Science at Brandeis - Upcoming Seminars

Friday, 12/6/2013 12:30 pm Gerstenzang 123
Molecular and Cell Biology & Neuroscience Student Seminars
Maria Genco (Griffith Lab)
Laura Brown (Lovett Lab)

Thursday, 12/5/2013 2 pm Volen 119
The Annual Mini-Conference in Discourse and Pragmatics
Student Speakers
Students will present their research on a broad range of topics, including speech acts, implicatures, indexicality, and information structure, and spanning a variety of languages, including English, Spanish, German, and Mandarin. Refreshments will be served and the event is open to the public. Programme of talks is to be announced on the mini-conference website: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~ling140/miniconf.html

Tuesday, 12/3/2013 2 pm Volen 119
The Annual Mini-Conference in Discourse and Pragmatics
Student Speakers
Students will present their research on a broad range of topics, including speech acts, implicatures, indexicality, and information structure, and spanning a variety of languages, including English, Spanish, German, and Mandarin. Refreshments will be served and the event is open to the public. Programme of talks is to be announced on the mini-conference website: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~ling140/miniconf.html

Monday, 12/9/2013 4 pm Gerstenzang 121
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Joseph Sadighi (Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Small Clusters of Group 11 Metals Supported by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes"
Host: Casey Wade.

Tuesday, 12/10/2013 12:30 pm Gerstenzang 121
Neurobiology Journal Club
Marjena Popovic (Van Hooser lab)
"A functional and perceptual signature of the second visual area in primates" References: Freeman, Ziemba, Heeger, Simoncelli, Movshon, Nature Neuroscience 2013.
Sonal Shruti (Marder lab)
"Social reward requires coordinated activity of nucleus accumbens oxytocin and serotonin" References: Dolen G, Darvishzadeh A, Huang KW, Malenka RC. Nature, 12 September 2013, Volume 501 (Pages 179-184)..

Monday, 12/9/2013 11 am Volen 201
Computational/Systems Neuroscience Journal Club
Nancy Kopell (Boston University)
"Cortical Rhythms Facilitate Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing"

Thursday, 12/12/2013 2 pm Gerstenzang 121
Thesis Seminar (Graduate Program in Chemistry)
Yongwei Wu (Deng Lab)
"Biomimetic Proton Transfer Catalysis with Organic Molecules"

Thursday, 12/12/2013 1 pm Abelson 131
Thesis Seminar (Graduate Program in Molecular and Cell Biology)
Yue Li (Rosbash Lab)
"The role of the period protein in Drosophila circadian rhythm: Exploring the effects of the original perS and perL mutations"

Wednesday, 12/11/2013 2 pm Abelson 229
Special Seminar
SCOPE student presenters (Olin College of Engineering)
"Collaborative Senior Capstone Project (SCOPE) with Olin College of Engineering Mid-Year Update: Rapid Prototyping of Microfluidic Foil Chips"
Host: Dongshin Kim. Contact Physics Department x62800 for more information.

Thursday, 12/12/2013 4 pm-5 pm Abelson 229
MRSEC Seminar
Jason Perlmutter (Brandeis University)
"Simulations of Capsid Assembly around Polyelectrolytes or Nucleic Acids"
Host: M. Hagan. Contact Physics (781-736-2800) for more information.

Thursday, 12/12/2013 3 pm Shapiro Science Center GL14
Special Seminar
Alexis Gatreau (CNRS, France)
Host: Bruce Goode.

Thursday, 12/12/2013 12 noon Volen 101
Language Technology Seminar Series
Annie Zaenen (Stanford University)
"When you aren't Stupid, you don't do Stupid Things: Implicative Uses of Evaluative Factive Adjectives" References: Before retiring in 2010, Annie Zaenen was a Principal Scientist in the Natural Language Theory and Technology group at PARC. She is now a consulting professor in the Stanford Linguistics Department and a Senior Researcher at CSLI..
Host: James Pustejovsky.
Lunch will be served

Wednesday, 12/11/2013 9:30 am Volen 201
Thesis Seminar (Graduate Program in Psychology)
Abigail Noyce (Sekuler Lab)
"Neural processes for learning and monitoring sequential regularities in changeable environments"

Friday, 12/13/2013 12 noon Volen 101
Language Technology Seminar Series
Martha Palmer (University of Colorado, Boulder)
"Beyond Shallow Semantics"
Host: James Pustejovsky.
Lunch will be served

Friday, 12/13/2013 11:15 am Gerstenzang 121
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
Adrian Whitty (Boston University)
"Small Molecule Inhibitors of Protein-Protein Interactions"
Host: Liz Hedstrom.

Friday, 12/13/2013 10 am Rosenstiel 118
Thesis Seminar (Graduate Program in Molecular and Cell Biology)
Alexander Ferrazzoli (Lovett Lab)
"Regulation of the Escherichia coli DNA damage response by IraD, an alternative sigma factor stabilizer"

Friday, 12/13/2013 12:30 pm Shapiro Science Center 1-03 Library
Fly Fest
Orie Shafer (U. Michigan)
"Connectivity Hierarchy and Coupling in a Circadian Clock Neuron Network"
Host: Rosbash Lab.

Friday, 12/20/2013 Gerstenzang 121
Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks
TBA (TBA)

Friday, 12/13/2013 1:30 pm Gerstenzang 121
Thesis Seminar (Graduate Program in Molecular and Cell Biology)
Yue Li (Rosbash Lab)
"The role of the period protein in Drosophila circadian rhythm: Exploring the effects of the original perS and perL mutations"

Tuesday, 1/14/2014 11 am Abelson 307
String Theory Seminar
Masoud Soroush (Brandeis University)
"Knot Invariants and Topological Strings"
Host: Matthew Headrick.

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