Fall 2018

  • Tue, September 25, 2018, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Wrinkles in thin solids
    Benny Davidovitch, Physics Department, UMass Amherst
  • Tue, October 30, 2018, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana
    Genetically Driven Wiring of the C. elegans Connectome
    Dániel Barabási, Biophysics Program, Harvard University
  • Tue, November 6, 2018, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Feeding on energy and information
    Erel Levine, Physics Department, Harvard, and Bioengineering Department, Northeastern
  • Tue, November 27, 2018, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    The Internet of Medical Things: Toward Implantable Ultrasonic Sensor Networks
    Tommaso Melodia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern
  • Tue, December 4, 2018, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Cardiovascular Tissue Mechanics
    Chiara Bellini, Bioengineering Department, Northeastern University

Spring 2017

  • Tue, March 7, 2017, 4 PM
    Location: 114 DA
    Modeling dense traffic on nucleic acid templates: Decoding and Recoding
    Debashish Chowdhury, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  • Tue, March 21, 2017, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Structural plasticity in the rodent brain: effects of circuit, sex, and stress
    Rebecca Shansky, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University
  • Tue, March 28, 2017, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Yielding dynamics & transient flows of Soft Glassy Materials
    Thibaut Divoux, Research Center Paul Pascal, Bordeaux, France

Fall 2017

  • Thu, September 7, 2017, 4:00 PM
    Location: 111 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Engineering Reaction-Diffusion Networks with Properties of Neural Tissue (Joint CIRCS Physics Colloquium)
    Seth Fraden , Physics Department, Brandeis
  • Tue, September 26, 2017, 4:00 PM
    Location: 111 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Growth of Nanorods – from basic science to metallic glue technology
    Hanchen Huang, MIE Department, Northeastern
  • Tue, October 3, 2017, 4:00 PM
    Location: 111 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Quantum Entanglement, Bell Inequalities and multi-player Games
    Chris King, Math Department, Northeastern University
  • Tue, October 10, 2017, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Variability, Robustness and Homeostasis in Neurons and Networks
    Eve Marder, Biology and Neuroscience Departments, Brandeis University
  • Tue, October 24, 2017, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    From Molecules to Fruiting Bodies: Bridging Scales in Biological Collective Behavior
    Allyson Sgro, Bioengineering Department, Boston University
  • Wed, October 25, 2017, CANCELLED
    Location: CANCELLED
    Inverse Morphogenesis – A Road Map to Tumor Growth
    Josef Kas, Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig University, Germany
  • Tue, October 31, 2017, 4:00 PM
    Location: 111 Dana (4:00 PM)
    From Mechanical Inference to Mechanotransduction in Epithelial Tissues
    Xingbo Yang, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
  • Tue, November 21, 2017, 4:00 PM
    Location: 111 Dana (4:00 PM)
    How animal camouflage works? Materials science and engineering lessons from squids
    Leila Deravi, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern
  • Tue, December 5, 2017, 4:00 PM
    Location: 111 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Deformation, Fracture, and Fluid Transport in Heterogeneous Materials
    Ye Xu, Beihang University
  • Fri, December 8, 2017, 2:00 PM
    Location: 111 Dana (2:00 PM)
    Modeling the shape of the developing mammalian brain
    Jennifer Schwarz , Physics Department, Syracuse University

Spring 2016

  • Tue, January 12, 2016, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    Building a Proportional Cell: Physics of Size Control
    Jane Kondev, Brandeis University
  • Tue, April 12, 2016, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana – 4:00 PM
    Principles of ribosome-mediated translational regulation
    Nikolai Slavov , Bioengineering Department, Northeastern

Fall 2016

  • Tue, October 18, 2016, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana
    Whole-brain Imaging in Freely Moving C. elegans
    Vivek Venkatachalam, Dept of Physics & Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
  • Tue, November 1, 2016, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Engineering Materials for Controlling Retinal Progenitor Cell Behavior
    Rebecca Carrier, Chemical Engineering Department, Northeastern University
  • Tue, November 8, 2016, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    SEMINAR CANCELLED
    Steve Cranford, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Northeastern
  • Tue, November 15, 2016, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Modeling the toughness of metallic glasses
    Chris Rycroft, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University
  • Tue, November 29, 2016, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Cellular waves of molecular motors and actin polymerization
    Arik Yochelis, Ben-Gurion University
  • Tue, December 6, 2016, 4:00 PM
    Location: 114 Dana (4:00 PM)
    Phosphoinositide and G protein Regulation of Inwardly Rectifying Potassium Channels
    Diomedes Logothetis, Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University