You are cordially invited to the next Distinguished Lecture in
Computational Science, to be given by Erik Winfree of Caltech. Please
note that this colloquium will be on Thursday afternoon.
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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.
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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
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