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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151209T170000
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SUMMARY:Quarks\, Flux Tubes and String Theory Without Calculus
DESCRIPTION:The theory of strings started as an attempt to describe the forces holding quarks together. Important remnants of that idea survive in the form of the flux tubes of quantum chromodynamics and their description as “strings” in the gauge-string duality. Applications to quark-gluon plasmas have yielded some of the most quantitative comparisons of string theory with experimental data. For example\, the friction generated when a string scrapes along a black hole horizon can be used to estimate drag force on quarks in a thermal medium. More recently\, related ideas have appeared in a more mathematical context\, providing a formulation of classical string dynamics that avoids calculus and does not depend on the continuous structure of spacetime. \nSteve Gubser received his Ph.D. from Princeton University\, where his advisor was Igor Klebanov. After working as a post doc at the Harvard Society of Fellows and as a faculty member at California Institute of Technology\, he returned to Princeton University\, where he is presently a professor and the associate chair for undergraduates in the Department of Physics. He is one of the originators of the gauge-string duality and has worked on its applications to nuclear and condensed matter physics. Gubser is also the author of The Little Book of String Theory\, a nontechnical account of string theory and its applications to collider physics.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/quarks-flux-tubes-and-string-theory-without-calculus/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Astronomy, Cosmology and Particle Physics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151216T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151216T181500
DTSTAMP:20260409T094032
CREATED:20151118T050000Z
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SUMMARY:Atom-interferometry Limits on Dark Energy
DESCRIPTION:Dark energy drives the expansion of the universe\, but its nature remains mysterious. Some proposed theories can soon be confirmed or falsified by searching for tiny forces on individual atoms. As a first step\, an atom interferometer has already ruled out a range of models. \nIn this lecture\, Dr. Holger Müller will explain recent experimental searches for certain models of dark energy. How can it be that dark energy\, which is supposedly ubiquitous in the cosmos\, has never been observed in experiments? Called chameleon theories of f(R) gravity\, some theories postulate long-ranged fields in empty space that become extremely short-ranged near massive objects and\, thus\, hard to observe. But advanced technologies from atomic physics can be used to sense them anyway. They already place stringent bounds on chameleons and could one day be used to find or definitely rule out a broad class of dark-energy candidates. \nHolger Müller is an experimental physicist and a faculty member at University of California\, Berkeley. He applied for his first patent at the age of 14\, graduated from Humboldt University (Berlin\, Germany) and worked with later Energy Secretary Steven Chu on atom interferometry at Stanford. He is now developing atom interferometers for measurements in fundamental physics\, for which he won the Francis M. Pipkin Award of the American Physical Society in 2015. He loves the guitar and the opera.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/atom-interferometry-limits-on-dark-energy/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Astronomy, Cosmology and Particle Physics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160127T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160127T181500
DTSTAMP:20260409T094032
CREATED:20151214T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T164659Z
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SUMMARY:Making Up Your Mind: Interneurons in Development and Disease
DESCRIPTION:Interneurons within the brain\, in the cortex and hippocampus in particular\, are central for normal brain function\, and conversely\, dysfunction of these cell types is thought to result in developmental neurological disorders. The Fishell laboratory combines genetic and physiological approaches to examine the origins of these populations and their integration into brain circuitry. \nIn this lecture\, Gordon Fishell will describe his investigations of the developmental and genetic origins of interneuron development. This process begins with their specification\, during which genetic programs initiated within progenitors relegate interneurons into specific cardinal classes. Subsequent to this\, neuronal activity is fundamental for both the laminar positioning as well as the dendritic and axonal arborization in at least some interneuron subtypes. Fishell’s findings suggest that sensory information complements earlier established genetic programs to shape the way interneuronal subtypes integrate into nascent cortical circuits. Importantly\, many of the genes involved in the maturation of interneurons appear to also be implicated in neuropsychiatric diseases\, including autism and schizophrenia. \nGordon J. Fishell\, Ph.D.\, is associate director of the NYU Neuroscience Institute\, Julius Raines Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology\, and director of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and Physiology at New York University School of Medicine (NYU). Fishell is a long-standing member of the NYU School of Medicine community\, having joined the developmental genetics program in the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine in 1994. In 2006\, he launched the Smilow Neuroscience Program\, and in 2011 he became associate director of the then-newly-formed NYU Neuroscience Institute.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/making-up-your-mind-interneurons-in-development-and-disease/
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:20160203T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160203T181500
DTSTAMP:20260409T094032
CREATED:20151221T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T164710Z
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SUMMARY:The Twisted Universe: The Cosmic Quest to Reveal Which End Is Up
DESCRIPTION:The cosmic microwave background (CMB) has spectacularly advanced our understanding of the origin\, composition and evolution of our universe. Yet there is still much to mine from this\, the oldest light in the universe. Powerful telescopes are plying the skies in a quest to discover new physics. This talk concentrates on measurements by the POLARBEAR telescope\, which pave the way for the upcoming Simons Array. \nDr. Keating will give an overview of an exhilarating branch of astrophysics: the search for the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). He will explain how the CMB can constrain phenomena such as primordial magnetism\, elementary particle masses and even the origin of the universe itself. Further phenomena\, such as tantalizing bounds on parity-violating Chern–Simons cosmic birefringence — the rotation of the polarization plane of cosmic photons — will be discussed. He will describe early attempts to measure cosmic birefringence using distant galaxies as well as state-of the-art measurements made by POLARBEAR. Keating will close by previewing the upcoming Simons Array. \nBrian Keating is a cosmologist at UCSD. He is the author of 100+ publications and two patents. He received his B.S. from Case Western Reserve University and his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2000 and was an NSF fellow at Caltech. He received the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers at the White House. He co-leads the POLARBEAR/Simons Array collaborations in Chile. He is a private pilot with multi-engine turbine ratings and a trustee of MoMath and the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/the-twisted-universe-the-cosmic-quest-to-reveal-which-end-is-up/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Astronomy, Cosmology and Particle Physics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160210T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160210T181500
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CREATED:20151218T050000Z
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SUMMARY:Towards a Structural Basis of Complex Disorders of Heart\, Muscle and Brain
DESCRIPTION:Ryanodine receptors (RyR) are intracellular calcium-release channels found in almost all cell types. Andrew Marks and his team recently solved the high-resolution structure of the skeletal muscle form\, RyR1. The structure provides insight regarding how dysfunctional RyR channels contribute to common diseases\, including heart failure\, muscular dystrophy and Alzheimer’s disease. \nIn this lecture\, Dr. Marks will present new data on the high-resolution structure of the mammalian RyR1/intracellular calcium-release channel obtained using cryogenic electron-microscopy. Chronic stress mediated by oxidation and phosphorylation of the channel render it ‘leaky.’ This results in a pathological intracellular calcium leak from the sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticuli. This intracellular calcium leak causes distinct pathologies in different tissues. In cardiac muscle\, RyR leak contributes to heart failure and cardiac arrhythmias. In skeletal muscle\, RyR leak contributes to muscle weakness in muscular dystrophies and cancer metastatic to bone. In the brain\, leaky RyR channels contribute to cognitive dysfunction in post-traumatic stress disorder and Alzheimer’s disease. \nAndrew R. Marks\, M.D. is chair and professor of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University. He discovered that ‘leaky’ intracellular calcium-release channels (ryanodine receptors\, or RyR) contribute to heart failure\, cardiac arrhythmias\, impaired exercise capacity\, post-traumatic stress disorder and Alzheimer’s disease. He developed a new class of small molecules (Rycals) targeting leaky RyR. Rycals are in clinical trials for heart failure\, cardiac arrhythmias\, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/towards-a-structural-basis-of-complex-disorders-of-heart-muscle-and-brain/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160217T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160217T181500
DTSTAMP:20260409T094032
CREATED:20151223T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T181620Z
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SUMMARY:A Molecular Geneticist's Approach to Understanding the Fly Brain
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Gerald Rubin will discuss efforts to develop and apply the tools that will be required for a comprehensive analysis of the anatomy and function of the fly brain at the level of individual cell types and circuits\, using examples from his lab’s recent work on visual perception\, as well as the mechanisms of learning and memory. \nRubin will describe how an analysis of neuronal cell types and their connectivity can be combined with quantitative behavioral and physiological data to probe the mechanisms underlying fundamental neuronal computations. By assaying and manipulating the function of well-defined neurons (individual cell types)\, his team seeks to work toward models of how neural circuits control behavior. Many of the tools and data sets required to support such a comprehensive approach are now becoming available in Drosophila\, an animal exhibiting many complex behaviors. Will they be sufficient to understand how a brain executes complex computations to achieve sophisticated behaviors? Time will tell. \nGerald M. Rubin graduated from MIT in 1971\, obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1974 and did postdoctoral work at Stanford University. He held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School and the Carnegie Institution for Science before moving to UC Berkeley in 1983 to assume the John D. MacArthur Professorship of Genetics and was appointed a HHMI investigator in 1987. He became the founding director of HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus in 2003.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/a-molecular-geneticists-approach-to-understanding-the-fly-brain/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Brain and Cognitive Science
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160220
DTSTAMP:20260409T094032
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SUMMARY:Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem Annual Meeting 2016
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URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/simons-collaboration-on-the-many-electron-problem-annual-meeting-2016/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160224T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160224T180000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094032
CREATED:20160108T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T181630Z
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SUMMARY:Determining Multimodal Imaging Biomarkers for Parkinson's Disease
DESCRIPTION:Despite considerable progress in our understanding of Parkinson’s disease\, reliable biomarkers are still lacking. The combination of noninvasive neuroimaging data reflecting both functional and structural characteristics of the brain\, clinical information and other biologic measures provides an unprecedented opportunity for cross-cutting investigations that may yield deeper insights into Parkinson’s disease. \nIn this lecture\, F. DuBois Bowman will discuss how he and his colleagues are working to identify functional or anatomical properties of the brain that reliably distinguish individuals with Parkinson’s disease from healthy controls. He will describe the Bayesian statistical modeling framework that incorporates imaging data from different modalities and yields classifications for study participants\, as either those with Parkinson’s disease or healthy controls. The model accounts for spatial correlations between different brain locations\, defined hierarchically to capture correlations globally between brain regions\, between subregions of each region\, and between voxels within each subregion. Bowman will then explain how the ability to isolate neural characteristics that reflect accurate signatures of Parkinson’s disease may serve as useful early-stage Parkinson’s disease biomarkers. \nF. DuBois Bowman is chair of the biostatistics department at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He leads a research program focused on the development and applications of statistical methods for complex neuroimaging data and other large-scale datasets\, including electronic medical records. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association\, served as president of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society and received the James Grizzle Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of North Carolina. He has also served as associate editor of Biometrics and as associate editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/determining-multimodal-imaging-biomarkers-for-parkinsons-disease/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Frontiers of Data Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160309T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160309T180000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094032
CREATED:20160210T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T181639Z
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SUMMARY:The Formation of Structure in the Cosmos
DESCRIPTION:Studies of the universe across multiple wavelengths and over billions of years of cosmic evolution have revealed a stunning cosmological history. By the present day\, the relatively simple structures existing in the early universe have transformed into vast networks of galaxies and black holes. How and why does this happen? What can we learn by studying these transformations? \nIn this lecture\, Juna Kollmeier will take you on a cosmic journey\, starting with the infant universe and explain the current thinking about how “structure” emerges from this humble start. She will show how giant filaments of galaxies form from extremely smooth initial conditions in the current cosmological model. She will go over structures like the Milky Way and the most massive black holes in the universe and show how these are related to one another in fundamental ways. Dr. Kollmeier will highlight not only the beauty of these structures and superstructures\, as revealed by powerful telescopes\, but also the deep insights about the nature of the universe that we have learned by observing them and carefully characterizing them. \nDr. Kollmeier received a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 2000. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics before obtaining a Ph.D. at Ohio State University in 2006. She was a Carnegie-Princeton and Hubble Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories and Princeton University until 2008\, when she became a member of the permanent faculty of the Carnegie Observatories. She was the first theoretician hired to the observatories\, where she started the program in theoretical astrophysics. Her work lies at the intersection of computational\, theoretical and observational astrophysics.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/the-formation-of-structure-in-the-cosmos/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Astronomy, Cosmology and Particle Physics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160316T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160316T181500
DTSTAMP:20260409T094032
CREATED:20151218T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T181655Z
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SUMMARY:The Fourth Dimension of Transcriptional Networks: TIME
DESCRIPTION:Transcriptional networks operate dynamically in vivo\, but capturing and modeling these dynamics is an experimental and computational challenge. This presentation focuses on time — building predictive network models based on time-series transcriptome data\, and perturbing transcription networks in time. The outcome is a dynamic hit-and-run transcription model with relevance across eukaryotes. \nIn this lecture\, Dr. Gloria Coruzzi will probe dynamic transcription networks\, computationally and experimentally. Using a machine-learning approach called Dynamic Factor Graph\, fine-scale time-series transcriptome data is used to infer network models that were validated both in silico using left-out data\, and experimentally. To explore the molecular basis for underlying dynamic transcription\, a cell-based assay was developed to follow the mode of action of a transcription factor (TF) within one minute of nuclear entry. This uncovered genome-wide support for a hit-and-run mechanism of transcription\, in which de novo transcription initiated by a transient TF “hit” persists after the TF has “run.” \nDr. Coruzzi specializes in plant systems biology. As Carroll & Milton Petrie Professor of Biology at NYU’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology\, her work on gene regulatory networks controlling nitrogen use in the model plant Arabidopsis is funded by NIH\, NSF and DOE. She is a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science\, the American Society of Plant Biology\, and serves on the Arabidopsis Informatics Consortium and an Advisory Board to the Joint Genome Institute (JGI).
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/the-fourth-dimension-of-transcriptional-networks-time/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160322T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160322T181500
DTSTAMP:20260409T094032
CREATED:20170206T050000Z
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SUMMARY:What Can Genetics Tell Us About Autism Spectrum Disorder?
DESCRIPTION:It has been known that autism spectrum disorder is primarily caused by genetic factors for several decades. The past 10 years have seen great progress in finding some of the genes responsible and in building a map of what other types of genetic variants may contribute. These findings have been used both to provide insight into the biology of autism and\, in the clinic\, to identify individuals with specific genetic variants. This talk will outline the current state of genetics research in autism\, highlight some of the key findings that remain to be discovered\, and consider how these findings could ultimately benefit individuals with autism and their families. \nStephan Sanders trained as a pediatric physician in the United Kingdom before pursuing a research career in genomics and bioinformatics. His work has helped characterize the role of de novo mutations in the etiology of autism and identified multiple autism risk loci\, including duplications of the 7q11.23 Williams syndrome region (Sanders et al. Neuron 2011) and mutations in the sodium channel gene SCN2A (Sanders et al. Nature 2012). His work on the integration of copy number variation and exome data across multiple autism cohorts recently identified 71 autism risk loci (Sanders et al. Neuron 2015). In addition\, he worked as part of a group that integrated spatiotemporal gene expression data from the human brain with these autism-associated genes (Willsey et al. Cell 2013). This approach has implicated deep-layer glutamatergic neurons in the frontal cortex during mid-fetal development in the causation of autism. His lab has three main research aims: 1) Understanding the genetic basis of childhood neurodevelopmental conditions\, in particular autism; 2) Understanding how these genetic factors lead to the conditions; and 3) Understanding the mechanism that leads to the male bias in autism diagnosis\, in particular through identifying the biological basis of the female protective effect.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/what-can-genetics-tell-us-about-autism-spectrum-disorder/
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:20160330T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160330T181500
DTSTAMP:20260409T094032
CREATED:20160129T050000Z
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SUMMARY:Development Begins Before Birth: Prenatal Research Relevant to Autism
DESCRIPTION:The burgeoning research field known as the fetal origins of adult disease (FOAD) or the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHAD) demonstrates that maternal distress during pregnancy affects fetal and infant brain–behavior development. This is a ‘third pathway’ for the familial inheritance of psychiatric illness beyond shared genes and the quality of parental care\, and one that\, if fully understood\, could lead to early prevention of developmental risk. \nIn this lecture\, Dr. Catherine Monk will describe her lab’s FOAD studies that focus on women in the perinatal period and fetal and infant neurobehavioral development\, including direct studies of the fetus\, newborn brain imaging and placental methylation. \nApplying the FOAD model to autism research introduces the possibility of identifying perinatal markers for the disorder and may help advance the animal and epidemiological findings showing that prenatal maternal immune activation — often a correlate of distress — is associated with risk for the illness. \nDr. Monk holds a joint appointment as an associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry\, and Obstetrics & Gynecology at Columbia University Medical Center. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of her research\, she is affiliated with two divisions in psychiatry: behavioral medicine and developmental neuroscience. She is director for research at the Women’s Program\, as well as co–director of the Sackler Parent–Infant Project and of the Domestic Violence Initiative. After completing her National Institutes of Health post–doctoral fellowship in the psychobiological sciences at Columbia in 2000\, Dr. Monk joined the faculty and established the Perinatal Pathways Laboratory
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/development-begins-before-birth-prenatal-research-relevant-to-autism/
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:20160403T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160409T000000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094032
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SUMMARY:Analysis of Boolean Functions (2016)
DESCRIPTION:April 3-9\, 2016\n\n \nOrganizers:\nKrzysztof Oleskiewicz\, University of Warsaw\nElchanan Mossel\, University of Pennsylvania\nRyan O’Donnell\, Carnegie Mellon University \nRelated Links:\n\nDiscrete Analysis: Beyond the Boolean Cube (2014)\nAnalysis of Boolean Functions: New Directions and Applications (2012)\nAnalysis of Boolean Functions Blog\n\nThis third symposium for Analysis of Boolean Functions focused on “New Analytic tools in Discrete Fourier Analysis”\, in particular on the methods coming from fields as diverse as probability theory\, functional analysis and statistical physics\, and their applications in the discrete cube setting. \nKey topics:\n\n Functional inequalities\, concentration of measure \n Discrete random matrices \n Phase transitions\, percolation\, random graphs\, Ising models\, sharp thresholds and cutoffs \n The Fourier analytic structure of circuits \n Noise sensitivity \n\nClick here for a PDF of the schedule and participant list\, or see the Agenda and Participants sections below. \n\nAgenda & Slides\n\n\n\nSunday\n\n\n\n 8:00 -10:00 PM\nDinner\n\n\nMonday\n\n\n\n 7:30 – 10:30 AM\nBreakfast\n\n\n10:30 – 10:55 AM\nA. Bonami: Quantitative Central limit theorems and cumulants in Wiener chaos (Slides PDF)\n\n\n10:55 – 11:20 AM\nA. Wigderson: New algorithms and Fourier tail bounds for sensitive Boolean functions\n\n\n11:20 – 11:45 AM\nA. Naor: Metric X_p Inequalities\n\n\n11:45 – 12:15 PM\nBreak\n\n\n12:15 – 12:40 PM\nA. De: Noisy population recovery in polynomial time\n\n\n12:40 –  1:05 PM\nU. Feige: Learning and optimization for approximately nice set functions\n\n\n 1:05 –  1:30 PM\nG. Kalai: Influence\, correlation\, and Chvatal’s conjecture\n\n\n 1:30 –  2:30 PM\nLunch\n\n\n 3:00 –  4:30 PM\nDiscussion & Recreation\n\n\n 4:30 –  5:00 PM\nTea\n\n\n 5:00 –  5:25 PM\nR. Servedio: Addition is Exponentially Harder than Counting for Shallow Monotone Circuits (Slides PDF)\n\n\n 5:30 –  6:30 PM\nLong Talk 1\n\n\n 6:30 –  7:00 PM\nOpen Problems 1\n\n\n 8:00 –  9:30 PM\nDinner at the Wintergarden\n\n\nTuesday\n\n\n\n 7:30 – 10:00 AM\nBreakfast\n\n\n10:30 –  2:00 PM\nGuided Hike to Partnach Gorge\n\n\n 2:00 –  3:00 PM\nLunch\n\n\n 3:00 –  5:00 PM\nRecreation & Discussion\n\n\n 5:00 –  5:25 PM\nTea\n\n\n 5:30 –  6:30 PM\nKKL Retrospective\n\n\n 5:00 –  5:30 PM\nTea\n\n\n 8:00 –  9:30 PM\nDinner\n\n\n\nWednesday\n\n\n\n 7:30 – 10:30 AM\nBreakfast\n\n\n10:30 – 10:55 AM\nB. Green: Fourier uniformity of Boolean functions on subspaces\n\n\n10:55 – 11:20 AM\nJ. Kahn: A conjecture implying Chvatal’s Conjecture\n\n\n11:20 – 11:45 AM\nN. Sun: The free energy of random regular k-NAE-SAT (Slides PDF)\n\n\n11:45 – 12:15 PM\nBreak\n\n\n12:15 – 12:40 PM\nY. Zhao: Quasirandom Cayley graphs (Slides PDF)\n\n\n12:40 –  1:05 PM\nR. Eldan: Curvature\, concentration and an entropic interpolation scheme for Markov chains\n\n\n 1:05 –  1:30 PM\nD. Moshkovitz: Candidate Hard Unique Game (Slides PDF)\n\n\n 1:30 –  2:30 PM\nLunch\n\n\n 3:00 –  4:30 PM\nDiscussion & Recreation\n\n\n 4:30 –  5:00 PM\nTea\n\n\n 5:00 –  6:00 PM\nLong Talk 2\n\n\n 6:00 –  7:00 PM\nLong Talk 3\n\n\n 8:00 –  9:30 PM\nDinner\n\n\n\nThursday\n\n\n\n 7:30 – 10:30 AM\nBreakfast\n\n\n10:30 – 10:55 AM\nG. Schechtman: Embedding Pythagorean powers of hypercubes in hypercubes\n\n\n10:55 – 11:20 AM\nM. Rudelson: Delocalization of eigenvectors of general random matrices\n\n\n11:20 – 11:45 AM\nP. Raghavendra: On sum-of-square SDP relaxations for norms of random tensors\n\n\n11:45 – 12:15 PM\nBreak\n\n\n12:15 – 12:40 PM\nJ. Lee: Entropy and sparsity in the Fourier spectrum\n\n\n12:40 –  1:05 PM\nV. Guruswami: Analysis of polymorphisms and promise constraint satisfaction (Slides PDF)\n\n\n 1:05 –  1:30 PM\nN. Linial: Discrepancy in higher dimensions\n\n\n 1:30 –  2:30 PM\nLunch\n\n\n 3:00 –  4:30 PM\nDiscussion & Recreation\n\n\n 4:30 –  5:00 PM\nTea\n\n\n 5:00 –  6:00 PM\nLong Talk 4\n\n\n 6:00 –  7:00 PM\nLong Talk 5\n\n\n 8:00 –  9:30 PM\nDinner\n\n\n\nFriday\n\n\n\n 7:30 – 10:30 AM\nBreakfast\n\n\n10:30 – 11:30 AM\nLong Talk 6\n\n\n11:45 – 12:15 PM\nBreak\n\n\n12:15 –  1:05 PM\nLong Talk 7\n\n\n 1:30 –  2:30 PM\nLunch\n\n\n 3:00 –  4:30 PM\nDiscussion & Recreation\n\n\n 4:30 –  5:00 PM\nTea\n\n\n 5:00 –  6:00 PM\nOpen Problems 2\n\n\n 6:00 –  7:00 PM\nWrapup\n\n\n 8:00 –  9:30 PM\nDinner at Kaminstüberl\n\n\nParticipants\n\n\n\nAline Bonami\nUniversité d’Orléans\n\n\nAnindya De\nNorthwestern University\n\n\nRonen Eldan\nWeizmann Institute of Science\n\n\nUriel Feige\nWeizmann Institute of Science\n\n\nBen Green\nOxford University\n\n\nVenkatesan Guruswami\nCarnegie Mellon University\n\n\nJeff Kahn\nRutgers University\n\n\nGil Kalai\nHebrew University of Jerusalem\n\n\nJames Lee\nUniversity of Washington\n\n\nNathan Linial\nHebrew University of Jerusalem\n\n\nDana Moshkovitz\nMIT\n\n\nElchanan Mossel\nUC Berkeley\n\n\nAssaf Naor\nPrinceton University\n\n\nRyan O’Donnell\nCarnegie Mellon University\n\n\nKrzysztof Oleszkiewicz\nUniversity of Warsaw\n\n\nPrasad Raghavendra\nUC Berkeley\n\n\nMark Rudelson\nUniversity of Michigan\n\n\nGideon Schechtman\nWeizmann Institute\n\n\nRocco Servedio\nColumbia University\n\n\nJeff Steif\nChamlers University of Technology\n\n\nNike Sun\nMIT\n\n\nAvi Wigderson\nInstitute for Advanced Study\n\n\nYufei Zhao\nOxford University\n\n\n\n \n« Back to Simons Symposia
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/analysis-of-boolean-functions/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Geometric Aspects of the Trace Formula (2016)
DESCRIPTION:April 10-16\, 2016\n\n \nOrganizers:\nWerner Mueller\, Mathematisches Institut der Universität Bonn\nSug Woo Shin\, UC Berkeley\nNicolas Templier\, Cornell University \nRelated Links:\n\nGeometric Aspects of the Trace Formula (external site)\n2014 Simons Symposium on Families of Automorphic Forms and the Trace Formula\n\nThe second gathering of the Simons Symposium on the Trace Formula paved the way for new developments through lectures\, participant-led discussions and exploration of open problems on the following topics: \n\n Geometric side of the Arthur-Selberg and relative trace formulas: stabilization\, fundamental lemmas\, global coefficients\, analytic aspects \n Residual representations\, nilpotent orbits\, geometry and representation theory of p-adic groups \n Automorphic sheaves on Bun_G\, affine Grassmannian \n Combinatorics of truncation\, bounds for the non-tempered spectrum \n\nClick here for a PDF of the schedule and participant list\, or see the Agenda and Participants sections below. \n\nAgenda & Slides\n\n\n\nMonday\n\n\n\n7:30 – 10:30 AM\nBreakfast\n\n\n10:30 -11:30 AM\nNgô Bảo Châu\n\n\n11:30 AM – 12:00 PM\nBreak\n\n\n12:00 – 12:45 PM\nYakov Varshavsky\n\n\n12:45 -1:30 PM\nJulee Kim (Slides PDF)\n\n\n1:30 – 2:30 PM\nLunch\n\n\n2:30 – 4:30 PM\nRecreation & Discussion*\n\n\n4:30 – 5:00 PM\nAfternoon Tea & Discussion\n\n\n5:00 – 5:45 PM\nWee Teck Gan (Slides PDF)\n\n\n5:45 – 6:30 PM\nNicolas Templier\n\n\n8:00 – 9:30 PM\nDinner at the Wintergarden\n\n\nTuesday\n\n\n\n7:30 – 10:30 AM\nBreakfast\n\n\n10:30 – 11:15 AM\nTobias Finis\n\n\n11:15 AM – 12:00 PM\nPierre-Henri Chaudouard\n\n\n12:00 – 12:30 PM\nBreak\n\n\n12:30 – 1:30 PM\nJim Arthur (Slides PDF)\n\n\n1:30 – 2:30 PM\nLunch\n\n\n2:30 – 4:30 PM\nRecreation & Discussion\n\n\n4:30 – 5:00 PM\nAfternoon Tea & Discussion\n\n\n5:00 – 5:45 PM\nMartin Solleveld (Slides PDF)\n\n\n5:45 – 6:30 PM\nMarko Tadic\n\n\n8:00 – 9:30 PM\nDinner\n\n\nWednesday\n\n\n\n7:30 – 9:30 AM\nBreakfast\n\n\n10:00 AM – 2:00 PM\nGuided Hike to Partnach Gorge\n\n\n2:00 – 3:00 PM\nLunch\n\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\nRecreation & Discussion\n\n\n4:30 -5:00 PM\nTea & Discussion\n\n\n5:00 – 5:45 PM\nDihua Jiang (Slides PDF)\n\n\n5:45 – 6:30 PM\nYifeng Liu\n\n\n8:00 – 9:30 PM\nDinner\n\n\n\nThursday\n\n\n\n7:30 – 10:30 AM\nBreakfast\n\n\n10:30 – 11:15 AM\nColette Moeglin\n\n\n11:15 AM – 12:00 PM\nSug Woo Shin\n\n\n12:00 – 12:30 PM\nBreak\n\n\n12:30 – 1:30 PM\nFreydoon Shahidi\n\n\n1:30 – 2:30 PM\nLunch\n\n\n2:30 – 4:30 PM\nRecreation & Discussion\n\n\n4:30 – 5:00 PM\nAfternoon Tea & Discussion\n\n\n5:00 – 5:45 PM\nWen Wei Li (Slides PDF)\n\n\n5:45 – 6:30 PM\nYiannis Sakellaridis (Slides PDF)\n\n\n7:00 – 8:00 PM\nConcert\n\n\n8:00 – 9:30 PM\nDinner\n\n\n\nFriday\n\n\n\n7:30 – 10:30 AM\nBreakfast\n\n\n10:30 – 11:15 AM\nPaul Mezo\n\n\n11:15 AM – 12:00 PM\nJulia Gordon (Slides PDF)\n\n\n12:00 – 12:30 PM\nBreak\n\n\n12:30 – 1:30 PM\nJean-Loup Waldspurger\n\n\n1:30 – 2:30 PM\nLunch\n\n\n2:30 – 4:30 PM\nRecreation & Discussion\n\n\n4:30 – 5:00 PM\nAfternoon Tea & Discussion\n\n\n5:00 – 5:45 PM\nBirgit Speh (Slides PDF)\n\n\n5:45 – 6:30 PM\nErez Lapid (Slides PDF)\n\n\n8:00 – 9:30 PM\nDinner at Kaminstüberl\n\n\nParticipants\n\n\n\nJim Arthur\nUniversity of Toronto\n\n\nPierre-Henri Chaudouard\nInstitute de Mathematiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche\n\n\nTobias Finis\nUniversität Leipzig\n\n\nWee Teck Gan\nNational University of Singapore\n\n\nYulia Gordon\nUniversity of British Columbia\n\n\nDihua Jiang\nUniversity of Minnesota\n\n\nJulee Kim\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology\n\n\nErez Lapid\nWeizmann Institute of Science\n\n\nWen-Wei Li\n Chinese Academy of Sciences\n\n\nYifeng Liu\nNorthwestern University\n\n\nPaul Mezo\n Carleton University\n\n\nColette Moeglin\nInstitute de Mathematiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche\n\n\nWerner Mueller\nMathematisches Institut der Universität Bonn\n\n\nBao-Chau Ngo\nUniversity of Chicago\n\n\nYiannis Sakellaridis\nRutgers Univ. – Newark and National Technical Univ. of Athens\n\n\nFreydoon Shahidi\nPurdue University\n\n\nSug Woo Shin\nUC Berkeley\n\n\nMaarten Solleveld\nRadboud Universiteit Nijmegen\n\n\nBirgit Speh\nCornell University\n\n\nMarko Tadic\n University of Zagreb\n\n\nNicolas Templier\nCornell University\n\n\nYakov Varshavsky\n Hebrew University\n\n\nJean-Loup Waldspurger\nInstitute de Mathematiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche\n\n\n\n \n« Back to Simons Symposia
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/geometric-aspects-of-the-trace-formula/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Einstein's Blunder Undone
DESCRIPTION:Just 100 years ago\, Albert Einstein invented a new theory of gravity called “general relativity” and rapidly applied it to the problem of the study of the universe as a whole. To match astronomers’ understanding at the time\, he introduced the cosmological constant\, a mathematical term that allowed for a static universe. In the following decade\, astronomers showed the universe was not static but expanding\, and Einstein banished the cosmological term. However\, in the past 20 years\, astronomers have shown that the universe is not only expanding\, but that this expansion is speeding up. What drives this cosmic acceleration? We call it dark energy\, but it might be very similar to Einstein’s idea from a century ago. \nIn this talk\, Robert Kirshner will show how we discovered cosmic acceleration and present the evidence that we live in a universe that is only 4 percent ordinary matter\, like the atoms of the periodic table\, with the balance divided between mysterious dark energy that speeds up cosmic expansion and equally mysterious dark matter that draws matter together. \nKirshner is the Clowes Professor of Science at Harvard University. This year\, he is on leave at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo Alto\, heading their science program. He has been a leader in the use of supernova explosions to chart the expansion history of the universe\, winning the 2015 Wolf Prize in Physics for this work. At Harvard\, he served as Master of Quincy House\, an undergraduate residential community\, Astronomy Department chair\, and taught a large undergraduate course for students who were not planning to take any other science courses. A frequent public speaker on science\, he is also author of the popular-audience book The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars\, Dark Energy\, and the Accelerating Universe\, which is available in English\, Spanish\, Portuguese\, Japanese\, and Czech.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/einsteins-blunder-undone/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Astronomy, Cosmology and Particle Physics
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SUMMARY:Geometry Over Nonclosed Fields (2016)
DESCRIPTION:April 17-23\, 2016\n\n \nOrganizers:\nFedor Bogomolov\, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences\nBrendan Hassett\, Brown University\nYuri Tschinkel\, Simons Foundation \nRelated Links:\n\n2012 Simons Symposium on Geometry Over Nonclosed Fields\n2015 Simons Symposium on Geometry Over Nonclosed Fields\n\nThe focus of this third symposium on Geometry Over Nonclosed Fields was zero-cycles and related Chow-theoretic and birational invariants for higher-dimensional algebraic varieties over various fields. Creative applications of “decomposition of the diagonal”\, in combination with deformation theory and unramifed cohomology\, have led to new proofs of irrationality for complex varieties. We expect these techniques may shed new light on rational points for varieties over non-closed fields\, e.g.\, del Pezzo surfaces over function fields. \nClick here for a PDF of the schedule and participant list\, or see the Agenda and Participants sections below. \n\nAgenda & Slides\n\n\n\nSunday\n \n\n\n 8:00    – 10:00 PM\nDinner\n\n\nMonday\nRationality Problems\n\n\n 9:30    – 11:00 AM\nBreakfast\n\n\n11:00 AM – 12:00 PM\nAsher Auel: Stable rationality of quadric bundles\n\n\n12:00    – 12:30 PM\nBreak\n\n\n12:30    –  1:30 PM\nSujatha Ramdorai: Birational geometry and derived birational invariants (Slides PDF)\n\n\n 1:30    –  2:30 PM\nLunch \n\n\n 2:30    –  4:30 PM\nDiscussion & Recreation\n\n\n 4:30    –  5:00 PM\nAfternoon Tea & Discussion\n\n\n 5:00    –  6:00 PM\nIvan Cheltsov: Rationality and non-rationality of singular Fano threefolds\n\n\n 6:00    –  7:00 PM\nKonstantin Shramov: Fano threefolds with large automorphism groups\n\n\n 8:00    –  9:30 PM\nDinner at the Wintergarden\n\n\n\nTuesday\nArithmetic Problems\n\n\n 9:30    – 11:00 AM\nBreakfast \n\n\n11:00 AM – 12:00 PM\nAntoine Chambert-Loir: Motivic Poisson formula and motivic height zeta functions (Slides PDF)\n\n\n12:00    – 12:30 PM\nBreak\n\n\n12:30    –  1:30 PM\nJulia Hartmann: Local-Global Principles for Rational Points on Homogeneous Varieties (Slides PDF)\n\n\n 1:30    –  2:30 PM\nLunch \n\n\n 2:30    –  4:30 PM\nDiscussion & Recreation\n\n\n 4:30    –  5:00 PM\nAfternoon Tea & Discussion\n\n\n 5:00    –  6:00 PM\nBruno Kahn: Torsion index of algebraic surfaces\n\n\n 6:00    –  7:00 PM\nRaman Parimala: Unramified cohomology of quadric bundles over surfaces\n\n\n 8:00    –  9:30 PM\nDinner \n\n\n\nWednesday\nAutomorphisms\n\n\n 8:00    –  9:30 AM\nBreakfast\n\n\n10:00 AM –  2:00 PM\nGuided Hike to Partnach Gorge\n\n\n 2:00    –  3:00 PM\nLunch\n\n\n 3:00    –  5:00 PM\nRecreation & Discussion\n\n\n 5:00    –  5:30 PM\nTea & Discussion\n\n\n 5:30    –  6:30 PM\nMisha Verbitsky: Constructing automorphisms of hyperkahler manifolds (Slides PDF)\n\n\n 7:00    –  8:00 PM\nConcert\n\n\n 8:00    –  9:30 PM\nDinner \n\n\n\nThursday\nCohomology\n\n\n 9:30    – 11:00 AM\nBreakfast\n\n\n11:00 AM – 12:00 PM\nJean-Louis Colliot-Thélène: A survey on unramified cohomology (Slides PDF)\n\n\n12:00    – 12:30 PM\nBreak\n\n\n12:30    –  1:30 PM\nPhilippe Gille: Serre’s conjecture II for groups of type E7 (Slides PDF)\n\n\n 1:30    –  2:30 PM\nLunch \n\n\n 2:30    –  4:30 PM\nDiscussion & Recreation\n\n\n 4:30    –  5:00 PM\nAfternoon Tea & Discussion\n\n\n 5:00    –  6:00 PM\nHélène Esnault: Lefschetz theorems (mostly) over finite fields\n\n\n 6:00    –  7:00 PM\nAlena Pirutka: Rationality in families and quadric bundles (Slides PDF)\n\n\n 8:00    –  9:30 PM\nDinner\n\n\n\nFriday\nGeometry Over the Reals\n\n\n 9:30    – 11:00 AM\nBreakfast\n\n\n11:00 AM – 12:00 PM\nOlivier Wittenberg: On the integral Hodge conjecture for real threefolds\n\n\n12:00    – 12:30 PM\nBreak\n\n\n12:30    –  1:30 PM\nOlivier Benoist: On Hilbert’s 17th problem in low degree\n\n\n 1:30    –  2:30 PM\nLunch \n\n\n 2:30    –  4:30 PM\nDiscussion & Recreation\n\n\n 4:30    –  5:00 PM\nAfternoon Tea & Discussion\n\n\n 5:00    –  6:30 PM\nDiscussion \n\n\n 8:00    –  9:30 PM\nDinner at Kaminstüberl\n\n\nParticipants\n\n\n\nAsher Auel\nYale University\n\n\nArnaud Beauville\nUniversité de Nice\n\n\nOlivier Benoist\nUniversité de Strasbourg \n\n\nFedor Bogomolov\nCourant Institute of Mathematical Sciences\n\n\nAntoine Chambert-Loir\nUniversité Paris-Sud \n\n\nIvan Cheltsov\nUniversity of Edinburgh and Moscow Higher School of Economics\n\n\nJean-Louis Colliot-Thélène\nUniversité Paris-Sud \n\n\n Hélène Esnault\nFreie Universität Berlin\n\n\nPhilippe Gille\nUniversite Claude Bernard Lyon 1\n\n\nJulia Hartmann\nUniversity of Pennsylvania\n\n\nBrendan Hassett\nBrown University\n\n\nDaniel Huybrechts\nUniversity of Bonn\n\n\nBruno Kahn\nInstitute de Mathematiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche\n\n\nMoritz Kerz\nUniversität Regensburg\n\n\nAndrew Kresch\nUniversität Zürich\n\n\nAlena Pirutka\nCentre de Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz\n\n\nYuri Prokhorov\nNational Research University\n\n\nParimala Raman\nEmory University\n\n\nSujatha Ramdorai\nTata Institute of Fundamental Research\n\n\nKonstantin Shramov\nMoscow Higher School of Economics\n\n\nYuri Tschinkel\nSimons Foundation\n\n\nTony Varilly-Alvarado\nRice University\n\n\nMisha Verbitsky\nMoscow Higher School of Economics\n\n\nOlivier Wittenberg\nÉcole Normale Supérieure\n\n\n\n \n« Back to Simons Symposia
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/geometry-over-nonclosed-fields/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Integrability and Universality in Probability
DESCRIPTION:Integrability and universality are key concepts that underlie many developments in modern probability. Integrable probabilistic systems are very special — they possess additional structures that make them amenable to a detailed analysis. The universality principle states that probabilistic systems from the same ‘universality class’ share many features. Thus\, generic systems must be similar to the integrable ones in the class. In this lecture\, Alexei Borodin will illustrate how these two concepts work together in examples from random matrices to random interface growth. \nDr. Borodin joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty as professor of mathematics in 2010. He studies problems on the interface of representation theory and probability that link to combinatorics\, random matrix theory and integrable systems.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/integrability-and-universality-in-probability/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Math and its Applications
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160423
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SUMMARY:2016 Conference on Theory & Biology
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/2016-conference-on-theory-biology/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160427T181500
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SUMMARY:One Brain\, Many Genomes: Somatic Mutation and Genomic Variability in Human Cerebral Cortex
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Walsh and his team are interested in genetic mechanisms of cerebral cortical development and abnormalities of cortical development resulting in intellectual disability\, autism and epilepsy. The lab pioneered the analysis of recessive causes of autism by studying children with autism whose parents share ancestry. \nWalsh 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. The talk will also cover the extent to which somatic mutations are an inevitable part of normal brain development\, such that the neurons in the human brain are a tapestry of cells with distinct genomes. He will also discuss the relevance of somatic mutations to autism. \nWalsh is chief of the division of genetics and genomics at Boston Children’s Hospital\, Bullard Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at Harvard Medical School\, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He completed his M.D. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago\, trained in neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital\, and has been at Children’s Hospital since 2006.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/one-brain-many-genomes-somatic-mutation-and-genomic-variability-in-human-cerebral-cortex/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Autism: Emerging Concepts
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Supercomputing: Opportunities for Science and Challenges for Computer Engineering
DESCRIPTION:President Obama’s July 2015 Executive Order\, which established a National Strategic Computing Initiative\, ensures that the U.S. will make substantial investments in the development of exascale computing systems. While this opens many opportunities in science\, construction of such systems calls for new approaches to software\, mathematical algorithms and systems engineering. \nIn this lecture\, Dr. 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. Data locality and asynchrony will be key to the effective use of exascale computing systems. Furthermore\, the dusk of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) scaling is increasing the diversity of computer architectures. This is profoundly challenging to software development and systems engineering\, but at the same time\, it opens many new opportunities for science. A strategy to manage this software challenge will be discussed in terms of recent experiences in numerical weather predictions. \nThomas Schulthess is director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) and a professor for computational physics at ETH Zürich. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from ETH Zürich and spent many years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory\, where today he holds a distinguished visiting scientist appointment. While his primary research is on computational methods for materials science\, he recently took interest in the development of energy-efficient computing systems for climate modeling and meteorology.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/contemporary-supercomputing-opportunities-for-science-and-challenges-for-computer-engineering/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Frontiers of Data Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160513T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160513T181500
DTSTAMP:20260409T094032
CREATED:20160420T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T181552Z
UID:347-1463158800-1463163300@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Universality Phenomena in Machine Learning\, and Their Applications
DESCRIPTION:A canonical task in machine learning is to fit a model (from a certain class) to a dataset. In many settings there is little theoretical understanding of the algorithms used for this task\, since they involve nonconvex optimization. \nWe have empirically observed that in many settings the models fitted to real-life datasets display randomlike properties — the model parameters behave like random numbers for various tests. This is somewhat reminiscent of the ‘universality’ phenomenon in mathematics and physics\, whereby matrices in a host of settings turn out to display properties similar to those of the Gaussian ensemble. \nIn this talk\, Sanjeev Arora will describe how these randomlike properties can be used to gain a new understanding in some settings — for example\, they can offer insights into linear algebraic properties of word meanings in natural languages\, and reversibility properties of fully connected deep nets. In some cases\, they can lead us to provably efficient algorithms\, such as algorithms for making inferences in a topic model. \nArora is the Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. His research area spans several areas of theoretical Computer Science including computational complexity and algorithm design\, and theoretical problems in machine learning. He has received the ACM-EATCS Gödel Prize (in 2001 and 2010)\, Packard Fellowship (1997)\, the ACM Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences (2012)\, the Fulkerson Prize (2012)\, and the Simons Investigator Award (2012).
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/universality-phenomena-in-machine-learning-and-their-applications/
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:20160525T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160525T181500
DTSTAMP:20260409T094032
CREATED:20160113T050000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T181356Z
UID:336-1464195600-1464200100@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution
DESCRIPTION:As our understanding of biological systems has increased\, so has the complexity of our questions and the need for more advanced optical tools to answer them. For example\, there is a hundredfold gap between the resolution of conventional optical microscopy and the scale at which molecules self-assemble to form subcellular structures. Furthermore\, as we attempt to peer more closely at the three-dimensional\, dynamic complexity of living systems\, the actinic glare of our microscopes can adversely influence the specimens we hope to study. Finally\, the heterogeneity of living tissue can seriously impede our ability to image at high resolution\, due to the resulting warping and scattering of light rays. \nEric Betzig will describe three areas focused on addressing these challenges: super-resolution microscopy for imaging specific proteins within cells at various lengths\, scaling down to near-molecular resolution; plane illumination microscopy using non-diffracting optical lattices for noninvasive imaging of three-dimensional dynamics within live cells and embryos; and adaptive optics to recover optimal images from within large\, optically heterogeneous specimens\, such as zebrafish and the cortex of living mice. \nDr. Betzig obtained a B.S. in physics at the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in applied physics at Cornell University. In 1988\, he became a principal investigator at AT&T Bell Labs\, where he extended his thesis work on near-field optical microscopy\, the first method to break the diffraction barrier. By 1993\, he held a world record for data-storage density and recorded the first super-resolution fluorescence images of cells as well as the first single molecule images at ambient temperature. Frustrated with technical limitations and declining standards as more jumped into the field\, he quit science and\, by 1996\, was working for his father’s machine tool company. Commercial failure of the technologies he developed there left him unemployed in 2003 and looking for new directions. This search eventually culminated in his co-invention of the super-resolution technique PALM with his best friend and Bell Labs colleague Harald Hess. For this work\, he was co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Since 2005\, he has been a group leader at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus\, developing new optical imaging technologies for biology.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/imaging-life-at-high-spatiotemporal-resolution/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:New Directions in Imaging
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160606T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160606T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094033
CREATED:20180502T202744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T202744Z
UID:35635-1465232400-1465243200@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:SCGB NY-Area Postdoc Meeting Series
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/scgb-ny-area-postdoc-meeting-series-3-2/
LOCATION:Simons Foundation 9th Floor\, Multipurpose Room\, 160 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160623T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160625T000000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094033
CREATED:20151002T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250813T173247Z
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SUMMARY:Conference on Shocks and Particle Acceleration in Novae and Supernovae
DESCRIPTION:Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / S. Wiessinger\n    \n\nThursday\, June 23 —\nFriday\, June 24\, 2016\nSimons Foundation\nGerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\n160 Fifth Avenue\nNew York\, New York \nSaturday\, June 25\, 2016\nColumbia University\nPupin Hall\n538 W. 120th Street\nNew York\, New York \n\n\nOn June 23 and 24\, 2016\, about 60 international researchers working in the fields of novae and supernovae met at the Simons Foundation in New York City to discuss the physics of shocks and particle acceleration in these transient astrophysical events. The fields of novae and supernovae broke off from one another when they were first identified as physically distinct events in the 1930s\, by Baade and Zwicky. However\, the growing appreciation—based on an ever-expanding array of multi-wavelength observations—that shocks play a crucial role in the appearance of both of these systems motivated us to unite these fields once again. The workshop was comprised of pedagogical overview talks meant to bridge the knowledge gap between these fields\, interspersed with long open discussion periods aimed at addressing particular aspects of each phenomena. \nThe workshop began with an overview by Tommy Nelson (University of Pittsburgh) of the ways that shocks manifest in novae across the electromagnetic spectrum\, from radio to gamma rays. Teddy Cheung (NASA Goddard) provided an overview of the unexpected recent discovery by NASA’s Fermi telescope that novae produce luminous ~ GeV gamma-ray emission.  This emission is believed to arise either from the Compton scattering of ambient optical photons from electrons accelerated to ultra-relativistic velocities by the nova\, or to the decay of π0 produced by collisions between shock-accelerated relativistic protons. Bill Wolf (University of California\, Santa Barbara) described the physics of thermonuclear runaway on the surface of accreting white dwarfs\, the engine behind novae. Brian Metzger (Columbia University) provoked the audience by suggesting that most nova optical emission are powered indirectly by shocks\, contrary to standard theory. \nThe Thursday afternoon session addressed the signatures of shock waves in the time-dependent emission-line spectra caused by different ejecta components. Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern University) discussed the X-ray emission from shock waves in young\, unresolved supernovae\, while Steve Reynolds (North Carolina State University) discussed similar emission from shocks in older galactic supernova remnants. On Friday morning\, Damiano Caprioli (University of Chicago) described the first particle-in-cell plasma simulations showing the process of diffusive particle acceleration (Fermi acceleration). Our discussions identified a previously neglected discrepancy regarding the low-electron-acceleration efficiency\, which is inferred from supernova remnants and PIC simulations\, versus the much higher efficiencies inferred from unresolved supernovae. Future methods for analyzing the supernova data were agreed upon to better quantify this discrepancy and its cause. \nOverall\, the workshop was considered a great success. An informal survey indicated that\, for the vast majority of participants\, this was the first time they had attended a conference combining novae and supernovae\, which effectively brought researchers in each field up-to-speed on the other. Raffaella Margutti commented\, “It is definitely one of the conferences where I learned the most.” Steve Reynolds commented\, “[The conference] was a real eye-opener.” Each moment of the lengthy discussion sessions was filled with dialogue\, revealing many hitherto unrecognized areas of overlap between these research fields. \n\nSchedule and Slides\n\n\n\nThursday\, June 23 – Fischbach Auditorium\, Simons Foundation\n\n\n8:30−8:45\nIntroductory Remarks\n\n\n8:45−9:15\nOverview: Novae and Shocks\, Tommy Nelson\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n9:15−9:45\nGamma-Rays from Novae\, Teddy Cheung\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n9:45−10:15\nOverview: Shocks in SNe\, Nathan Smith\n\n\n10:15−10:45\nCoffee\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBasics of Novae and Supernovae\n\n\n10:45−11:15\nThermonuclear Runaway\, Bill Wolf\n\n\n11:15−11:45\nOptical Light Curves of Novae and Supernovae\, Ashley Pagnotta\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n11:45−12:00\nAre Nova Light Curves Shock-Powered? Brian Metzger\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n12:00−12:25\nModerated DiscussionDiscussion Leaders: Brad Schaefer (TBC) and Mike Shara  \n\n‘Can nova outflows produce internal shocks?’\n‘Causes of mass loss in supernova progenitors?’\n‘Reasons for light curve diversity?’\n\n\n\n\n12:25−2:00\nLunch\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOptical Spectra\n\n\n2:00−2:30\nSpectral Diagnostics of Novae\, Fred Walter\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n2:30−3:00\nSpectral Diagnostics of Supernovae\, Ryan Chornock\n\n\n3:00−3:30\nModerated Discussion Discussion Moderator: Bob Williams  \n\n‘What is the evidence for multiple velocity components and shocks in nova and supernova spectra?’\n’How is spectral line formation from shocks different in nova and supernovae?’\n\n\n\n\n3:30−4:00\nCoffee\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nX-rays from Novae and SNe\n\n\n4:00−4:30\nX-rays from Nova Shocks\, Koji Mukai\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n4:30−5:00\nX-rays from Young Supernovae\, Raffaella Margutti\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n5:00−5:30\nX-rays from Supernova Remnants\, Steve Reynolds\n\n\nFriday\, June 24 – Fischbach Auditorium\, Simons Foundation\n\n\n\nGamma-Ray Emission\n\n\n8:45−9:15\nGamma-Ray Emission from Nova Shocks\, Guillaume Dubus\n\n\n9:15−9:45\nParticle Acceleration in Non-Relativistic Shocks\, Damiano Caprioli\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n9:45−10:15\nGamma-Ray Emission in SN Remnants\, Jacco Vink\n\n\n10:15−10:45\nCoffee\n\n\n10:45−11:10\nNon-Thermal X-rays from Novae\, Indrek Vurm\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n11:10−11:35\nTeV Observations\, Reshmi Mukherjee\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n11:35−12:10\nModerated DiscussionDiscussion Leaders: Brian Metzger\, Margarita Hernanz  \n\n‘Shock acceleration in novae versus supernovae’\n’Leptonic versus hadronic?’\n\n\n\n\n12:10−1:40\nLunch\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nNova Environments and Outflow Geometry\n\n\n1:40−2:10\nCV and Nova Environments\, Christian Knigge\n\n\n2:10−2:40\nOverview of Nova Outflow Geometry\, Tim O’Brien\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n2:40−3:10\nProto-Planetary Nebulae\, Orsola deMarco\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n3:10−3:40\nCoffee\n\n\n3:40−4:10\nMassive Star Winds\, Stan Owocki\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n4:10−4:40\nMass Loss from Binary Stars\, Ondrej Pejcha\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n4:40−5:30\nModerated Discussion Discussion Leader: Joe Patterson  \n\n‘Geometry of nova outflows: binarity vs. rotation?’\n’Predictions of super-Eddington outflow models’\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, June 25 – Columbia\, Pupin Hall\, Center for Theoretical Physics (8th Floor)\n\n\n8:45−9:05\nNew Methods of Transient Discovery\, Eran Ofek\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRadio Emission from Novae and Supernovae\n\n\n 9:05−9:35 \nRadio Observations of Novae\, Justin Linford\n\n\n 9:35−9:55 \nRadio Emission in Novae\, Jennifer Weston\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n9:55−10:25\nCoffee\n\n\n10:25−10:55\nRadio Observations of Supernovae\, Laura Chomiuk\n\n\n10:55−11:25\nRadio Emission in Supernovae\, Rodolfo Barniol-Duran\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n11:25−12:00\nModerated Discussion Discussion Leaders: Jeno Sokoloski\, Michael Rupen  \n\n‘Are radio-producing shocks the same as those producing gamma-rays’\n‘Radio-emitting electrons leptonic or hadronic?’\n\n\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n12:00−1:30\nLunch\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDust\n\n\n 1:30−2:00 \nDust Formation in Stellar Eruptions\, Chris Kochanek\n\n\n 2:00−2:30 \nRadiative SN Shocks\, John Raymond\nSlides (PDF)\n\n\n 2:30−3:00 \nDust Formation in Novae\, Andrew Helton\n\n\n3:00−3:30\nCoffee\n\n\n 3:30−4:00 \nTheory of Dust Formation\, Jonathan Rawlings\n\n\n 4:00−5:30 \nOpen Discussion and Wine\, Laura Chomiuk\n\n\n\nSpeakers/Moderators\n\n\n\nRodolfo Barniol-Duran\nPurdue University\n\n\nDamiano Caprioli\nPrinceton University\n\n\nPoonam Chandra\nTata Institute\n\n\nTeddy Cheung\nNaval Research Laboratory\n\n\nRyan Chornock\nThe Ohio University University\n\n\nOrsola deMarco\nMacquarie University\n\n\nGuillaume Dubus\nInstitut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble\n\n\nAndrew Helton\nStratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy\n\n\nMargarita Hernanz\nInstitut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya\n\n\nChristian Knigge\nUniversity of Southampton\n\n\nChris Kochanek\nThe Ohio State University\n\n\nJustin Linford\nMichigan State University\,\n\n\nRaffaella Margutti\nNorth Carolina State University\n\n\nKoji Mukai\nNASA/GSFC\n\n\nReshmi Mukherjee\nColumbia University\n\n\nEhud Nakar\nTel Aviv University\n\n\nTommy Nelson\nUniversity of Minnesota\n\n\nTim O’Brien\nThe University of Manchester\n\n\nEran Ofek\nWeizmann Institute\n\n\nStan Owocki\nUniversity of Delaware\n\n\nAshley Pagnotta\nAmerican Museum of Natural History\n\n\nJoe Patterson\nColumbia University\n\n\nOndrej Pejcha\nPrinceton University\n\n\nJohn Raymond\nHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics\n\n\nJonathan Rawlings\nUniversity College London\n\n\nSteve Reynolds\nNorth Carolina State University\n\n\nMichael Rupen\nNational Radio Astronomy Observatory: Socorro\n\n\nMichael Shara\nAmerican Museum of Natural History\n\n\nNathan Smith\nUniversity of Arizona\n\n\nJacco Vink\nAstronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek\n\n\nIndrek Vurm\nColumbia University\n\n\nFred Walter\nStony Brook University\n\n\nJennifer Weston\nColumbia University\n\n\nBob Williams\nSpace Telescope Science Institute\n\n\nBill Wolf\nUC Santa Barbara
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/conference-on-shocks-and-particle-acceleration-in-novae-and-supernovae/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160810T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160810T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094033
CREATED:20180502T202305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T202305Z
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SUMMARY:SCGB NY-Area Postdoc Meeting Series
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/scgb-ny-area-postdoc-meeting-series-august-2016/
LOCATION:Simons Foundation 9th Floor\, Multipurpose Room\, 160 Fifth Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160907T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160907T181500
DTSTAMP:20260409T094033
CREATED:20160804T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T181405Z
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SUMMARY:Sleep in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Window to Etiology\, Diagnosis and Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Understanding sleep physiology in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) not only provides a window to the underlying etiology\, it can also help characterize sub-phenotypes and offer a potent treatment approach for improving neuropsychiatric and neurocognitive function in ASD through improved sleep. Dr. Ruth O’Hara will present on the field’s current understanding of sleep in ASD: a) describing how sleep physiology in ASD differs from sleep physiology in typical developing children; b) discussing the different potential ASD phenotypes suggested by her work; and c) describing the different sleep architecture\, sleep disturbances\, and sleep disorders that are more prevalent in ASD than in typical developing children and which can serve as treatment targets that may in turn improve the core symptoms of ASD. \nDr. O’Hara is associate professor\, and associate chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University. Her research integrates measures of sleep physiology\, the brain and behavior across the lifespan of humans. Over the years she has obtained substantial NIH funding to support her work. O’Hara also received a Simons Foundation grant to examine sleep physiology and neurodevelopmental processes in ASD. She was a member of the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) Sleep-Wake disorders work group.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/sleep-in-autism-spectrum-disorders-a-window-to-etiology-diagnosis-and-treatment/
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:20160914T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160914T163000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094033
CREATED:20170802T201621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170802T203606Z
UID:12059-1473867000-1473870600@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Statistical Astronomy Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/statistical-astronomy-group-meeting/
LOCATION:22 West 21 Street\, 10th Floor\, Conference Room A\, 22 W 21st St\, New York\, 10010\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160921T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160921T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T094033
CREATED:20170803T155630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T155630Z
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SUMMARY:CCA Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/cca-seminar-2/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160921T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160921T181500
DTSTAMP:20260409T094033
CREATED:20160715T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T181418Z
UID:349-1474477200-1474481700@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:Metagenomic DNA Sequencing to Detect and Diagnose Infections
DESCRIPTION:Over the past 20 years\, scientists have sequenced the genomes of thousands of bacteria and viruses\, including most human pathogens. These DNA sequences have led to a revolution in our understanding of infectious diseases\, yet they are still not used in the clinic\, where the vast majority of infections are never definitively diagnosed. Recent breakthroughs in DNA sequencing technology now make it possible to use metagenomic sequencing – in which we sequence a complex mixture of DNA without separating out the species within it – to diagnose infections directly from human biopsy samples. In this lecture\, Dr. Steven L. Salzberg will describe how scientists and doctors are working together to diagnose infections in the brain and the eye\, and how this technology has the potential to transform our approach to treating a wide range of infections. \nDr. Salzberg is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Computer Science\, and Biostatistics\, and the Director of the Center for Computational Biology in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Salzberg received his B.A.\, M.S.\, and M. Phil. degrees from Yale University\, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His laboratory focuses primarily on three areas: genome sequence assembly\, transcriptome alignment and assembly\, and metagenomics. The team’s open-source software systems for DNA sequence analysis are used by thousands of labs around the world. Salzberg also writes a popular science blog at Forbes.com.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/metagenomic-dna-sequencing-to-detect-and-diagnose-infections/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Frontiers of Data Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160928T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160928T181500
DTSTAMP:20260409T094033
CREATED:20160808T040000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T181431Z
UID:358-1475082000-1475086500@www.simonsfoundation.org
SUMMARY:The Monster at the Heart of our Galaxy
DESCRIPTION:Learn about new developments in the study of black holes. Through the capture and analysis of twenty years of high-resolution imaging\, Dr. Andrea Ghez and her team have moved the case for a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy from a possibility to a certainty. This shift was made possible with the first measurements of stellar orbits around a galactic nucleus. Further advances in state-of-the-art high-resolution imaging technology on the world’s largest telescopes have greatly expanded the power of using stellar orbits to study black holes. Recent observations have revealed an environment around the black hole that is quite unexpected (young stars where there should be none; a lack of old stars where there should be many; and a puzzling new class of objects). Continued measurements of the motions of stars have solved many of the puzzles posed by these perplexing populations of stars. This work is providing insight into how black holes grow and the role that they play in regulating the growth of their host galaxies. Future measurements of stellar orbits at the center of the Milky Way hold the promise of improving our understanding of gravity through tests of Einstein’s theory of general relativity in an unexplored regime. \nDr. Ghez is a professor of physics & astronomy and Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine Chair in Astrophysics at the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is one of the world’s leading experts in observational astrophysics. Ghez earned a B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology and has been on the faculty at UCLA since 1994. Best known for her ground-breaking work on the center of our galaxy\, which has led to the most convincing evidence to date for the existence of supermassive black holes and which has also opened up a new approach to studying black holes\, Ghez has received numerous honors and awards\, including a MacArthur Fellowship\, election to the National Academy of Sciences\, the 2012 Crafoord Prize in Astronomy from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences\, and\, most recently\, the 2016 Bakerian Medal for Physical Sciences from the Royal Society of London.
URL:https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/the-monster-at-the-heart-of-our-galaxy/
LOCATION:Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium\, 160 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Astronomy, Cosmology and Particle Physics
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