Group Related Activities at Northwestern

News

Summer 2009: Zachary Nicolaou receives Undergraduate Research Grant and new Academic Year MRSEC fellowship.

September 2009: Sagar Sahasrabudhe selected as Complexity Conference Oral Presentation Winner.

May 2009: Zachary Nicolaou receives Krieghbaum Scholarship, is selected Best Junior in Physics and Astronomy, and receives Mathematics Outstanding Junior Prize.

April 2009: Adilson E. Motter receives Weinberg Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research.

April 2009: Zachary Nicolaou is awarded Goldwater Fellowship, receives Undergraduate Research Grant, and is elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.

February 2009: Adilson E. Motter is awarded Sloan Research Fellowship.

January 2009: Adilson E. Motter joins Northwestern Institute for Sustainable Practices.

October 2008: Zachary Nicolaou is admitted into the MRSEC Undergraduate Research Program.

September 2008: Sean Cornelius is awarded a TGS Biophysics Fellowship.

June 2008: Seth Myers and Nicole Carlson conclude their Senior Theses and graduate with Honors.

June 2008: Eduardo Altmann receives Otto Hahn medal.

May 2008: Nicole Carlson and Justin Lieber are elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.

February 2008: Adilson E. Motter joins NICO's Executive Committee.

August 2007: Joo Sang Lee receives MRSEC Fellowship.

April 2007: Justin Lieber and Seth Myers receive Undergraduate Research Grants.

March 2007: Eduardo Altmann graduates in Germany with summa cum laude. See joint publications.

November 2006: Adilson E. Motter joins NU MRSEC and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems as a faculty member.

July 2006: Adilson E. Motter is named Searle Junior Fellow.

June 2006: Adrian Jinich receives the departmental award for the Best Senior Thesis and is elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.

Talks and Visitors

October 14, 2009, Wed - Sean Crosson, University of Chicago, Rapid, heritable, and tunable division control in single cells (12:00 PM, Chambers Hal) - NICO Seminar.

September 25, 2009, Fri - Adilson E. Motter, Network Compensatory Perturbations: The Key to Rescue and Control the Dynamics of Complex Systems (4:00 PM, Tech L211) - Physics & Astronomy Colloquium.

September 21, 2009, Mon - Phillip Staniczenko, University of Oxford, Structural dynamics and robustness of food webs (2:00 PM, Tech F235) - Group Seminar.

September 2, 2009, Wed - Sagar Sahasrabudhe, Northwestern University, Student Prize Talk (12:00 PM, Allen Center) - NICO Complexity Conference.

May, 2009 - Rafael Dias Vilela, Universidade Federal do ABC. Rafael is visiting the group from May 21 through May 26.

May 15, 2009, Fri - Juergen Vollmer, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, Rain in the test tube? (2:00 PM, Tech M416) - ESAM Colloquium.

April 10, 2009, Fri - Leonid Bunimovich, Georgia Institute of Technology, Mechanisms of Chaos (4:00 PM, Tech L211) - Physics & Astronomy Colloquium.

March 4, 2009, Wed - Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University, The Genesis of Location-Aware Mobile Social Networking (12:00 PM, Chambers Hall) - NICO Seminar.

February 18, 2009, Wed - Anna Di Rienzo, University of Chicago, Genetic Adaptations to Different Habitats and the Susceptibility to Common Diseases (12:00 PM, Chambers Hall) - NICO Seminar.

January 9, 2009, Fri - Linda Broadbelt, Northwestern University, Complex Reaction Networks: Analysis and Discovery (4:00 PM, Tech L211) - Physics & Astronomy Colloquium.

October 30, 2008, Thu - Adilson E. Motter, Northwestern University, Synthetic Rescues and Spontaneous Cascades in Metabolic Networks (4:00 PM, Tech LR4) - Chemical & Biological Engineering Seminar.

October 9, 2008, Thu - Leland Wilkinson, University of Illinois at Chicago, Visually-model-based Transformations (2:00 PM, Tech F235) - Group Seminar.

October 3, 2008, Fri - Dirk Brockmann, Northwestern University, Fractional Diffusion and Scaling Laws in Money Dispersal (4:00 PM, Tech L211) - Physics & Astronomy Colloquium.

May 27, 2008, Tue - Adilson E. Motter, Northwestern University, Complex Systems (10:00 AM, ETHS) - NSF-Funded Outreach Activity.

May 9, 2008, Fri - Kimberly Gray, Northwestern University, Solar Fuel Generation: Engineering Photocatalytic Hot Spots in TiO2-based Nanocomposites (4:00 PM, Tech L211) - Physics & Astronomy Colloquium.

April 30, 2008, Wed - Carla Ng, Northwestern University, Forecasting Chemical Accumulation in Systems under the Influence of Global Change (2:00 PM, Tech F211) - Group Seminar.

April 18, 2008, Fri - Daniel Ralph, Cornell University, Quantum States in Metal Nanoparticles and Single Molecules (4:00 PM, Tech L211) - Physics & Astronomy Colloquium.

April 7, 2008, Mon - Hye-Jin Youn, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, The Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks: Efficiency and Optimality Control (12:00 PM, Tech F235) - Group Seminar.

March 7, 2008, Fri - William Kath, Northwestern University, Experimentally-Constrained Computational Models of CA1 Pyramidal Neurons (4:00 PM, Tech L211) - Physics & Astronomy Colloquium.

November 30, 2007, Fri - Adilson E. Motter, Northwestern University, Network-based Manipulation of Cellular Metabolism (2:00 PM, Tech A230) - Environmental Engineering and Science Seminar.

October 23, 2007, Tue - Seth Myers, Northwestern University, Wordemics (10:00 AM, Chambers Hall) - "Dynamics and Complexity in People and Societies" Meeting.

August, 2007 - Takashi Nishikawa, Clarkson University. Takashi is visiting the group from August 6 through August 20.

August 2, 2007, Thu - Stephen Fong, Virginia Commonwealth University, Hybrid Systems Biology: Combining Computational Modeling and Experimental Evolution (14:00 PM, Tech F235) - Group Seminar.

June 5, 2007, Tue - Albert Diaz-Guilera, Universitat de Barcelona, Dynamical and Spectral Properties of Complex Networks (13:00 PM, Tech F235) - Group Seminar.

May 17, 2007, Thu - Dean Malmgren, Northwestern University, Circadian Patterns in Inter-event Statistics: a Simple Model of Human Activity (13:00 PM, Tech F235) - Group Seminar.

May 17, 2007, Thu - Eduardo Altmann, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems-Dresden, Intermittent Chaos in Billiards (12:00 PM, Tech F235) - Group Seminar.

May 16, 2007, Wed - Adilson E. Motter, New Excitements in Naked-eye Classical Physics? (12:00 PM, Tech F235) - Brown Bag Luncheon.

March 1, 2007, Thu - Muhammed Yildirim, Harvard University, Drug Target Network (2:30 PM, Tech F235) - Group Seminar.

February 23, 2007, Fri - Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, University of Notre Dame, Complex Networks: From the Web to Human Diseases (4:00 PM, Tech L211) - Physics & Astronomy Colloquium.

February 2007 - Natali Gulbahce, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Natali is visiting the group from February 13 through February 17.

December 2006 - Natali Gulbahce, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Natali is visiting the group from December 3 through December 10.

November 29, 2006, Wed - Mark Newman, University of Michigan, Complex Structures in Complex Networks (3:00 PM, Tech L211) - Physics & Astronomy Special Colloquium. Mark is visiting at Northwestern McCormick School during the Fall 2006 term.

November 21, 2006, Tue - Adilson E. Motter, On a Dynamical Systems Problem in Theoretical Physics (3:00 PM, Lunt 105) - Dynamical Systems Seminar.

October 11, 2006, Wed - Takashi Nishikawa, Southern Methodist University, Maximum Performance at Minimum Cost in Network Synchronization (10:00 AM, Tech F235) - Group Seminar. Takashi is visiting the group from October 9 through October 13.

June 1, 2006, Thu - Zoltan Oltvai, University of Pittsburgh, Functional Organization of Cellular Networks (2:00 PM, Tech F235) - Group Seminar.

May 18, 2006, Thu - Katrin Gelfert, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems-Dresden, On Equilibrium States for Non-Uniformly Hyperbolic Diffeomorphisms (3:25 PM, Cenacle Retreat and Conference Center) - Workshop on Global Dynamics Beyond Uniform Hyperbolicity. Katrin is visiting the group from May 15 through May 31.

May 12, 2006, Fri - Cynthia Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Boolean Models for Genetic Regulatory Networks (2:00 PM, Tech M416) - IGERT Nonlinear Seminar.

May 12, 2006, Fri - Charles Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pattern Formation in Systems with Competing Interactions: Stripes, Checkerboards, and Bubbles (11:00 AM, Tech F235) - Group Seminar.

May 1, 2006, Mon - Adilson E. Motter, Chaos Theory for Relativistic Dynamical Systems (4:00 PM, Tech M416) - ESAM Colloquium.

April 14, 2006, Fri - Ian Dobson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Towards Estimating the Risk of Cascading Failure Blackouts (2:00 PM, Tech M416) - IGERT Nonlinear Seminar.

April 7, 2006, Fri - Daniel Segre, Boston University, Learning about the Evolution of Biochemical Networks from Topology, Fluxes and Perturbations (2:00 PM, Tech M416) - IGERT Nonlinear Seminar.

March 31, 2006, Fri - Stanley Wasserman, Indiana University-Bloomington, Statistical Analysis for Network Science (2:00 PM, Tech M416) - IGERT Nonlinear Seminar.

March 1, 2005, Tue - Adilson E. Motter, Synchronization in Complex Networks (12:00 PM, Tech F235) - Physics & Astronomy Special Colloquium.