The “Boston Chaos Club” is an interdisciplinary seminar series about nonlinear dynamics and complex systems in biomedicine. It is jointly organized by Dr. Ary L. Goldberger (Director, Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School) and Dr. Thomas S. Deisboeck (Director, Complex Biosystems Modeling Laboratory, Harvard-MIT (HST) Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging) and sponsored by PhysioNet (NIH/NCRR funded Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals). If you would like to be on the mailing list to receive announcements of upcoming seminars please send an email directly to kjohnso3@bidmc.harvard.edu.
| DATE | TOPIC | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 14, 2006 | An Allometric Scaling Approach to Biomedical Problems | Van Savage, Ph. D. | Harvard Medical School |
| May 15, 2006 | The Human Disease Network | Albert-László Barabási, Ph.D. | University of Notre Dame |
| March 08, 2006 | Complexity, Chaos and Fractals in Physiology | Ary L. Goldberger, M.D. | Harvard Medical School |
| February 9, 2005 | Multicellularity: Collapse of Complexity in Cell Fate Regulation and Cohort Migration | Sui Huang, MD, PhD | Harvard Medical School |
| November 17, 2004 | Measuring the Complexity of Biological Systems | Chung-Kang Peng, PhD | Harvard Medical School |
| October 06, 2004 | Beyond Homeostasis: Complexity, Chaos and Fractals in Physiology | Ary L. Goldberger, M.D. | Harvard Medical School |
| January 20, 2004 | Endothelium and Sepsis Pathophysiology: Lessons on the Shortcomings of Reductionism | William C. Aird, M.D. | Harvard Medical School |
| October 7, 2003 | Beyond Homeostasis: Complexity, Chaos and Fractals in Physiology | Ary L. Goldberger, M.D. | Harvard Medical School |
| March 27, 2003 | Linguistic Analysis of Complex Physiologic Signals | Chung-Kang Peng, Ph.D. | Harvard Medical School |
| January 21, 2003 | Chaotic Mixing Deep in the Lung | Akira Tsuda, Ph.D. | Harvard School of Public Health |
| December 3, 2002 | Complexity and Genomics: An Integrative Approach to Mammalian Cell Fate Regulation | Sui Huang, MD, PhD | Harvard Medical School |
| October 2, 2002 | Chaos Theory, Complexity and Fractals in Biomedicine: An Introduction | Ary L. Goldberger, M.D. | Harvard Medical School |
| May 14, 2002 | Bistable Neural Oscillators: A Tale of Two States | David Paydarfar, M.D. | University of Massachusetts Medical School |
| March 7, 2002 | The Structural and Mechanical Complexity of Cell Functional Control | Donald Ingber, M.D. Ph.D. | Harvard Medical School |
| January 14, 2002 | Ticks and Tocks of Nonlinear Clocks: Dynamics of Lyme Disease | Tamara Awerbuch, Ph.D. | Harvard School of Public Health |
| December 12, 2001 | Challenging Physics Problems in Biology: Noise, Self-Organization, and Pattern Formation | Alexander van Oudenaarden, Ph.D. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| November 5, 2001 | Chaos, Complexity, and Nonlinear Signaling: Finding Hidden Information in Clinical and Basic Data | Ary L. Goldberger, M.D. | Harvard Medical School |
| May 23, 2001 | Complexity Loss and the Biology of Aging | Lewis Lipsitz, M.D., & Ary L. Goldberger, M.D. | Harvard Medical School |
| April 5, 2001 | Dynamical vs. Genetic Diseases: What Do Complex Rhythms Reveal About Pathophysiology | Leon Glass, Ph.D. | McGill University |
| February 5, 2001 | How the Immune System Adapts to Complex Challenges: The Roles of Distributed Information and Multiple Feedback Loops | Lee Segel, Ph.D. | Weizmann Institute |
| December 13, 2000 | Nonlinear DNAmics: Designer Gene Networks | James J. Collins, Ph.D. | Boston University |
| December 13, 2000 | Mining Highly Evolved Networks for Genome Engineering | George M. Church, Ph.D. | Harvard Medical School |
| October 25, 2000 | Homeostasis Reconsidered: Introduction to Complexity, Fractals, and Chaos Theory for the Medical Sciences | Ary L. Goldberger, M.D., & C-K Peng, Ph.D. | Harvard Medical School |
| September 26, 2000 | Brain Architecture and Alzheimer’s Disease | H. Eugene Stanley, Ph.D. | Boston University |
| September 26, 2000 | Noise-Enhanced Sensory Function in Aging, Diabetes, and Stroke | James J. Collins, Ph.D. | Boston University |
| September 26, 2000 | Human Gait in Health, Aging, and Parkinson’s Disease | Ary L. Goldberger, M.D. | Harvard Medical School |