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Presenter: John Treado (Yale University) Topic: From single cells to collective response in jammed model tissues The mechanical, structural, and ultimately functional properties of tissues depend heavily on …

… district goals, including decreasing the percentage of racial minorities in high-poverty schools from 29 percent to 11 percent. The policy design was enabled by close collaboration …

Prediction algorithms score individuals or individual instances, assigning to each one a number in the range from 0 to 1. That score is often interpreted as a probability …

A nonlinear matrix decomposition for mining the zeros of sparse data Many statistical models are motivated by the search for low-dimensional structure in high-dimensional data. Often …

… vascular topology.

Presenter: Julia Koehler Leman Topic: How to write a scientific paper Scientific writing and scientific communication is the bread and butter of any scientist. Since I find myself …

Speaker: Sebastian Fürthauer Topic: Puzzles puzzling and unpuzzled: A perspective on what we learned and did not yet about spindles and cytoskeletal networks

Discussion Lead: Bob Carpenter [CCM] Topic: Ensemble Markov chain Monte Carlo with teleporting walkers. 2021. Michael Lindsey, Jonathan Weare, Anna Zhang. Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.02686 …

… iterations to study neurodegenerative protein aggregation in presence of model membranes and other co-solutes.

Presenter: Christine A. Rushlow, PhD (NYU) Topic: An “individualist” model of an active genome in a developing embryo The early Drosophila embryo provides unique experimental advantages for addressing …

Less than a century ago, the discovery of new inherited diseases accelerated through clinical research and analysis. The advances in clinical medicine derived from these discoveries were among …

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts a Boston-area group meeting to bring together postdocs and PhD students interested in neural coding and dynamics. This month …

Presenter: Harmen Bussemaker, Ph. D (Columbia University) Topic: Probing the DNA binding specificity of transcription factor complexes with deep sequencing and biophysically interpretable machine learning Quantifying sequence-specific …

Speaker: Harmen Bussemaker, PhD, Columbia University Topic: Probing the DNA binding specificity of transcription factor complexes with deep sequencing and biophysically interpretable machine learning Abstract: Quantifying sequence-specific …

Presenter: Albane Thery (University of Cambridge) Topic: Collective motion of confined biased swimmers: magnetotactic bacteria in channels and spheres Magnetotactic bacteria (MTBs) synthesize magnets in their cytoplasm and …

Presenter: Christopher Jackson Topic: Regulatory network inference using dynamic models Understanding how gene expression programs are controlled requires identifying regulatory relationships between transcription factors and target genes. These …

Speaker: Leroy Jia Topic: The role of monolayer viscosity in Langmuir film hole closure dynamics We re-examine the model proposed by Alexander et al. (2006) for the …

This event is now virtual. To obtain the Zoom link please contact [email protected]. The pre-doc symposium will highlight the work of our Fall 2021 pre …

Discussion Lead: Edward Roualdes (California State Uni-Chico) Topic: Focusing on Difficult Directions for Learning HMC Trajectory Lengths. Pavel Sountsov, Matt D. Hoffman. 2021. Link: https://arxiv.org …

Presenter: Shanyin Tong (NYU/Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) Topic: Extreme Event Probability Estimation using PDE-Constrained Optimization and Large Deviation Theory, with Application to Tsunamis Extreme events …

… physical pictures introduced by Kitaev, which take as input a d-dimensional parametrized system, and produce new (d+1)-dimensional parametrized systems. These constructions are useful for …

The objects orbiting nearby stars — such as exoplanets and other substellar beasts like gas and dust — can be millionths to hundredths of billionths of times as bright as …

Title: Enhanced inference and sampling on current quantum computers Abstract: Remarkable progress has been made in increasing the complexity of quantum devices and improving their quality. Surprisingly, one …

Please Note: The in-person portion of the Simons Collaboration on Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory and Computation Annual Meeting is canceled and all participants are welcome to participate …

Speaker: Carsen Stringer, Janelia Lab Topic: Cellpose and Suite2p: anatomical and functional algorithms for cellular segmentation Abstract: Many biological applications require the segmentation of cell bodies, membranes and …

1st Speaker: Mike Shelley Topic: Welcome Back and Updates 2nd Speaker: Stas Shvartsman Topic: Maintaining symmetry in bilaterian morphogenesis

SFARI hosted an informational session on the 2022 Bridge to Independence Award (BTI) request for applications (RFA). The session provided a brief overview of the BTI program and …

Discussion Lead: Mariano Gabitto, CCB Topic: Multiple comparisons via hierarchical modeling Link: Gelman, Hill, Yajima (2012) Why we (usually) don’t have to worry about multiple comparisons. Journal …

Please email [email protected] for Zoom information if you would like to participate. Title: The Demographics of Stars and Exoplanets in the Era of TESS and Gaia …

Title: Mathematical foundations of slender body theory Abstract: Slender body theory (SBT) facilitates computational simulations of thin filaments in a 3D viscous fluid by approximating the hydrodynamic effect …

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts an NY-area group meeting to bring together postdocs and PhD students interested in neural coding and dynamics to discuss …

Discussion Lead: Bob Carpenter, CCM Topic: Multivariate output analysis for MCMC Link: Vats, Flegal and Jones. 2019. Multivariate output analysis for MCMC. Biometrika. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512 …

… However, paradoxes arise when we attempt to combine these theories to arrive at a quantum theory of space and time, often because the appearance of black holes …

GothamFest is an opportunity for astronomers throughout NYC – at CCA, CUNY, AMNH, Columbia, NYU and other institutions – to come together to welcome new members, celebrate our science and …

Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two pillars of 20th-century physics. However, paradoxes arise when we attempt to combine these theories to arrive at a quantum …

Speaker: Christopher Park, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Genomics Topic: We’ll talk a little more on the glucose-insulin circuits, then I’ll go over the paper I …

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts a West Coast group meeting to bring together postdocs and PhD students interested in neural coding and dynamics. This month …

1st Presenter: Natalie Sauerwald, Ph.D., Flatiron Research Fellow, Genomics Topic: Differences in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection in male and female young adults Abstract: Male sex …

Title: Polynomial/Trigonometric interpolation and beyond Abstract: In this lecture, we will talk about results in approximation theory for polynomial/trignometric interpolation using equispaced and Chebyshev nodes. In …

Speaker: Min Wu, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Title: Modes of size and shape regulation in cell wall and tumor spheroid growth

… conduction in one-dimensional chains: A wave turbulence approach December 3, 2021 Eric Vanden-Eijnden | Extreme events, tail statistics and large deviation theory in fluid flows December …

Phenomena involving wave interactions happen at different scales and media. For example, gravitational waves ripple through space-time, ocean waves move through water and quantum particles behave like …

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts a Global group meeting to bring together postdocs and PhD students interested in neural coding and dynamics to discuss ideas …