What underlies the ability to deal with numbers and where did it come from? It has been hypothesized that our ability to accurately represent the number of objects in a set (numerousness), and to carry out numerical comparisons and arithmetic, develope...

Prof. Thiago Monteiro Araujo dos Santos, PhD, Northeastern University presents: Pushing the (bacterial cell) envelope https://cos.northeastern.edu/people/thiago-monteiro-araujo-dos-santos/

Speaker: Masud Haque (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik TU Dresden, Germany) Abstract: Understanding the statistical mechanics of isolated (quantum) systems is a topic of widespread current interest. In this effort, an inescapable issue is the definiti...

Animal models of associative threat learning provide a basis for understanding human fears and anxiety. This talk explores the successes and failures in translating the neural mechanisms of threat processing identified in animal models to complex human...

College of Science undergraduate students are invited to participate in a Pitch Competition where you can pitch your entrepreneurial or research idea and compete for prizes. Register and submit your proposal by Thursday, March 20.

While race-related stress has long been recognized as a key contributor to health disparities, relatively little is known about its potential associations with neural function. This represents a critical gap, as the brain orchestrates responses to chro...

Bridge to Calculus invites Boston Public School high school students to participate in Calculus Field Day 2025, an event designed to foster mathematical excellence through collaborative problem solving and competitive challenges. Teams of three will co...

The May Institute is an advanced training event focused on the computational and statistical aspects of quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomics. It offers a combination of keynote presentations, introductory lectures, hands-on training, and inf...

Speaker: James Gleeson (Professor of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, MACSI, University of Limerick, Ireland) Title: Branching-process models for information spread Date: Monday, April 28th , 2025 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm Location: Seminar room EXP-610...

Graduating Science Huskies, friends, and family – celebrate your achievements at the College of Science Celebration on May 9, 2025. It promises to be a day filled with pride, joy, and shared accomplishments and will feature speeches from faculty,...