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| Della Pietra Lectures with Dr. William Bialek |
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| Start Date: | 4/20/2012 | All Day |
| End Date: | 4/20/2012 | |
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Event Description
Speaker:
Dr. William Bialek is the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics and a member of the multidisciplinary Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, at Princeton University. In addition, he serves as Visiting Presidential Professor of Physics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where he is helping to launch an Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences.
Dr. Bialek will deliver a technical seminar open to faculty, advanced
graduate students, and those with a background in the advanced sciences:
11:00 am: "Statistical Mechanics for Real Biological Networks"
SCGP Lecture Hall, Room 102
The capstone talk is intended for a general audience and high school students in
particular. Dr. Bialek will discuss whether life is just the meaningless record of
evolutionary history, or whether there is meaning to be found in the mechanisms
of life that we see today:
5:30 pm: "More Perfect Than We
Imagined: A Physicist's View of Life"
SCGP Main Auditorium, Room 103
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