The Whitehead Innovation Initiative is pleased to host AI: Advancing Foundational Biology on April 8, 2025. This symposium will explore how artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming foundational biological research, featuring insights from pioneering computational biologists and AI experts.This half-day event includes talks from leaders successfully integrating AI into biological discovery, a discussion with Innovation Initiative co-founder, Michael Chambers, and a poster session that offers attendees an opportunity to engage with cutting-edge AI applications in research.AI: Advancing Foundational Biology Tuesday, April 08, 2025 2:00 - 5:00 pmWhitehead Institute 455 Main Street Cambridge, MA 02142Symposium followed by poster session and receptionRegister today! For questions, email events@wi.mit.edu.Featured Speakers: Elham Azizi - Professor of Cancer Data Research, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University Peter Koo - Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories Na Sun - AI Fellow, Whitehead Institute Caroline Uhler KEYNOTE - Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Engineering, MIT; Core Institute Member, Broad Institute; Director, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Bo Wang - Assistant Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto; Chief Artificial Intelligence Scientist, University Health Network

Join us for our April MIT TUG meeting!What's in the Tableau Upgrade?IS&T is upgrading the Tableau Server to 2023.3 this month. Want to know what's new (to us)? We'll cover and demo some of the highlights in Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep Builder, and Tableau Server.Chat with fellow MIT TUG membersShare what you've learned recentlyHear what others are working onGoing to Tableau Conference? Gone in the past? Share tips, tricks, and and for handling the conference and what you're most looking forward to Talk about whatever strikes your fancyRegisterRegister on ZoomIf you require any accessibility accommodations, please email MIT TUG leads to make your accommodation request. Some accommodations require 2-3 weeks to arrange; every effort will be made to accommodate advance requests.What is the MIT TUG?We've started a Tableau User Group at MIT (MIT TUG) to build a Tableau community at MIT by providing a space where Tableau users at MIT can:Meet other Tableau usersShowcase what we're working on and our user adoption effortsLearn about and see applications of new (to us) features in Tableau (and related data products)If you want to present at a future MIT TUG meeting:Slack us at #ask-mit-tug-leadsEmail the MIT TUG co-leads at mit-tableau-user-group-admin@mit.edu

"Managers and the Cultural Transmission of Gender Norms" | Trang Nguyen (Northwestern Kellogg)

Speaker: Saverio E. Spagnolie (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Title: Active matter in complex fluidsAbstract:Microorganisms often navigate environments with unique and counterintuitive physics, with significant consequences for evolutionary biology and human health. For example, mucus is both viscoelastic and anisotropic, profoundly influencing locomotion. This can be advantageous, as for mammalian spermatozoa swimming through cervical fluid, or detrimental, as with the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi traversing the extracellular matrix of human skin. Complex fluid phenomena can also enhance or retard a microorganism's swimming speed, and can even change the direction of swimming, depending on the body geometry and the properties of the fluid. Analytical and numerical investigations of swimming in model viscoelastic (Oldroyd-B) and liquid-crystalline (Ericksen-Leslie) fluids will be discussed, emphasizing the critical and often dominant influence of nearby boundaries.Extending this work, we will then unify a broad spectrum of systems — from active suspensions in Newtonian fluids to individual active particles in confined or bulk complex flows — using three dimensionless parameters. The first is the Deborah number, which compares the timescales of particle activity and environmental relaxation; the second is a similar comparison but of length scales, which we term the Benes number; and the third is the active particle volume fraction. Motivated by this map to navigate towards new research areas, we will describe a mean-field theory describing the dynamics of active suspensions in bulk viscoelastic and anisotropic environments, predicting novel arrested states, traveling waves, and more dramatic thrashing modes.

Ten minutes for your mind@2:50 every day at 2:50 pm in multiple time zones:Europa@2:50, EET, Athens, Helsinki (UTC+2) (7:50 am EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88298032734Atlantica@2:50, EST, New York, Toronto (UTC-4) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85349851047Pacifica@2:50, PST, Los Angeles, Vancouver (UTC=7) (5:50 pm EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85743543699Almost everything works better again if you unplug it for a bit, including your mind. Stop by and unplug. Get the benefits of mindfulness without the fuss.@2:50 meets at the same time every single day for ten minutes of quiet together.No pre-requisite, no registration needed.Visit the website to view all @2:50 time zones each day.at250.org or at250.mit.edu

Speaker: Bogdan Zavyalov (Princeton University)Title: The trace morphism and Poincaré duality in p-adic non-archimedean geometryAbstract:I will explain a construction of the trace morphism for smooth morphism of analytic adic spaces. Then I will explain how one can use this trace to prove various Poincare Duality type results. In particular, I will discuss a new easy proof of Poincare Duality for F_p-cohomology groups of smooth proper p-adic rigid-analytic spaces and an appropriate generalization of this result to arbitrary proper morphisms.