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… α- and β-CTTs favor interactions oriented toward the microtubule minus end: the α-CTT preferentially interacts with the β-tubulin in the neighboring dimer in the …

Title: Flow map language models Abstract: Language models based on discrete diffusion have attracted widespread interest for their potential to provide faster generation than autoregressive models. Despite their …

… Times, a board member at the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, and an adjunct lecturer at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

Abstract The Deep Synoptic Array (DSA) is part of the newly established Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System. The DSA is designed to be a world-leading radio …

Speaker: Marla Sokolowski, Ph.D. (University of Toronto) Title: Should I Stay or Should I Go?  Unravelling Gene-environment Interplay in Behavior We are interested in how DNA …

Title: Neural Thickets: Diverse Task Experts Are Dense Around Pretrained Weights Abstract: Pretraining produces a learned parameter vector that is typically treated as a starting point for further …

Abstract Density functional theory (DFT) relies critically on exchange–correlation (XC) functionals, whose exact form is unknown. In practice, approximations are constructed within a hierarchical framework—Jacob’s …

The CUNY Masters Graduation took place on June 2, 2026, and showcased the work of CUNY Masters Graduates. Emma Kleiner: Discovery of Newly Resolved Filament and Extraplanar Gas …

Speaker: Victor Sourjik, Ph.D. (Max Planck Institute For Terrestrial Microbiology) Title: How physics guides evolution: Lessons from bacterial motility Bacterial motility is one of the quantitatively best …

Agenda Tuesday, May 26th 9:00AM: Breakfast 10:00AM: Philosphy & Logistics 10:30AM: Introductions 11:00AM: COSMIC updates (developer + users) 12:00PM: Lunch & Group Photo 1:00PM: Brainstorm …

Title: Dynamics of Learning: Lessons from Living Systems to Artificial Neural Networks Abstract: What is learning, and how does it emerge in both living systems and machines? In …

The Pre-Doc symposium will take place on May 19th, 2026 and showcase the work of our Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 Pre-Doctoral cohorts. Agenda Tuesday, May …

Speaker: Ehud Meron, Ph.D. (Ben-Gurion University) Title: Multi-level ecosystem response to drying climate trends Climate change and the development of drier climates threaten the health …

Meeting Goals This is a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Barry Mazur’s “Modular curves and the Eisenstein ideal” and Ken Ribet’s “A …

… AM 11:15 AM Coffee Break 11:15 AM 11:45 AM Memming Park 11:45 AM 12:15 PM Lea Dunker 12:15 PM 12:45 …

… Rankin–Selberg convolutions. After studying congruences between Yoshida lifts attached to two Hida families of elliptic modular forms and Hida families of Siegel modular forms on (GSp …

… Guo studies individuals’ travel behavior and explores innovative ways to influence that decision-making process to produce better social outcomes, such as reduced congestion and carbon emissions …

Abstract Observations over the past decade have revealed that galaxies lose many of the metals they produce to the circumgalactic medium, and that the metals they retain are …

Speaker: Arvind Murugan, Ph.D. (University of Chicago) Title: How Matter Finds the Unlikely  How does matter arrive at configurations that seem to have purpose? Two strategies for …

Despite recent biomedical breakthroughs, progress in women’s health has been slow. A key barrier to understanding disorders that disproportionately affect women is our limited knowledge of how …

Speaker: Michael Frenklach, Ph.D (University of California, Berkeley) Title: From Data to Knowledge through Models in Combustion I will present a methodology for transforming experimental data into …

Title: Algorithmic Thinking Theory for Foundation Models Abstract: The last few months have witnessed tremendous advances on Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning capabilities with Gemini and GPT winning …