The goal of the series is to provide a forum for lectures by experts at the forefront of interdisciplinary areas of biological physics, synaptic plasticity and its cellular and molecular basis, modern molecular and cell biology, as well as computational biology.

All lectures will be held in the Barus and Holley building, home to the Physics Department and the Division of Engineering and very close to the Department of Neuroscience and other life sciences. Biologically related research activities are growing steadily in the building facilitated by a number of recent faculty hires, as well as the increasing interest and participation of a large number of physics and engineering students.
This ongoing lecture sequence offers exciting lectures on the crosstalk between physics and biology, and evolved from a successful series entitled "What Physical Scientists Can Measure, What Biological Scientists Would Like to Measure." This series was initiated by Professor Leon Cooper three years ago, and has brought a number of notable speakers to Brown including; Robert Austin, Watt Webb, Tom Meade, Jimmy Xu and Jay Tang.

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of this lecture series, talks will attract a diverse audience of students and faculty from the disciplines of physics, engineering, chemistry, neuroscience and various other life sciences, as well as researchers from Brown University’s nearby Medical School.

Upcoming Talks

Robert Austin (Princeton)

Thursday, April 19, 2007

4:00 PM

B&H 190

Jene Golovchenko (Harvard)

Monday, April 23, 2007

4:00 PM

B&H 168

Previous Talks