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2024-06-11colloq
Heeger, Alan (UC Santa Barbara)
The ION PUMP: Conducting Polymers in Biology and MedicineYesNo
2023-11-30deeplearning23
Klindt, David (Stanford)
Identifying Interpretable Visual Features in Artificial and Biological Neural SystemsYesNo
2023-11-28deeplearning23
Lengyel, Mate (University of Cambridge)
Related Words: learning
Continual learning - the biological wayYesYes
2023-11-22deeplearning23
Olshausen, Bruno (UC Berkeley)
On incorporating mathematical and biological structure into neural network modelsYesNo
2023-11-14deeplearning23
Fiete, Ila (MIT)
Related Words: grid
New models of content-addressable memory from biology to transformersYesNo
2023-06-28brainlearn23
Whittington, James (Stanford University and Oxford University)
Discussion: Can we categorise how different types of task statistics / biological constraints impact neural response?YesNo
2023-06-28brainlearn23
Whittington, James (Stanford University & Oxford University)
What we know about how task and biology constraints neural representation?YesNo
2023-05-01nanoassembly23
Chen, Qian (Univ. of Illinois)
Electron videography of inorganic and biological nanoparticlesYesNo
2022-08-11neuroloco22
Jayaram, Kaushik (CU Boulder)
Robustness of Biological and Bioinspired SystemsYesNo
2022-06-24bblunchDrift, Mutation, and the Origins of Biological Scaling RelationshipsYesNo
2021-02-17symmorph_oc21
Devenport, Danelle (Princeton)
Coordinating tissue polarity and morphogenesis across biological scalesYesNo
2020-06-18plecture
Whaley, K. Birgitta (UC Berkeley)
The Renaissance of Quantum BiologyYesYes
2019-12-04cellenergy19
Wang, Jin (Stony Brook)
Landscape and flux quantification for biological systemsYesYes
2019-07-31morpho19
Kosmrlj, Andrej (Princeton)
Mechanical instabilities in growing biological systems: wrinkling and branchingYesYes
2019-07-23morpho19Plant developmental biologyYesYes
2019-04-23qsim19
Huelga, Susana (University of Ulm)
Are there non trivial quantum effects in biology? A discussion on light harvesting processesYesNo
2018-08-01snav18
Stensmyr, Marcus (Lund University)
Where the wild things are - the biology of non-commensal Drosophila melanogaster in Southern AfricaYesNo
2018-06-01blayers18
Marston, Marcie (Roger Williams University)
Biology in the Oceanic Boundary LayerYesNo
2018-02-23suspensions18
Bi, Max (Northeastern)
Related Words: tissues
Mechanics of dense biological tissues: Structure, rigidity, and fluidityYesNo
2017-08-14ecoevo17
Hwa, Terry (UCSD)
Related Words: biology
Re-learning how to do phenomenological theories and why this is so important in biology[Podcast][Aud][Cam] KITP Blackboard LunchYesNo
2017-07-07hearing17
Schlüter, Ralf (RWTH Aachen)
Related Words: recognition, speech
David, Stephen (OHSU)
Related Words: state
State-dependent filters in biological systems and their applicability to speech recognition -- Small-group discussionYesNo
2016-08-25morpho16
Yang, Qiong (University of Michigan)
From molecules to development: network designs of biological oscillatorsYesNo
2016-02-18randomkpz_c16
Krug, Joachim (Univ. Koeln)
Random paths in evolutionary biologyYesYes
2016-02-10plecture
Callan, Curt (Princeton)
The Biological Future of Theoretical PhysicsYesYes
2016-02-02immuno16Towards a comprehensive view of B cell biology at single-cell resolutionYesYes
2015-09-29evocell15
Meaux, Juliette de (Univ. Cologne)
Polygenic Adaptation in the Arabidopsis Genus and the Evlution of Plant Cell BiologyYesYes
2015-09-28evocell15
Devos, Damien (Univ. Pablo de Olavide)
Evolutionary Cell Biology of the Eukaryotic Endomembrane System, of Bacterial Cell Division and Introduction of Microbiology's PlatypusYesYes
2015-09-03evocell15
Roos, David (Univ. of Penn)
Computational Frameworks for Evolutionary Cell BiologyYesNo
2015-08-26evocell15
Lukes, Julius (Czech Academy of Sciences)
The TARA Project and sampling biological diversityYesYes
2015-08-21evocell15
Needleman, Dan (Harvard University)
Related Words: assembly, spindle
Evolutionary Biology, Quantitative Genetics, and (maybe) Biophysics of Cell DivisionYesYes
2015-08-14evocell15Extreme cell biologyYesNo
2015-08-10evocell15
Phillips, Rob (Caltech)
The Most Common Trick of Proteins and How it Led to Biology's Greatest ModelYesNo
2015-08-05evocell15
Good, Matt (Penn)
Jülicher, Frank (MPI Dresden)
Related Words: control, growth, scaling
Informal Discussion to Consider Scaling Issues in Cell BiologyYesNo
2015-08-03evocell15What is Evolutionary Cell Biology?YesYes
2015-02-11bio99
Mehta, Pankaj (Boston University)
BMSE & QBio Joint Seminar - Adventures at the Interface of Quantitative Biology and PhysicsYesNo
2014-10-22nonequil_c14
Manning, Lisa (Syracuse)
Related Words: tissues
Glassy behavior in biological tissuesYesYes
2014-09-12superbugs14
Gray, Joe (Oregon Health and Science Univ.)
A spatial systems biology approach to therapeutic resistance in cancerYesNo
2014-09-08superbugs14Evolution and ecology in cancer biology and therapyYesYes
2014-04-09bioacter14Using protein compliance and structure geometry to control stress transmission in biological materialsYesNo
2013-07-31morpho13Measuring and visualizing biological timeYesYes
2013-07-26morpho13
Norden, Caren (MPI-CBG)
The retina as a model to understand cell biological aspects of morphogenesisYesYes
2013-03-08bblunch
Extavour, Cassandra (Harvard)
Related Words: organisms
Integrating the Physics and Biology of Cooperation: From Molecules to Super OrganismsYesNo
2013-03-02qcontrolt_c13What Role Does Quantum Mechanics Play in Biology?YesYes
2013-02-28qcontrol_c13
Briegel, Hans (Univ. Innsbruck)
Related Words: quantum
Quantum Agents, Simulation, and BiologyYesNo
2013-02-26multicell13
Balazsi, Gabor (Univ. Texas)
Evolution Through the Lens of Synthetic BiologyYesNo
2013-01-17qcontrol13 Coherent Control for Biology [Podcast][Aud] [Cam]YesNo
2013-01-14multicell13
Extavour, Cassandra (Harvard)
Related Words: organisms
Integrating the Physics and Biology of Cooperation: From Molecules to Super Organisms[Podcast][Aud][Cam] KITP Blackboard LunchYesNo
2013-01-08multicell13Coupled Oscillators in BiologyYesYes
2012-12-19immuno_m12Integrating Within-cell Systems Biology and Multicellular Population Dynamics: Pedagogical Talk on Why and HowYesNo
2011-07-21brain_m11
Verschure, Paul (Univ. Pompeu Fabra)
Biologically Constrained Learning (cont'd)YesNo
2011-07-20brain_m11
Verschure, Paul (Univ. Pompeu Fabra)
Biologically Constrained LearningYesYes
2011-06-06biopoly11Selective Transport Through a Biological Nanopore - A Mechanistic Mystery[Podcast][Aud][Cam] KITP Blackboard LunchYesNo
2011-05-27biopoly_c11
Shakhnovich, Eugene (Harvard Univ.)
Related Words: evolution, fitness
Understanding Biological Fitness From First PrinciplesYesNo
2011-05-26biopoly_c11
Schmidt, Christoph (Göttingen)
Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Biological Matter and Cellular MechanosensingYesYes
2011-02-26viralt_c11
Phillips, Rob (Caltech)
Physical Biology of the CellYesYes
2011-02-26viralt_c11
Shraiman, Boris (UCSB)
Related Words: biology, physics
Unexpected Physics in BiologyYesNo
2011-02-24viral11Biological Network Change and EvolutionYesYes
2011-01-20viral11
Sneppen, Kim (Niels Bohr Inst.)
Lessons From Phage BiologyYesNo
2011-01-07viral11Funding Opportunities for Research in Biological PhysicsYesNo
2010-07-07glasses10
Manning, Lisa (Princeton)
Related Words: tissues
How Does Surface Tension Emerge From Structure in Biological Tissues?YesYes
2010-02-24plecture
Nurse, Paul (Rockefeller University)
Related Words: cell
The Great Ideas of BiologyYesYes
2010-02-22bblunch
Thattai, Mukund (National Centre for Biological Sciences)
The Unreasonable Irrelevance of Mathematics to BiologyYesNo
2010-01-20evocell10What Would it Take to Make an Evolutionary Cell Biology?YesNo
2010-01-11evocell10
Thattai, Mukund (National Centre for Biological Sciences)
The Unreasonable Irrelevance of Mathematics to Biology[Podcast][Aud][Cam] KITP Blackboard LunchYesNo
2009-11-25excitcm09
Molteni, Carla (King's College)
Modelling Excited States in Biological Chromophore: from TDDFT to GW+BSEYesYes
2009-11-10excitcm09First Principle Electronic Structure Calculations for Molecular and Cell Biology: a Perspective from TriesteYesYes
2009-09-18friends
Shraiman, Boris (KITP)
Related Words: biology, physics
Inauguration to the Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology: Adventures at the Edge of PhysicsYesNo
2009-05-28lowdim09
Shklovskii, Boris (Univ. of Minn.)
How Do Ions Go Through Biological Ions Channels and Nanopores?YesNo
2008-05-07climate_c08Ocean Biology, Food Webs and Climate - The Critical Role of SurpriseYesYes
2008-04-21brain08
Fernald, Russell (Stanford)
Eye Evolution: Physics Meets BiologyYesYes
2008-04-04brain08Biology: what's the problem? A levels perspectiveYesYes
2008-03-07morpho_c08
Arkus, Natalie (Harvard)
Simplifying Biological Models without Loss of InformationNoYes
2008-03-07morpho_c08
Portman, Natalie (Univ. Waterloo)
Growth of an Organism as an Evolution of its Darcyan Coordinate System under a Cascade of Random Biologically Motivated DeformationsNoYes
2007-07-06bioclocks07Robustness & Sensitivity of Biological Switches & ClocksYesNo
2007-07-05bioclocks07
Goldbeter, Albert (Univ. Bruxelles)
Biological ClocksYesNo
2007-07-03bioclocks07
Tyson, John (Virginia Polytechnic)
Biological SwitchesYesNo
2007-04-11evonet07
Travisano, Michael (U of Minnesota)
Sources of Biological DiversityYesNo
2007-04-05evonet07
Shakhnovich, Eugene (Harvard)
Related Words: evolution, fitness
How Protein Function Shapes Biological EvolutionYesNo
2007-03-29evonet07
Khanin, Raya (University of Glasgow)
How Scale-free are Biological Networks?YesYes
2007-03-27evonet07
Berg, Johannes (University of Cologne)
Clusters, Motifs, and Cross-species Correlations in Biological NetworksYesYes
2007-03-06evonet07
Koonin, Eugene (National Inst. of Health)
Related Words: evolution, life, viruses
The Cosmological Model of Eternal Inflation and the Transition from Chance to Biological Evolution in the History of LifeYesYes
2007-03-06evonet07
Wagner, Andreas (University of Zurich)
Is There a Network Biology?YesNo
2007-02-26evonet07
Lässig, Michael (University of Cologne)
Related Words: evolution
The Arrow of Time in Biology[Podcast][Aud][Cam] KITP Blackboard LunchYesNo
2007-01-29evonet07
Kim, Stuart (Stanford)
Systems Biology of C. ElegansYesYes
2006-11-14bio99
Mjolsness, Eric (UC Irvine)
Physical Methods for Modeling Biological DevelopmentYesYes
2006-06-11bio_c06How can future researchers learn to distinguish a critical biological problem from a mundane one?YesNo
2006-06-11bio_c06
Nelson, Phil (UPenn)
Intermediate Biological PhysicsYesYes
2006-05-16bio99
Wiggins, Chris (Columbia)
Predicting Expression and Evolution in Biological NetworksYesNo
2006-04-10bblunch
Phillips, Rob (Caltech)
Physical Biology of the CellYesNo
2004-10-09kitp25
Hwa, Terry
Related Words: biology
PANEL: Physicists in BiologyYesYes
2003-12-12pattern_t03Modeling tumors as complex biological systemsNoYes
2003-12-08pattern03
Persson, Bo (Research Center Juelich IFF)
Related Words: rubber
Contact Mechanics and Adhesion with Applications to Biological SystemsNoYes
2003-11-19pattern_i03Scaling Laws in Biology: Growth, Mortality, Cancer and SleepNoYes
2003-09-24colloqNon-Equilibrium Physics Underlying Biological Function: The Case of Bacterial Colony PatternsNoYes
2003-09-08bblunchPattern Formation in Physics and BiologyNoYes
2003-08-19pattern_c03
Egolf, David (Georgetown University)
Dynamical Analysis of Spatiotemporal Chaos in Physics and BiologyNoNo
2003-08-17pattern_c03
Misbah, Chaouqi (Grenoble)
From steady to unsteady dynamics of biological vesicles in a flow within an advected field approachNoNo
2003-03-24bionet03
Ruoff, Peter (Stavanger)
A Theory for Temperature-Compensation and Period Homoestasis in Reaction Kinetic Models of Biological OscillatorsNoYes
2003-03-21bionet_w03Liapunov stability, sum of squares, and applications in biologyNoNo
2003-03-21bionet_w03Liapunov stability, sum of squares, and applications in biologyNoNo
2003-03-20bionet_w03
Doyle, John (Caltech)
Related Words: constraints
The nature of biological complexityNoNo
2003-03-20bionet_w03
Doyle, John (Caltech)
Related Words: constraints
The nature of biological complexityNoNo
2003-03-20bionet_w03
Doyle, John (Caltech)
Related Words: constraints
The nature of biological complexityNoNo
2003-03-20bionet_w03The nature of biological complexity: Heat shockNoNo
2003-03-17bblunch
Shraiman, Boris (Rutgers)
Related Words: biology, physics
Biology -- What is There to Compute?NoNo
2003-03-14bionet03Microfluidics for Cell Biology and ChemotaxisNoNo
2003-02-27bionet03Computational Molecular Biology of Genome Expression and RegulationNoYes
2003-02-24bblunch
Kerszberg, Michel (Pasteur Institute)
Is Biology Computable?NoNo
2003-02-14bionet03Perturbation and Stability in Biological SystemsNoNo
2002-03-04bblunch
MacKintosh, Fred (Vrije Univ)
Related Words: networks
Semiflexible Polymers: Polymer Physics Meets Cell BiologyNoYes
2001-11-19neuro01
Taube, Jeffrey (Dartmouth)
Related Words: direction
Neuro Biology for a Sense of Direction INoYes
2001-11-19neuro01
Taube, Jeffrey (Dartmouth)
Related Words: direction
Neuro Biology for a Sense of Direction IINoNo
2001-09-04nano01
Braun, Erez (Technion University)
Biology-based Molecular Scale ElectronsNoNo
2001-08-22nano_c01
Alivisatos, P. (Berkeley)
Nanocrystals: from scaling laws to biological applicationsNoNo
2001-08-01neuro_w01Frontiers of Physical Measurements and Analysis in BiologyNoNo
2001-08-01neuro_w01Frontiers of Physical Measurements and Analysis in BiologyNoYes
2001-06-15infobio01Perspectives at the Interface of Biology and Statistical PhysicsNoNo
2001-02-27infobio01
Levitt, M. (Stanford)
Physical, Biological and Algorithmic Approaches to Protein FoldingNoNo
2001-01-19infobio01Evolution, Phylogeny, and Population Biology IINoNo
2001-01-18infobio01Introduction to Molecular Biology IIINoYes
2001-01-18infobio01Evolution, Phylogeny, and Population Biology INoNo
2001-01-17infobio01Introduction to Molecular Biology INoYes
2001-01-17infobio01Introduction to Molecular Biology IINoNo
2001-01-16infobio01
Hwa, Terry (UCSD)
Related Words: biology
Introduction to the Program on Statistical Physics and Biological InformationNoYes
2000-06-07colloq
Abarbanel, Henry (U.C. San Diego)
Small Networks of Biological and Electronic NeuronsNoYes
1999-12-16qmag99
Cox, Daniel (UC Davis)
Electron Transfer via Magnetic Bound States in Biological MoleculesNoYes
1998-10-20bio_c98
Honig, Barry (Columbia)
Electrostatic Interactions in BiologyNoNo