Fall 2017 Seminar Series


It’s the first seminar of the semester! Event: CMCI/IBEST Seminar – Dr. Alexander Bradley, Washington University Title: “A novel high-precision SIMS method to assess metabolic heterogeneity in a clonal microbial population” Date: Thursday, August 23 Time: 12:30 pm Location: Engineering/Physics 122
Aydin Mohseni, a mathematical philosopher at the University of California, Irvine, will be the featured speaker at the weekly CMCI Brown Bag Lunch on Monday, September 24. Talk title: “On the Emergence of Minority Disadvantage: Testing the Cultural Red King Hypothesis.” Abstract: The cultural red king effect predicts that differentials in group size may lead to…
Irene Eckstrand, retired NIGMS Program Officer and chair of CMCI’s External Advisory Committee, will be in Moscow October 18-19. She will participate in the joint IBEST-CMCI Seminar Series on Thursday and also give a less formal talk on Friday. If you would like to meet individually with Dr. Eckstrand while she is on campus, please…
Linda Allen, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University, will speak at 12:30 p.m. today, Aug. 30, in EP 122 as part of the IBEST/CMCI Seminar Series. Her talk is titled “Probability, Duration and Final Size of an Epidemic in Stochastic Multistage or Multigroup Models.”
Aaron King, a professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, professor of Mathematics and member of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, will present an all-day CMCI WORKSHOP on modeling and fitting stochastic dynamic systems on Friday, January 25. Registration will be required. Interested participants are strongly encouraged to…
Dr. Aaron King, a professor at the University of Michigan, will present the first IBEST/CMCI Seminar of the semester on Thursday, January 24 at 12:30 p.m. in LSS 277. Dr. King is interested in studying evolution and ecology at long temporal and spatial scales using stochastic approaches. He’s done work on disease modeling and method/model/software…