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Physics of Life: Students and Postdocs Edition

  • Rooms 9206/9207 at the CUNY Graduate Center (map)

Friday, November 17
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM EST
Room 9206/9207 and via Zoom

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Please join us in supporting the following doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, selected from many applicants this semester, as they present research in biological physics, broadly defined:


9:30 AM
Coffee and bagels


10:00 AM
A fitness landscape instability governs the morphological diversity of tip growing cells
Maxim Ohairwe, New York University

10:30 AM
Biophysical principles predict fitness of SARS-CoV-2 variants
Dianzhuo John Wang, Harvard University

11:00 AM
Cell geometry and biochemistry interact to dynamically regulate cAMP domains
Katherine Xiang, Harvard University

11:30 AM
Break


12:00 PM
Topology and robustness in early fate decision in the fly embryo
Arghyadip Mukherjee, École Normale Supérieure

12:30 PM
Correlated dense associative memories
Tom Burns, Brown University

1:00 PM
Memorization and consolidation in associative memory networks
Danil Tyulmankov, Columbia University

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Lunch


2:30 PM
Ring attractor dynamics underlies the learning of stable working memory representation
Alexandre Mahrach, IDIBAPS

3:00 PM
Critical dynamics in the subspace for spontaneous behavior
Antonio Jorge Fontenele Neto, University of Arkansas

3:30 PM
Signatures of critical slowing down in the visual cortex during attention
Roxana Zeraati, University of Tübingen

5:30 PM
Wine reception and dinner
In Room 5209 with speakers and attendees


Sponsored in part by the NSF Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a joint effort of Princeton University and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Earlier Event: October 27
New vistas in chaos (Symposium)
Later Event: November 22
Modern kinetics and turbulence theory