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Complex Systems Seminar | (Soft) Matter of Life and Death: Biophysical Consequences of Death and Reproduction in Bacterial Biofilms
Peter Yunker, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Biofilms are surface attached communities formed by bacteria and other microbes. Biofilms that form in nature typically feature different...
Complex Systems & Soft Matter Group Seminar | The life and death of turbulence
Nigel Goldenfeld, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
A special seminar co-hosted by the Center for the Study of Complex Systems and the Soft Matter Group - Chemical Engineering to be held at...
Counting Invisible Ethnicities: APID/A, ME/NA and the Future of Diversity at the U-M
An estimated 1 in 5 U-M students identify as Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APID/A) and/or Middle Eastern North African (ME/NA), yet...
Complex Systems Seminar | Stephanie Forrest 'The Biology of Software: Evolution, Robustness, Diversity'
Stephanie Forrest, Professor of Computer Science, Arizona State University
Stephanie Forrest is Professor of Computer Science at Arizona State University, where she directs the Biodesign Center for Biocomputation,...
2019 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses
Dr. Donna Strickland, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy and Nobel Laureate, Physics 2018 (University of Waterloo)
With the invention of lasers, the intensity of a light wave was increased by orders of magnitude over what had been achieved with a light...
Complex Systems Seminar | Network reconstruction and community detection from dynamics
Tiago de Paula Peixoto, Department of Network and Data Science - Central European University
The observed functional behavior of a wide variety large-scale systems is often the result of a network of pairwise interactions between...
Donia Human Rights Center Distinguished Lecture. Global Challenges to Human Rights Today
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2014-18)
From refugee crises and global poverty to rigged elections, growing populism – and the intolerance and oppression it breeds, we are at a...
Professor Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, the Robert W. Parry Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics, Inaugural Lecture
Probing Membrane-Assisted Dynamic Protein-Protein Interactions by NMR
In spite of the recent developments in structural biology, membrane proteins continue to pose tremendous challenges to most biophysical...
Professor Valerie Kivelson, the Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor of History, Inaugural Lecture
Why Witchcraft & Magical Spells Give Us All the Answers to Early Modern Russian History
Early modern Russia was an autocratic state ruled by a despotic tsar and a powerful Orthodox Church. Its population was largely illiterate....
