1. Activities
  2. Talks Schedule

Talks Schedule

2026

Friday, Jun 19, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Jun 15, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Erik Van Nimwegen (Univ. of Basel) Physiological Strategies: What do regulatory networks do and how do they evolve?
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Sriram Ganeshan (CCNY) Non-holonomic constraints
    • Julien Tailleur (MIT) Wetting by active fluids: how active fluids push on boundaries

2026

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Matti Gralka (VU Amsterdam) Statistical patterns in microbial metabolic traits reveal underlying biochemical constraints
  • Simons Amphitheater / Zoom 12:00PM High Energy Theory / Gravitation Seminar

    • Ashoke Sen (ICTS-TIFR) Why supergravity needs string theory
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Sara Dal Cengio (MIT) When evolution realizes large deviations of fitness
    • Lila Sarfati (Univ. Paris Cité) From bulk to interface dynamics, in and out of equilibrium
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Ophelia Venturelli (Duke) Open Questions

2026

Wednesday, Jun 17, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Shaul Pollak (Univ. of Vienna) Ecological constraints on bacterial genome variation
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Yariv Kafri (Technion) How active field theories couple to external potentials
    • Satyanarayan Majumdar (CNRS) Universal survival probability of an active run-and-tumble particle
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • William Ludington (Johns Hopkins) Organismal interactions in the coevolved Drosophila-gut-microbiome

2026

Thursday, Jun 18, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 10:30AM Coarse-graining Microbial Ecology: from Genes to Physiological Strategies to Communities across Environments

    • Jonas Cremer (Stanford) Towards an Eco-Physiology Framework of Microbial Life: Insights from Escherichia coli in the Human Gut
  • Small Seminar Room 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Mehran Kardar (MIT) Chromatin as a heterogeneous active polymer
    • Zvonimir Dogic (UCSB) Self-organization of polar active rods

2026

Friday, Jun 19, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Jun 20, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Jun 21, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Jun 22, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Arup Chakraborty (MIT) How the humoral immune system learns
    • Sam Gershman (Harvard) Reimagining the biology of memory
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM iSTRUM
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Jordan Horowitz (Michigan) A geometry for nonequilibrium response
    • Aditya Mahadevan (NITMB/UChicago) Scenarios for evolution in models of diverse ecosystems

2026

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Leonid Mirny (MIT) TBD
    • Yasmine Meroz (Tel Aviv Univ.) TBA
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM iSTRUM
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Robert Jack (Cambridge) TBA
    • Stefano Sarao Mannelli (Chalmers) Learning Dynamics in Diffusion Models
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Aneta Koseska (MPINB) tba

2026

Wednesday, Jun 24, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Michael Elowitz (Caltech) New Talk
    • Lulu Qian (Caltech) New Talk
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM iSTRUM
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Sunghan Ro (Harvard) TBA

2026

Thursday, Jun 25, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Naama Brenner (Technion) New Talk
    • Andrea Liu (U. Penn) New Talk
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM iSTRUM
  • Small Seminar Room 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Gregory Schehr (Sorbonne Univ.) TBA
    • Sanjib Sabhapandit (RRI) Universal winding laws in chiral active motion
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Erik Winfree (Caltech) Tutorial

2026

Friday, Jun 26, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain

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  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM iSTRUM

2026

Saturday, Jun 27, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Jun 28, 2026

No talks scheduled.