extraterrestrial Investigations"
Amanda Stockton, California Institute of Technology
Microcapillary electrophoresis (CE) coupled with laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detection enables rapid, automated, and extremely sensitive analyses of organic biomarkers (down to 70 pM or sub pptr). I present…
Undergraduate Physics Club
Professor C. Johnson
Professor Johnson, Physics Department's Chair of Undergraduate Affairs. Join us for his talk on the exciting work in experimental condensed matter…
Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Human development and naturalistic social interactions in chimpanzees: Understanding prosociality in the human lineage"
Bailey House, MPI Leipzig
Both evolved adaptations and acquired information likely shape cooperation in many social animals. As such, to resolve the origins of human prosociality we must learn how uniquely human capacities for cultural…
Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar
Daniel Scolnic (Johns Hopkins University)
High Energy Theory
Matthew Williams (McMaster)
Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Cheaters and collaborators: the evolution of cooperative animal societies"
Christina Riehl, Harvard University
Most social animals live in family groups, in which cooperation is thought to be partly maintained by kin selection. But how do cooperative interactions evolve among unrelated individuals? Theory predicts that such…