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In efforts to construct a map of neural connections in the brain, researchers at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Neuroscience are turning to an unlikely source: the wasp.
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Underlying all biological processes are molecules and their interactions with each other. However, our ability to understand how these molecules function over biologically relevant scales remains very limited.
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Columbia University, the Flatiron Institute in New York City and the Max Planck Society in Germany have created a partnership, called the Center for Nonequilibrium Quantum Phenomena.
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Research Highlights
Approximating the Gaussian as a Sum of Exponentials and Its Applications to the Fast Gauss Transform
We develop efficient and accurate sum-of-exponential (SOE) approximations for the Gaussian using rational approximation of the exponential function on the…
Communications in Computational PhysicsSimple lessons from complex learning: what a neural network model learns about cosmic structure formation
We train a neural network model to predict the full phase space evolution of cosmological N-body simulations. Its success implies…
arXiv:2206.04573Field Level Neural Network Emulator for Cosmological N-body Simulations
We build a field level emulator for cosmic structure formation that is accurate in the nonlinear regime. Our emulator consists…
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