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- Ralph Baldwin Prize in Astrophysics and Space Science: Accreting Black Holes: Blasts from the Past
- PHYSICS 391 OPEN HOUSE CELEBRATION: Introduction to Modern Physics Laboratory
- COLLEGIATE PROFESSORSHIP INAUGURAL LECTURE: Heat Rises: 100 Years of Rayleigh-BĂ©nard Convection
- CANCELLED Due to Travel Issues from East Coast Blizzard! ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM: Global Radiation MHD Simulations of Black Hole Accretion Disks
- MICHIGAN THEATER SCIENCE ON SCREEN: Physicist Tim Chupp Presents After Documentary
- <b>ICAM EMERGENCE SYMPOSIUM 2015</b><Br>Emergence: Compelling Examples and Unifying Approaches
- <b>SPECIAL SEMINAR</b><Br>Electrically Controlled Quibits in Silicon
- <b>SPECIAL COSMOLOGY SEMINAR</b><br>Testing Gravity Using Galaxy Redshift Surveys and CMB
- <b>COSMOLOGY - ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Evading Non-Linearities: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at the Linear Point
- Cosmology - Asrophysics Seminar: Evading Non-Linearities: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at the Linear Point (Wed, 14 Oct 2015)
- <b>COSMOLOGY - ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR</b><br>Cosmic Microwave Background Power Asymmetry and Non-Gaussianity
- <b>SPECIAL COSMOLOGY SEMINAR</b><br>CMB Cosmology with ACT, Planck and ACTPol
- SPECIAL COSMOLOGY SEMINAR
- <b>SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE<br>From the Big Bang to the End of the Time: Scientific Creativity and the Limits of Knowledge</b>
- <b>DPF2015</b>
- <b>Strongly Correlated Topological Insulators: SmB6 and Beyond Conference</b>
- SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE<br>Cooking up Cosmology with the Dark Energy Detectives
- <i>Jeweled Net of the Vast Invisible:<br> an experience of dark matter</i><br>Live Performance and Preview
- DES @ Michigan Collaboration Meeting
- SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE<br>2015 Ralph B. Baldwin Award Lecture in Astrophysics and Space Sciences<br><b>Featuring: Physics Alumnus<br>Dr. Tomasz Biesiadzinski</b><br><i>Unbiasing Cosmological Surveys</i></b>
- <b>2015 Distinguished University Innovator Award<br><i>An Academic's Adventures in Business</i></b>
- ASTRONOMY MEETING<br>Compact Objects in Michigan
- ASTRONOMY<br>Undergraduate Poster Session
- Special Physics Related Event<br><i>Orbit Design</i> - Featuring Pre-Performance Talk by Professor Robert Savit</b>
- Dissertation Defense: Vibrational Probe and Methods Development for Studying the Ultrafast Dynamics of Preferential Solvation of Biomolecules by 2D-IR
- Watch Space Jam Movie, Post Movie Physics of Basketball and Cartoon Physics Talk with Professor Tim Chupp
- 2015 HENRY RUSSEL LECTURE<br>Featuring Professor Homer A. Neal<br><i>Beyond Sputnik: Challenges Facing America's National Science Policies</i>
- BIOCOMPLEXITY SEMINAR<br>Two Vignettes in Computational Neuroscience: From Data to Models
- 2015 APS CONFERENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN IN PHYSICS
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- BIOCOMPLEXITY SEMINAR<br>Network Analysis of Structure-Function Relationships in Neurobiology
- TA-YOU WU LECTURE IN PHYSICS<br>The Universe: Continuing Surprises
- BIOCOMPLEXITY SEMINAR <br> The Dynamics of Calcium: Oscillations and Waves, Experiments and Theory
- MIRA & MCTP Sponsored Presentation<br><i>Stars with Neutron Cores</i>
- Special MCTP Theory Seminar<br><i>A Twistor View of String Theory</i>
- SPECIAL CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR<br>Topological Soft Matter: From Linkages to Kink
- 2014 Decentralization Conference
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- The Department of Physics Graduation and Awards Ceremony
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Oscillations in the cytoplasmic concentration of calcium is one of the most ubiquitous cellular signalling mechanisms, being used to control a wide variety of cellular processes, including muscular contraction, fluid transport, gene expression and cell differentiation. In cells that are large enough, these oscillations can form periodic waves, or even spiral waves, of increased calcium concentration.
Because of such complex dynamics, over the past 20 years mathematical modelling has played an important role in the study of calcium signalling. I shall present an overview of the field, as well as a more in-depth look at a small number of particular questions. In particular, I shall look at the properties of isolated and periodic waves of calcium, the importance of homogenisation and microdomains, the role of Markov Chain Monte Carlo approaches to fitting single-channel data, and the possible importance of homoclinic bifurcations for understanding some of the most recent experimental results. Each of these topics will require a detailed consideration of experimental data, thus illustrating the close interplay between theoretical and experimental approaches.
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