Presidential Lectures

In this lecture, Thomas Schulthess will show how recent developments in architecture have moved us away from traditional abstractions, forcing software development and mathematical algorithms to acknowledge the physical reality of computing systems.

Christopher Walsh will review recent work on ‘somatic mutations’ — de novo mutations that are present in some brain cells but not in all cells of the body — in several neurological conditions associated with intellectual disability and seizures.

In this lecture, Alexei Borodin will illustrate how these two concepts work together in examples from random matrices to random interface growth.

In this talk, Robert Kirshner will show how we discovered cosmic acceleration and present evidence that we live in a universe that is only 4 percent ordinary matter, with the balance being dark matter and dark energy.

In this lecture, Catherine Monk will describe her lab’s studies on women in the perinatal period and fetal and infant neurobehavioral development.

This talk will outline the current state of genetics research in autism, highlight some of the key findings that remain to be discovered, and consider how these findings could ultimately benefit individuals with autism and their families.