08:15 - 08:45
Registration + Coffee & Pastries
08:45 - 09:00
Introductory Remarks
09:00 - 10:00
Plenary Lecture A: Grzegorz Rempala (Ohio State University)
Modeling Epidemics after COVID-19: What are we still missing?
10:00 - 10:30
Morning Coffee Break
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10:30 - 12:35
MS1: Stochastic Modeling at Different Scales
Organizers: James MacLaurin, Peter Thomas, Victor Matveev
10:30 - 10:55
Jonathan Touboul (Brandeis University)
Chaos and homeostasis in multiple timescales dynamics
10:55 - 11:20
Jay Newby (University of Alberta)
Modeling and multiple object tracking of motile diatoms
11:20 - 11:45
Linh Huynh (Case Western Reserve University)
Inferring Population Dynamics Mechanisms through Rate Disambiguation for Logistic Birth - Death Processes
11:45 - 12:10
Peter Thomas (Case Western Reserve University)
Isochrons and Isostables for Stochastic Oscillators
12:10 - 12:35
Alexander Strang (University of Chicago)
From Local Correlations to Global Structure in Stochastic Wiring Patterns
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12:35 - 12:50
Poster Introductions
12:50 - 02:15
Lunch & Poster Session
02:15 - 03:15
Plenary Lecture B: Corina Tarnita (Princeton University)
Lack of synchronization: a key for collective systems robustness?
❱❱❱ WebEx Meeting Link: https://njit.webex.com/njit/j.php?MTID=mb774b64a26da4e4c7ebf9c53a7631fa2
03:15 - 03:45
Afternoon Coffee Break
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03:45 - 05:50
MS2: Collective Behavior in Biological Populations
Organizers: Enkeleida Lushi and Simon Garnier
03:45 - 04:10
Sarah Olson (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
A Computational Study of Hydrodynamic Interactions Between Pairs of Sperm
04:10 - 04:35
Anton Peshkov (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Metachronal waves in the population of the nematode Turbatrix Aceti
04:35 - 05:00
Chantal Nguyen (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Collective locomotion in entangled living active matter
05:00 - 05:25
Erçağ Pinçe (University of Pennsylvania)
Building multispecies biofilms: a study on coexistence and crowd dynamics in bacterial active matter
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05:30 - 06:15
Reception and Panel Discussion: Promising New Trends in Math Biology
06:30 - 08:00
Reception Continues
08:30 - 09:00
Registration / Coffee & Pastries
09:00 - 10:00
Plenary Lecture C: Anita Layton (University of Waterloo)
His and her computational models of kidney function
10:00 - 10:30
Morning Coffee Break
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10:30 - 12:35
MS3: Biofluids: Machine Learning & Data Science Approaches
Organizers: Yuan - Nan Young and Enkeleida Lushi
10:30 - 10:55
Ebru Demir (Lehigh University)
Learning How to Swim in Biological Fluids
10:55 - 11:20
Brato Chakrabarti (Flatiron Institute)
A multiscale biophysical model gives quantized metachronal waves in a lattice of cilia
11:20 - 11:45
Anand Oza (NJIT)
Data - driven continuum modeling of active nematics via sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics
11:45 - 12:10
Yusheng Jiao (University of Southern California)
Learning to navigate complex flows using egocentric sensory cues
12:10 - 12:35
Zonghao Zou (Santa Clara University) & Yuexin Liu (NJIT)
Low - Reynolds - Number Locomotion via Reinforcement Learning
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12:35 - 2:15
Lunch & Poster Session
02:15 - 03:15
Plenary Lecture D: Carina Curto (Pennsylvania State University)
Sequences and modularity of dynamic attractors in inhibition - dominated neural networks
03:15 - 03:45
Afternoon Coffee Break
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03:45 - 05:50
MS4: Learning Paradigms in Biological & Artificial Neuronal Networks
Organizers: Amitabha Bose, Casey Diekman, Victor Matveev
03:45 - 04:10
K.P. Unnikrishnan (eNeuroLearn)
How Can Neuroscience Help AI/ML?
04:10 - 04:35
Tankut Can (Princeton Institute for Advanced Study)
Dynamics and Computation in Gated Recurrent Neural Networks
04:35 - 05:00
Jenelle Feather (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Metamers of neural networks reveal divergence from human perceptual systems
05:00 - 05:25
Ji Chul Kim (University of Connecticut)
Hebbian plasticity in multifrequency networks: theory and applications
05:25 - 05:50
Haroon Anwar (Nathan Kline Institute)
Strategies for training Spiking Neural Networks to perform visual - motor behaviors
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05:50 - 06:00
Poster Prize Announcement