Tuesday, March 24, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Cellular Telephone Games: How Biological Networks Cope With Noisy Signal Transmission
Speaker: Michael Hinczewski (Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University Physics Department)
Abstract: Living cells make crucial decisions --- whether to grow, divide, die --- based on external signaling molecules in their environment. The biochemical networks which transmit and...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Mathematical Model of Volume Phase Transition in Polyelectrolyte Gels
Speaker: Lingxing Yao (Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University MAMS Department)
Abstract: It is well known that hydrogels are made of cross linked polymer networks that are capable of absorbing large amounts of water; they can be present in a swollen or...