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SUMMARY:Patterns in the Primes
DESCRIPTION:Whole numbers are made up of a product of prime numbers\, much like molecules are made up of atoms. Prime numbers are the fundamental constituent parts of whole numbers\, and each whole number equals its own unique product of primes\, like DNA identifies an individual. Prime numbers have always been an important area of study for mathematicians\, as will be discussed in this talk. \nPrime numbers have intrigued mathematicians\, amateur and professional alike\, for thousands of years. Some of the most pertinent questions today probably stem from classical times. In this lecture\, Dr. Granville will discuss some well-known patterns in the primes and explain some of the latest progress. The latest research makes headway into some of the oldest conundrums\, often using methods that are quite surprising. \nProfessor Granville has been a research professor in the United States (Georgia)\, Canada (Montreal)\, and the UK (London)\, working mostly in his beloved subject of number theory. He has been an expert on Fermat’s Last Theorem\, the abc conjecture and now prime numbers. He is the author of over one hundred research papers\, many expository articles and forthcoming books\, including a graphic novel about doing research in mathematics. He is renowned for helping nurture young talent\, including several of the world’s leading number theoretic researchers today.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/patterns-in-the-primes/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Math and its Applications
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SUMMARY:Storming the Ivory Tower: How to Make Autism Interventions Work in Schools
DESCRIPTION:A growing body of research shows the efficacy of interventions for children with autism. These interventions rarely make their way into community practice\, however. When they do\, they usually do not produce the same results as those observed in clinical trials. \nIn this lecture\, David S. Mandell will talk about why autism interventions rarely are implemented in community practice and why they fail to achieve the same outcomes as those observed in clinical trials. He will review the policy environment for improving quality of care and evidence suggesting that recently enacted policies may be necessary but are not sufficient to improve practice. He also will present research that more directly attempts to improve quality of care and associated outcomes for children with autism. \nDavid S. Mandell\, Sc.D. is associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. The goal of his research is to improve the quality of care that individuals with autism receive in their communities. He examines the effects that different state and federal strategies to organize\, finance and deliver services have on service use patterns and outcomes. He also conducts experimental studies to determine the best ways to successfully implement proven-efficacious practices in community settings.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/storming-the-ivory-tower-how-to-make-autism-interventions-work-in-schools/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Autism: Emerging Concepts
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SUMMARY:Inaugural Conference of the Simons Collaboration on Homological Mirror Symmetry
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URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2015/12/11/inaugural-conference-of-the-simons-collaboration-on-homological-mirror-symmetry/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151104T170000
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SUMMARY:Understanding the Relationship Between Genes and Social Behavior: Lessons from the Honey Bee
DESCRIPTION:The study of genes and social behavior is still a young field. In this lecture\, Gene E. Robinson will discuss some of the first insights to emerge that describe the relationship between them. These include the surprisingly close relationship between brain gene expression and specific behavioral states; social regulation of brain gene expression; control of social behavior by context-dependent rewiring of brain transcriptional regulatory networks; and evolutionarily conserved genetic toolkits for social behavior that span insects\, fish and mammals. \nGene E. Robinson (Ph.D. 1986\, Cornell University) pioneered the application of genomics to the study of social behavior and founded the Honey Bee Genome Sequencing Consortium. He is the director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and Swanlund Chair of Entomology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Robinson serves on the National Institute of Mental Health Advisory Council and his honors include: Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship; Guggenheim Fellowship; National Institutes of Health Pioneer Award; Fellow\, Animal Behavior Society; Fellow\, Entomological Society of America\, Fellow\, American Academy of Arts & Sciences; and member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/understanding-the-relationship-between-genes-and-social-behavior-lessons-from-the-honey-bee/
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary
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SUMMARY:Clinical and translational genomics
DESCRIPTION:This Biotech Symposium will focus on clinical and translational genomics and the shift to precision medicine. Clinical and translational genomics have typically been approached as limited research or demonstration projects\, whereas precision medicine envisions genomics as an integral component of medical research and practice. This transition presents a variety of specific challenges that will need to be addressed over the coming years. \nSpeakers: \nDavid Glazer\, Google\nThe Lab and the Clinic: Is Translation a One-Way Street? \nMarylyn Ritchie\, Penn State University\nExploring the Use of Electronic Health Records and Genomics for Precision Medicine \nRuss Altman\, Stanford University \nRegulatory Science: A Key Requirement for Translational Genomics \nDavid Goldstein\, Columbia University\nToward Precision Medicine in Neuropsychiatric Disease
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/clinical-and-translational-genomics/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Biotech Symposia
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SUMMARY:Molecular and Neural Architecture of Circuits Underlying Social Behavior in the Mouse
DESCRIPTION:Severe mental disorders such autism spectrum disorders\, schizophrenia and major depressive disorder are characterized by profound social impairments. There is little understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying these social deficits\, and efficient diagnosis and therapeutic options are lacking. Advanced molecular and genetic techniques have made the discovery of specific behavior circuits possible. \nIn this lecture\, Catherine Dulac will discuss the cellular and molecular architecture of neural circuits underlying instinctive social behaviors of mice. She will describe her group’s recent advances in uncovering the identity of sensory neurons that detect social cues and the identity of command circuits associated with specific social responses in male and female mice. \nCatherine Dulac received her B.Sc. from the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris\, France\, her Ph.D. from the University of Paris and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. She has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 1997 and a Harvard faculty in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology since 1996 (Chair 2007-2013). She is a recipient of the Lounsbery\, Perl-UNC Neuroscience\, and Pradel Research Awards. Memberships include the National Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences\, and she is a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/molecular-and-neural-architecture-of-circuits-underlying-social-behavior-in-the-mouse-2/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Autism: Emerging Concepts
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SUMMARY:2015 MPS Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 22nd – Friday\, October 23rd\, 2015\n Download the 2015 Annual Meeting booklet (PDF). \nThe Mathematics and Physical Sciences Annual Meeting gathered together Simons Investigators\, Simons Fellows\, Simons Society of Fellows and Math + X Chairs and Investigators to exchange ideas through lectures and informal discussions in a scientifically stimulating environment. \n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 22\n\n\n\n9:30 — 10:30 AM\nSharon Glotzer\nEntropy\, Information & Alchemy\n\n\n11:00 AM — 12:00 PM\nSergiu Klainerman\nAre Black Holes Real? \n\n\n1:30 — 2:30 PM\nOded Regev\nLattice-Based Cryptography\n\n\n3:00 — 4:00 PM\nPatrick Hayden\nIt from Qubit: First Steps\n\n\n4:30 — 5:30 PM\nEmmanuel J. Candès\nAround the Reproducibility of Scientific Research in the Big Data Era: What Statistics Can Offer\n\n\nFriday\, October 23\n\n\n\n9:30 — 10:30 AM\nMichael Weinstein\nEnergy on the Edge: A Mathematical View\n\n\n11:00 AM — 12:00 PM\nIain Stewart\nFactorization: Collider Physics from Universal Functions\n\n\n1:00 — 2:00 PM\nMichael Desai\nEvolutionary Dynamics When Natural Selection Is Widespread\n\n\n2:00 — 3:00 PM\nSalil P. Vadhan\nThe Border between Possible and Impossible in Data Privacy\n\n\n\n\nLectures\n\nEmmanuel J. Candès\nStanford University \nAround the Reproducibility of Scientific Research in the Big Data Era: What Statistics Can Offer\n \nThe big data era has created a new scientific paradigm: collect data first\, ask questions later. When the universe of scientific hypotheses that are being examined simultaneously is not taken account\, inferences are likely to be false. The consequence is that follow up studies are likely not to be able to reproduce earlier reported findings or discoveries. This reproducibility failure bears a substantial cost and this talk is about new statistical tools to address this issue. In the last two decades\, statisticians have developed many techniques for addressing this look-everywhere effect\, whose proper use would help in alleviating the problems discussed above. This lecture will discuss some of these proposed solutions including the Benjamin-Hochberg procedure for false discovery rate (FDR) control and the knockoff filter\, a method which reliably selects which of the many potentially explanatory variables of interest (e.g. the absence or not of a mutation) are indeed truly associated with the response under study (e.g. the log fold increase in HIV-drug resistance).\nEmmanuel Candès is a professor of mathematics\, statistics and electrical engineering\, and a member of the Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to his appointment as a Simons Chair\, Candès was the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests are in computational harmonic analysis\, statistics\, information theory\, signal processing and mathematical optimization with applications to the imaging sciences\, scientific computing and inverse problems. He received his Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University in 1998. \nCandès has received numerous awards throughout his career\, most notably the 2006 Alan T. Waterman Medal — the highest honor presented by the National Science Foundation — which recognizes the achievements of scientists who are no older than 35\, or not more than seven years beyond their doctorate. Other honors include the 2005 James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing awarded by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)\, the 2008 Information Theory Society Paper Award\, the 2010 George Pólya Prize awarded by SIAM\, the 2011 Collatz Prize awarded by the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM)\, the 2012 Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization awarded jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)\, and the 2013 Dannie Heineman Prize presented by the Academy of Sciences at Göttingen. He has given over 50 plenary lectures at major international conferences\, not only in mathematics and statistics\, but also in several other areas including biomedical imaging and solid-state physics. \nIn 2014\, Candès was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This last summer\, he gave an Invited Plenary Lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians\, which took place in Seoul. Additionally\, one of his Stanford Math+X collaborators\, W. E. Moerner\, was one of this year’s Nobel Laureates in Chemistry. \n  \nMichael Desai\nHarvard University \nEvolutionary Dynamics When Natural Selection Is Widespread\n \nThe basic rules of evolution are straightforward: mutations generate variation\, while genetic drift\, recombination and natural selection change the frequencies of the variants. Yet it is often surprisingly difficult to predict what is possible in evolution\, over what timescales and in which conditions. A key problem is that in many populations\, natural selection faces a crucial problem: there is too much going on at once. Many mutations are present simultaneously\, and because recombination is limited\, selection cannot act on each separately. Rather\, mutations are constantly occurring in a variety of combinations linked together on physical chromosomes\, and selection can only act on these combinations as a whole. This dramatically reduces the efficiency of natural selection\, creates complex correlations across the genome and makes it very difficult to predict how evolution will act. Desai will describe recent work aimed at understanding evolutionary dynamics when selection is widespread\, using a combination of mathematical models and experimental evolution in laboratory populations of budding yeast.\nMichael Desai combines theoretical and experimental work to bring quantitative methodology to the field of evolutionary dynamics; he and his group are particularly known for their contributions in the area of statistical genetics. \n  \nSharon Glotzer\nUniversity of Michigan \nEntropy\, Information & Alchemy\n \nFor the early alchemists\, the transmutation of elements held the key to new materials. Today\, colloidal “elements” — that is\, nanometer- to micron-size particles — that can be decorated and shaped in an infinity of ways are being used to thermodynamically assemble ordered structures that would astonish the ancient alchemists in their geometric complexity and diversity. Using computer simulation methods built upon the theoretical framework of equilibrium statistical mechanics\, we model and simulate these colloidal elements and the interactions among them to predict stable and metastable phases\, including crystals\, liquid crystals\, quasicrystals and even crystals with ultra-large unit cells. Many of these structures are\, remarkably\, achievable via entropy maximization in the absence of other forces\, using only shape. By studying families of colloidal elements and their packings and assemblies\, we deduce key elemental requirements for certain classes of structures. Recently\, we have shown how extended thermodynamic ensembles may be derived and implemented in computer simulations to perform “digital alchemy\,” whereby fast algorithms quickly discover optimal colloidal elements for given target structures. Through digital alchemy\, we learn which elemental attributes are most important for thermodynamic stability and assembly propensity\, and how information is encoded locally to produce order globally.\nSharon Glotzer is a leader in the use of computer simulations to understand how to manipulate matter at the nano- and meso-scales. Her work in the late 1990s demonstrating the nature and importance of spatially heterogeneous dynamics is regarded as a breakthrough. Her ambitious program of computational studies has revealed much about the organizing principles controlling the creation of predetermined structures from nanoscale building blocks\, while her development of a conceptual framework for classifying particle shape and interaction anisotropy (patchiness) and their relation to the ultimate structures the particles form has had a major impact on the new field of “self-assembly’’. Glotzer recently showed that hard tetrahedra self-assemble into a quasicrystal exhibiting a remarkable twelve-fold symmetry with an unexpectedly rich structure of logs formed by stacks of twelve-member rings capped by pentagonal dipyramids. \n  \nPatrick Hayden\nStanford University \nIt from Qubit: First Steps\n \nWhen Shannon formulated his groundbreaking theory of information in 1948\, he did not know what to call its central quantity\, a measure of uncertainty. It was von Neumann who recognized Shannon’s formula from statistical physics and suggested the name entropy. This was but the first in a series of remarkable connections between physics and information theory. Later\, tantalizing hints from the study of quantum fields and gravity\, such as the Bekenstein-Hawking formula for the entropy of a black hole\, inspired Wheeler’s famous 1990 exhortation to derive “it from bit\,” a three-syllable manifesto asserting that\, to properly unify the geometry of general relativity with the indeterminacy of quantum mechanics\, it would be necessary to inject fundamentally new ideas from information theory. Wheeler’s vision was sound\, but it came twenty-five years early. Only now is it coming to fruition\, with the twist that classical bits have given way to the qubits of quantum information theory. \nThis talk will provide a tour of some of the recent developments at the intersection of quantum information and fundamental physics that are the source of this renewed excitement.\nPatrick Hayden’s work on the requirements for secure communication through quantum channels transformed the field of quantum information\, establishing a general structure and a set of powerful results that subsumed most of the previous work in the field as special cases. More recently\, he has used quantum information theory concepts to obtain new results related to the quantum physics of black holes. \n  \nSergiu Klainerman\nPrinceton University \nAre Black Holes Real?\n \nBlack holes are precise mathematical solutions of the Einstein field equations of general relativity. Some of the most exciting astrophysical objects in the universe have been identified as corresponding to these mathematical black holes\, but since no signals can escape their extreme gravitational pull\, can one be sure that the right identification has been made? \nKlainerman will discuss three fundamental mathematical problems concerning black holes\, intimately tied to the issue of their physical reality: rigidity\, stability and collapse.\nSergiu Klainerman is a PDE analyst with a strong interest in general relativity. His current research deals with the mathematical theory of black holes more precisely on their rigidity and stability. Klainerman is also interested in the dynamic formation of trapped surfaces and singularities. \n  \nOded Regev\nNew York University \nLattice-Based Cryptography\n \nMost of the cryptographic protocols used in everyday life are based on number theoretic problems\, such as integer factoring. Regev will give an introduction to lattice-based cryptography\, a relatively recent form of cryptography that offers many advantages over traditional number-theoretic-based cryptography\, including conjectured security against\nquantum computers. Lattice-based cryptography is also remarkably versatile\, with dozens of applications\, most notably the recent breakthrough work on fully homomorphic encryption by Gentry and others.\nOded Regev is a professor in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. Prior to joining NYU\, he was affiliated with Tel Aviv University and the École Normale Supérieure\, Paris under the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Tel Aviv University in 2001. He is the recipient of the Wolf Foundation’s Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research in 2005\, as well as best paper awards in STOC 2003 and Eurocrypt 2006. He was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant in 2008. \nHis main research areas include theoretical computer science\, cryptography\, quantum computation and complexity theory. A main focus of his research is in the area of lattice-based cryptography\, where he introduced several key concepts\, including the ‘learning with error’ problem and the use of Gaussian measures. \n  \nIain Stewart\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology \nFactorization: Collider Physics from Universal Functions\n \nHigh energy collisions of protons and electrons provide a crucial probe for the nature of physics at very short distance scales. Past successes include the discovery of new particles\, confirmation of detailed properties of the strong\, weak\, and electromagnetic forces\, and measurement of the few key fundamental parameters of the prevailing “standard model” of particle and nuclear physics. Current colliders like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are searching for new types of matter\, like a dark matter particle\, and for signs of new paradigms\, like supersymmetry. \nIn this talk\, Professor Stewart will explain the mathematical underpinnings needed to theoretically predict the outcome of high energy collisions\, which relies on the concept of factorization in quantum field theory. Factorization predicts that the complicated collision can be described by combining simpler universal functions. The long-distance processes that take place prior to and after the collision\, and the short-distance processes that take place at the collision\, are each described by separate functions. The factorization framework can be derived in several special cases\, but underlies all theoretical predictions. When applicable\, it enables high precision theoretical calculations that can be compared to experimental data\, for example\, by the properties of jets (sprays of particles) influenced by the strong force. It is also important for the interpretation of experimental measurements\, such as those measuring properties of the recently discovered Higgs boson. Besides explaining these concepts\, Professor Stewart will also describe a new field theory formalism he has recently developed whose goal is to provide a complete framework to describe violations of factorization\, thus enabling “proofs” of factorization for more cases\, and providing theoretical tools that can explore the nature of collisions even when factorization is violated.\nIain Stewart works in the physics of elementary particles\, investigating fundamental questions in quantum chromodynamics\, i.e.\, the interactions of quarks and gluons via the strong force. He is particularly known for his role in inventing soft collinear effective field theory\, a theoretical tool for understanding the particle jets produced by high energy collisions in accelerators such as the LHC. He has established factorization theorems that enable the clear interpretation and physical understanding of the collision products. Methods he has developed have been used in the search for the Higgs boson\, to gain new insights into effects of CP violation in B-meson production and to test for beyond-standard-model physics. \n  \nSalil P. Vadhan\nHarvard University \nThe Border between Possible and Impossible in Data Privacy\n \nA central paradigm in theoretical computer science is to reason about the space of all possible algorithms for any given problem. That is\, we seek to identify an algorithm with the “best” possible performance\, and then prove that no algorithm can perform better\, no matter how cleverly it is designed. In this talk\, I will illustrate how this paradigm has played a central role in the development of differential privacy\, a mathematical framework for enabling the statistical analysis of privacy-sensitive datasets while ensuring that information specific to individual data subjects will not be leaked. In particular\, we are using it to delineate the border between what is possible and what is impossible in differential privacy\, and the effort has uncovered intriguing connections with several other topics in theoretical computer science and mathematics.\nSalil Vadhan has produced a series of original and influential papers on computational complexity and cryptography. He uses complexity-theoretic methods and perspectives to delineate the border between the possible and impossible in cryptography and data privacy. His work also illuminates the relation between computational and information-theoretic notions of randomness\, thereby enriching the theory of pseudorandomness and its applications. All of these themes are present in Vadhan’s recent papers on differential privacy and on computational analogues of entropy. \n  \nMichael Weinstein\nColumbia University \nEnergy on the Edge: A Mathematical View\n \nIn many applications\, e.g.\, photonic and quantum systems\, one is interested in controlled localization of wave energy. \nWe first review the mathematics of periodic media and localization. Edge states are a type of localization along a line-defect\, the interface between different media. We then specialize to the case of honeycomb structures (such as graphene and its photonic analogues) and discuss their novel properties. In particular\, we examine their potential to form topologically protected edge states\, which persist and are stable against strong local distortions of the edge\, and are therefore potential vehicles for robust energy transfer in the presence of defects and random imperfections. \nFinally\, we discuss rigorous results and conjectures for a family of continuum partial differential equation (Schrödinger) models admitting edge states\, which are topologically protected\, those which are not protected and possibly some which decay but are very long-lived.\nMichael Weinstein’s work bridges the areas of fundamental and applied mathematics\, physics and engineering. He is known for his elegant and influential mathematical analysis of wave phenomena in diverse and important physical problems. His and his colleagues’ work on singularity formation\, stability and nonlinear scattering has been central to the understanding of the dynamics of coherent structures of nonlinear dispersive wave equations arising in nonlinear optics\, macroscopic quantum systems and fluid dynamics. This led to work on resonances and radiation in Hamiltonian partial differential equations\, with applications to energy flow in photonic and quantum systems. Recently\, he has explored wave phenomena in novel structures such as topological insulators and metamaterials.
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SUMMARY:What Do Animals Really Learn? Adventures of Reinforcement Learning in the Real World
DESCRIPTION:Animals and humans alike can quickly learn to associate different stimuli in the environment with rewards or punishments. In recent years\, ideas from the computational field of reinforcement learning have revolutionized the study of learning in the brain\, providing new\, precise theories of how such associations are formed. However\, although these learning algorithms work well in simplified laboratory scenarios\, they are known to suffer from the “curse of dimensionality” that makes learning in complex\, multidimensional scenarios infeasible. How does the brain scale reinforcement learning to realistic tasks? \nIn this lecture\, Yael Niv will argue that the key to learning efficiently in real-world scenarios is to use a simplified representation of the task that includes only those dimensions of the environment that are relevant to obtaining reward. This\, however\, raises the new question of how such task representations are learned. She will first demonstrate\, using behavioral experiments\, that animals and humans learn the causal\, often hidden structure of a task\, thus forming a concise task representation through experience. Dr. Niv will then suggest that these task representations reside in the orbitofrontal cortex\, and show how we can visualize these mental maps of task space and how these maps are related to behavioral performance. \nDr. Niv is associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton University. Her work investigates the neural and computational processes underlying reinforcement learning—the ongoing day-to-day processes by which we learn from trial and error to maximize reward and minimize punishment. She is the recipient of the 2015 National Academy of Sciences Troland Research Award\, and the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers\, is an Ellison Foundation Scholar and was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/what-do-animals-really-learn-adventures-of-reinforcement-learning-in-the-real-world/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary
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SUMMARY:Timing Mechanisms of Critical Periods in Brain Development
DESCRIPTION:This lecture explores the biological bases of critical periods in brain development. Mechanisms that open and close windows of plasticity (E/I balance and molecular brakes\, respectively) are implicated in autism\, suggesting mistimed maturational processes that can be strategically rescued at the circuit level. \nMaturing neural circuits are dramatically shaped by the environment during windows of increased plasticity\, but the timing of these ‘critical periods’ varies across brain regions\, and plasticity declines with age. Focusing on cellular/molecular mechanisms underlying these developmental trajectories\, Dr. Hensch identifies specific events that control the onset and closure of critical periods. Maturation of excitatory-inhibitory (E/I) circuit balance triggers plasticity\, which ends when molecular brake-like factors emerge to stabilize adult networks. Targeting specific GABA circuits using pharmacological or genetic manipulations can either accelerate or delay the onset of plasticity\, and lifting the molecular brakes can reopen windows of circuit rewiring. Implications for autism spectrum disorder etiology and potential therapeutic strategies will be explored. \nTakao K. Hensch is a professor of neurology and of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University\, and directs the National Institute of Mental Health’s Conte Center for Basic Mental Health Research. After studying at Harvard University\, the University of Tokyo (M.P.H.)\, the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (Fulbright Fellowship) and the University of California\, San Francisco (Ph.D.)\, he helped to launch the RIKEN Brain Science Institute\, serving as lab head and group director for 14 years. Honors include two Young Investigator awards from the Society for Neuroscience and a National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award. He is a member of several editorial boards\, including Neuron and Frontiers in Neural Circuits\, where he is chief editor.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/timing-mechanisms-of-critical-periods-in-brain-development/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Autism: Emerging Concepts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150916T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150916T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20170428T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T164719Z
UID:414-1442422800-1442426400@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Harnessing Hippocampal Stem Cells to Improve Mood and Cognition
DESCRIPTION:Although a role for adult neurogenesis in specific forms of learning and in mediating some of the effects of antidepressants has received considerable attention in recent years\, much less is known about how alterations in this unique form of plasticity may contribute to neurologic or psychiatric disorders. One way to begin to address this question is to link the functions of adult-born hippocampal neurons with specific endophenotypes of these disorders. Recent studies have implicated adult-born hippocampal neurons in pattern separation\, a process by which similar experiences or events are transformed into discrete non-overlapping representations. Here\, we propose that impaired pattern separation underlies the overgeneralization often seen in age-related memory impairments and in anxiety disorders and\, therefore\, represents an endophenotype for these disorders. We will present evidence that strategies aimed at stimulating hippocampal neurogenesis result in improved pattern separation. The development of novel pro-neurogenic compounds may therefore have therapeutic potential for patients who display pattern separation deficits. \nRené Hen was born in Strasbourg\, France\, and received his Ph.D. from Université Louis-Pasteur under the mentorship of Pierre Chambon. After a postdoctoral stay in Richard Axel’s laboratory at Columbia University\, Hen became an assistant professor in Strasbourg. He then returned to Columbia University\, where he is presently a professor of pharmacology and neuroscience and the director of the division of integrative neuroscience in the department of psychiatry. His laboratory is using animal models to elucidate the neural substrates that underlie mood and anxiety disorders.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/harnessing-hippocampal-stem-cells-to-improve-mood-and-cognition/
CATEGORIES:Simons Science Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150909T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150909T181500
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20150811T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T165311Z
UID:303-1441815300-1441822500@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Visualizing Quantum Matter
DESCRIPTION:Everything around us — everything each of us has ever experienced and virtually everything underpinning our technological society and economy — is governed by quantum mechanics. Yet this most fundamental physical theory of nature often feels like a set of somewhat eerie and counterintuitive ideas of no direct relevance to our lives. Why is this? One reason is that we cannot perceive the strangeness (and astonishing beauty) of the quantum mechanical phenomena all around us by using our own senses. \nDr. Davis will describe the recent development of techniques that allow the imaging of electronic quantum phenomena directly at the atomic scale. As examples\, he will visually explore the previously unseen and very beautiful forms of quantum matter making up electronic liquid crystals [1\,2] and high-temperature superconductors [3\,4] and find that they are closely relayed. The implications for fundamental physics research\, and also for advanced materials and new technologies\, arising from development and application of these quantum matter visualization techniques will be discussed. \nJ.C. Séamus Davis is the J.G. White Distinguished Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University; he is also the SUPA Distinguished Research Professor of Physics at St. Andrews University\, Scotland\, and a senior physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton\, New York. Between 2009 and 2014 he was the Director of the Center for Emergent Superconductivity\, an Energy Frontier Research Center of the U.S. Department of Energy. Davis’ active research is focused upon macroscopic quantum physics of emergent quantum matter\, including studies of superconductors\, superfluids\, supersolids\, spin liquids\, monopole liquids and heavy fermions. Davis has been the recipient of the the Outstanding Performance Award of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2001)\, the Science and Technology Award of Brookhaven National Laboratory (2013)\, the Fritz London Memorial Prize (2005)\, and the H. Kamerlingh-Onnes Memorial Prize (2009). Davis is a fellow of the Institute of Physics (U.K.)\, the American Physical Society (U.S.)\, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. \n  \n[1] Science 315\, 1380 (2007)\n[2] Science 327\, 181 (2010)\n[3] Science 336\, 563 (2012)\n[4] Science 344\, 612 (2014)
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/visualizing-quantum-matter/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:New Directions in Imaging
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150515T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150515T181500
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20150331T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T165259Z
UID:300-1431709200-1431713700@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Solving the 3-D Puzzle of Rotation Assignment in Single Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy
DESCRIPTION:Single particle cryo-electron microscopy (EM) recently joined X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy as a high-resolution structural method for biological macromolecules. In single particle cryo-EM\, the 3-D structure needs to be determined from many noisy 2-D projection images of individual\, ideally identical frozen-hydrated macromolecules whose orientations and positions are random and unknown. \nThis lecture will explore algorithms for estimating the unknown pose parameters. The main focus will be on algorithms that are based on semidefinite programming relaxations that can be viewed as extensions to existing approximation algorithms to max-cut and unique games\, two fundamental problems in theoretical computer science. \nAmit Singer is a professor of mathematics and a member of the executive committee of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM) at Princeton University. He joined Princeton as an assistant professor in 2008. From 2005 to 2008 he was a Gibbs Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics\, Yale University. \nSinger received his B.Sc. degree in Physics and Mathematics and his Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Tel Aviv University\, Israel\, in 1997 and 2005\, respectively. He was awarded the Moore Investigator in Data-Driven Discovery Award (2014)\, the Simons Investigator Award (2012)\, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2010)\, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2010) and the Haim Nessyahu Prize in Mathematics (2007). His current research in applied mathematics focuses on theoretical and computational aspects of data science\, and on developing computational methods for structural biology.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/solving-the-3-d-puzzle-of-rotation-assignment-in-single-particle-cryo-electron-microscopy/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:New Directions in Imaging
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150516
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20190411T200328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250813T172253Z
UID:48212-1431648000-1431734399@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Simons Collaboration on Algorithms and Geometry 2015 Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/simons-collaboration-on-algorithms-and-geometry-2015-annual-meeting/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150513T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150513T181500
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20150309T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T165249Z
UID:298-1431536400-1431540900@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Extra-Solar Planets: Search\, Characterization and Population Inferences
DESCRIPTION:The NASA Kepler mission vastly increased the number of planets around other stars that we know about. In this lecture\, David W. Hogg will explore how planets are discovered in the Kepler dataset\, how the data are understood and how researchers can make inferences about the full population of planets in the galaxy. Key questions in this area revolve around the formation of planetary systems\, along with the typicality of the Earth and our solar system. Because extra-solar planets imprint such tiny signals — measured in parts per million — on the carrier signals from their host stars\, research projects require extremely high levels of precision. Hogg and his team use concepts from data science to obtain calibrations and measurements at the required levels. \nDavid W. Hogg is professor of physics and data science at New York University (NYU). He is deputy director of the NYU Center for Data Science and executive director of the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment at NYU. His research centers on astrophysics problems in which the challenges of data analysis are of greatest importance.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/extra-solar-planets-search-characterization-and-population-inferences/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Frontiers of Data Science
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150506T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150506T181500
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20150331T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T165240Z
UID:301-1430931600-1430936100@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Bell Labs’ Role in Programming Languages and Algorithms
DESCRIPTION:Bell Labs is deservedly renowned for its invention of the transistor\, but this talk will demonstrate that its contributions to programming languages and algorithms have been equally instrumental to the flowering of the Information Age. \nIn this lecture\, Alfred V. Aho will discuss the role that software plays in the modern world. Few people appreciate what software really is\, how critical software systems are to the functioning of society\, how much software there actually is and how much investment there is in the software infrastructure. Programming languages and algorithms are at the heart of all software. Aho will discuss the development of some key ideas in programming languages and algorithms that were invented at Bell Labs\, ideas that are now routinely used throughout the world. \nAlfred V. Aho is Lawrence Gussman Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Prior to working at Columbia\, he was vice president of the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs\, the center that created the Unix operating system and the C and C++ programming languages. Aho is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He won the IEEE John von Neumann Medal for his contributions to computer science.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/bell-labs-role-in-programming-languages-and-algorithms/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Frontiers of Data Science
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150429T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150429T181500
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20150305T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T165230Z
UID:296-1430326800-1430331300@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Tracing the Unseen Majority: Insights Into the Critical Role Microbes Play in the Ocean
DESCRIPTION:There is a vast sea of microbes — invisible to all but the most powerful microscopes — that drives ocean chemistry\, affects climate and even produces the fish we eat and the air we breathe. Ocean microbes make the planet habitable\, but major uncertainties still exist about the distribution and activity of key groups of microbes. \nIn this lecture\, Sonya Dyhrman will focus on photosynthetic microbes called phytoplankton\, highlighting the critical and beneficial roles that phytoplankton play in marine systems. These phytoplankton form the base of the marine food web and drive carbon and nitrogen cycling\, yet major uncertainties exist regarding how key groups are distributed and what controls their activities in different systems. Leveraging new species-specific molecular approaches\, Dyhrman will highlight examples of how this unseen microbial world both shapes and is shaped by our changing planet. \nSonya Dyhrman is an oceanographer who studies photosynthetic microbes and their role in shaping marine ecosystem structure\, function and biogeochemistry. She received her Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and did her postdoctoral training at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute\, where she was a tenured member of the scientific staff until 2013\, when she moved to Columbia University. Dyhrman spends much of her time at sea on research expeditions ranging from the tropics to Antarctica.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/tracing-the-unseen-majority-insights-into-the-critical-role-microbes-play-in-the-ocean/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150422T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150422T181500
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20150204T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T165221Z
UID:292-1429722000-1429726500@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: Projecting\, Reducing and Managing the Risk
DESCRIPTION:As the world warms over this century\, the level of the oceans will rise almost everywhere in a non-uniform pattern. The increasing risk of flooding from higher sea levels\, combined with potentially stronger coastal storms\, poses a risk to urban areas along all coasts\, particularly the U.S. Northeast coast. \nIn this lecture\, Michael Oppenheimer will describe the physical mechanisms causing observed increases in sea level. He will describe sea level rise projections and their relation to increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases. The credibility of projections is limited by our modest comprehension of the dynamics of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. This lecture presents an emerging approach to projecting sea level rise in the absence of fully credible models\, along with resulting projections of regional sea level and flood risk increases worldwide. The talk will conclude with a discussion of lessons learned about managing and reducing coastal flood risk from recent episodes of extreme flooding\, including a look at New York City’s response following Hurricane Sandy. \nMichael Oppenheimer is director of Princeton University’s Program in Science\, Technology and Environmental Policy. He is a long-time participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\, serves on the National Academy of Sciences’ Board on Energy and Environmental Systems\, and is a science advisor to the Environmental Defense Fund\, where he formerly served as chief scientist. His research addresses climate change broadly\, including mechanisms causing sea level rise\, projection of flood probabilities and policy responses.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/climate-change-and-sea-level-rise-projecting-reducing-and-managing-the-risk/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Science of Climate
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150420T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150420T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20170428T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T165410Z
UID:469-1429549200-1429552800@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Human Neurodegenerative Disease: Insight from Drosophila
DESCRIPTION:The Bonini laboratory focuses on applying the extraordinary power of a very simple model organism — the fruit fly Drosophila — to the complex problem of human neurodegenerative disease. Many human neurodegenerative diseases\, like the dementia-causing Alzheimer’s disease and the motor neuron disease ALS\, are associated with the abnormal accumulation of key proteins in which mutations are found in inherited situations; these same proteins accumulate in sporadic disease as well. Although disease mechanisms have classically been studied in systems like the mouse or in cell culture\, instead we developed the much simpler system Drosophila for this end. Drosophila shares genes and pathways with humans\, including basic aspects of brain structure. Our studies illustrate how remarkable insight can be gleaned from Drosophila by recreating the features of the human disease in the fly\, and then employing the range of genetic approaches available to uncover surprising molecular mechanisms. Importantly\, the genetics of the animal also holds promise to reveal the foundation for unsuspected and new therapeutic approaches. In this way\, this very simple system can contribute important insight toward an understanding of the basic biology of human disease\, as well as outline approaches to intervention. \nNancy Bonini is the Florence R.C. Murray Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Her laboratory focuses on using Drosophila melanogaster as a tool to define genes important for human brain disease. A class of human neurodegenerative diseases involves expansion of a polyglutamine repeat within the various disease proteins. This polyglutamine expansion results in a dominant\, toxic property of the disease protein\, leading to neural degeneration. Huntington’s disease is of this class. We have recreated this class of human neurodegenerative disease in Drosophila by expressing in flies one of these human disease proteins with an expanded polyglutamine run. Whereas expression of the protein with a normal polyglutamine repeat has no effect\, expression of the protein with an expanded polyglutamine repeat results in late onset\, progressive degeneration in the nervous system. This indicates that the molecular mechanisms of human polyglutamine disease are conserved in Drosophila. Hence\, we are now using Drosophila to define genes involved in the mechanisms and progression of polyglutamine disease\, to identify suppressor mutations that can prevent or delay brain degeneration\, and to extend these studies to additional diseases\, like Parkinson’s disease and other motor neuron diseases. The Bonini lab is also expanding into neural injury and aging models in Drosophila by analyzing the nervous system with age. They hope that these studies will lead to insight into neural decline with aging\, providing an approach for new treatments.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/human-neurodegenerative-disease-insight-from-drosophila/
CATEGORIES:Simons Science Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150418
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20170811T205547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251202T213748Z
UID:15093-1429228800-1429315199@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:2015 Conference on Theory & Biology
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/2015-conference-on-theory-biology/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150415T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150415T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20170428T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T165401Z
UID:467-1429117200-1429120800@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Illuminating Biology at the Nanoscale with Super-Resolution Florescence Microscopy
DESCRIPTION:Dissecting the inner workings of a cell requires imaging methods with molecular specificity\, molecular-scale resolution and dynamic imaging capability such that molecular interactions inside the cell can be directly visualized. Fluorescence microscopy is a powerful imaging modality for investigating cells largely owning to its molecular specificity and dynamic imaging capability. However\, the spatial resolution of light microscopy\, classically limited by the diffraction of light to a few hundred nanometers\, is substantially larger than typical molecular-length scales in cells. Hence many subcellular structures and dynamics cannot be resolved by conventional fluorescence microscopy. We developed a super-resolution fluorescence microscopy method\, stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM)\, which breaks the diffraction limit. STORM uses single-molecule imaging and photo-switchable fluorescent probes to temporally separate the spatially overlapping images of individual molecules. This approach has allowed multicolor and three-dimensional imaging of living cells with nanometer-scale resolution and enabled discoveries of novel sub-cellular structures. In this talk\, I will discuss the technological development and biological applications of STORM. \nThe Zhuang research lab works on the forefront of single-molecule biology and bioimaging\, developing and applying advanced optical imaging techniques to study the behavior of individual biological molecules and molecular assemblies in vitro and in live cells. Students and postdoctoral fellows in the Zhuang lab apply their diverse backgrounds in chemistry\, physics\, biology and engineering to develop new imaging probes and methods and use these tools to study a variety of interesting biological systems. Our current research is focused on three major directions: (1) Developing super-resolution optical microscopy that allows cell and tissue imaging with nanoscopic-scale resolution and applying this technology to cell biology and neurobiology\, (2) investigating how biomolecules function\, especially how proteins and nucleic acids interact\, using single-molecule fluorescence imaging and spectroscopy\, (3) investigating how viruses and cells interact using imaging techniques with high spatiotemporal resolution.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/illuminating-biology-at-the-nanoscale-with-super-resolution-florescence-microscopy/
CATEGORIES:Simons Science Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150408T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150408T181500
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20150121T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T165350Z
UID:288-1428512400-1428516900@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Imaging as Exploration
DESCRIPTION:Advances in modern digital imaging methods are revolutionizing a wide range of scientific disciplines. They facilitate the acquisition of huge amounts of data that allow the visualization\, measurement\, reconstruction\, and archiving of complex\, multi-dimensional images. At the same time\, advances in computing technologies enable the deployment of tremendous computing resources. This permits numerical modeling of a broad swath of scientific phenomena\, and results in the production of vast quantities of numerical data. These data are just the beginning of the scientific exploration that modern computational and visualization methods will allow. But these advanced data generation capabilities require other enhanced abilities — with increasing data size and complexity\, the development of more efficient acquisition and analysis methods is essential. \nIn this lecture\, Lawrence R. Frank will discuss how this new paradigm of imaging exploration is manifest. He will explore how the increasing generality of approaches has led to dynamic methods for data analysis applicable to disparate fields\, from brain imaging to severe weather. \nLawrence R. Frank received his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is founder and director of the University of California\, San Diego Center for Scientific Computation in Imaging (CSCI). His primary focus has been on the development of novel methods of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) used in conjunction with computational methods. Used together\, these methods address research questions in a variety of topics\, such as cardiac biomechanics\, evolutionary biology and characterization of neural architecture. The work at CSCI has recently expanded to the development of theoretical frameworks and computational methods for the analysis of spatial-temporal data in imaging for applications\, from dynamic imaging of brain activity with functional MRI to severe weather meteorology.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/imaging-as-exploration/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Frontiers of Data Science
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150401T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150401T181500
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20141218T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T165340Z
UID:282-1427907600-1427912100@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Reproducible Research and the Common Task Method
DESCRIPTION:The ‘Reproducible Research’ idea posits that publishing data and code\, not just statistical summaries\, makes for better and faster science. In particular\, shared datasets and shared evaluation metrics lower barriers to entry\, and allow meaningful comparison of scientific hypotheses with engineering algorithms. \nIn this lecture\, Mark Liberman will describe the origins and development of the ‘Common Task’ method in DARPA’s human language technology program\, its broader influence on recent research and development practices\, and its lessons for the future. Large\, shared datasets and well-defined evaluation metrics allow the steady improvement of technologies a decade or more in advance of commercial viability. There are important opportunities to apply similar ideas in a wide variety of areas\, from autism research to STEM education and writing instruction. \nMark Liberman is the Christopher H. Browne Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania\, with positions in the department of computer science and in the psychology graduate group. He is also founder and director of the Linguistic Data Consortium. Before coming to the University of Pennsylvania\, he was head of the linguistics research department at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/reproducible-research-and-the-common-task-method/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Frontiers of Data Science
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150327T123500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150327T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20150206T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T165330Z
UID:294-1427459700-1427477400@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Genomics in Single Cells and Microbiomes
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Curtis Huttenhower\, Aviv Regev\, Dana Pe’er\, Michael Schatz \nCurtis Huttenhower \nHigh-precision Functional Profiling of Microbial Communities and the Human Microbiome \n \nAviv Regev \nTowards a Human Cell Atlas \n \nDan Pe’er \nSingle Cell Mapping of Developmental Trajectories Underlying Health and Disease \n \nMichael Schatz \nAlgorithms for Single Cell and Single Molecule Biology
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/genomics-in-single-cells-and-microbiomes/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Biotech Symposia
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150325T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150325T184500
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20150115T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T165320Z
UID:286-1427302800-1427309100@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Trends in Prevalence and Future Directions of the Epidemiology of Autism: The Impact of Social and Cultural Factors
DESCRIPTION:Once considered an extremely rare childhood mental disorder\, autism is now recognized as a common neurodevelopmental disability\, affecting more than 1 percent of the population in the U.S. Reasons for the rise in prevalence are not fully understood\, but they are likely associated with societal and cultural influences\, and the expansion of the concept of autism to a spectrum disorder: autism spectrum disorder (ASD) \nIn this lecture\, Maureen Durkin will discuss trends in the prevalence of ASD\, focusing on the role of intellectual disability — both as a co-occurring condition with ASD and in terms of using ASD as a diagnostic substitute for intellectual disability. She will also explore evidence of socioeconomic disparities in access to ASD diagnostic and therapeutic services\, the cultural and financial barriers underlying these disparities\, and the need to incorporate modern concepts of disability into the epidemiology of ASD\, placing emphasis not only on primary prevention of impairments but also on enhancement of functioning and social inclusion of people with ASD. \nMaureen Durkin is an epidemiologist\, professor of population health sciences and pediatrics\, and Waisman Center investigator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, and her M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. degrees in epidemiology from Columbia University. She conducts studies on the epidemiology of neurodevelopmental disabilities and is currently principal investigator of the Wisconsin site of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trends-in-prevalence-and-future-directions-of-the-epidemiology-of-autism-the-impact-of-social-and-cultural-factors/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Autism: Emerging Concepts
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150323T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150323T183000
DTSTAMP:20260405T091421
CREATED:20141126T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T164246Z
UID:278-1427130000-1427135400@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Light to Life
DESCRIPTION:4:15 pm: Tea\n5:00 pm: Lecture \nAll life on Earth is based on electron transfer reactions far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Increasingly high-resolution protein structure imagery provides an opportunity to glimpse into the deep past. \nIn this talk\, Paul Falkowski will examine the origins of biologically catalyzed electron transfer reactions\, which form the basis of all life on Earth. He will focus on evolution of the structures responsible for these reactions. The structural analyses of extant oxidoreductases — enzymes that catalyze the transfer of electrons — provide clues to how the earliest life forms evolved increasingly intricate bioelectronic devices. Using experimental analyses of the photochemical reactivity of common minerals\, he will go on to explore how photobiochemical reactions could have evolved to provide the long-term power supply for life. \nPaul Falkowski is the Bennett L. Smith Chair in Business and Natural Resources at Rutgers University. His scientific interests include evolution of the Earth’s systems\, paleoecology\, photosynthesis\, biophysics\, biogeochemical cycles\, symbiosis and sustainability. Falkowski has written more than 350 papers and several books\, and has received recognition and distinguished awards for his work\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the A.G. Huntsman Award\, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award and the Vernadsky Medal from the European Geosciences Union. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/light-to-life/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Origins of Life
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SUMMARY:Geometry Over Nonclosed Fields: Geometry and Arithmetic of Holomorphic Symplectic Varieties (2015)
DESCRIPTION:March 22–28\, 2015\n\n \nOrganizing committee:\nFedor Bogomolov\, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences\nBrendan Hassett\, Rice University\nYuri Tschinkel\, Simons Foundation \nThe second Simons Symposium on Geometry over Nonclosed Fields took place March 22-28. The first symposium in this series focused on rational curves on higher-dimensional algebraic varieties and outlined applications of the theory of curves to arithmetic problems. Since then\, there has been significant progress in this field\, with major new results obtained by participants: \n\nProof of the Tate conjecture for K3 surfaces by Maulik and Madapusi Pera\,\nProof of the integral Tate conjecture for cubic fourfolds over finite fields by Charles and Pirutka\,\nProof of the ample and effective cone conjecture for deformations of punctual Hilbert schemes of K3 surfaces by Bayer-Macrì and Bayer-Hassett-Tschinkel\,\nProof of the Morrison-Kawamata cone conjecture for general hyperkähler manifolds\, by Verbitsky\,\nProof of vanishing of Kobayashi pseudo-metric on hyperkähler manifolds\, by Kamenova\, Lu\, and Verbitsky.\n\nSome of these developments were discussed at the Symposium by Pirutka\, Kamenova\, and Verbitsky. These results have given new impetus to the study of rational curves and spaces of rational curves on K3 surfaces and their higher-dimensional generalizations. One of the main recent insights is that the geometry of rational curves is tightly coupled to properties of derived categories of sheaves on K3 surfaces. The implementation of this idea led to proofs of long-standing conjectures concerning birational properties of holomorphic symplectic varieties\, which in turn should yield new theorems in arithmetic. The Symposium featured several talks concerning the derived categories approach\, by Bayer\, Katzarkov\, Macrì\, and Stellari. It is expected that this approach will lead to deeper understanding of arithmetic properties of K3 surfaces over local fields\, number fields\, and function fields. Some of these ideas were outlined in talks by Liedtke and Olsson. Another source of ideas comes from Galois theory: distribution properties of Frobenius classes in Galois representations attached to curves or surfaces have striking geometric applications. This was the topic of talks by Charles\, Katz\, and Zarhin. Finally\, moduli spaces continue to play an important role in arithmetic. The talks by Farkas\, Hulek\, and Várilly-Alvarado introduced the participants to new theorems in this area. \n  \n\nAgenda & Lecture Notes\n\n\n\n\nMonday\nK3 Surfaces\n\n\n\nChristian Liedtke Good Reduction of K3 Surfaces (PDF)\n\n\n\nDaniel HuybrechtCurves and Cycles on K3 Surfaces (PDF)\n\n\n\nMartin OlssonThe Derived Torelli Theorem for K3 Surfaces and Applications (PDF)\n\n\n\nArend BayerDerived Automorphism Groups of K3 Surfaces of Picard Rank One (PDF)\n\n\n\nTuesday\nModuli Spaces\n\n\n\nGavril FarkasA Uniformization for the Moduli Space of Abelian Varieties of Dimension Six\n\n\n\nKlaus HulekModuli of Enriques Surfaces (PDF)\n\n\n\nAnthony Várilly-AlvaradoKodaira Dimension of Moduli of special cubic fourfolds (PDF)\n\n\nWednesday\nGeometry of Holomorphic Symplectic Varieties\n\n\n\nLjudmila KamenovaVanishing of the Kobayashi Pseudometric on K3 Surfaces and Hyperkähler Manifolds (PDF)\n\n\n\nMisha VerbitskyProof of Morrison-Kawamata cone conjecture for holomorphically symplectic manifolds (PDF)\n\n\n\nThursday\nArithmetic Problems\n\n\n\nFrancois CharlesExceptional isogenies of Elliptic Curves and Frobenius Distribution\n\n\n\nAlena PirutkaIntegral Tate Conjecture for Cubic Fourfolds (PDF)\n\n\n\nNick KatzSimple Things We Don’t Know (PDF)\n\n\n\nYuri ZarhinFamilies of Abelian Varieties with Big ℓ-adic Monodromy\n\n\n\nFriday\nCategorical Approaches\n\n\n\nLudmil Katzarkov Sheaf of Categories and 4-Dimensional Cubics (PDF)\n\n\n\nEmanuele MacrìStability Conditions on Threefolds (PDF)\n\n\n\nPaolo Stellari Stability Conditions on Threefolds 2 (PDF)\n\n\n	 Download full agenda PDF \n\nParticipants\n\n\n\n\nArend Bayer\nUniversity of Edinburgh\n\n\nFedor Bogomolov\nNew York University\n\n\nFrançois Charles\nOrsay\n\n\nIvan Cheltsov\nUniversity of Edinburgh\n\n\nIzzet Coskun\nUniversity of Illinois\, Chicago\n\n\nOlivier Debarre\nUniversité Paris Diderot\n\n\nGavril Farkas\nUniversity of Berlin\n\n\nBrendan Hassett\nRice University\n\n\nKlaus Hulek\nInstitute for Advanced Study\n\n\nDaniel Huybrechts\nUniversity of Bonn\n\n\nLjudmila Kamenova\nSUNY Stony Brook\n\n\nNick Katz\nPrinceton University\n\n\nLudmil Katzarkov\nMiami & Vienna\n\n\nChristian Liedtke\nUniversity of Munich\n\n\nEmanuele Macri\nOhio State University\n\n\nMartin Olsson\nUC Berkeley\n\n\nAlena Pirutka\nÉcole polytechnique\n\n\nJason Starr\nSUNY Stony Brook\n\n\nPaolo Stellari\nUniversità degli Studi di Milano\n\n\nYuri Tschinkel\nSimons Foundation\n\n\nRavi Vakil\nStanford University\n\n\nAnthony Várilly-Alvarado\n Rice University \n\n\nMisha Verbitsky\n Higher School of Economics \n\n\nYuri Zarhin\n Penn State University \n\n\n	 Download Participants PDF\n\nPhotographs\n\n	(Photo credit: Prof. Debarre)\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n	\n\n\n  \n \n« Back to Simons Symposia
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/geometry-over-nonclosed-fields-geometry-and-arithmetic-of-holomorphic-symplectic-varieties/
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SUMMARY:Online Social Systems
DESCRIPTION:People spend hours a day interacting in online settings\, ranging from social media sites to a broad range of digital communities designed for work\, education and entertainment. Such systems are generally intended to elicit particular activities or forms of engagement\, yet we have relatively little understanding of the resulting behaviors or of how system design may contribute to those behaviors. In this talk\, I will discuss some of our work that aims to develop models of human behavior in online settings\, both to inform system design but also to address fundamental questions in the social sciences. In particular\, I will discuss some results regarding the diffusion of ideas and products\, participation in massive online courses\, the use of badges as incentives\, the inadvertent disclosure of social ties\, and effects of homophily\, or “birds of a feather” principle\, in online communities. These results include the study of large sites such as Coursera\, Flickr\, LinkedIn\, and Stack Overflow. \nDaniel Huttenlocher is the founding dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech. As dean\, he has overall responsibility for the new campus\, including the academic quality and direction of the campus’ degree programs and research. Huttenlocher has a mix of academic and industry background\, having worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and served as CTO of Intelligent Markets\, as well as being a faculty member at Cornell for over two decades. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and both his master’s and doctorate degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He currently serves as a trustee of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/online-social-systems/
CATEGORIES:Simons Science Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150315T000000
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SUMMARY:Quantum Entanglement (2015)
DESCRIPTION:March 15-21\, 2015\n\n \nOrganizers:\nShamit Kachru\, Stanford University\nHirosi Ooguri\, Caltech\nSubir Sachdev\, Harvard University \nSince our last symposium\, quantum entanglement has become even more important in areas of theoretical physics ranging from condensed matter physics and quantum information to quantum gravity. In quantum gravity\, it is playing a key role in elucidating the mechanism of the holographic duality between field theories and gravity theories. In condensed matter physics\, entanglement has become a key organizing principle in new approaches to performing lattice simulations of quantum systems (like DMRG and MERA).  It also acts as one of the few `tags’ for topologically ordered states – novel phases of matter not characterized by conventional order parameters. These developments make it an excellent time to bring together theorists in these areas to share their insights and tools.\n  \n\nSlides\n\n	Ashvin Vishwanath\, UC Berkeley:\n	Topology + Localization: Quantum Coherence In “Hot” Matter (PDF) \n	Tarun Grover\, KITP:\n	Universal Aspects of Many Body Localization Transition & Eigenstate Thermalization (PDF)\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n\nMonday\n\n\n\n\nSubir Sachdev\n\n\n\nXiao-Liang Qi\n\n\n\nAshvin Vishwanath\n\n\n\nHong Liu\n\n\n\nShamit Kachru\n\n\nTuesday\n\n\n\n\nTadashi Takayanagi\n\n\n\nMatt Headrick\n\n\n\nHirosi Ooguri\n\n\n\nVeronika Hubeny\n\n\n\nMukund Rangamani\n\n\nWednesday\n\n\n\n\nDavid Huse\n\n\n\nMax Melitski\n\n\n\nTarun Grover\n\n\nThursday\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Harlow\n\n\n\nBrian Swingle\n\n\n\nBeni Yoshida\n\n\n\nRobert Myers\n\n\n\nDam Son\n\n\nFriday\n\n\n\n\nHoracio Casini\n\n\n\nEva Silverstein\n\n\n\nSean Hartnoll\n\n\n\nLiam Fitzpatrick\n\n\n\nSun-Sik Lee\n\n\n	→ Download full agenda PDF \n\nParticipants\n\n\n\nHoracio Casini\nCentro Atómico Bariloche\n\n\nLiam Fitzpatrick\nStanford University\n\n\nTarun Grover\nKITP\n\n\nDaniel Harlow\nPrinceton University\n\n\nSean Hartnoll\nStanford University\n\n\nMatt Headrick\nBrandeis University\n\n\nVeronika Hubeny\nDurham Uiversity\n\n\nDavid Huse\nPrinceton University\n\n\nShamit Kachru\nStanford University\n\n\nSung-Sik Lee\nMcMaster University/Perimeter Institute\n\n\nHong Liu\nMIT\n\n\nMax Metlitski\nKITP\n\n\nRobert Myers\nPerimeter Institute\n\n\nHirosi Ooguri\nCaltech\n\n\nXiao-Liang Qi\nStanford University\n\n\nMukund Rangamani \nDurham University\n\n\nSubir Sachdev\nHarvard University\n\n\nEva Silverstein\nStanford University\n\n\nDam Son\nUniversity of Chicago\n\n\nBrian Swingle\nHarvard University\n\n\nTadashi Takayanagi\nKyoto University\n\n\nAshvin Vishwanath\nUC Berkeley\n\n\nBeni Yoshida\nCaltech\n\n\n	(Download Participants PDF)\n\n\n  \n \n« Back to Simons Symposia
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/quantum-entanglement-2015/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150311T170000
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SUMMARY:Mineral Evolution and Ecology\, and the Co-evolution of Life and Rocks
DESCRIPTION:Earth’s geological and biological evolution are intertwined in remarkable ways that are coming into sharper focus thanks to studies of the diversity and distribution of minerals. Robert Hazen will explore the emerging field of ‘mineral evolution’ and reveal how Earth\, which is unique among known worlds in its biosphere\, is unique in its geosphere as well. \nIn this lecture\, Robert Hazen will examine how Earth’s near-surface environment has evolved as a consequence of selective physical\, chemical and biological processes — an evolution that is preserved in the mineralogical record. Recent studies of mineral diversification through time reveal correlations with major geochemical\, tectonic and biological events\, including large changes in ocean chemistry\, the supercontinent cycle\, the origins of life\, the increase in atmospheric oxygen and the rise of the terrestrial biosphere. Growing data resources also point to new opportunities for applying statistical methods and visualization strategies for deep-time — or geologic time — data. Among our most provocative findings: Earth is mineralogically unique in the cosmos. \nRobert Hazen received degrees in geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in earth science from Harvard University. A senior staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory\, Hazen is also executive director of the Deep Carbon Observatory and author of numerous articles and books\, including “The Story of Earth”. Hazen’s recent research focuses on possible roles of minerals in the origin of life\, mineral evolution and the coevolution of the geosphere and biosphere.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/mineral-evolution-and-ecology-and-the-co-evolution-of-life-and-rocks/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150304T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150304T181500
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SUMMARY:A Dark Matter Hunter’s Guide to the Universe
DESCRIPTION:Dark matter is a new\, mysterious form of matter that holds the universe together. It is responsible for the growth of structures in our universe as large as the Milky Way that can ultimately support life. While we know that dark matter is important for the evolution of our universe\, and that it is much more prevalent than ordinary matter (such as electrons and nuclei)\, the underlying nature of dark matter remains unknown. Still\, by using theoretical ideas exploring what dark matter may be\, we can search for experimental evidence about its nature. \nKathryn Zurek will review evidence for the presence of dark matter in our universe and the need for a new theory to describe the dark matter sector. She will discuss how dark matter hunters are searching for dark matter through observations on galactic and extra-galactic scales\, as well as in terrestrial experiments. She will focus on the connections among these various kinds of searches\, from the cosmic microwave background to observations of high-energy gamma rays in our galaxy\, as well as terrestrial experiments such as those involving the Large Hadron Collider. \n  \nKathryn Zurek received her Ph.D. in particle astrophysics from the Institute for Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington in 2006. She was then a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, working on physics beyond the Standard Model\, and then the David Schramm Fellow in the theoretical astrophysics group at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. In 2009\, she became an assistant and then associate professor at the University of Michigan\, before moving to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2014\, she began working as a member of the Joint Particle Theory Group at the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics. Her interests lie primarily at the boundary between particle physics\, and astrophysics and cosmology. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/a-dark-matter-hunters-guide-to-the-universe/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Astronomy, Cosmology and Particle Physics
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