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.

Reflectins as droplet photonics Alison Sweeney, Yale University
Tunable multiphase dynamics of biomolecular condensates Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle, CUNY Graduate Center
Statistical physics of optimal constraints Christopher Lynn, Yale University
Time: the final frontier of ecological networks Phillip Staniczenko, Brooklyn College, CUNY
An exciting frontier for pattern formation models Carina Tarnita, Princeton University
Toward a complete view of the C. elegans brain Andrew M. Leifer, Princeton University
Information bottleneck and parallel channels in vision Damon Clark, Yale University
A theory of retrospective-prospective associative learning Gautam Reddy, Princeton University