Speaker: Professor Jörn Dunkel (MIT)

Title:  Mathematical problems in biology

Abstract:  Recent advances in high-resolution live-imaging and sequencing techniques are offering unprecedented insights into the dynamics of living systems at the intracellular, multicellular and population level. The resulting high-dimensional data pose interesting mathematical challenges as they need to be compressed and translated into interpretable low-dimensional models that can help reveal relevant biological, biophysical and biomedical mechanisms.

In this talk, I will discuss several examples related to recent experiments by our collaborators, ranging from the topological classification of disordered multicellular systems to dynamical systems inference for zebrafish embryos, worm locomotion and fish schools.