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1st Speaker: Alex Rautu, Ph.D., Flatiron Research Fellow, Biophysical Modeling Topic: Composition, Shape and Drift Instabilities of Membrane-Bound Compartments under Active Vesicular Trafficking Abstract: We study …

Title: Learning dynamics and implicit bias of gradient flow in overparameterized linear models Abstract: Contrary to the common belief that overparameterization may hurt generalization and optimization, recent work …

How does the liver, pancreas, or any organ communicate with the brain or with each other? This is accomplished via hormones. Th Hormone Circuits Interest Groupw ill focus …

Speaker: Alex Barnett Title: Introduction to iterative methods to solve square linear systems: GMRES and its convergence rate. Background reading: Y. Saad and M. H. Schultz, “GMRES: a …

Title: Structure, Feedback, and Formation: Dwarf galaxies in the Wide-Field Era Abstract: Due to their low halo mass, dwarf galaxies have long been thought to be more …

Speaker: Ellen V. Rothenberg, Distinguished Professor of Biology, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology Title: Gene network and epigenetic mechanisms controlling the dynamics and …

… features. This talk will highlight some recent results on wave-matter interaction at an EP, paying particular attention to specific applications like hypersensitive sensors, reconfigurable nano-indenters …

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Title: Tools for multimodal sampling Abstract: The task of sampling from a probability distribution with known density arises almost ubiquitously in the mathematical sciences, from Bayesian inference to …

All lectures in this series will be held 10-11:15am US EDT and are open to all interested scientists. For further information please contact Dr. Igor Tupitsyn …

Neuropixels probes are transforming neurophysiology, and are now adopted by hundreds of laboratories worldwide. This course trains scientists to use these probes and to process their output using …

… Gases and Vortex Systems Sylvia Serfaty How Cells Measure Length Jane Kondev Quantum Error Correction Codes as Exotic Condensed Matter Xie Chen

FWAM (“Flatiron-wide Autumn Meeting”, previously “Flatiron-wide Algorithms and Mathematics”) is a two-day internal conference with the goal of introducing and reviewing scientific and computational tools …

Transport webs span a broad range of length scales, from microns in the human microcirculation to kilometers in river networks. The structure of all these networks is mutable …

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The 2021 Champalimaud Research Symposium (CRS21) focuses on the interface of neuroscience, artificial intelligence and machine learning with the main goal of starting an interdisciplinary conversation about the …

1st.Presenter: Christopher Park, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Genomics Topic: The darker side of the genome – Long non-coding RNA Abstract: There are now more annotated long non …

… an analysis involving two statistically different radio signals: a Fast Radio Burst pulse captured by EVLBI, and a deep-space artificial signal captured by the GBRT Breakthrough …

Discussion Lead: Marylou Gabrié, CCM Topic: Marylou Gabrié, Grant M. Rotskoff, Eric Vanden-Eijnden. 2021. Efficient Bayesian Sampling Using Normalizing Flows to Assist Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods …

The third edition of the Simons Society of Fellows Alumni Symposium came together in October 2021, as we slowly began to venture to indoor events, our immune systems …

Highlights from systems neuroscience research happening in labs across Boston University, alongside guest lectures by world-leading computational neuroscientists. The event will take place both virtually and at …

All lectures in this series will be held 10-11:15am US EDT and are open to all interested scientists. For further information please contact Dr. Igor Tupitsyn …

… reveals a fundamental trade-off between invariance and sparsity for class separability; it reveals a fundamental connection between deep networks and Fourier transform for group invariance — the …

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 …

Title: State redistribution methods for hyperbolic problems on cut cells grids Abstract: In this talk, we present state redistribution methods for hyperbolic problems on embedded boundary grids. State …

1st presenter: Julia Koehler, Ph.D., Research Scientist & Project Leader, Systems Biology Topic: How to give engaging presentations Abstract: Communicating science is not easy but necessary to reach …

Title: Exoplanet Host Star Age Inferences and Their Impacts on Models of Planet Formation and Evolution Abstract: Precise stellar ages have among their many uses the potential to …

Discussion Lead: Arya Pourzanjani, Foresite Labs Topic: Arya A. Pourzanjani, Richard M. Jiang, Brian Mitchell, Paul J. Atzberger, Linda R. Petzold. 2021. Bayesian Inference over the Stiefel Manifold …

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

Presenter: Mark E. Tuckerman, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics Dept. of Chemistry and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University Topic: Interfacing temperature-accelerated molecular …

Title: On the Sample Complexity of Learning under Invariance and Geometric Stability Abstract: Many supervised learning problems involve high-dimensional data such as images, text, or graphs. In …

All lectures in this series will be held 10-11:15am US EDT and are open to all interested scientists. For further information please contact Dr. Igor Tupitsyn …

Each year the Bernstein Network invites the international computational neuroscience community to the annual Bernstein Conference for intensive scientific exchange. Deadline to propose a workshop: May 10.

This 3-week course will cover the fundamentals of cognitive aging -including inter-individual differences, cognitive and brain reserve and risk factors- and highlight the newest functional imaging …

Title: Making Sense of Stellar Rotation in Low Mass Stars Abstract: Stellar rotation carries a wealth of information about stellar populations. In particular, the technique of gyrochronology was …

Discussion Lead: James Brofos, Yale University Topic: James Brofos and Roy Lederman. 2021. Evaluating the implicit midpoint integrator for RHMC. ICML. Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07139 …

Presenter: Boris Landa Title: Standardizing the Spectra of Count Data Matrices by Diagonal Scaling Abstract: A longstanding question when applying PCA is how to choose the number of …

1st Presenter: Jamie Morton, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Systems Biology Group Topic: Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder that’s characterized by heterogeneous cognitive, behavioral and …

Title: Reliable Predictions? Counterfactual Predictions? Equitable Treatment? Some Recent Progress in Predictive Inference Abstract: Recent progress in machine learning provides us with many potentially effective tools to learn …

Title: New Challenges in Cosmology, Galaxy Formation, and Planet Habitability Abstract: The Hubble tension between measurements of H0 in the early universe vs. nearby can be resolved by …