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Title: Deep (Convolution) Networks from First Principles Abstract: In this talk, we offer an entirely “white box’’ interpretation of deep (convolution) networks from the perspective of data compression …

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 …

The BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting convenes BRAIN Initiative awardees, staff, and leadership from the contributing federal agencies (NIH, NSF, DARPA, IARPA, and FDA), plus representatives and investigators from …

Discussion Lead: Bob Carpenter, CCM Topic: Robust, Accurate Stochastic Optimization for Variational Inference. 2020. Akash Kumar Dhaka, Alejandro Catalina, Michael Riis Andersen, Måns Magnusson, Jonathan H. Huggins, Aki …

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: Trajectory, Trajectory, Trajectory Abstract: As we begin to “open the black box” of deep learning, it becomes clear that many important phenomena can only be understood via …

Presenter: Daniel Berenberg, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University Topic: Towards scalable protein structural comparison using graph convolutional networks

Presenter: Alex Rautu, Ph.D. Topic: Active Nuclear Transport in Living Cells

This conference aims to provide an integrated discussion of the latest advances in research and therapeutic development for neurodegenerative diseases. This conference program will focus on the roles …

The emerging field of neuroimmunology is one of the most exciting and fastest moving areas in biomedical research. Communication between the brain and the immune system play critical …

Discussion Lead: Pilar Cossio, CCB/CCM Topic: Transition path sampling and the calculation of rate constants Paper: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.475562 Please email Sara Mejias …

Speaker: Dmitri Efetov June 3, 2021 Dmitri Efetov: Magic Angle Bilayer Graphene – Superconductors, Correlated States, Orbital Magnets and Beyond…

Title: “Radiohead: Radiogenomic analysis incorporating tumor heterogeneity in imaging through densities” Abstract: Recent technological advancements have enabled detailed investigation of associations between the molecular architecture and tumor heterogeneity …

1st presenter: Julien Funk, Senior Software Engineer, Genomics Topic: Applications of Finite State Machines & Statecharts in Software Engineering Abstract: A demonstration of statecharts as used in the context …

Title: Twistons in the Magic Sea Abstract: The latest entry into the moiré graphene family is twisted trilayer graphene. This material consists of three sheets of graphene, and …

Title: Learning Representations Using Causal Invariance Abstract: Learning algorithms often capture spurious correlations present in the training data distribution instead of addressing the task of interest. Such spurious …

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 …

UPDATE: This event has been postponed to June 2021. Stay tuned for more information. TENSS concentrates top-level international expertise to teach a dozen students techniques and concepts …

Presenter: Vlad Gliogorijevic

Discussion Lead: Lu Zhang, Columbia University Topic: Hoffman, Ma. Black-Box Variational Inference as a Parametric Approximation to Langevin Dynamics. ICML 2020. Paper: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v119 …

Title: Breaking Machine Learning Systems at the Industrial Scale Abstract: Evasion and poisoning attacks have been demonstrated on a range of systems, but usually in a simplified laboratory …

Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute and Mount Sinai’s Friedman Brain Institute present Innovators in Neuroscience: From Molecules to Mind, a virtual symposium highlighting recent advances from basic to …

Presenter: Tsvi Tlusty, Ph.D., , Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Topic: Protein: the physics of amorphous evolving matter

Presenter: Ren Yi, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University Topic: Methods to Improve Knowledge Transfer Efficiency for Data-limited Problems in Genomics Abstract: The recent advancement in computational …

TV shows like CSI give viewers a glimpse of how investigators solve crimes using DNA and other forensic tools, all wrapped up in an hour. What these shows …

Title: Astrochemistry and the Compositions of Planets Abstract: Planets form in disks around young stars. The resulting planet compositions are intimately linked to the disk chemical structures; the …

Presenters: Maria Avdeeva & Hayden Nunley Topic: Models for pattern the mammalian Inner Cell Mass (ICM) into Primitive Endoderm and Epiblast

David Ledbetter and Joseph Buxbaum discussed whether there are genes for which mutations confer risk specific to autism or whether these genes are really conferring general risk of …

Discussion Lead: Bob Carpenter, CCM Topic: Piponi, Hoffman, Sountsov. Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Swindles. AISTATS 2020. Paper: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v108/piponi20a/piponi20a.pdf Please email Sara Mejias …

The scientific content of the meeting reflects the breadth of topics in modern vision science, from visual coding to perception, recognition and the visual control of action, as …

The SFARI science team held an informational session to answer questions about the 2021 Genomics of ASD: Pathways to Genetic Therapies request for applications.

Speaker: Gregory Polshyn May 20, 2021 Gregory Polshyn: Orbital Chern Insulators in Flat-band Graphene Moiré Systems

On Day 1 (5/19), Gordon Berman;.’s group will discuss methods for quantifying, analyzing, and modeling animal behavior in the context of neuroscientific experiments. On Day 2 …

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 …

1st presenter: Aidan Daly, PhD, Flatiron Research Fellow, Systems Biology Topic: Bridging the gap between single-cell and spatially resolved -omics Abstract: The development of spatially resolved -omics …

Title: Superconductivity and quantum criticality linked by the Hall effect in a strange metal Abstract: Many unconventional superconductors exhibit a common set of anomalous charge transport properties that …

Title: Disentangled interpretations for deep learning with ACD Abstract: Recent deep learning models have achieved impressive predictive performance by learning complex functions of many variables, often at the …

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 …

Presenter: Aleksandra Plochocka, Ph.D., Research Fellow Topic: “Interplay of E-cadherin and actomyosin in tissue mechanics”

Presenter: James Eastwood, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University Title: Static and Dynamic Views of Peptoid Macrocycles in Theory and Experiment Abstract: Cyclic oligomers of N-substituted glycine …

Title: Single cells in a whole organism: image analysis to prepare the ground Abstract: Cutting-edge volume electron microscopy allows to image very large samples, up to the …

A shape can tile space if we can take infinitely many copies of the shape and shift them around to cover every point without overlapping. For example, squares …