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Discussion Leads: Hayden Nunley & Binglun Shao Paper: Nucleus downscaling in mouse embryos is regulated by cooperative developmental and geometric programs

Discussion Lead: Aditya Mishra, CCM Paper: A General Framework for Fast Stagewise Algorithms Ryan J. Tibshirani https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~ryantibs/papers/stagewise.pdf Please email Sara …

April 8, 2021 Martin Claassen – Moiré Quantum Simulation Beyond Graphene

The last 20 years have seen a revolution in tracking the movement of biological agents across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. An important observation from …

1st Speaker: Jaspreet Singh, Ph.D., Flatiron Research Fellow, Developmental Dynamics Title: Biophysics of Arrested Furrows Absrtact: Cell division is often incomplete in early-stage gametogenesis: instead of …

Title: Challenges for Quantum Monte Carlo for Materials Abstract: Quantum Monte Carlo methods have now matured to the point where they can be usefully applied to topical materials …

Title: A law of robustness for two-layers neural networks Abstract: I will present a mathematical conjecture potentially establishing overparametrization as a law of robustness for neural networks …

Presenter: Gokberk Kabacaoglu, Ph.D., FlatironResearch Fellow Topic: Aster centering and rotation in large cells

Presenter: Lingdi Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University Title: Characterization of the respiratory tract microbiome in influenza infection Abstract: Recent studies have shown that the microbiome of …

… Karnetzki, Ivo Maintz, Lisa Mallis, Hannah Prawitz, Patrick S Segelitz, Martin Seeger, Rune Linding, and Edda Klipp

Title: New Probes of Old Structure: Cosmology with 21cm Intensity Mapping Abstract: Current cosmological measurements have left us with deep questions about our Universe: What caused the expansion …

Discussion Lead: Jamie Morton, CCB, Flatiron Institute Please email Sara Mejias Gonzalez at [email protected] for Zoom information if you would like to participate.

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 …

In 1880, French mathematician Jean Gaston Darboux started a project enumerating the various surfaces that can be made using grids of lines, circles or cross-sections of cones …

This series of workshops, co-hosted by The National Institutes of Health (NIH) BRAIN Initiative and the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, brings together researchers with …

Presenter: Dr. Benjamin B. Machta, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Physics Yale University Title: Surface densities prewet a nearly critical membrane. Abstract: Proteins and nucleic acids can phase …

Title: Sampling with neural networks: prospects and perils Abstract: In many applications in computational physics and chemistry, we seek to estimate expectation values of observables that yield mechanistic …

Presenter: Lingdi Zhang

There is more than five times as much dark matter in the universe as normal matter. Through gravity, we have observed evidence of dark matter's existence for …

Title: Wave Dark Matter Abstract: A dark matter candidate lighter than about 30 eV exhibits wave behavior in a typical galactic environment. Examples include the QCD axion as …

Speaker: Rohit Supekar, MIT Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.06568.pdf

Agenda 1:00 – 2:00 PM Tianyi Zheng, Embedded metric structures in finitely generated amenable groups Part I 2:00 – 2:15 PM Break 2:15 – 3:15 …

Discussion Lead: Ben Goodrich, Columbia University Please email Sara Mejias Gonzalez at [email protected] for Zoom information if you would like to participate.

… within the Hidden Symmetries collaboration

March 25, 2021 Liang Fu: 3-Particle Mechanism of Superconductivity

Plasmas permeate most of the visible universe. Utilizing plasmas, scientists hope to make thermonuclear fusion a viable energy source, offering effectively unlimited energy production with no carbon footprint …

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 …

On March 24, 2021, SFARI held an informational session to answer questions about the 2021 Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science request for applications.

Sponsored by the Conte Center for Neuroimmune Studies at Harvard.

Speaker: Richard Bonneau, Ph.D., Group Leader, Systems Biology Topic: “Mad max-pool beyond thunder-matrix: biology in a post alignment world.”

… edge mode scan exist even in situations where the bulk bands have zero Chern numbers. The novel properties of such anomalous Floquet systems open the door to …

Presenter: Kerwyn C. Huang, Ph.D. Professor of Bioengineering and of Microbiology and Immunology Stanford University Title: Biophysics of bacterial cell growth and evolution Abstract: Bacterial cells constantly …

Presenter: Sebastian Fürthauer, Ph.D., Research Scientist, BPM Group Topic: Towards a physics of living materials

Presenter: Ren Yi, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University Title: Multitask learning methods for efficient learning of data poor problems in biology Abstract: The recent advancement in computational …

Title: Entropic forces from noisy training in overparameterized neural networks Abstract: Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) forms the core optimization method for deep neural networks. While some theoretical progress …

This series of workshops, co-hosted by The National Institutes of Health (NIH) BRAIN Initiative and the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, brings together researchers with …

Guest Presenter: James Zou, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Data Science Stanford University Title: Computer vision to phenotype human diseases across physiological and molecular scales. Abstract: I …

Title: Is Deep Learning getting better? Abstract: I will discuss one of the most unstudied but still most critical problems in deep learning, the lack of fair compatibility …

Presenter: Daniel Needleman, Ph.D Topic: Biophysics of Mitochondrial Metabolism in vivo

Presenter: Ren Yi

Title: Decoding Galactic Architects: What Can We Learn About AGN From The Things In Them? March 12, 2021 Barry McKernan: Decoding Galactic Architects: What Can We Learn About …

Speaker: Sayantan Dutta, Princeton University