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The energy released during planetary-scale collisions exceeds our common experience. Our planet was transformed into unfamiliar physical states multiple times during and after the main stage of …

Our seminar focuses on efficient computational methods for numerical problems, mostly phrased in a mathematical language, arising in areas of science throughout the Institute and beyond.

Topic: The Nature of the Zeeman Effect and Field-induced Topological Semimetals Abstract: In the present talk, I will propose a new way to classify centrosymmetric metals by …

A Graph Interpretation of the Cyclic Peptoid Conformational Energy Landscape Cyclic peptoids are known to adopt various stable conformations, but the details of their complex energy landscape have …

Topic: General Discussion

Fall 2020 Date Name Title 9/18/20 Marilena Loverde Mining The Cosmic Web 9/25/20 Stephon Alexander The Story of a Halo: Chern-Simons Theory, Cosmic …

This is a Biophysics and Development Seminar series hosted by the Biophysical Modeling Group and the Developmental Dynamics Group.

Title: Tidal Sculpting of Short-Period Exoplanets Abstract: Multiple-planet systems composed of close-in super-Earth/sub-Neptune-sized planets are ubiquitous, representing the dominant outcome of …

Moderator: Jamie Morton, CCB Paper: Don’t Blame the ELBO! A Linear VAE Perspective on Posterior Collapse James Lucas, George Tucker, Roger Grosse, Mohammad Norouzi https://arxiv.org …

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Superconductivity is a magical property of matter, whereby electrons spontaneously enter into a macroscopic quantum dance in which electricity flows perfectly. Bringing superconductivity to room temperature would profoundly …

Our seminar focuses on efficient computational methods for numerical problems, mostly phrased in a mathematical language, arising in areas of science throughout the Institute and beyond.

Title: Biologically plausible circuits for segmenting time-series data

Join a discussion on the future of neuroscience and neurotechnology funding with leadership from federal and non-government members of the BRAIN Initiative Alliance. More information will be …

Title: How to make microtubules and build the mitotic spindle The mission of my lab is to understand how cells obtain their shape, position organelles, move materials, and …

The BRAIN Initiative Alliance is hosting a virtual series on October 26-28, in collaboration with the Neuromatch 3.0 conference. The series will highlight cutting-edge tools …

Based on the successful mind-matching session at the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) conference and previous Neuromatch conference with more than 6k attendees, we decided to create an …

Topic: Modeling the clustering of matter on large scales: progress and recent results October 23, 2020 Matias Zaldarriaga: Modeling the clustering of matter on large scales: progress and …

Paper: I can’t Believe it’s not Better Moderator: Andrew Gelman, Columbia University. https://i-cant-believe-its-not-better.github.io/ This meeting will be a …

10:15 AM – 12:30 PM Agenda 10:15-11:15 AM Jeff Kahn, Counting maximal independent sets in the cube, Part I 11:15 – 11:30 AM …

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Evan Eichler discussed his research on the genetics of autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions.

Over the last decade, tremendous advances in sequencing technology have allowed scientists to study the full spectrum of human genetic variation and its relationship to disorders associated with …

Our seminar focuses on efficient computational methods for numerical problems, mostly phrased in a mathematical language, arising in areas of science throughout the Institute and beyond.

FWAM (“Flatiron-wide Autumn Meeting”, previously “Flatiron-wide Algorithms and Mathematics”) is a two-day internal conference with the goal of introducing and reviewing scientific and computational tools …

During the Russian Revolution of 1917, Czar Nicholas and his family disappeared. In 1920, a mysterious woman surfaced in Germany claiming to be his youngest daughter, the Grand …

Title: AGN disks have things in them–and those things are important Abstract: Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have usually been modeled and conceptualized solely in terms of their …

Paper: Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning Shakir Mohamed, Mihaela Rosca, Michael Figurnov, Andriy Mnih https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10652 Please email Sara Mejias Gonzalez at …

↓ Download the meeting booklet. (PDF) The 2020 Mathematics and Physical Sciences Annual Meeting will bring together grantees and scientific partners to exchange ideas through lectures and discussions …

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In the last five years, the exciting new field of gravitational wave astronomy has delivered many firsts: the first detection of gravitational waves — from a pair of black …

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts a NYC-area group meeting to bring together postdocs and PhD students interested in neural coding and dynamics to discuss …

Our seminar focuses on efficient computational methods for numerical problems, mostly phrased in a mathematical language, arising in areas of science throughout the Institute and beyond.

Topic: Streaming flows in the fruit fly oocyte Abstract: In the cellular phenomena of cytoplasmic streaming, molecular motors carrying cargo along a network of microtubules entrain the surrounding …

Title: Multiphase superconductivity in CeRh2As2 I will report on the discovery of CeRh2As2, a new heavy fermion superconductor with a Tc of 0.26 K. In the normal …

Topic: Phase separation of multicomponent liquid mixtures Abstract: Phase separation of multicomponent liquid mixtures plays an integral part in many processes ranging from industry to cellular biology. While …

Presenter: Daniel Berenberg, NYU Topic: Protein structure embeddings through contact map decomposition and convolution Abstract: Protein folds arise from a complex system of atomistic interactions in three dimensions …

Article review: Predicting 3d genome folding from DNA sequence

Neuropixels probes are transforming neurophysiology, with over 265 laboratories worldwide adopting them in 2019 alone. The probes have 1,000 sites closely spaced on a 1 cm shank …

The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers advancing the forefront of AI and neuroscience to identify the next targets in creating brain-like intelligence and …