Center Seminars & Workshops

WORKSHOPS

The Center will hold one or two focused workshops each year, including 15 to 25 participants from outside of the university. The workshops may have a mathematical/methodological focus, or a biological focus.The small size of the workshop is meant to foster new research directions and specific collaborations between Penn faculty, Simons Postdoctoral Fellows, and external faculty.

SEMINARS

The Center runs a roughly biweekly seminar series in which we invite researchers in mathematical biology to give a lecture, from around the country and beyond. Many of these seminar speakers are also long-term visitors to Penn, who will interact with a broad range of researchers across campus.

Events

Next Event
02
Oct

Paul Atzberger
(University of California Santa Barbara)

Surface Fluctuating Hydrodynamics Methods for the Drift-Diffusion Dynamics of Proteins and Microstructures within Curved Lipid Bilayer Membranes
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We introduce surface fluctuating hydrodynamics approaches for investigating transport and fluid-structure interactions arising in cell mechanics within curved lipid bilayer membranes. We focus particularly on drift-diffusion dynamics of interacting proteins and microstructures. We show how a mesoscale stochastic description of the mechanics can be formulated (SPDEs) accounting for geometric contributions, hydrodynamic coupling, and thermal fluctuations. The underlying stochastic equations (SPDEs) pose practical challenges for use in simulations, including, (i) a need for accurate and stable discretizations of geometric terms and differential operators on curved geometries, (ii) techniques for hydrodynamics handling surface incompressibility constraints, and (iii) stiffness from rapid time-scales introduced by the thermal fluctuations. We show how practical spectral methods and meshfree computational approaches can be developed for simulations over long spatial-temporal scales. We then present results for protein and microstructure interactions within membranes and the roles played by hydrodynamic coupling and geometry. For related simulation software and more information, see http://atzberger.org/
04:00 PM - Online
Next Event
05
Oct

(University of Minnesota)

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM DRL 4C2
Next Event
09
Oct

Henry Fu
(University of Utah)

04:00 PM - DRL 4C4
Next Event
16
Oct

Yuan-Nan Young
(New Jersey Institute of Technology)

04:00 PM - DRL 4C4
Next Event
23
Oct

Anna Nelson
(Duke University)

04:00 PM - DRL 4C4
Next Event
30
Oct

Tom Powers
(Brown University)

04:00 PM - DRL 4C4
Next Event
06
Nov

Laura Schmid
(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

- Online
Next Event
13
Nov

Fernando Pascoal Dos Santos
(University of Amsterdam)

- DRL 4C4
Next Event
20
Nov

Jasmine A. Nirody
(University of Chicago)

04:00 PM - DRL 4C4
Next Event
27
Nov

Saverio Spagnolie
(University of Wisconsin, Madison)

04:00 PM - DRL 4C4
Next Event
04
Dec

Matt Holzer
(George Mason University.)

04:00 PM - DRL 4C4
Next Event
11
Dec

Mary Silber
(University of Chicago)

04:00 PM - DRL 4C4

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