The 2013 Summer LASSP Theory Talks will be Thursdays from June 27th to August 15th.

Each summer graduate students in Biophysics and related fields present their research at the Biophysics Summer Seminar. Each talk will be 30 minutes. We plan 2 talks per meeting and will meet Wednesdays starting June 26th in Clark 700.

Chair of the series is Prof. Brian Crane.

Speakers by date:

6/26/2013

Faculty Welcome

Riccardo Comin from the Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia presents:

CORRELATED PHYSICS AND CHARGE-ORDERED GROUND STATES IN 3D- AND 5D-OXIDES

Abstract:

Dr. Bin Liu from Brown University, School of Engineering presents: Cell-kinematics and the swimming motility of an individual bacterium.

Host: Itai Cohen.

Actor, director and writer Alan Alda will give a public
lecture on Communicating Science.

LASSP and A&EP Seminar by Jeremy England, MIT.

Sergio Grinstein from the University of Toronto gives a talk titled Imaging phagocytosis: receptors, signaling and the cytoskeleton.

Note: location changed to 401 Physical Science Building.

LASSP and A&EP Seminar by Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Center.

Eric Betzig from Howard Hughes Medical Institute presents the Biophysics Colloquium.

Title: Pushing the Envelope in Biological Fluorescence Microscopy

LASSP and A&EP Seminar by Srinivas Raghu, Stanford University.