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1997 Egan Center Series

Previous Seminars

CIRCS Seminars for 1997

All talks are held at 3:45pm in room 114 of the Dana Research Center unless otherwise noted.
Tuesday December 9, 1997
"Propagation of a topological transition: The Rayleigh instability"
by Dr. T. Powers University of Arizona

Tuesday December 2, 1997
"Self-assembled quantum dots and electronic resonant scattering in strong magnetic fields"
by Professor S. Ulloa Ohio University

Tuesday November 3, 1997
"Pattern formation processes in lattice gas models: A dynamic mean-field approach"
by Dr. Mathis Plapp Physics Department and CIRCS
Northeastern University

Tuesday October 21th 1997
"Quantum Computing and Grover's algorithm"
by Prof. S. Gutmann Mathematics Department
Northeastern University

Tuesday October 7th 1997
"Synchronization and noise in a neuronal network model of the hippocampus"
by Dr. Paul Tiesinga Center for the Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems
Northeastern University

Tuesday, June 3rd
"Crumpled sheets and stranger things"
by Professor Eric Kramer Brandeis University, Chemistry Department

Wednesday, May 28th
"Fast Oscillations in the Cortex"
by Dr. Roger. D. Traub IBM, Yorktown Heights

Tuesday, May 27th
"Some Physics that Motile Bacteria Know"
by Professor Howard Berg Harvard University, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Tuesday, May 20th
"Human visual perception"
by Professor Adam Reeves Northeastern University, Psychology Department

Tuesday, May 13th
"Sidekick on a sliding vortex lattice"
by Professor Xinsheng Ling Brown University

Tuesday, May 6th
"What can we really say in general about complex systems?"
by Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam B.U. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering

Tuesday, April 8, 1997
"Neuromodulation and cortical memory function: Modeling the physiological basis of behavior"
by MICHAEL HASSELMO Harvard University

Tuesday, March 11, 1997
"Bulk Spin Resonance Quantum Computation"
by N. GERSHENFELD Physics and Media laboratory
MIT

Tuesday, March 4, 1997
"Structure/Function Studies of Human Apurinic Endonuclease"
by PHYLLIS STRAUSS Department of Biology
Northeastern University

Tuesday, February 25, 1997
"Gamma Oscillation of Synaptic Inhibition in Hippocampal Interneural Network Models"
by XIAO-JING WANG Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University

Tuesday, February 18, 1997
"Cellular and Network Oscillations in the Hippocampal Region"
by JOHN #000000 Department of Physiology
Boston University

Tuesday, Feb. 11th, 1997
"Quantum Computation"
by SETH LLOYD
Department of Physics
MIT

Tuesday, February 4, 1997
"Neuromagnetic Imaging"
by RON AARON Department of Physics
Northeastern University

Tuesday, January 28, 1997
"A Neural Model of Honeybee Olfaction"
by Christiane Linster Department of Psychology
Harvard University

Tuesday, January 21, 1997
"Can Ambient Noise Improve Sensory Encoding?"
by Dr. Jacob Levin Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
MIT
Tuesday, January 14, 1997
"Thermal Adaptation of Microtubule Dynamics and Motors"
by William Detrich Department of Biochemistry and Marine Biology, Northeastern University

 

Egan Seminars for 1997

All talks were held at 12:30 pm in Room 440 at the Egan Center, Northeastern University.
  • Tuesday, January 13 "Polyelectrolyte properties of filamentous biopolymers and distinct mechanisms of their macromolecular assembly"
    Dr. Jay X Tang, Division of Experimental Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • Friday, May 23rd "Effects of zero point vibrational energy on the magnetic properties of low dimensionality magnetic systems"
    Professor William Reiff
    Department of Chemistry

  • Friday, March 7th "Investigations of Heme Protein Reaction Dynamics Using Femtosecond Coherence Spectroscopy"
    Prof. Paul Champion
    Department of Physics

  • Friday, February 28th "Friction in known contact geometries"
    Jacqueline Krim
    Department of Physics

  • Friday, February 21st "Plasma, Materials, and Space"
    Prof. Chung Chan
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Friday, February 14th "TOP-C: a Task Oriented Parallel C Interface"
    Gene Cooperman
    Department of Computer Science

  • Friday, February 7th "Electrical Imaging of cardiac Activity"
    Dana Brooks
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Friday, January 31st "High field quasi-optical electron magnetic resonance
    of biophysical systems"
    David Budil
    Department of Chemistry

  • Friday, January 24th "Optical Studies in High magnetic Fields"
    Clive Perry
    Department of Physics

  • Friday, January 10th "An overview of the robotics and vision systems laboratory research"
    Jill Crisman
    Electrical and Computer Engineering

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