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Speaker: Sankar Das Sarma February 16, 2021 Sankar Das Sarma: Interaction, Disorder, Incommensuration, Topology: Strange Beauty of 2D Moire Systems

Title: Harmonic Analysis View of Deep Network Concentration Abstract: What mathematics can explain how deep convolutional network avoid the curse of dimensionality ? This talk will emphasize the impact …

Title: Magnetic power in the universe of bright transients Abstract: Sudden release of magnetic energy is a prominent phenomenon in time-domain astrophysics. It is invoked in a …

Speaker: Elizabeth T. Ables, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, East Carolina University Topic: Counting cell divisions in the Drosophila germline.

Discussion Lead: Stephen Bates [Berkeley] Paper: Stephen Bates, Anastasios Angelopoulos, Lihua Lei, Jitendra Malik, Michael I. Jordan. 2021. Distribution-Free, Risk-Controlling Prediction Sets. https://arxiv.org/abs …

… Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Atomically-thin crystal sheets have transformed the way we think about materials. Starting with the surprising isolation of graphene from …

Title: Unlocking Multiphase Galactic Gas Flows Abstract: Multiphase gas flows are ubiquitous in and around galaxies, and are responsible for regulating star formation and black hole growth. During …

Atomically-thin crystal sheets have transformed the way we think about materials. Starting with the surprising isolation of graphene from graphite, this family of materials has by now …

Presenter: Aaron Wong, Ph.D., Data Scientist & Project Leader, Genomics Topic: HumanBase – a platform for data-driven predictions in human molecular biology

Title: A novel strongly spin-orbit coupled quantum dimer magnet: Yb2Si2O7 Abstract: The quantum dimer magnet (QDM) is the canonical example of “quantum magnetism”. This state consists of …

Title: Gradient-based algorithms in high-dimensions under limited sample complexity Abstract: I will overview our recent progress on analyzing gradient descent, Langevin algorithms and stochastic gradient descent …

Presenter: Nick S. Jones, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London Title: Survival of the densest accounts for the expansion of mitochondrial mutations in ageing While …

Presenter: Douglas Renfrew

Title: Constraining Galaxy Formation and Baryonic Effects on LSS with Observations of the Thermal and Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effects Abstract: A new window into the growth and evolution …

Discussion Lead:  Bob Carpenter [CCM] Papers: Duvenaud, Maclurin, and Adams.  2016.  Early stopping as variational inference. http://proceedings.mlr.press/v51/duvenaud16.pdf Mandt, Hoffman, and Blei.  2017 …

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 …

Supermassive black holes in some active galaxies’ centers create powerful jets of radiation and plasma particles that move close to the speed of light. The answers to the …

Guest Presenter: Stefano Di Talia, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Cell Biology Duke University School of Medicine Topic: Waves and flows in embryogenesis and regeneration Abstract: Embryonic development …

Title: Teacher-student models: exactly solvable models for statistical learning Abstract: The high-dimensional settings allow one to use powerful asymptotic methods from probability theory and statistical physics …

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: Olenka Jain, Havard University Topic: Dynamics of spindle positioning and oscillation in C. elegans

Presenter: Anders Rasmussen, Associate Software Engineer, Systems Biology Group, Center for Computational Biology. Title: Inferring Regulatory Dynamics from Pseudotemporally Ordered Single Cell Data Abstract: Single-cell RNA-seq …

Title: Galaxies Near and Far with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Abstract: I will discuss the recent work of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey on cosmology and galaxy …

Presenter: Madhav Mani, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics Northwestern University Topic: Descartes’ Duck and Picasso’s Bull Abstract: The Duck of Vaucanson served …

Researchers using data from the Planck satellite, a spacecraft measuring the cosmic microwave background (CMB), say they’ve recently observed a hint (at 99.2 percent confidence) of …

On January 26, 2021, SFARI will host a Twitter chat Q&A on the Bridge to Independence (BTI) Award program and the 2021 BTI request for applications.

Presenter: Justin B. Kinney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Simons Center for Quantitative Biology Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Topic: Massively Parallel Reporter Assays, Machine Learning, and the Biophysics of …

Title: Some naive open problems about optimization in high dimensions: how much data is needed to tame topological complexity and entropy with simple algorithms? Abstract: I will discuss …

Speaker: Fred Chang, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology University of California, San Francisco Title: Life in a crowded environment: regulation of cytoplasmic …

Presenter: Brato Chakrabarti Topic: More on metachronal waves in ciliary arrays

Presenter: Julia Kohler Leman, Ph.D., Systems Biology Group, Center for Computational Biology Title: Mapping the microbiome by large-scale structure and function prediction Abstract: The microbiome consists …

In this lecture, Alex Kontorovich will describe some of these connections, both ancient and modern. He will also showcase how mathematics is not a random collection of disjointed …

Title: The Sun in Time and Other Mysteries Abstract: The theory of stellar structure and evolution is quite successful in predicting the evolution of stars like the Sun …

… I: Motivation January 22, 2021 Joel Tropp- Scalable Semidefinite Programming, Part II: Nonlinear SDPs via SketchyCGM January 22, 2021 Joel Tropp- Scalable Semidefinite Programming, Part III: Standard …

… the quest connected researchers in quantum information, condensed matter and high-energy theory, all inspired by the endless weirdness of strongly interacting quantum many-body systems. Separate …

Quantum systems are weird. A large quantum system where all the constituent quantum particles strongly interact with each other is even weirder. The recently discovered fracton systems are …

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