COSAM Interdisciplinary Colloquium

2020 - 2021

Fall Semester

- September 1st, 2020

• Cancelled due to COVID-19 

- October 6th, 2020

• Stephen Williams (Physics) - Filamentation in Highly Magnetized Plasmas
• Tarfi Aziz (Chemistry & Biochemistry) - Investigating a novel protein-based cofactor: toward elucidating the catalase mechanism of KatG

- November 10th, 2020

• Jiaqi Cheng (Mathematics & Statistics) - The lottery model for ecological competition in non-stationary environments
• Maria Amarakristi Onyido (Mathematics & Statistics) - Principal Spectral Theory of Nonlocal Dispersal equations with almost periodic dependence 

Spring Semester

- February 2nd, 2021

• Cancelled

- March 2nd, 2021

• John Vaughan (Physics) - Probing temporal aspects of laser-assisted photoionization
• Sukanya Dagupta (Geosciences) - Utilizing Google Earth Engine to measure landcover and land use change of Trivandrum, a coastal city in India 
• Nitish Kunte (Biological Sciences) - Branched Amphiphilic peptide capsules (BAPC) derived mRNA complexes: A study of Biophysical Properties and transfection Efficiency

- April 6th, 2021

• Jahangir Alam (Chemistry & Biochemistry) - Genome Mining, Homology Modeling, and Molecular Docking Studies Unraveled Functional Roles of Secondary Metabolite Associated Cytochrome P450s in Bacillus Species 
• Mariam Khachatryan (Mathematics & Statistics) - Blow-ups for Fractional Reaction-Diffusion Equations
• Prosenjit Ray (Chemistry & Biochemistry) - Mechanistic and Biosynthetic Studies of Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence