Interesting Seminars
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Some of you might be interested in the following physics colloquium:
Speaker: Prof. Amitabha Nandi
Title: Shaping the wing of a fruit-fly: Active mechanics and dynamics of epithelia during morphogenesis
Date: 14/03/2018, Wednesday
Time: 5:15 PM
Venue: LC 201 (Lecture Hall Complex)
Abstract: In the course of the development of an organism, tissues are dynamically remodeled due to forces generated within the cells, cellular rearrangements, cell division and apoptosis. Such remodelling drives tissue reorganization over long time-scales and leads to formation of complex shapes. The wing of a fruit-fly is an important model system to study epithelial morphogenesis. At early pupal stage, the wing undergoes a dramatic shape change and in this dynamic process, the final shape of the wing is established. In this talk we will discuss the physical mechanisms involved during this process by using a combination of experiment and theory.
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Some of you might be interested in the following talk:
Title: Matter Doesn't Matter: The Emergence of a New Science of Multitude, Complexity, Order without Design
Speaker: Prof. Nagarjuna G., Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR
Date and Time: 26th March 2018, 6 pm
Venue: SIC 201, Kresit Building, IIT Bombay
Abstract: The traditional inquiry of science focused a lot on the fundamental building blocks (matter) and fundamental forces (energy) of the world. On the other hand, several scientists also picked up another thread and investigated the science of multitude of matter, interactions among them, without worrying much about what each of the things are actually made of at various levels. The talk is a historical and philosophical narrative that looks at the alternative models that deal with multitude, relationships, action, interaction, interfaces, agents, complexity, order and evolution. The key themes that will be covered in the talk include evolution of order-without-design, self-organization, life, emergence, agent oriented models of interactions, fractals, network science, distributed systems among others. What are the implications of these ideas to our lives, and to our society?
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Some of you might be interested in the following talk in the Wadhwani Research Centre for Bioengineering (WRCB) by Dr. Krishnendu Roy on 10th July 2018.
Title: ImmunoEngineering and Cell Manufacturing: The Next Frontiers in Biomedical and Biological Engineering
Day & Date: Tuesday, 10th July 2018
Venue: Room No. 118, Chemical Engineering Building
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 AM
Abstract:
Advanced biomanufacturing of therapeutic cells and engineering of the immune system in health and diseases are two emerging and intersecting areas in biomedical engineering. In this talk, I will provide a broad overview of this field, especially from a perspective of a biomaterials scientist. I will highlight our lab’s work on modulation of the immune system for vaccines and immunotherapies as well as our work on biomanufacturing of therapeutic immune cells. Specifically we will focus on how biophysical properties play a key role in modulating immune cell responses to vaccine adjuvants and how materials and bioengineering concepts can be used to manufacture therapeutic T and B cells. In addition I will discuss Georgia Tech’s effort on team science in both of these areas – especially focusing on a new NSF Engineering Research Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT).
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Some of you might be interested in the following seminar by the ERC:
Greetings from the Electronics and Robotics Club!
ERC presents the third talk in the series, “BLAH@ERC”- a discussion
and talk series for seniors and enthusiastic freshmen.
It is an informal event in which you can openly discuss your doubts with
someone who has already sailed through with enormous success.
Title: Speech recognition using Liquid state machines
Speaker: Ajinkya Gorad
Day & Date: Saturday,25th August, 2018
Time: 6 pm onwards.
Venue: Tinkerers' Lab
About the speaker and agenda of discussion:
Ajinkya is a fifth year student under the department of Electrical
engineering. He will be talking about "Speech Recognition using Liquid
state machines".
What are liquid state machines?
A liquid state machine (LSM) is a particular kind of spiking neural
network. An LSM consists of a large collection of units (called nodes, or
neurons). Each node receives time varying input from external sources (the
inputs) as well as from other nodes. Nodes are randomly connected to each
other. The recurrent nature of the connections turns the time varying
input into a spatio-temporal pattern of activation in the network nodes.
The spatio-temporal patterns of activation are read out by linear
discriminant units. The soup of recurrently connected nodes will end up
computing a large variety of nonlinear functions on the input.