In place of the IIC Colloquium this week, Erik Winfree of Caltech will present the second Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science. Please note that this colloquium will be on Thursday afternoon. ********** Systematic Construction of Nucleic Acid Circuits for Cell-Free, Enzyme- Free Environments Thursday, March 4, 4:00 pm Room G-115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge Erik Winfree, Associate Professor in Computer Science, Computation & Neural Systems and Bioengineering California Institute of Technology Abstract In an attempt to understand how molecularly encoded information can guide chemical processes and create complex structures and behaviors, we study what may be the conceptually simplest example of information- based chemistry: synthetic DNA, by itself, in a test tube. The design space is remarkably rich. In this talk, I will show how arbitrary digital and analog circuits can be constructed. Both theoretical principles and experimental implementations will be presented. About the Speaker Erik Winfree is an Associate Professor in Computer Science, Computation & Neural Systems and Bioengineering at Caltech. He is the recipient of the Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology (2006), the NSF PECASE/CAREER Award (2001), the ONR Young Investigators Award (2001), a MacArthur Fellowship (2000), Tulip prize in DNA Computing, and Technology Review's first TR100 list of "top young innovators" (1999). Prior to joining the faculty at Caltech in 1999, Winfree was a Lewis Thomas Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Biology at Princeton and a Visiting Scientist at the MIT AI Lab. Winfree received a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Chicago in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Computation & Neural Systems from Caltech in 1998. --------------- Ice cream at 3:30 p.m., Maxwell Dworkin 2nd floor lobby Mark your calendar for these upcoming talks: Mar. 8, noon: Patrik Jonsson, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (SciGPU Seminar) Mar 10, 4:00 pm: Michael F. Huerta, Associate Director, National Institute of Mental Health (Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science) Mar. 24, 4:00 pm: Pat Hanrahan, CANON USA Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford (Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science) March 31, 4:00 pm: Ben Fry, design and software consultant (IIC Colloquium) For more information about IIC colloquia and other events: http://iic.harvard.edu/events/upcoming _______________________________________________ iic-colloquium mailing list iic-colloquium(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.deas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-colloquium