Seminars and Colloquia by Series

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 10:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Christine HeitschGeorgia Tech
A discussion of the paper "Module networks: identifying regulatory modules and their condition-specific regulators from gene expression data" by Segal et al (2003).

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 10:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Christine HeitschGeorgia Tech
A discussion of the papers "Getting started in probabilistic graphical models" by Airoldi (2007) and "Inferring cellular networks using probabilistic graphical models" by Friedman (2004).

Workshop on Internet Topology and Economics

Series
Other Talks
Time
Monday, November 12, 2012 - 09:00 for 8 hours (full day)
Location
Klaus 1116
Speaker
Workshop on Internet Topology and EconomicsARC, Yandex Corporation, Institute for Data and High Performance Computing
The workshop begins on November 12 with three 1-hour tutorial lectures and continues with morning and afternoon sessions until November 14. The aim of this workshop is to bring together these different communities from research (Internet Topology Measurement, Economics, Theoretical Computer Science, Network Science) and related industry (ISPs, Content Providers, CDNs etc.) to help narrow the gap between research and operational practice. See the complete program, list of speakers and register to attend.

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 10:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Emily RogersGeorgia Tech
A discussion of the paper "Genetic network inference: from co-expression clustering to reverse engineering" by P. D'haeseleer, S. Liang, and R. Somogyi (Bioinformatics, 2000).

Atlanta Lecture Series in Combinatorics and Graph Theory VII

Series
Other Talks
Time
Saturday, November 3, 2012 - 13:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Emory University
Speaker
Featured Speaker Penny HaxellUniversity of Waterloo
Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University, with support from the National Security Agency and the National Science Foundation, are hosting a series of 9 mini-conferences from November 2010 - April 2013. The seventh in the series will be held at Emory University on November 3-4, 2012. This mini-conference's featured speaker is Dr. Penny Haxell, who will give two one-hour lectures. Additionally, there will be five one-hour talks and seven half-hour talks given by other invited speakers. See all titles, abstracts, and schedule.

Prospective Student Day

Series
Other Talks
Time
Friday, November 2, 2012 - 14:00 for 3.5 hours
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
John EtnyreSchool of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
This will be an afternoon event, and light refreshments will be served. Students will visit our school, hear about graduate degree options available in the School of Mathematics, learn about requirements for admission, as well as meet our faculty and current graduate students. Check the schedule of events.

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 10:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
David MurrugarraGeorgia Tech
A discussion of the paper "Boolean network models of cellular regulation: prospects and limitations" by Bornholdt (2008).

Nonlinear Mechanics, Morphology and Instability of Thin Structures

Series
Other Talks
Time
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 13:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Speaker
Zi ChenWashington University in St. Louis

Please Note: Speaker's Bio. Host: David Hu, School of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical forces play a key role in the shaping of versatile morphologies of thin structures in natural and synthetic systems. The morphology and deformation of thin ribbons, plates and rods and their instabilities are systematically investigated, through both theoretical modeling and table-top experiments. An elasticity theory combining differential geometry and stationarity principles is developed for the spontaneous bending and twisting of ribbons with tunable geometries in presence of mechanical anisotropy. Closed-form predictions are obtained from this theory with no adjustable parameters, and validated with simple, table-top experiments that are in excellent agreement with the theoretical predictions. For large deformation of ribbons and plates, a more general theory is developed to account for mechanical instability (slap-bracelet type) induced by geometric nonlinearity, due to the competition between inhomogeneous bending and mid-plane stretching energy. This comprehensive, reduced parameter model leads to unique predictions about multistability that are validated with a series of table-top experiments. Furthermore, this study has been extended to interpret a different type of snap-through instability that the Venus flytrap has been actively employing to capture insects for millions of years, and the learnt principle is used to guide the design of bio-mimetic flytrap robot.

Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 10:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
David MurrugarraGeorgia Tech
A discussion of the paper "External Control in Markovian Genetic Regulatory Networks" by Datta et al (2003).

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