Lunch & Learn

Lunch & Learn is the weekly seminar hosted by GT PoLS. Each Thursday during the regular semester, volunteer speakers from the Georgia Tech PoLS node give talks explaining their research to the rest of the PoLS community. The talks are scheduled to demonstrate the diversity of science represented at PoLS, with all participating groups regularly providing speakers. A free catered lunch is provided for all attendees who come to hear the talk.

Speaking slots are provided to graduate students, undergraduates, and postdocs. The research presented at Lunch & Learn does not need to be complete, and “works in progress” are encouraged. Lunch & Learn is an opportunity for speakers to present their developing stories to the community, where students may practice explaining their work to a crowd with diverse scientific backgrounds. Lunch & Learn is a lively and collaborative seminar, and constructive questions from the audience are common and encouraged.

Please find the schedule of upcoming talks in the table below. Unless otherwise noted, talks take place on the second floor of the Howey Physics Building, in the combined conference room N201/N202. Lunch is served at 12:00, followed by an hour-long talk beginning at 12:30.

Fall 2024 Lunch & Learn Schedule

Date	Speaker	Lab	Title
8/29	Sunny Kumar	Bhamla	Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots
9/5	Tony Lemos	Kim	DNA Conformations at Short and Long Length Scales
9/12	Chris Pierce	Goldman	Modeling Lateral Undulation in Heterogeneous Terrain
9/19	Ray Copeland	Yunker	Beta Lactam Resistance via Beta Lactamase Inverts Cooperator Cheater Dynamics Despite Privatization
9/26	No Lunch & Learn—Weather Cancellation
10/3	Ethan Wold	Sponberg	Supra-resonant oscillations in insects
10/10	Jianfeng Lin	Goldman	Effects of local and coupled body elasticity in overdamped undulatory locomotion
10/17	Tuhin Chakrabortty	Bhamla	Controlling noisy herds
10/24	Varun Sharma	Sponberg	Moths to a flame: A deep dive into how insects are entrapped by artificial light
10/31	Tianyu Wang	Goldman	Mechanical intelligence simplifies limbless locomotion control in complex terrestrial and aquatic environments
11/7	Emma Bingham	Yunker	Emergent structure enables lab-evolved multicellular organisms to overcome nutrient diffusion limits
11/14	Vincent Fan	Gumbart	Altering Hepatitis B Virus Capsid Assembly through Pharmacological Intervention
11/21	Soohwan Kim	Hu
11/28	No Lunch & Learn—Thanksgiving Break
12/5	No Lunch & Learn—1st Day of Finals