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2024-08-01hgt24
Bernheim, Aude (Institut Pasteur)
Evolution of immunity across domains of lifeYesNo
2024-07-31hgt24
Wiles, Travis (UC Irvine)
Life, Death, & Symbiosis: Phollowing the hidden lives of gut bacteria and their virusesYesNo
2024-04-24tde_c24
Sharma, Megha (Monash Univ.)
Partial tidal disruption events: elixir of lifeYesNo
2023-10-31colloq
Goldenfeld, Nigel (UCSD)
Related Words: evolution, turbulence
The life and death of turbulenceYesNo
2023-06-16brainlearn23
Turk-Browne, Nick (Yale University)
Related Words: learning, memory
Kuchibhotla, Kishore (Johns Hopkins University)
Related Words: learning
Roundtable discussion: Why are learning and memory studied separately? Are there different types of statistical learning by memory system? Why do we learn so much but remember so little early in life?YesNo
2023-05-17nanoassembly_c23
Mirkin, Chad (Northwestern)
Repurposing the blueprint for life through colloidal crystal engineering with DNAYesNo
2022-10-20microbes22
Youk, Hyun (UMass Med)
Slowest possible replicative life at frigid temperatures for yeastYesNo
2021-08-05ecoevo21
Spormann, Alfred (Stanford)
Related Words: life, microbial
How Low Life Can Microbial Life BeYesNo
2021-08-02ecoevo21
Dutton, Rachel (UCSD)
Related Words: cheese, microbial
The secret life of cheeseYesNo
2021-01-14metabolism_oc21
Spormann, Alfred (Stanford)
Related Words: life, microbial
Tutorial 1: Fundamentals of Microbial Life, Physical-chemical structure of the environment, rate-yield trade off, fitness and selectionYesYes
2020-10-15multiphasegas_oc20
Gronke, Max (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Los muertos al cajon y los vivos al fieston: the life & death of cold gas in hot surroundingsYesNo
2018-02-20suspensions181: Life time of shear thickened structures 2: Resolution of the HL model in the oscillatory regime.YesNo
2017-06-08hearing17
Hermansky, Hynek (Johns Hopkins)
Life-long learning in machine recognition of speechYesNo
2017-01-12disks17
Altamirano, Diego (Univ. of Southampton)
A tale of radiation pressure dominated disks: Theory, observations, and cycles of lifeYesYes
2016-12-08kohnsymposium_c16
Bialek, William (Princeton)
The Physics of Life: How Much Can We Calculate?YesYes
2016-12-08kohnsymposium_c16
Mattsson, Ann (Sandia)
Related Words: functional
What Walter Kohn Taught me About Density Functional Theory, Life, and the Scientific ProcessYesYes
2016-12-08kohnsymposium_c16
Zangwill, Andy (Georgia Tech)
The Life and Physics of Walter Kohn: Vienna to San Diego (presented by Jim Langer)YesYes
2016-08-31friendsThe Secret Life of QuarksYesYes
2016-05-19joint98
Joshi, Pankaj S. (Tata Inst)
Gravitational Collapse, Black Holes, and Naked Singularities: Life and Death of Massive Collapsing StarsYesNo
2015-09-03evocell15Evolution, Diverse Life Styles and the Extreme Complexity of the Mitochondrion of Kinetoplastid FlagellatesYesYes
2015-08-11evocell15
Weirauch, Matt (Univ. Cincinnati)
Transcription Factors across Life: Control of Gene ExpressionYesYes
2015-02-28evoplanetst_c15
Marcy, Geoff (UC Berkeley)
Prospects for Intelligent Life in the UniverseYesYes
2015-02-28evoplanetst_c15
Raymond, Sean (U. Bordeaux)
Worlds with Water: Prerequisite for Life?YesYes
2015-02-09bio99
Lambert, Guillaume (University of Chicago)
QBio Seminar - Change is the Only Constant in LifeYesNo
2014-04-16stars_c14
Walch, Stefanie (University of Cologne)
The life-cycle of molecular clouds in Milky Way-like disk galaxiesYesNo
2013-02-07multicell_c13
Goldenfeld, Nigel (UIUC)
Related Words: evolution, turbulence
Did Networks and Community Dynamics Drive the Rapid Evolution of Early Life?YesYes
2013-02-07multicell_c13
Lehman, Niles (Portland State Univ.)
RNA Self-assembly: Cooperation at the Origins of LifeYesYes
2013-02-06multicell_c13
Ryan, Paul (Univ Southampton)
The Evolution of a Unicellular Bottleneck in the Life History of Multicellular OrganismsYesYes
2013-02-05multicell_c13
Koonin, Eugene (Nat'l Inst. of Health)
Related Words: evolution, life, viruses
Coevolution of Viruses and Antivirus Defense in Prokaryotes: A Tale of Antagonism, Cooperation and Life-or-Death DecisionsYesNo
2013-02-05multicell_c13
Rainey, Paul (Massey Univ.)
Related Words: fleas
Individuality, Transitions, Life Cycles, and the Evolution of EmergenceYesNo
2013-02-01resident
Flam, Faye (KITP Journalist in Residence)
Related Words: science
Life on Mars and Neanderthal Clones: Why Weird Science Gets on the Front Page and What You Can Do About ItYesNo
2011-08-31friends
Bialek, William (Princeton)
More Perfect Than We Imagined: A Physicist's View of LifeYesNo
2011-05-24biopoly_c11DNA: Not Merely the Secret of LifeYesNo
2011-03-23colloq
Eigen, Manfred (Max Planck)
The Origin and Evolution of Life: A Physical Problem?YesYes
2011-03-23plecture
Heuvel, Edward van den (University of Amsterdam)
Life After Stellar Death: Supernovae, Neutron Stars, Pulsars, and Black HolesYesYes
2011-02-26viralt_c11Life at the Single Cell LevelYesYes
2011-02-07viral11
Koonin, Eugene (NIH)
Related Words: evolution, life, viruses
Tree of Life, Net of Life, Forest of Life - Where Are We?YesYes
2009-02-13stanleyfest
Brink, Lars (Chalmers Univ.)
Stanley, Me and Life on the Light-ConeYesYes
2008-04-06plecture
Wang, Sam (Princeton Univ)
Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday LifeYesYes
2007-03-21snovae_c07The Tapestry of Science and the Life of ScientistsYesNo
2007-03-17snovaet_c07The Life of a StarYesYes
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
2007-01-25lnotes
Gross, David (Director)
Related Words: kitp, physics, string, theory, welcome
Is the Universe Just Right for Life?NoYes
2007-01-18evonet07
Szostak, Jack (Harvard Medical School)
The Origin of Life and the Emergence of Darwinian EvolutionYesYes
2007-01-17evonet07
Lancet, Doron (Weizmann Institute)
Life's Origin: What's the Real Question?YesYes
2006-10-17sle06
Nijs, Marcel den (University of Washington)
KPZ Type Scaling in One and Two Dimensions: the Life-time Statistics of Trapped Loops, and Polymer Localization Versus Queuing in the Asymmetric Exclusion ProcessYesYes
2006-06-11bio_c06
Kondev, Jané (Brandeis)
Freshman Biophysics: Putting some life into Newton and MaxwellYesNo
2006-04-10biomachine06
Webb, Watt (Cornell)
Molecular Motors and Molecular Generators of Life in ActionYesNo
2006-04-07biomachine06
Webb, Watt (Cornell)
Ultrafast Nonlinear Microscopy Illuminating the Biophysics of LifeYesNo
2005-10-10bblunchThe Life of a StarYesYes
2005-03-04star_c05Scientific Life Stories: Biography and Autobiography Moderator: Dennis Overbye Jeremy Lawrence, Janna Levin, Alan LightmanNoNo
2005-01-31bio05
Rothman, Joel (UCSB)
Related Words: c, elegans
Life or Death Decisions: Regulation of Programmed Cell Death in C. ElegansNoYes
2005-01-19colloq
Libchaber, Albert (Rockefeller)
Some Physical Aspects of the Origin of Life and of Artificial CellsYesYes
2004-12-14qcd04
Terning, John (UC Davis)
Boundary Conditions in AdS: Life Without a HiggsNoYes
2004-10-25igm_c04How Zero-metallicity Massive Stars End Their LifeNoYes
2004-10-08kitp25The Life of a Black HoleYesYes
2004-03-03plecture
Beichman, Charles (JPL/Caltech)
Finding Planets and Searching for Life: Worthy Goals for 21st Century ScienceNoYes
2003-12-03colloq
Vicsek, Tamás (Eötvös University)
Networks in Life: From Cellular Metabolism to Co-AuthorshipNoYes
2003-07-17friendsBirth, Life and Death of StarsYesNo
2003-03-10bblunch
Kayser, Boris (FNAL)
Related Words: neutrinos
Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry, Neutrinos, and LifeNoNo
2002-10-23colloq
Krauss, Lawrence (Case Western Reserve)
Life, The Universe and Nothing: The Future of Life in and Ever-Expanding UniverseNoNo
2002-10-09lnotesLife of an Accreted Nucleon on a Neutron StarNoYes
2001-05-17infobio01On the Origin of LifeNoNo
2001-04-24infobio01
Lancet, D. (Weizmann)
Origin of Life without BiopolymersNoYes
1998-05-08colloqHow We Became Posthuman: Humanistic Implications of Recent Research into Cognitive Science and Artificial LifeNoYes