Joint Cosmology & Particle Physics Meeting
This year the annual joint cosmology and particle physics meeting with Columbia University and NYU will be hosted at the University of Pennsylvania on May 12, 2017.
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Math-Bio seminar: "Decoding of pairwise coalescent times and detection of recent adaptation in biobank-scale SNP array data sets"
Pier Francesco Palamara (Harvard School of Public Health)
Coalescent hidden Markov models (HMM) such as the pairwise sequentially Markovian coalescent (PSMC, Li and Durbin, 2010) enable estimating the locus-specific posterior distribution of the time to most recent common…
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Geometry, frustration and force production in bacterial biopolymers"
Ajay Gopinathan (University of California, Merced)
Filamentous biopolymers in bacteria are involved in a variety of critical processes including templating cell growth, segregating genetic material and force production during motility and cell division. In this talk…
Math-Bio seminar: "Mutations, genetic identity, and data granularity"
Jun Li (University of Michigan)
I will talk about two studies where new insights are gained after we work on a different level of data granularity. First, in collaboration with Sebastian Zoellner we analyzed ~36 million extremely rare variants…
High Energy Seminar: "The Re-emergance of Spontaneously Broken Space-time Symmetries without Goldstones or Inverse Higgs"
Ira Rothstein (Carnegie Mellon)
In this talk I will discuss how broken space-time symmetries can emerge in the IR after being spontaneously broken in the UV, even though there may be no Goldstone bosons. Given that there has been a large body of…
Astro Seminar: POSTPONED UNTIL FALL
Zoltan Haiman (Columbia University)
POSTPONED UNTIL FALL
Advances in Biomedical Optics: "Theranostics Towards Point of Care Applications"
Israel Gannot (Johns Hopkins University and Tel-Aviv University)
My lab has been active developing Theranostics methods that utilize the advantages of different modalities for a synergetic combination for optimized clinical treatment. A main theme of the lab is bringing the…