Friday, 25 October
10:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Science Center (Room 4102)
It’s an exciting time for the physics of life, as our community explores an ever wider range of problems, from molecules to ecosystems with stops at every scale in between. This symposium brings together the growing groups at Princeton, The City University of New York, and Yale, and we hope others will join in. Lectures will be accessible to students and there will be plenty of time for informal discussion.
10:30 AM
Coffee and bagels
11:00 AM
Reflectins as droplet photonics
Alison Sweeney, Yale University
11:30 AM
Tunable multiphase dynamics of biomolecular condensates
Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle, CUNY Graduate Center
12:00 PM
Statistical physics of optimal constraints
Christopher Lynn, Yale University
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM
Time: the final frontier of ecological networks
Phillip Staniczenko, Brooklyn College, CUNY
2:30 PM
An exciting frontier for pattern formation models
Carina Tarnita, Princeton University
3:00 PM
Coffee + discussion
4:00 PM
Toward a complete view of the C. elegans brain
Andrew M. Leifer, Princeton University
4:30 PM
Information bottleneck and parallel channels in vision
Damon Clark, Yale University
5:00 PM
Dynamic landscapes during growth and differentiation
Gautam Reddy, Princeton University
6:00 PM
Informal dinner (Room 5209)
This event is sponsored in part by the Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a joint effort of Princeton University and the CUNY Graduate Center.