Living Histories

Living Histories talks: Brief “trajectory talks” during a virtual Happy Hour gathering*, showcasing personal histories leading to the becoming of biological physicists / quantitative biologists / neuroscientists / complexity scientists. RSVP here for the live series.
Full collection of past Living Histories talks.

Living Futures essays: A Living Histories initiative, this essay series serves to complement and contrast with the talks. In each essay contribution:
• Words: A personal essay in ~1000 words (= a picture worth!) describing the contributor's journey to / from academia, and hopes and dreams for where the journey may take them in future.
• Art: Evocative (original) artwork integrated into the essay, also by the contributor.
Full collection of past Living Futures essays.

Please join us — in person! — for “Emergent Simplicities in the Living Histories of Organisms”, an APS-DBIO Invited Symposium Session at the 2025 APS March / Global Physics Meeting, featuring 5 stimulating talks!

Join us in #RelivingHistories through the eyes of the audience and past Living Histories speakers! This and more direct engagements with community via @theLHSeries and @thelhseries.bsky.social, follow us!

Thank you for joining us — in person! — for the “The Living Histories of Ideas”, an APS-GSNP Invited Symposium Session at the 2023 APS March Meeting, featuring 5 exceptional speakers & stimulating talks!

The Living Histories Series is a 100% community service effort and 100% unfunded. The Living Histories Series does not do traditional press.

Series concept: Srividya Iyer-Biswas

Current and Past Organizers: Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Jasmine Nirody, Charlie Wright, Tapa Bhattacharjee, Irene Giardina, Jean Carlson, Erin Goley, Sarah Veatch, Orit Peleg, Chantal Nguyen and Olga Shishkov

The Living Histories Trust: Profs./ Drs. Rana Ashkar; Dani Bassett; Sean Crosson; Gene-Wei Li; Hong Qian; Jean Carlson; Raissa D'Souza; Michael Elowitz; James Ferrell; Laura Finzi; Irene Giardina; Sean Gibbons; James Glazier; Nigel Goldenfeld; Teresa Head-Gordon; Christine Jacobs-Wagner; Marc Kirschner; Rejji Kuruvilla; L Mahadevan; Kalpana Mandal; Wallace Marshall; Kristi Montooth; Brian Munsky; Armita Nourmohammad; Jayson Paulose; Manu Prakash; Guillermina Ramirez-San Juan; Eugene Shakhnovich; Ali Tabei; Arpita Upadhyaya; Madhu Venkadesan; Kirsty Wan; Dave Weitz; Ned Wingreen; and Jie Xiao

The Living Futures Advisory Group: Profs. Rana Ashkar, Arup Chakraborty, Jaci Conrad, Thierry Emonet, Laura Finzi, James Glazier, Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Margaret Johnson, Gant Luxton, Natasha Mhatre, Vivek Prakash, Flora Rutaganira, Jen Schwarz and Dr Georgia Squyres

© Srividya Iyer-Biswas

*We thank the American Physical Society’s Division of Biological Physics (APS-DBIO) for associating with the monthly Happy Hr from inception through January 2022.