Dr. Gregory Valiant's research explores how to extract as much information as possible from data, with a focus on understanding the interplay between the accuracy of the extracted information and various factors such as the amount of available data, the quality/reliability of the data, the amount of memory that is available to process the data, etc. One of the main themes in Dr.
Home Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Brian Knutson
Talk Title: Incentive Processing in the Aging Brain: Neural Responsiveness to Anticipated Gain and Loss
Event: Gerontological Society of America 2006
Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer McNab
Talk Title: Comparison of Double Diffusion Encoding and NODDI
Event: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 25th Annual Meeting - Grant also presented a PowerPitch titled “Visualizing Axonal Damage in Multiple Sclerosis Using Double Diffusion Encoding MRI in a Clinical Setting”, which received a Magna Cum Laude Merit award, given to abstracts that score in the top 15% within a major subject review category.
Dr. Grant Rotskoff's research focuses on theoretical and computational approaches to "mesoscale" biophysics. Many of the cellular phenomena that we consider the hallmarks of living systems occur at the scale of hundreds or thousands of proteins. Processes like the self-assembly of organelle-sized structures, the dynamics of cell division, and the transduction of signals from the environment to the machinery of the cell are not macroscopic phenomena—they are the result of a fluctuating, nonequilibrium dynamics.
