Friday, November 17
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM EST
Room 9206/9207 and via Zoom
watch the presentations
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
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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
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11:30 AM
Break
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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
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Lunch
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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.