The Physical Mathematics Seminar is devoted to the mathematical modeling of real scientific experiments and engineering systems.
Room 2-449
Tuesdays, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Feb 13: Tatiana Engel (Princeton)
The dynamics and geometry of choice in premotor cortex
Feb 27: Neelesh A. Patankar (Northwestern University)
A unified constrant formulation of immersed body techniques for coupled fluid-solid motion
Mar 5: Paul Milewski (Penn State)
The Resonance of free-surface water waves in cylinders
Mar 12: Arnaud Lazarus (Sorbonne Universite) Note Room --* Bldg. 2, Room 131"
Exploiting periodicity in the dynamic stability of systems with time-varying properties
Mar 19: Surya Ganguli (Stanford) Note Room -- "Bldg. 4, Room 149"
Statistical mechanics of learning and optimization in neural networks
Mar 26: Spring Break - NO Seminar
Apr 9: Howard Stone (Princeton)
Capillary rise, thin films near edges, and surfactant spreading: New insights from self-similarity
Apr 16: Albert-László Barabási (Northeastern)
Understanding the role of physicality in networks
Apr 23: Saurabh Nath (MIT) -- Note "new" Room - "Bldg. 2, Room 131"
Apr 30: Michael Baudoin (Universite de Lille)
May 7: Arvind Murugan (University of Chicago)
Origin of non-equilibrium order
May 14: Georgi Gary Rozenman (MIT)
Exploring Quantum Mechanical and Optical Analogies through Surface Gravity Water Waves
May 21: Jonasz Slomka (ETH Zurich)
How encounters at the microscale prime microbial interactions
