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Jan20
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lessSuspension of classes for observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
TIME Monday, January 20, 2020
CONTACT Office of the Registrar nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR University Academic Calendar
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Jan27
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lessTitle: Symmetry Breaking and Pattern Formation in Soft Matter and Active Fluids
Speaker: Jorn Dunkel, PhD, Massachusetts Institue of Technology
Abstract: The brain contains a diverse array of cells with dramatically different shapes, activity patterns, and molecular composition. The advent of single-cell RNA-sequencing, which quantifies the gene expression-based molecular makeup of individual cells, has resulted in brain-specific data sets with measurements for thousands of features in each cell. Two fundamental mathematical questions arise from this type of large-scale data: 1) a clustering problem, with the goal of grouping cells together in the molecular state space to identify stable cell type profiles, and 2) a combinatorial optimization problem, with the goal of identifying putative locations in state space that are likely to be stable, but have not been observed yet. The clustering problem is well-formulated and studied, and can be solved with a number of matrix decomposition methods under reasonable assumptions. The second question – that of predicting the existence of stable profiles that have not been observed directly – is degenerate from a strictly dynamical systems point of view, but can be formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem, yielding experimentally testable predictions. Ultimately, applying these methods to these data sets leads to new insight into diverse array of components that make up the brain.
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TIME Monday, January 27, 2020 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
LOCATION M416, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Kendall Minta kendall.minta@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
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Mar21
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lessSpring Break Begins
TIME Saturday, March 21, 2020
CONTACT Office of the Registrar nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR University Academic Calendar
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Mar31
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lessSpring Classes begin 8 a.m.
Northwestern Monday: In the fall of 2019, President Schapiro and Provost Holloway announced changes to commencement, spring break and the start of the spring quarter: spring quarters will now routinely start on Tuesday, rather than Monday, to afford two full weekends of break.
Though spring quarters will begin on a Tuesday, the Monday class schedule will be in effect, a practice referred to as “Northwestern Monday.” Classes that usually meet only on Tuesdays will not meet during the first week of the term. This calendar applies to all quarter classes except those offered in the evening programs in the Kellogg School of Management and the School of Professional Studies (SPS).
TIME Tuesday, March 31, 2020
CONTACT Office of the Registrar nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR University Academic Calendar