Physical Mathematics Seminar

Feb 7: Petur Bryde (Harvard)

Steelpans and singing saws: Localized vibrational modes in inhomogeneously curved shells

 

Feb 14: Chenyi Fei (MIT)

Capillary attraction underlies bacterial collective dynamics

 

Feb 28:  Jerome Neufeld (University of Cambridge)

Gunwale bobbing and the quantum canoe

 

Mar 7:  Keaton Burns (MIT)

Solving PDEs exactly over polynomials

 

Mar 14:  No Seminar

 

Mar 21:  No Seminar

 

Mar 28:  Spring Break -- No Seminar

 

Apr 4:  Niall Mangan (Northwestern)

Model selection of chaotic systems from data with hidden variables using sparse data assimilation

 

Apr 11:  Alexander Petroff (Clark University)

Adapting to life in diffusive gradients

 

Apr 18:  Lyle Muller (University of Western Ontario)

Spatiotemporal dynamics in neural systems:  from data to mathematical models and computation

 

Apr 25:  Farzan Vafa (Harvard)

Dynamics of active nematic defects on cones

 

May 1:  Michael Moshe (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

A General Theory of Mechanical Screening and Hexatic Mechanics in Amorphous Granular Matter

     ZOOM Link:  https://mit.zoom.us/j/97310848163

 

May 2:  Daniel M. Harris  (Brown University)

Active and driven wave-propelled interfacial particles

  

May 9: Daniel Cohen (Princeton)

Adventures in cell herding: engineering and control of living cellular swarms