Kavli Affiliate: Ariel Amir | First 5 Authors: Ido Golding, Ariel Amir, , , | Summary: Cell growth and gene expression, essential elements of all living systems, have long been the focus of biophysical interrogation. Advances in single-cell methods have invigorated theoretical studies into these processes. However, until recently, there was little dialog between the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael P. Brenner | First 5 Authors: Dmitrii Kochkov, Janni Yuval, Ian Langmore, Peter Norgaard, Jamie Smith | Summary: General circulation models (GCMs) are the foundation of weather and climate prediction. GCMs are physics-based simulators which combine a numerical solver for large-scale dynamics with tuned representations for small-scale processes such as cloud formation. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Joanna Aizenberg | First 5 Authors: Marcus Lin, Philseok Kim, Sankara Arunachalam, Rifan Hardian, Solomon Adera | Summary: Recently, there is much interest in droplet condensation on soft or liquid/liquid-like substrates. Droplets can deform soft and liquid interfaces resulting in a wealth of phenomena not observed on hard, solid surfaces (e.g., increased nucleation, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Brenner | First 5 Authors: Ariel Goldstein, Eric Ham, Mariano Schain, Samuel Nastase, Zaid Zada | Summary: Deep Language Models (DLMs) provide a novel computational paradigm for understanding the mechanisms of natural language processing in the human brain. Unlike traditional psycholinguistic models, DLMs use layered sequences of continuous numerical vectors to represent […]
Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: Yeonsu Jung, Thomas Plumb-Reyes, Hao-Yu Greg Lin, L. Mahadevan, | Summary: Random packings of stiff rods are self-supporting mechanical structures stabilized by their geometrical and topological complexity. To understand why, we deploy X-ray computerized tomography to unveil the structure of the packing. This allows us to define […]
Kavli Affiliate: Radhika Nagpal | First 5 Authors: Darren Chiu, Radhika Nagpal, Bahar Haghighat, , | Summary: Robot swarms can be tasked with a variety of automated sensing and inspection applications in aerial, aquatic, and surface environments. In this paper, we study a simplified two-outcome surface inspection task. We task a group of robots to […]
Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: Alexander J. Dear, Georg Meisl, Sara Linse, L. Mahadevan, | Summary: The development of solutions to the kinetics of homomolecular self-assembly into amyloid fibrils using fixed-point methods, and their subsequent application to the analysis of in vitro kinetic experiments, has led to numerous advances in our understanding […]
Kavli Affiliate: Vinothan N. Manoharan | First 5 Authors: Jessica H. Sun, Abigail Plummer, Grace H. Zhang, David R. Nelson, Vinothan N. Manoharan | Summary: Conical surfaces pose an interesting challenge to crystal growth: a crystal growing on a cone can wrap around and meet itself at different radii. We use a disk-packing algorithm to […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael P. Brenner | First 5 Authors: Jacob Page, Joe Holey, Michael P. Brenner, Rich R. Kerswell, | Summary: Convolutional autoencoders are used to deconstruct the changing dynamics of two-dimensional Kolmogorov flow as $Re$ is increased from weakly chaotic flow at $Re=40$ to a chaotic state dominated by a domain-filling vortex pair at […]
Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: Alexander J. Dear, L. Mahadevan, , , | Summary: Perturbation theory plays a central role in the approximate solution of nonlinear differential equations. The resultant series expansions are usually divergent and require treatment by singular perturbation methods to generate uniformly valid solutions. However, applying these methods is […]