April 17-23, 2016 Organizers: Fedor Bogomolov, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Brendan Hassett, Brown University Yuri Tschinkel, Simons Foundation Related Links: 2012 Simons Symposium on Geometry Over Nonclosed Fields 2015 Simons Symposium on Geometry Over Nonclosed Fields The focus of this third symposium on Geometry Over Nonclosed Fields was zero-cycles and related Chow-theoretic and...
In this lecture, Alexei Borodin will illustrate how these two concepts work together in examples from random matrices to random interface growth.
Christopher Walsh will review recent work on ‘somatic mutations’ — de novo mutations that are present in some brain cells but not in all cells of the body — in several neurological conditions associated with intellectual disability and seizures.
In this lecture, Thomas Schulthess will show how recent developments in architecture have moved us away from traditional abstractions, forcing software development and mathematical algorithms to acknowledge the physical reality of computing systems.
A canonical task in machine learning is to fit a model to a dataset. Sanjeev Arora will describe models fitted to real-life datasets, which display randomlike properties that can offer insights into the algorithms used for the task.
In this lecture, Eric Betzig will describe advanced optical tools being developed to help scientists delve deeper into the complexity of biological systems.
Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center / S. Wiessinger Thursday, June 23 — Friday, June 24, 2016 Simons Foundation Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 Fifth Avenue New York, New York Saturday, June 25, 2016 Columbia University Pupin Hall 538 W. 120th Street New York, New York On June 23 and 24, 2016, about 60...
Dr. Ruth O’Hara will present on the field’s current understanding of sleep in autism spectrum disorder.
Next-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.
In 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.
Genetic 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.
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...
The 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.
Katepalli 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.
In 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.
Humanity 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.
We 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.
Dr. 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.
Thursday, 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 ...
This 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.
In this lecture, Dr. Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele will outline critical challenges, both conceptual and practical, to translating genomic, cellular, and animal model research into new treatments in autism spectrum disorder.
In this lecture, Dr. Arnold Kriegstein will describe recent advances in our understanding of the unique features of human cortical development.
In this lecture, Subir Sachdev will present a simple model of many-particle entanglement, which has led to new insights into two very different classes of systems.
Note: Videos for the Dominika Zgid's "Quantum Embedding Beyond DMFT" and Guifre Vidal's "Continuous Tensor Networks: Recent Results and a Route Map" are unfortunately unavailable due to a file storage error.
In this lecture, Mark Zylka will describe how candidate environmental risk factors for autism can be identified rationally, by pinpointing chemicals that interfere with the same molecular pathways that are affected in individuals with autism. His research focuses on identifying environmental-use chemicals that target autism-linked molecular pathways, using environmental sampling data to assess the exposure threat to people, and validating risk potential in animal models.
New abilities with laser light have enabled us to create and probe atomic gases at ultralow temperatures, forming the basis of atomic clocks accurate to 18 decimal places. This talk will discuss the history of such advanced clocks and how they are used to test fundamental laws of nature, search for new physics and create a range of technologies.
Thursday, March 9th – Friday, March 10th 2017 Simons Foundation Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium New York, New York Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem homepage Agenda Thursday, March 9 8:00 AM CHECK-IN & BREAKFAST 9:00 AM S. Nagel: State of the Collaboration 9:30 AM G. Tarjus: In Search of Length Scales Characterizing Glass Formation...
In this lecture, Wendell Lim will discuss the design principles of molecular circuits that govern cell decision-making and responses. He will also describe how these principles can be harnessed to engineer cells with customized therapeutic response programs.
In this lecture, Josh Winn will describe the discovery of exoplanets, why it took so long to find them, what new technologies were required, and where the research field is headed.
In this lecture, Richard Neher will present recent progress in our understanding of the evolutionary dynamics of organisms such as HIV and the influenza virus.
We are drawn to the new, the unusual, the unexpected: what we could not predict on the basis of what came before. As vast archives of our cultural past and present go online, scientists can now break out of the laboratory to see how novelty, innovation and creativity are both made and received in the...
