Simons Foundation
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.