Journal Club (Fall 2023) - Schedule

Meetings are held Wednesdays from 5:00-6:00 pm at Dirac 216

Theme: Legends of Biomath

Date	Speaker	Topic	Score
08/30		Hurricane Day
09/06	Bhargav Karamched	Informational Meeting
09/13	Bhargav Karamched	John J. Tyson: Sniffers, buzzers, toggles, and blinkers: dynamics of regulatory and signaling pathways in the cell	Paper: 4.6 Person: 5
09/20	Noel Milam	Natalia Komarova: Drug resistance in cancer: Principles of emergence and prevention	Paper: 4.13 Person: 4.75
09/27	Tristen Jackson	Jack D. Cowan: A Mathematical Theory of Visual Hallucination Patterns	Paper: 3.56 Person: 4.78
10/04	Nicole Bruce	Réka Albert: Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks
10/11
10/18	I-ting Lee
10/25	Chris Ryzowicz	Michael C. Mackey: Oscillation and Chaos in Physiological Control Systems
11/01	Ian Bridges	Robert Rosen: Abstract Biological Systems as Sequential Machines
11/08	Richard Bertram	John Rinzel: A Formal Classification of Bursting Mechanisms in Excitable Systems
11/15	Sarah Williams
11/22		Thanksgiving Break
11/29	James Thornham
12/06
12/13		Finals Week

 

Previous Semesters Papers/Books:

Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023

 

Scoring for each paper/person is based on Journal Club attendees’ personal judgment.

Each journal clubber rates a given paper on a scale from 1 to 5,

with “5” being “Highly Competitive” and “1” being “Not Competitive”.

A paper’s recorded “Score” is the average of these individual scores.

Papers’ evaluation for the Bellman prize is based on the following criteria:

1) Significance,

2) Readability and

3) Clarity of objective.

Similarly, each person is rated on a scale from 1 to 5 based on their impact on the field

of biomathematics, with “5” being “Highly Impactful” and “1” being “Not Impactful”.