The CPBF Seminar Series brings distinguished scientists to Princeton's campus to share recent research studying the phenomena of life. Topics range from single molecules to collective behavior in large populations, and span the intersection of physics and the life sciences. The seminar is organized by a committee of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff. Current committee members are:
- Po-Ta Chen, Grad Student
- Shengkai Li, CPBF Fellow
- Christopher Lynn, CPBF Fellow
- Rahul Munshi, CPBF Fellow
- Diana Valverde, Graduate Student
- Beatrice Ramm, CPBF Fellow
- Maryam Kohram, CPBF Fellow
- Lee Susman, CPBF Fellow
- Andrew Leifer, Assistant Professor
- Svitlana Rogers, CPBF Coordinator
Please contact Svitlana Rogers at [email protected] to suggest speakers or to express interest in joining the committee.
In this talk, we propose to decipher the activity of neural networks via a “multiply and conquer” approach. This approach considers limit networks made of infinitely many replicas with the same basic neural structure. The key point is that these so-called replica-mean-field networks are in fact simplified, tractable versions of neural networks…
Super-resolution optical microscopy has become a powerful tool to study the nanoscale spatial distribution of molecules of interest in biological cells, tissues and other structures over the last years. Imaging these distributions in the context of other molecules or the general structural context is, however, still challenging. I will present…
Aggregations are common in biological systems at a range of scales and may be driven by exogenous constraints such as environmental heterogeneity and resource availability or by “self-organizing” interactions among individuals. One mechanism leading to self-organized animal aggregations is captured by Hamilton’s “selfish herd” hypothesis, which…