Hot Topics in Bionanoscience ('Meet-the-speaker')

Course description: Speakers from all over the world are invited to present pedagogical introductions to their field with an emphasis on basic concepts. Apart from an introductory lecture, the participants of this course will have an additional discussion with the invited speaker. During that extra hour, they will discuss a recent paper and the holy grails of the field.

The first hour is a lecture and open for everyone to attend (in this case this BN seminar at 12:30-14:00h, "Plenty of room at the top: integrative insights from the physics of animal behavior"). The second hour is reserved as a discussion hour with the lecturer for the registered class of PhD students and postdocs.

Audience: Registered PhD students and postdocs (see registration form below).

Credits: Those participants who attended (pro-actively) two Hot Topics sessions will be awarded 1 Graduate School Credit (GSC). Thus this session will 'count' for 0.5 GSC.

Preparation: PhD students who have registered for the Hot Topics course need to prepare for the session by reading the articles listed below. 

Date: Friday 8 September 2023

Speaker: Greg Stephens (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
Greg Stephens is an associate professor of physics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and an adjunct professor at OIST Graduate University in Japan. His lab is pioneering a new field - the physics of behavior: from individual organisms to entire societies.

Host: Marianne Bauer

Required reading: Participants are required to prepare for this session by reading the following papers (also as download-able files below):

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Abstract of the BN seminar: tba

Registration
You can register for the course by filling in the form below. Your place at the course will be confirmed via email before the start of the Hot Topics session. In case there are too many registrants, a selection will be made based on first-come-first-served.