GSNP Student Speaker Award Session and Applications of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics in the Life Sciences

Presentations

• Self-Assembly of Spherical Colloidal Particles at Low N

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 11:15 AM – March 16, 2009, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Natalie Arkus

    • Harvard University

  • Vinothan Manoharan

    • Harvard University

  • Michael Brenner

    • Harvard University

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• Liquid to solid nucleation through onion-structure droplets

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 11:27 AM – March 16, 2009, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Kipton Barros

    • Boston University

  • William Klein

    • Boston University

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• Universal Scaling Relation Near Point J

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 11:39 AM – March 16, 2009, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Thomas Haxton

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania

  • Andrea Liu

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania

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• Exact results for currents in nonadiabatic stochastic pumps

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 11:51 AM – March 16, 2009, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Jordan Horowitz

    • University of Maryland

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• A continuous time random walk description of the hopping dynamics in an aging polymer glass

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:03 PM – March 16, 2009, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Mya Warren

    • University of British Columbia

  • Joerg Rottler

    • University of British Columbia

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• On the Mass Distribution of Animal Species

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:15 PM – March 16, 2009, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Sidney Redner

    • Boston University

  • Aaron Clauset

    • Sante Fe Institute

  • David Schwab

    • Department of Physics, UCLA
    • UCLA

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• Epidemic spread in coupled populations with seasonally varying migration rates

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:27 PM – March 16, 2009, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Adam Muzyczyn

  • Leah B. Shaw

    • The College of William and Mary
    • College of William and Mary

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• Blasting and Zipping: Sequence Alignment and Mutual Information

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:39 PM – March 16, 2009, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Orion Penner

    • Complexity Science Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary

  • Peter Grassberger

    • Complexity Science Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary and Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics.

  • Maya Paczuski

    • Complexity Science Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary

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• Competition For Resources in a Model for Protein Synthesis

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:51 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Larry Cook

    • Virginia Tech

  • Royce Zia

    • Virginia Tech
    • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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• Estimating currents in totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with extended particles and inhomogeneous hopping rates.

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:03 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Royce Zia

    • Virginia Tech
    • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  • Jiajia Dong

    • Hamline University

  • B. Schmittmann

    • Physics Department, Virginia Tech
    • Virginia Tech
    • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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• An information geometric approach to least squares minimization

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:15 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Mark Transtrum

  • Benjamin Machta

  • James Sethna

    • LASSP, Cornell University

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• Large-Scale Organization of Glycosylation Networks

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:27 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Pan-Jun Kim

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Dong-Yup Lee

    • National University of Singapore

  • Hawoong Jeong

    • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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• Network dynamics mediated by heterogeneous topology as related to hippocampal memory management

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:39 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Jane Wang

    • Applied Physics, UM, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Gina Poe

    • Anesthesiology, UMMS, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Michal Zochowski

    • Physics, UM, Ann Arbor, MI

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• The topological structure of a network formed during simulations of a reversible polymeric gel

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:51 PM – March 16, 2009, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • M. Wilson

    • SDSU

  • J. Billen

    • SDSU

  • A. Baljon

    • San Diego State University
    • San Diego State University, San Diego CA 92182
    • SDSU

  • A. Rabinovitch

    • Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev

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• Generalized fractional Fokker-Planck equation for anomalous diffusion

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 2:03 PM – March 16, 2009, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Alex Veksler

    • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

  • Rony Granek

    • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

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