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Federico Bolognani, Stuart Cobb, and Yael Weiss joined a panel to discuss new industry developments on the use of small molecules, gene therapy and antisense oligonucleotides as treatment …

… cryptography. I will describe how investigating these algorithmic problems led us to discover new geometric properties of lattices. Public Lecture: Friday, May 14th 4:45 – 5:00 …

Jake Gratten and Naomi Wray presented findings from the Australian Autism Biobank study, an initiative to establish an Australian resource of biospecimens, phenotypes and genomic data for autism …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition whose biological basis is yet to be elucidated. The Australian Autism Biobank (AAB) is an initiative of the Cooperative …

Title: Elephant in the Room: Non-Smooth Non-Convex Optimization Abstract: It is well-known that finding global minima of non-convex optimization problems is computationally hard in …

Presenter: Michael O’Brien, Associate Research Analyst Topic: “Computing the Bispectrum across Dimensions and Disciplines”

Presenter: Jamie Morton, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Systems Biology Group, CCB Title: Towards an autism microbiome consortium study Abstract: In light of the major advances in discovering …

Title: The Local Gaseous Universe Abstract: The gas in galaxies dictates the fate of their star formation and their total baryon census. In this talk, I will discuss …

Speaker: Jaspreet Singh Topic: Review of models of cytokinesis

Topic: Green and Mira. Delayed Rejection in Reversible Jump Metropolis-Hastings. Discussion Lead: Chirag Modi, CCA/CCM Paper: https://academic.oup.com/biomet/article/88/4/1035/2722143 …

A wide range of empirical evidence supports the notion that the universe has been expanding and cooling for the last 14 billion years. However, the idea that it …

The 11th NTC symposium of the NeuroTechnology Center at Columbia University: Neuronal Ensembles. The symposium will feature talks from leading investigators in the fields of developmental neuroscience, sensory …

1st presenter: Xi Chen, PhD, Research Scientist, Genomics Topic: High-resolution chromatin accessibility and gene expression data analysis for MRSA/MSSA Abstract: As a pilot study in a …

… less parameters. The second notable fact is the ability to leverage the model interpretability to improve the efficiency of our models for blind denoising. In these two …

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: Laurel Ohm, NYU Topic: Pattern formation in active suspensions

Presenter: Daniel Berenberg Topic: Language modeling for DNA sequences Abstract: Next-generation sequencing efforts have resulted in massive deposits of reliable whole-genome data, namely coding and non …

Spring 2021 Date Name Title January 29, 2021 Mike Blanton TBD February 5, 2021 Nick Battaglia TBD February 12, 2021 Andrei Beloborodov TBD February 26, 2021 Lam Hui …

The necessity for clear science communication extends far beyond the laboratory. It impacts all of us daily, especially when it comes to our health. Join us for a …

Topic: Pourzanjani and Petzold. Implicit HMC for sampling multiscale distributions. Discussion Lead: Bob Carpenter, CCM Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05754 Please email Sara Mejias Gonzalez at …

… Mechanisms of Aging, the Grass Award in Neuroscience, and the Neuroendocrine Research Award. She serves in the leadership of JAMA Neurology and is on the board of …

Title: Teaching an old dog new tricks: switchable polar materials from first principles Abstract: First-principles methods have proved over recent years to be an increasingly powerful tool …

Title: Generalization bounds for sparse random feature expansions Abstract: Random feature methods have been successful in various machine learning tasks, are easy to compute, and come with theoretical …

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 …

Presenter: Meet Barot, New York University Title: Unsupervised Classification of Proteins Abstract: With the large amount of sequence information constantly being generated, it has become an important problem …

Title: ”Testing gravity with large scale structure” Abstract: Upcoming cosmological surveys, including DESI, Euclid, Rubin LSST and Roman and Simons Observatory and CMB-S4 will provide a wealth …

1:00-3:20 PM Agenda 1:00-1:25 Yufei Zhao, Background and motivation, overview of results, open problems 1:25-2:15 Ashwin Sah, Upper bounds …

April 22, 2021 Mike Zaletel – Skyrmion pairing: DMRG evidence for a topological route to superconductivity

… interdisciplinary applications. Her research focus is on unsupervised AI, optimization, and tensor methods.

1st Speaker: Tatyana Gavrilchenko, Ph.D., Flatiron Research Fellow, Developmental Dynamics Topic: Fluctuating asymmetries in the wing venation of odonates The intricate wing structure of dragonflies has fascinated …

Title: Quantum Computing “al dente” Abstract: From the perspective of many body physics, the transmon qubit architectures currently developed for quantum computing are systems of coupled nonlinear quantum …

Title: A Local Convergence Theory for Mildly Over-Parameterized Two-Layer Neural Network Abstract: While over-parameterization is widely believed to be crucial for the success of optimization …

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 …

From its outset, the goal of NCM has been to offer investigators in the field of motor control an opportunity to present their work and to discuss its …

Topic: Modelling membrane-bound cellular organelles with non-equilibrium dynamics. Abstract: Membrane-bound cellular organelles perform many essential functions, among which the sorting and biochemical maturation of cellular …

Presenter: Adam Lamson, Ph.D., Research Fellow, BPM Group Topic: Mixing biophysics and genomics: the long and winding path of DNA, proteins, and data.

Presenter: Michelle Badri, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University Title: Instrumental variables design for high-dimensional microbiome data Abstract: Instrumental variables estimation is an approach to causal inference …

Techniques to record neuronal data from populations of neurons are rapidly improving. Simultaneous recordings from hundreds of channels are possible while animals perform complex behavioral tasks. The analysis …

Title: How much control does dark matter have over galaxy formation? Abstract: We know that the formation of halos and galaxies are correlated— more massive galaxies grow in …

Discussion Lead: Mariano Gabbitto, Flatiron; CCB Topic: Visualization in Bayesian Workflow Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01449 Please email Sara Mejias Gonzalez at [email protected] for …

… impairments. Villeda’s research is best known for using innovative heterochronic parabiosis and blood plasma administration approaches to investigate the influence that exposure to young blood has …

Presenter: Ramin Golestanian, Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen and Oxford University Title: A classical analogue of Bose-Einstein condensation in active …

Presenter: Jaspreet Singh, Ph.D., Flatiron Research Fellow, Developmental Dynamics Topic: Biophysics of Arrested Cytokinesis

Presenter: Sonya Hanson, Ph.D., Structural & Molecular Biophysics Collaboration, Center for Computational Biology Title: Elucidating mechanisms of biological temperature sensing Abstract: Despite the existence of engineered thermometers since …