Madhav Mani
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Northwestern University
Dates: May 13-16, 2024
Seminars:
- May 13: “Mechanics and Waddington-How to Understand the Mechanical Logic of Gastrulation, and the Patterns of Gene Expression We See In Embryos Using scRNA-seg.”
- May 14: “Primer on Dynamical System Part I”
- May 15: “Primer on Dynamical System Part II”
Bio
Madhav is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University. By tradition, he is a math/physics type and has been learning and trying to understand the phenomena of life over the past 15 years. Projects are conducted in the context of long- term collaborations with experimental groups, with an eye on both guiding experiments, guiding data, and building models – mostly he just provides distractions and hopefully some humor. The areas thus far studied by the group include Developmental and Cell Biology, Microbial Ecology, Evolution, and, more recently, Protein Mechanics. This diversity of phenomena is approached by combining theoretical and analytical approaches and mindsets from Physics, Mathematics, Machine learning, and Computation broadly interpreted. The group, comprising of people from varied backgrounds, is always looking to learn about new phenomena and new conceptual and analytical ways of thinking.
