Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
Mathematical Biology seminar: "From Cell polarity to intracellular networks in single and collective cell motility"
Leah Edelstein-Keshet (University of British Columbia)
Cell migration plays a central role in embryonic development, wound healing and immune surveillance. In 2008, Yoichiro Mori, Alexandra Jilkine and I published a model for the initial step of cell migration, the front…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Robotics as an Interface to the Natural World"
M. Ani Hsieh (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania)
Robotics and autonomous systems enable us to interact more richly and extensively with the world we live in. Robots provide in-situ monitoring of the environments they are immersed in and can adapt their strategies…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Curious Electrostatics in Concentrated Electrolytes"
Susan Perkin (Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University)
An electrolyte is a substance containing mobile ions. Electrolytes are within us and surround us at every scale: they mediate molecular processes in all living systems, they fill the phone batteries in our pockets,…
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Tiny Robots"
Mark Miskin (University of Pennsylvania)
After 50 years of Moore’s law, it’s now possible to pack nearly 1 million transistors in the space of a paramecium, enabling tiny systems for sensing, communication, and computation. This radical miniaturization of…
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "TBA"
Alessandro Vespigiani (Northeastern University)