100 years ago, on January 16th, 1923, Ezechiel Godert David “Eddie” Cohen, the Professor Emeritus at The Rockefeller University and leader in statistical physics and nonequilibriu statistical mechanics, was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, into a Jewish family. His father, David Ezechiel Cohen, studied medicine in Amsterdam and after receiving his Ph.D. in 1913, specialized [...]
Webinar Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, April 12, 2021 Joel E. Cohen, Ph.D., Dr.P.H. Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor and Head Laboratory of Populations The Rockefeller University How Does Your Variance Change with Your Mean? And Tales of Heavy Tails Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Xu, Meng; Cohen, Joel E. (2021). Spatial [...]
Webinar Monday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Monday, November 16, 2020 Gaby Maimon, Ph.D Associate Professor and Head Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function The Rockefeller University How Brains Add Vectors Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Lyu, C., Abbott, L.F., and Maimon, G . (2020) A neuronal circuit for vector addition builds an allocentric [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Li Zhao, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Head Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics The Rockefeller University The Origin and Evolution of De Novo Genes Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Matthews, Benjamin J.; Dudchenko, Olga; Kingan, Sarah B.; et al. (2018). Improved reference genome of [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, April 27, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium David Reich Ph.D. Professor Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past Recommended Readings: Science News Jared Diamond. A Brand-New Version of Our Origin Story. (April 20, 2018). The [...]
Monday Lectures Monday October 31, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Marcello Magnasco, Ph.D. Professor, Mathematical Physics The Rockefeller University Recommended Readings: Janik VM, and Slater PJB. Vocal Learning in Mammals. Advances in the Study of Behavior, 26:59-99 1997 Request through Markus Library at librequest@rockefeller.edu Reiss D, and McCowan B. Spontaneous Vocal Mimicry and [...]
