Convening meetings, workshops, seminars, and public programs is a key part of the mission at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center promoting collaboration between campus-based faculty, ASRC faculty, theorists, and experimentalists across New York City.
The ASRC offers event and meeting spaces that can accommodate up to 100 guests for your next conference, reception, meeting, workshop, film shoot, or private event.
Join the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative in welcoming Senior Investigator, R. Andrew Byrd., NIH, Ctr. for Cancer Research, as this week's guest speaker in the Spring 2024 Biochem Seminar Series! This series takes place every Wednesday, with refreshments in the cafe at 11:30am and the seminar to follow in the auditorium at 12:00pm.
Join the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative for this monthly seminar series welcoming speakers from around the country exploring numerous topics on environmental factors in relation to neurodevelopment, the use of AI in interdisciplinary research and more.
Join the ASRC Photonics Initiative in welcoming guest speaker Kota Katsumi, New York University, for a talk titled, "Terahertz-driven nonlinear responses in cuprate superconductors," in the 1st Floor Auditorium.
Visit the webpage of the 2nd Annual NanoBioNYC Symposium The 2nd Annual NanoBioNYC Symposium will highlight CUNY student and faculty researchers making advancements in Bio-Inspired Nanoscience. This all-day, in-person event will
Join the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative in welcoming Assistant Professor Alisha Jones, New York University, as this week's guest speaker in the Spring 2024 Biochem Seminar Series! This series takes place every Wednesday, with refreshments in the cafe at 11:30am and the seminar to follow in the auditorium at 12:00pm.
Join the ASRC Photonics Initiative in welcoming Miranda Vinay, Nature Communications Engineering, for a 3-part lecture series at the ASRC!
Join the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative in welcoming Assistant Professor Daniel Keedy, CUNY ASRC- SBI, as this week's guest speaker in the Spring 2024 Biochem Seminar Series! This series takes place every Wednesday, with refreshments in the cafe at 11:30am and the seminar to follow in the auditorium at 12:00pm.
Join the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative for this month's opportunity to learn more about mental wellness and the mind from guest speakers, activities and more!
Wrap up the academic year with CUNYSciCom’s annual Communicating Your Science Symposium where students can win prizes for the best science presentations. The annual symposium challenges student scientists to present
Join the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative for this monthly seminar series welcoming speakers from around the country exploring numerous topics on environmental factors in relation to neurodevelopment, the use of AI in interdisciplinary research and more.
Zhi Ning Chen National University of Singapore Date: Friday, June 14, 2024 Time: 10:30am – 11:30am Location: 5th Fl. Data Viz Room Prior-knowledge Guided Machine-learning Enabled Metalens Antenna Design Abstract
Join us at the Advanced Science Research Center on July 18th from 3-5:30pm for STEAM activities and cold snacks! We will have revolving stations combining art, and science, and our interactive visitor center will also be open for exploration. Come explore the five initiatives with the IlluminationSpace Team!
The ASRC Neuroscience Initiative will host a Special Seminar, featuring Hala Harony-Nicolas, PhD on August 14th in the Data Visualization Room. She will present on the "Neural Circuits of Social Behavior and Their Deregulation in Shank3 Deficiency".
Peptoid Self-Assembly: from Minimal Peptoids to Cell Membrane Interactions King Hang Aaron Lau, PhD Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Materials and Bionanotechnology Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of
In this Special Seminar, Michael Yassa, PhD, will speak on some of the recent work on developing new biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease during the preclinical stage and that excitation-inhibition imbalance may be a major culprit in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease.
The ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting a special seminar on Monday September 9, featuring Associate Professor Andreas Winkler. He will be speaking on sensor-effector modularity in light-regulated diguanylate cyclases.
The ASRC Neuroscience Initiative presents Special Seminar. Aiman S. Saab, PhD will be speaking on the "Elucidating Mechanisms of Neuroglia Homeostasis and Metabolism" on September 10th in the Data Visualization Room.
Come see Associate Professor Reginald McNulty speak on the "Innovative Drug Inhibition and Unexpected Glycosylase Activity for Therapeutic Advancements" Wednesday September 11th.
Charge-Mediated Interactions Affect Enzymatic Reactions in Peptide Condensates Ayala Lampel, PhD Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv,
Light-Matter Interactions at the Nanoscale: Harmonic Generation from Metal/Vacuum Interfaces and Novel Aspects of Radiation Reaction Abstract – In noble metals a patina of free electrons extends out into free
The SBI Initiative of the ASRC presents Benjamin S. Schuster, Assistant Professor of the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, speaking on "Negative noodles, and positive ones too: Engineering intrinsically disordered proteins".
Non-Abelian Braiding with Sound and Light Abstract – Many physics laws and mathematical rules are insensitive to order. For example, the addition of numbers disregards the sequence order, e.g., 1+2+3=3+1+2.
Co-sponsored with CCNY. Using Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering to study quantum materials Abstract – Modern light sources like the NSLS-II at Brookhaven National Lab deliver bright tunable photons in a wide range
Regulating molecular assembly with chemical fuels—Spinning ribbons, dissipative structures, and an approach towards synthetic life Job Boekhoven, PhD Department of Bioscience, Technical University of Munich Abstract-Molecular self-assembly is the process
Exact formulation of the mutual particle-cavity dynamics and its use for the study of loss threshold phenomenon under magnetization Abstract – Light-matter interaction plays a pivotal role in pushing forward
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Synthesis of Interactive Peptide Nanostructures in Living Systems Tanja Weil, PhD Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany Abstract- We explore controlled chemical reactions in complex living systems to generate
Multi-Beam Antennas (MBAs) and Beam-Forming Networks (BFNs) Abstract - Distinguished Speakers Giovanni Toso and Piero Angeletti from European Space Agency, Netherlands will present the state of the art and the on-going
Join us for our rescheduled kickoff of our 2024/25 Communicating Your Science Series, which helps CUNY STEM students, postdocs and faculty bone up on their science communications skills. Sponsored by
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Come join us from 4:30-6:30 for an evening of Spooky Science at the ASRC! There will be trick or treating on every floor and themed activities!
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Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions in Complex Photonic Systems Mentor: Andrea Alù Abstract Interactions between light and matter are fundamental to breakthroughs in lasers, sensing, imaging, spectroscopy, energy harvesting, and quantum information
The Effects of Nanoconfined Liquid Properties on the Water-Responsive Behavior of Bacterial Cell Walls Abstract: Water-responsive (WR) materials have the ability to mechanically swell and shrink in response to
Terahertz probes of quantum matter: from pairing symmetry to high harmonics Quantum materials often harbor emergent orders and phases that reveal themselves at low-energy scales, around 1 to 10 meV.
Join us for an informative online workshop on Tuesday, November 19 at 2:00 pm on the application process for using facilities at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), BNL Center for Functional
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Nonlinear Photonics in the Mid-Infrared and Terahertz Abstract – Optical sensing at long wavelengths presents significant opportunities and significant challenges. The longwave infrared and terahertz ranges are renowned for their
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Dr. Mu Wang National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China Manipulating Light with Optical Metasurfaces: from
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Dr. Yang Zhao University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Imaging, Sensing, and Wearable Devices Using Nanophotonic Platforms Abstract – Personalized health emphasizes prevention and early diagnosis over solely tailoring therapies. My lab's
Dr. Levent Sevgi IEEE AP-S Former DL – DLPC Chair ITU - Istanbul Technical University (Emeritus) From Engineering Elecromagnetics to Electromagnetic Engineering:Teaching/Training Next Generations Abstract - The role of Electromagnetic
Dr. Giovanni Milione NEC Laboratories America, Inc. Vector Beams and Space Division Multiplexing Abstract – In this talk, I will overview two areas of my research at NEC Laboratories America,
Dr. Mikhail Belkin, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Dr. Giuseppe Strangi, Case Western Reserve University