QLS Seminar Series Fall 2023

QLS has joined efforts with the Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine (CAMBAM) to offer weekly interdisciplinary seminars.

Seminars are held on Tuesdays from 12-1pm EST.

Zoom Link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/86855481591

For recordings of the seminars please visit the QLS YouTube Page.

Fall 2023	Speaker	Topic
Sept. 12	Charles S. Peskin (NYU) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Control of Cell Volume with Space-Charge Layers and Bulk Electroneutrality
Sept. 19	Steven Prescott (University of Toronto) Co-Sponsored by CAMBAM & the Alan Edwards Center for Research on Pain	Neural coding strategies and the importance of excitability
Sept. 26	Elena Kuzmin (Concordia University) Sponsored by QLS	Evolution of chromosome arm aberrations in breast cancer through genetic network rewiring
Oct. 3	Carsen Stringer (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) Sponsored in CAMBAM	Making sense of large-scale neural and behavioral data
Oct. 10	No Seminar (Reading Week)	TBD
Oct. 17	Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis (University of Pittsburgh) Sponsored by QLS	Systems Approaches to Decipher the Molecular Mechanisms of Evolutionary Innovation
Oct. 24	Simon Levin (Princeton University) Sponsored by QLS	Ecosystems and the Biosphere as Complex Adaptive Systems: Scaling, collective phenomena and governance
Oct. 31	Eric Pedersen (Concordia University) Sponsored by QLS	How do we define a patch? Deriving subpopulation structure from movement models using random-walk-based distance metrics
Nov. 7	Tarik Gouhier (Northeastern University) Sponsored by QLS	Quantitative Dissonance
Nov. 14	Ariel Rokem (University of Washington) Sponsored by QLS	Opportunities and challenges for studying human brain connections in the era of brain observatories
Nov. 21	Jonathan Rubin (University of Pittsburgh) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Qualitative inverse problems: Mapping from limited data to properties of dynamics and parameter values for ODE models
Nov. 28	Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington) Sponsored by CAMBAM	From neural nets to movement in Hydra
Dec. 5	Angela Yu (UCSD) Sponsored by CAMBAM	Computational Modeling of Human Face Processing

QLS would like to thank Dr. Jesse Shapiro, Dr. Suresh Krishna, and Dr. Celia Greenwood for their help with organizing the seminars.

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