- SCIENCE AT THE EDGE -

Traditionally distinct scientific disciplines are merging to create new opportunities. Share the excitement and challenge through seminars and discussions with nationally recognized pioneers in science at the edge.

Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series:
Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars, Engineering Seminars, and Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminars.

Fall Semester 2010 Michigan State University
Seminars begin at 11:30 a.m. Fridays,  with refreshments served at 11:15 a.m.
 
Seminars are in Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building (unless noted otherwise)
 
Friday, September 3 Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar
  Jason Mezey, Dept. of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell Univ.
  Scalable Algorithms for Genome-wide Disease Locus Mapping and Gene Expression Network Analysis
 
Friday, September 10 Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar
  Jun Liu, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
  All about Interactions
 
Friday, September 17 Engineering Seminar
  Ziv Bar-Joseph, Machine Learning and Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
  Reconstructing Dynamic Regulatory Networks in Multiple Species
 
Friday, September 24 Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar
  Leah Shaw, Department of Applied Science, College of William and Mary
  Epidemic Spread and Control in Adaptive Social Networks
 
Friday, October 1 Engineering Seminar
  M. Stanley Whittingham, Departments of Chemistry and Materials Science, State University of New York at Binghamton
  Materials — The Technology Barrier to Advanced Batteries for Energy Storage
 
Friday, October 8 Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar
  John Quackenbush, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University
  Science and Science Fiction Approaches to Network Modeling
 
Friday, October 15 Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar
  Thomas LaGrange, Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  Imaging Rapid, Irreversible Phase Transformations with Nanosecond Time Resolved Transmission Electron Microscopy
 
Friday, October 22 Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar
  Petra Fromme, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University
  "Star Wars" and Photosynthesis: First Proof of Principle for Femtoscond Crystallography of Photosynthetic Proteins May Revolutionize Structural Biology
 
Friday, October 29 Engineering Seminar
  Steven Ringel, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University
  Semiconductor Lattice Engineering for Solar Cells — Addressing the High-Efficiency Low-Cost Paradox for Photovoltaic Energy Conversion
 
Friday, November 5 Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar
  Gary Stormo, Department of Genetics, Washington University
  Specificity of Protein-DNA Interactions: Experimental and Computational Approaches
 
Friday, November 12 Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar
  James Glazier, Department of Physics, Indiana University
  Multi-Cell Simulations of Biological Development and Disease
 
Friday, November 19 Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar
  Roy Welch, Department of Biology, Syracuse University
  The Genotype to Phenotype Problem: Reverse Engineering the Genetics of Pattern Formation in a Multicellular Prokaryote
 
Friday, December 3 Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar
  Robert Seiringer, Department of Mathematics, McGill University
  Hot Topics in Cold Gases — A Mathematical Physics Perspective
 
Friday, December 10 Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar
  Daniel Weinrich, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University
  Predicting Microevolutionary Trajectories in Principle and in Practice
 
    
Seminar Organizers:
 
Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars:
Lisa Lapidus, Physics & Astronomy lapidus@pa.msu.edu
Jeffrey Schenker, Mathematics jeffrey@math.msu.edu
 
Engineering Seminars:
Christina Chan, Chemical Engineering & Material Science krischan@egr.msu.edu
 
Quantitative Biology & Modeling Seminars:
David Arnosti, Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease arnosti@msu.edu
David Weliky, Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease weliky@chemistry.msu.edu

Further information on some seminars may be found at:
http://www.qbmi.msu.edu/seminars.php

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Prior semesters:    Spring 2010;   Fall 2009;   Spring 2009;   Fall 2008;   Spring 2008;   Fall 2007;  
Spring 2007;   Fall 2006;   Spring 2006;   Fall 2005;   Spring 2005;   Fall 2004;  
Spring 2004;   Fall 2003;   Spring 2003;   Fall 2002;   Fall 2001;   Spring 2001