CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY SEMINAR



Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m. in 611 Cullimore Hall,
unless noted otherwise

Directions to NJIT


Spring 2005

 

 

11:30 a.m., Thursday, January 27, 2005
(Note Special Day & Time!)

Avraham Mayevsky

 

Faculty of Life Sciences
 Bar Ilan University, Israel

 

 

 

4:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Laboratory Evolution of a Soluble, Self-Sufficient, Highly Active Alkane Hydroxylase

Edgardo T. Farinas

 

Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science
New  Jersey Institute of Technology

 

 

 

4:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 8, 2005

Artificial Enzymes: From Cancer Therapy to Biologically Inspired Chemistry

Sergiu M. Gorun

 

Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science
New  Jersey Institute of Technology

 


 

4:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 15, 2005


Memory Systems in the Brain: Modeling Short-Term and Long-Term Processes

Paul Miller

 

Department of Physics and Volen Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University

 


 

4:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Vanishing Birds, Invading Beetles, and Other Space-Time Puzzles

Gareth Russell


Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
Columbia University

 


 

4:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 1, 2005


Seminar CANCELLED and will be rescheduled for later this term

A Stochastic Immersed Boundary Method for Modeling Small Length Scale Fluid Dynamics

Paul Atzberger


Department of Mathematical Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

 

 

4:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 8, 2005

Two Heads Are Better Than One, but a Continuum is Best:
Cell-Based and Mean-Field Models of Spontaneous Episodic Activity
in the Developing Spinal Cord

Boris Vladimirski


Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University

 

 

 

4:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 22, 2005


Action Potential Propagation in Nerve Axons

Christopher Elmer

 

Department of Mathematical Sciences
New Jersey Insitute of Technology

 


 

 

4:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Stability and Synchrony in Neural Populations

Lawrence Sirovich

Department of Biomathematics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

 


 

4:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 5, 2005

The Virtual Cell Project

Leslie Loew

 
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
University of Connecticut Health Center

 

 

 

4:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 12, 2005


Electrical Coupling between Neurons: All Kinds on Non-Linear Effects

Jorge Golowasch

 

Department of Mathematical Sciences
New Jersey Insitute of Technology

 

  

 

4:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Seminar cancelled and will be rescheduled this Fall.

Classification of Molecular Conformations

Carol Venanzi

 

Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science
New  Jersey Institute of Technology

 


 

4:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Evidence for Natural Selection on Minimum Free Energy of Bacterial mRNA's

Barry Cohen

 

Department of Computer Science
New  Jersey Institute of Technology

 


4:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 26, 2005

A Stochastic Immersed Boundary Method for Modeling Small Length Scale Fluid Dynamics

Paul Atzberger


Department of Mathematical Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 


4:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 3, 2005

Network Synchronization via Recurrent Synapses and via Electrical Coupling,
in Hippocampal and Neocortical Cortices:
Simulation and Electrophysiological Data

Roger Traub


Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
SUNY Downstate

 

 

 

Past Seminars: Fall 2004


For more information about the Mathematical Biology Seminar contact:

Louis Tao, (973) 596-3491

Email: tao@njit.edu



Department of Mathematical Sciences and
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics

NJIT