The Institute Colloquium is the principal research seminar at IST Austria. Scientists from around the world and from across all disciplines of the natural sciences are invited to present their latest findings. The Institute Colloquium has an interdisciplinary flavor and is meant to be of general interest to the research community of IST Austria as well as that of Vienna and surroundings.
The Institute Colloquium takes place on Mondays at 4:30 pm in the Raiffeisen Lecture Hall of the central building.
If you want to use the free IST shuttle bus from Wien Heiligenstadt to IST Austria, please print out the invitation for the Institute Colloquium and present it to the driver.
Schedule for Fall 2011/12
- Monday, September 12, 2011
John Lisman
Brandeis University
Network and Molecular Mechanisms of Memory
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- Monday, October 3, 2011
Paul Schmid-Hempel
ETH Zurich
Why are parasites so interesting?
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- Monday, October 10, 2011
Jean-François Raskin
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Hybrid automata: modeling and reachability analysis
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- Monday, October 24, 2011
Pascal Fries
Ernst Strüngmann Institute in Cooperation with Max Planck Society
Inter-areal synchronization and attention
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- Monday, November 7, 2011
Mike Boots
University of Sheffield
Ecology and the evolution of infectious disease:
space, red queen and red king
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- Monday, November 14, 2011
Martin Ackermann
ETH Zurich
Beyond Nature and Nurture:
An Evolutionary Perspective on Bacterial Individuality
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- Monday, November 21, 2011
Markus Gross
ETH Zurich
Modeling and Animation for Entertainment
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- Monday, December 5, 2011
Dieter Ebert
University of Basel
Genetics of antagonistic coevolution
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- Monday, December 12, 2011
Lance Davidson
University of Pittsburgh
Reverse engineering the physical mechanics of embryonic morphogenesis
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Anton Zeilinger
University of Vienna / Austrian Academy of Sciences
Information and the Foundations of Quantum Physics
Download Invitation - Monday, January 9, 2012
Edo Kussell
New York University
Populations in Lineage Perspective
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- Monday, January 16, 2012
Richard Benton
University of Lausanne
The evolving social network of Drosophila
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- Monday, January 23, 2012
Jacobus J. Boomsma
University of Copenhagen
Life-time commitment and the evolution of altruism and mutualism
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- Monday, January 30, 2012
Valentina Emiliani
Université de Paris Descartes (Paris 5)
Two photon optogenetics
Download Invitation - Cancelled: Monday, February 6, 2012
Ian S. Osborne
Senior Editor, Science Magazine
Physics in Science Magazine – Hot areas, spotting trends,
and finding surprises
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Titles and abstracts of past Institute Colloquia can be found on the old schedule.