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Metagenomic DNA Sequencing to Detect and Diagnose Infections
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesNext-generation sequencing has the power to decode DNA in a matter of hours, but doctors still diagnose infections using methods developed decades ago. This lecture will describe how scientists are using the latest sequencing technology in combination with new, very fast algorithms to sequence a complex mixture of DNA from a sick patient and, in some cases, identify the causative agent of an infection.
The Monster at the Heart of our Galaxy
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesIn this lecture, Dr. Andrea Ghez will discuss the latest developments in the study of black holes, specifically how the environment around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is quite different than astronomers expected. She will also describe how studying the orbits of stars at the galactic center could improve our understanding of gravity.
Tuberous Sclerosis: Shedding Light on the Neural Circuitry of Autism
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesGenetic disorders with high penetrance of autism symptoms provide an opportunity to investigate the cellular and circuitry abnormalities underlying autism spectrum disorder. Mustafa Sahin studies the basis of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) in cell culture, in animal models and in the clinic and will present an update on translational research in TSC.
SCGB NY-Area Postdoc Meeting Series
Simons Foundation 9th Floor, Multipurpose Room 160 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States
2016 MPS Annual Meeting
Download the meeting booklet for agenda, abstracts and other annual meeting details: The 2016 annual MPS meeting took place October 20–21. It featured exciting talks about research at the frontiers of math, physics and theoretical computer science, as well as lively discussions among the heterogeneous crowd of attending scientists. The keynote speaker, Mina Aganagic, talked...
Curiosity’s Search for Ancient Habitable Environments at Gale Crater, Mars
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesThe Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, was built to search for and explore habitable environments. In this lecture, John Grotzinger will review Curiosity’s latest discoveries and describe the biological viability of ancient environments on Mars, along with the value of robots in geologic exploration.
Solar Convection
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesKatepalli Sreenivasan will describe what is known about the convective phenomena in the sun, using results from basic turbulence modeling, numerical simulations, as well as helioseismology.
How Immune Cells Help Wire the Brain: Implications for Autism and Psychiatric Illness
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesIn this lecture, Dr. Beth Stevens will discuss recent work that implicates brain immune cells, called microglia, in sculpting of synaptic connections during development and their relevance to autism, schizophrenia and other brain disorders.
Randomness
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesHumanity has pondered the meaning and utility of randomness for millennia. A computational theory of randomness, developed in the past three decades, reveals (perhaps counterintuitively) that very little is lost in such deterministic or weakly random worlds. In this talk, Avi Wigderson will explain the main ideas and results of this theory.
Nanotechnology for Massively-Parallel, Multi-Physical Interrogation of Brain Activity
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesWe are still far from elucidating how complex assemblies of neurons — that is, brain circuits — interact to process information. In this lecture, Michael Roukes will outline the immense complexity of such pursuits and describe efforts toward developing new tools for massively multiplexed, multi-physical interrogation of brain activity.
From Covert Consciousness to Human Rights: Neuroethics and the Neuroscience of Disorders of Consciousness
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesDr. Joseph J. Fins will address how our evolving knowledge of disorders of consciousness has created an ethical imperative for a population often misdiagnosed, neglected and segregated from society. Meeting the needs of conscious individuals often mistakenly diagnosed as permanently unconscious is an emerging civil rights issue and challenge for basic and clinical neuroscience.
It from Qubit 2016 Annual Meeting
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesThursday, December 8th – Friday, December 9th 2016Simons Foundation Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium New York, New York Mark van Raamsdonk Nonlinear Gravity from Entanglement Download slides (PDF) https://vimeo.com/206297549 Horacio Casini Irreversibility of RG flows from Relative Entropy Download slides (PDF) https://vimeo.com/206297336 Matt Headrick Covariant Bit Threads: Progress Report Download slides (PDF) https://vimeo.com/206297755 ...
Geometry, Topology and Physics
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesThis talk will introduce an overview of some of the most important concepts and ideas from geometry and topology and then describe the recent interplay between these mathematical subjects and high energy theoretical physics, interactions that have been of a fundamentally different nature from earlier ones.