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… in Structural Glasses: P. Urbani Excitations in Low-Temperature Glasses: E. Lerner Quantum Disordered Systems: A. Rosso Mathematical Methods for Diluted Mean-Field Models: A. Coja-Oglan …

Most of the materials around us are structurally disordered, from window glass to emulsions to biological tissues. Scientists have long considered disordered materials as imperfect or defective versions …

A neuroscience seminar series for postdocs and graduate students. Talks will take place every other week on Wednesdays (March 10, 24 and April 7, 21, Wednesdays at 5pm …

For more information go here. March 9, 2021 Yao-Yuan Mao: Fundamental Physics of Dark Matter from Dwarf Galaxy Surveys

Speaker: Maria Avdeeva, Ph.D, Associate Research Scientist, DevDy Topic: A data fusion approach to developmental patterning

Title: Thermal transport in quantum magnets Abstract: I will present some general results for all components of the thermal conductivity tensor in magnets, especially useful in regimes where …

Title: Physics-informed machine learning: open mathematical questions Abstract: The requirements and constraints to numerically solve physics-informed machine learning problems (PhysML) are notably different from classical machine …

Presenter: Gregory A. Voth, Ph.D., FRSC Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Topic: Overcoming the Multiscale …

Presenter: Leroy Jia, Ph.D., Topic: The odd flows of an active chiral annulus/Ideas about Langmuir films

Presenter: Aaron Watters, Ph.D., Senior Software Engineer, Flatiron Institute Title: Landscapes of Binary Classification Ranking Abstract: This talk informally explores and compares methods for evaluating binary classification …

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 …

Title: Alfven Wave Damping and Heating in the Solar Corona Abstract: Understanding the heating of the solar corona has been considered one of the major problems in astrophysics …

Scientists sequenced the first ancient human genomes in 2010, and since then, more than 5000 additional ancient genomes have been published. That work makes it possible to ask …

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: The representation theory of equivariant neural networks and graph neural nets Abstract: Incorporating symmetries is an important theme in several branches of deep learning. However, there are …

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 …

Presenter: Jane Kondev, Ph.D., Brandeis University Topic: How Cells Measure Length

Presenter: Reza Farhadifar, Ph.D. Topic: From one to many: can we compute the embryo?

Presenter: Andreas Tjarnberg, Postdoctoral Associate, New York University Title: Translating gene regulatory network inference into a white-box deep learning framework Abstract: Gene regulatory network (GRN) inference is …

In this virtual conversation, New York Times science and global health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli will chat with Peter Hotez, dean of Baylor University’s National School of Tropical …

Discussion Lead: Philip Greengard [Columbia U] Paper: Greengard, Gelman, and Vehtari. 2020. A Fast Linear Regression via SVD and Marginalization. https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04829 Please email …

February 26, 2021 2020 Pre-Doctoral Symposium

For more information go here. February 25, 2021 Probing Fundamental Physics With Gravitational Waves

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) was thought to be a model neurodevelopmental disorder for the translation of mechanism-targeted treatments from basic neuroscience and animal models to patients. Thus …

The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange of experimental and theoretical/computational approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. Cosyne topics include (but are not …

For more information go here. February 23, 2021 Alice Pisani: Precision Cosmology with Cosmic Voids

Speaker: Wen Yan, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Biophysical Modeling Topic: From pairwise crosslinker kinetics to collective bundling in active assemblies.

Title: Neural Canonical Transformations Abstract: Canonical transformations play fundamental roles in simplifying and solving physical systems. However, their design and implementation can be challenging in the many-particle …

Title: Towards numerical analysis for solving high dimensional PDEs based on neural networks Abstract: Numerical solution to high dimensional PDEs has been one of the central challenges in …

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 to discuss …

Presenter: Claudia Skok Gibbs, Research Analyst, Systems Biology Group, Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute Title: Learning cell-type-specific single-cell gene regulatory networks in the developing …

Presenter: Enrico Coen, Ph.D., Group Leader / Fellow of the Royal Society Topic: From Patterning to Morphogenesis

February 22, 2021 Streams 21 – Day 1: Milky Way Streams and Substructure February 23, 2021 Streams 21 – Day 2: Large-Scale Constraints on Dark Matter February 24, 2021 …

Discussion Lead: Will Grathwohl [U Toronto] Paper: Grathwohl, Swersky, Hashemi, Duvenaud, Maddison. 2021. Oops I Took A Gradient: Scalable Sampling for Discrete Distributions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2102 …

1:00 – 3:00 PM Agenda 1:00 -1:55 PM Shachar Lovett The Sunflower Conjecture: Part 1 (Background, related results, general approach, etc) 1:55 – 2:00 …

… Jerison: The Geometry of Level Sets of Eigenfunctions February 19, 2021 Claude Weisbuch: Landscape Localization Theory: A new tool to describe alloy-based semiconductor devices

Title: Constructing a Factory for Predicting Merger Rates of Black Hole Pairs Abstract: In this talk, I will briefly review the general three-body problem and its present …

In the late 20th century, science underwent a revolution as computational science emerged as the third mode of scientific inquiry alongside experiment and theory. Computer simulation of physical …

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 …