When:
Friday, October 10, 2025
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
Where: Suite 3500, 875 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Tiffany Leighton
tiffany.leighton@northwestern.edu
Group: NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology
Category: Lectures & Meetings
We are pleased to introduce you to NITMB’s Fellow Class of 2025. Our new class of fellows will be joining our inaugural class of fellows to share informal presentations of their work.
And you are cordially invited to join us!
NITMB, 875 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Suite 3500
Friday, October 3, from 1-4:30
(refreshments break, 2:30-3 and Happy Hour to follow)
Friday, October 10, from 1-4:30
(refreshments break, 2:30-3 and Happy Hour to follow)
This is an opportunity for members to learn about our fellows' research and vice versa, to connect, network, seek collaborations, and meet up with colleagues doing interesting work. Join us for either or both of these community events.
The REGISTRATION LINK is here: Please indicate which days you can attend and if you have accommodations or dietary needs.
PRESENTATIONS:
OCTOBER 3:
Ratul Biswas, PhD, University of Minnesota: "Spin Glasses from a Mathematical Perspective"
Maryn Carlson, PhD, University of Chicago: “Detecting Interactions with Rank Statistics in the Presence of Global Nonlinearities”
Federica Ferretti, PhD, La Sapienza University, Rome: "Non-equilibrium dynamics of evolving systems"
Aditya Mahadevan, PhD, Stanford: "Evolutionary dynamics of interacting ecosystems"
Gabe Salmon, PhD, Cal Tech: "Human tools for thinking about how cells spend energy at extremes"
Mariya Savinov, PhD, NYU: "Collective dynamics in cell life: Biophysical modeling, mechanics, and adaptivity"
OCTOBER 10
Li Shen, PhD, Michigan State: "Topology and Geometry Analysis and Its Application in Biology"
Adrianne Zhong, PhD, UC-Berkeley: "Transporting Baguettes with Minimal Action: The Geometry of Optimal Nonequilibrium Processes"
Xueying Wang, PhD, Illinois-Urbana-Champaign: "From Dynamical Traveling Waves to Sloppiness: Modeling Complexity in Biological Systems"
Giulia Garcia Lorenzana, PhD, École Normale Superieure/Université Paris Cité: "Interactions and migration rescuing ecological diversity"
Alasdair Hastewell, PhD, MIT: "Robust data-driven methods for biological dynamics"
Doruk Gokmen, PhD, ETH Zurich
Milton Lin, PhD, Johns Hopkins: (coming to NITMB in February)