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CCA Colloquium: Carl Fields Title: Next-Generation Simulations of The Remarkable Deaths of Massive Stars.  Abstract: Core-collapse supernova explosions (CCSN) are one possible fate of a massive …

Please join us for the Second and Third Competitions of our CCN Cup! This will be taking place on Friday, April 29th from 10-12PM in the 4th …

Our growing ability to read and manipulate the human genome has brought a dream of human perfection. Genome editing offers the tools to correct what many see as …

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FI Computational Methods and Data Science Journal Club Flatiron Institute, 162 5th Avenue Speaker: Jeremy Cohen (CREATIS, CNRS, Villeurbanne, France) Title: Semi-supervised Low-rank Approximation, from variational …

Speaker: Howard A. Stone Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University. Title: Short Stories of Transport Processes and Molecular …

Title: Superconductivity in Graphene: Twisted or not and phonons or not Abstract: I will describe a number of theoretical approaches to understanding the unexpected observation of superconductivity, seemingly …

Speaker: Alexander Schier, Ph.D., Director of the Biozentrum, University of Basel Title: Developmental dynamics during vertebrate embryogenesis Breakthroughs in single-cell genomics have begun to comprehensively identify …

Speaker: Corey Taylor, Volkamer Lab Topic: QM/MM simulation – Introduction, practicalities and case studies Hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations are a popular tool for the …

Hosted by the Center for Brain Immunology and Glia at Washington University School of Medicine Featured speakers include Maiken Nedergaard, Beth Stevens and Tony Wyss-Coray. Registration is …

… Gravity View Slides (PDF) Federico Piazza Centre de Physique Théorique Understanding deviations from classicality in gravity View Slides (PDF) Eva Silverstein Stanford University MIC Overview View Slides …

Title: How to fit the Universe onto a computer Abstract: The international astronomy community is building a suite of powerful new telescopes, which over the next decade will …

The glass transition is an infamous example of an emergent collective phenomenon in many-body systems that is stubbornly resistant to microscopic understanding. The transition combines three major …

The glass transition is an infamous example of an emergent collective phenomenon in many-body systems that is stubbornly resistant to microscopic understanding. The transition combines three major …

Title: Kane-Mele-Hubbard physics in semiconductor moiré materials Abstract: Semiconductor moiré materials provide a physical realization of the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model for studies of the combined …

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1st speaker: Aidan Daly, Ph.D., Flatiron Research Fellow, Systems Biology Topic: Inferring cell type-specific gene expression signatures from multi-tissue spatial transcriptomics data 2nd speaker: Surya …

Speaker: Corey Taylor, Volkamer Lab Topic: QM/MM simulation – Introduction, practicalities and case studies Hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations are a popular tool for the …

CCA Colloquium: Alexander Ji Title: Dwarf Galaxy Archaeology in the Gaia Era Abstract: The Milky Way’s satellite dwarf galaxies are powerful probes of many important astrophysical processes …

Speaker: Eric E. Keaveny Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics Imperial College London Title: Coordinated motion of active filaments on spherical surfaces Abstract: Filaments (slender, microscopic elastic …

Discussion Lead: Bob Carpenter Topic: Fu, Luo, and Zhang. 2016. Quasi-Newton Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. UAI. Abstract: The Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) method has become significantly popular in …

Speaker: Stefano Di Talia, Ph.D., Duke University School of Medicine Topic: Mechanochemical control of nuclear positioning in Drosophila embryos I will describe our attempts at understanding nuclear …

Towards Practical X-ray Microscopy via Optimization and Deep Learning X-ray diffraction microscopy is an emerging technology with the capability of providing high-quality imaging of nanoscale …

Cognitive and social scientists have struggled with the irrationalities of human choice behavior; people consistently make logically inconsistent choices. Is human choice behavior evolutionarily, as widely assumed, an …

Speaker: Ken A. Dill, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Physics Stony Brook University Title: Darwinian evolution as a principled physical process. What drives it? Where did it come from …

Speaker: Gil Ariel, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Bar Ilan Title: Inferring entropy from structure The thermodynamic definition of entropy can be extended to nonequilibrium systems based on …

… inclusion (DEI) roadmap and partnering across the foundation to implement an action plan. Before joining the foundation, Wesley worked in various DEI roles within the nonprofit and …

CCA Colloquium: Keith Hawkins Title: Galactic Archaeology Across the Milky Way Abstract: What are the processes that govern the formation evolution and assembly of galaxies, like the Milky …

Discussion Lead: Lionel Riou-Durand (Warwick) Topic: Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Trajectories: a robust alternative to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Abstract: Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a widely used sampler …

… Embeddings — Theory and Challenges 1:00 PM Madhav Mani | Geometry as Destiny: The Language of Embryos April 7, 2022 Christine Heitsch | What Happens When Theory and Data …

The biennial Cognitive Aging Conference is the premier conference for presentation of research about aging and cognition based on experimental cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience of aging, human factors …

Algorithmic predictions steer markets, drive consumption, shape communities and alter life trajectories. However, the theory and practice of machine learning have long neglected the often-invisible causal forces …

… math to engineers as co-author of three textbooks and through his popular YouTube channel, under the moniker “eigensteve.” Attendee Instructions: FI employees are welcome to attend …

1st speaker: Jasmin Alsous, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Developmental Dynamics Topic: Sperm Storage – an overlooked leg of the journey Before fertilizing the egg, sperm is typically stored in …

Artificial intelligence (AI) and neural networks have long drawn on neuroscience for inspiration. However, in spite of tremendous recent advances in AI, natural intelligence is still far more …

… the leading edge of polarized motile cells.