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  • Physical Sciences & Engineering

  • Events 

    Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

    Gotham-Metro Condensed Matter Meeting

    Keynote Speakers: Sidney Nagel (University of Chicago) and David Goldhaber-Gordon (Stanford University)

    Graduate students in condensed matter physics have come together to organize this biannual conference. Students, postdocs and faculty should come to share ideas and research with fellow physicists training and working in the NYC Metropolitan Area.

    January 12 - April 6, 2010

    Idea to IPO: The Technology Venture Course (12 weeks)

    Lead Instructor: David Anthony (21 Ventures, LLC) and additional guest lecturers (TBA)

    A course for those in science and technology who want to know how to take the right idea from the bench to the marketplace.

    Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM

    New York Structural Biology Discussion Group - 5th Winter meeting

    Organizers: David Eliezer (Weill Medical College of Cornell University), David Stokes (NYU School of Medicine), and Hao Wu (Weill Medical College of Cornell University)

    The New York Area Structural Biology Discussion Group convenes twice annually and presents talks and poster sessions from graduate students, postdocs, and laboratory heads.

  • Past Events

    Monday, November 9, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

    Can Markets Undergo Phase Transitions?

    Speaker: Lisa Borland, PhD (Evnine and Associates)

    Dr. Lisa Borland applies methods from theoretical physics to understand the dynamics of financial markets. At this symposium, she will present her recent work “Statistical Signatures in Times of Panic: Markets as a Self-Organizing System”.

    Thursday, October 15, 2009 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

    Green Building Solutions: What's Working? Considering the Brains Behind a Smart Building

    Speakers: Gregory Provan (University of Cork), Kurt Roth (Fraunhofer Center for for Sustainable Energy Systems), Stephen Samouhos (MIT), and Jane Snowdon (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)

    Advances toward low-energy buildings depend on advances in building system controls. This meeting will highlight case studies demonstrating state-of-the art technologies in building controls systems and performance data collection and analysis.

    July 8 - 9, 2009

    4th Annual New Energy Symposium

    Expert panels will discuss business opportunities and challenges in solar energy and energy storage, and entrepreneurs will pitch their business plans to a panel of investors and financial industry experts.

    Friday, June 12, 2009 | 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM

    3rd Annual Advances in Biomolecular Engineering: Protein Design Symposium

    Organizers: Jin Ryoun Kim (Polytechnic Institute of New York University), Ronald L. Koder (The City College of New York/CUNY), Jin K. Montclare (Polytechnic Institute of New York University) and Vikas Nanda (Rutgers University)

    The New York Academy of Sciences' Physical Sciences and Engineering Program, in conjunction with Polytechnic Institute of NYU and The City College of New York/CUNY, will host a day-long symposium focusing on protein design, a subject that lies at the interface of chemistry, biology, engineering and computer science.

  • Publications 

    eBriefing

    Something Borrowed, Something New: Drug Discovery Approaches in Chemical Biology

    Speakers: John Koh (University of Delaware), Akira Kawamura (Hunter College, City University of New York), and Tom Kodadek (The Scripps Research Institute)

    From traditional Asian herbs to high-tech computational approaches, chemical biologists are using everything in their arsenal to identify promising new drug candidates.

    eBriefing

    Trends in Chemical Biology 2009: Year-End Meeting of the Chemical Biology Discussion Group

    Keynote Speaker: Adrian Whitty (Boston University)

    In this new eBriefing, graduate students and postdocs from chemical biology labs around the New York area describe efforts to find and synthesize molecules that bind to proteins or DNA in useful ways.

    eBriefing

    Regenerative Medicine: Progress in Stem Cell and Transplantation Research

    Organizers: Anthony Atala (Wake Forest University), Stacie Bloom (New York Academy of Sciences), Yilin Cao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Anita Chong (The University of Chicago), Stefanie Dimmeler (University of Frankfurt), Michael P. Sheetz (Columbia University), Qiming Zhan (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences), Alex Zhang (Sanofi Aventis), Chunhua Zhao (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences)

    A recent international conference in Beijing focused on exciting developments in fields like stem cell biology, tissue engineering, and xenotransplantation. A new eBriefing documents the event.

    eBriefing

    Shortening the Food Chain: Farming in the City

    Speakers: Cynthia Rosenzweig (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Dickson Despommier (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health), Ted Caplow (BrightFarm Systems)

    As a new eBriefing reports, climate change impacts, population growth, rapid urbanization, food safety concerns, and the destructive nature of conventional agriculture together argue for pursuing sustainable agriculture in cities.

    eBriefing

    Zero Net Energy Buildings: Reality or Fiction?

    A four-part series on sustainable building design.

    The fourth and final event in this series focused on how financial incentives and valuation can promote sustainable building. Our eBriefing documents the entire series.

  • Webinar Archives

    Webinar Archive
    April 28, 2009

    Protein Kinases: Structure-Guided Drug Discovery

    Protein kinases play a key role in almost every major pathway in eukaryotic cells. Structural approaches, including a new method called fragment-based drug design, are identifying potential targets against diseases including cancer.

    Webinar Archive
    April 22, 2009

    Zero Net Energy Buildings: Reality or Fiction?: Recommendations from the WBCSD Report

    Green architects and engineers are working to balance energy consumption and generation at the level of individual buildings. But how do we define "zero" energy, and how can we reach this goal?