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.

Thank you for joining for “Emergent Simplicities in the Living Histories of Organisms”, an APS-DBIO Invited Symposium Session at the 2025 APS March / Global Physics Meeting.

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; Ralf Bundschuh; Sean Crosson; 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; Suckjoon Jun; Marc Kirschner; Rejji Kuruvilla; Gene-Wei Li; L Mahadevan; Kalpana Mandal; Wallace Marshall; Kristi Montooth; Brian Munsky; Armita Nourmohammad; Jayson Paulose; Manu Prakash; Hong Qian; Guillermina Ramirez-San Juan; Raphael Sarfati; Eugene Shakhnovich; Peter Sterling; Ali Tabei; Arpita Upadhyaya; Madhu Venkadesan; Kirsty Wan; Dave Weitz; Ned Wingreen; and Jie Xiao

The Living Futures Advisory Group: Profs. Rana Ashkar, Rosemary Braun, Arup Chakraborty, Jaci Conrad, Thierry Emonet, Laura Finzi, Sharon Gerbode, Irene Giardina, James Glazier, Jeremy Gunawardena, Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Margaret Johnson, Gant Luxton, Natasha Mhatre, Kristi Montooth, Vivek Prakash, Flora Rutaganira, Jen Schwarz, Eugene Shakhnovich, Howard Stone, Arpita Upadhyaya 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.