Repeats every week every Thursday until Wed May 15 2019 .
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Northwest Building, Rm 353, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
QBS isn't another seminar. It's a place for collaboration and discussion. Speakers--alternating between faculty and students--give chalk talks and encourage questions throughout. You won't find any hour-long slide decks here, but you will find pizza, beer, and other quantitatively minded researchers from biology, physics, engineering, math, and more. Join us every Thursday evening at 5 pm to talk about interesting ideas... and maybe spark a few ideas of your own.
To sign up for the QBS announcement listserv: https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/qbs Read more about Quantitative Biology Series
Northwest Building, Rm 353, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
QBS isn't another seminar. It's a place for collaboration and discussion. Speakers--alternating between faculty and students--give chalk talks and encourage questions throughout. You won't find any hour-long slide decks here, but you will find pizza, beer, and other quantitatively minded researchers from biology, physics, engineering, math, and more. Join us every Thursday evening at 5 pm to talk about interesting ideas... and maybe spark a few ideas of your own.
To sign up for the QBS announcement listserv: https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/qbs Read more about Quantitative Biology Series
"Exploiting Cellular Decision-Making by Targeting Bioelectric Communication: A Novel Approach to Regenerative Medicine and Synthetic Bioengineering"
A remarkable fact about living bodies is that cells communicate during embryogenesis and regeneration to enable them to work together toward the construction and repair of complex anatomical structures. My lab has uncovered a powerful new component of that communication: endogenous bioelectrical signaling among all cells (not just neurons) that enables the computations required to make decisions about large-scale growth and form. We have... Read more about M LEVIN (Tufts)
Maxwell-Dworkin, Rm G115, 33 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
"The Blessings of Multiple Causes"
Causal inference from observational data is a vital problem, but it comes with strong assumptions. Most methods require that we observe all confounders, variables that correlate to both the causal variables (the treatment) and the effect of those variables (how well the treatment works). But whether we have observed all confounders is a famously untestable assumption. We describe the deconfounder, a way to do causal inference from observational data with weaker assumptions that the classical methods require.
How does the deconfounder work? While... Read more about D BLEI (Columbia)
Northwest Building, Rm 353, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
QBS isn't another seminar. It's a place for collaboration and discussion. Speakers--alternating between faculty and students--give chalk talks and encourage questions throughout. You won't find any hour-long slide decks here, but you will find pizza, beer, and other quantitatively minded researchers from biology, physics, engineering, math, and more. Join us every Thursday evening at 5 pm to talk about interesting ideas... and maybe spark a few ideas of your own.
To sign up for the QBS announcement listserv: https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/qbs Read more about Quantitative Biology Series
The PhD Track in Engineering and Physical Biology (EPB) invites you to attend their annual Symposium, being held on Saturday April 6th from 9:30am to 1:00pm in the Northwest Building, 52 Oxford St, Room B101. The event is free and open to the public. No registration is required. As in the past, this Symposium is designed to bring together students and faculty from diverse disciplines within the University and beyond.
The EPB, now in its thirteenth year, provides a path for PhD students wishing to "probe living systems...
Northwest Building, Rm 353, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
QBS isn't another seminar. It's a place for collaboration and discussion. Speakers--alternating between faculty and students--give chalk talks and encourage questions throughout. You won't find any hour-long slide decks here, but you will find pizza, beer, and other quantitatively minded researchers from biology, physics, engineering, math, and more. Join us every Thursday evening at 5 pm to talk about interesting ideas... and maybe spark a few ideas of your own.
To sign up for the QBS announcement listserv: https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/qbs Read more about Quantitative Biology Series
Pierce Hall, Rm 209, 29 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Auxetic materials have the unusual property of expanding, rather than contracting, when stretched in a particular direction. We present and illustrate a purely geometric deformation theory of expansive and auxetic behavior for periodic frameworks in Euclidean spaces of arbitrary dimension. A rich supply of designs is provided by planar periodic pseudo-triangulations, whose expansive behavior is proven via a periodic analog of Maxwell's theorem on liftings and stresses. This is joint work with Ciprian Borcea.
Speaker Bio: Ileana Streinu is the Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science... Read more about I STREINU (Smith)
