The 2025 Berkeley Statistical Mechanics Meeting

9:00 am
Alexandra Zidovska, New York University
"Transcription-dependent mobility of single genes and genome-wide motions in live human cells"

9:30 am
Andrej Košmrlj, Princeton University
"Designing the Morphology of Separated Phases in Multicomponent Liquid Mixtures"

10:00 am
Olga Dudko, University of California, San Diego
"Specificity and universality in neuronal communication"

10:45 am
Chris Mundy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"Beyond the Debye-Huckel Limit: Towards a General Theoretical Framework for Concentrated Electrolytes"

11:15 am
Tom Markland, Stanford University
"Finding the "needle" in the trillion molecule haystack: from NMR spectra to molecular structure with artificial intelligence"

11:45 am
Rick Remsing, Rutgers University
"Defects at Solid-Liquid Interfaces"

2:00 pm
Arvind Murugan, University of Chicago
"Neural computation through physically learned phase diagrams"

2:30 pm
David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute
"How constraints affect evolution of entropy - strengthen second laws"

3:00 pm
Armita Nourmohammad, University of Washington
"Information exchange in the immune-pathogen interactions"

3:45 pm
Stefano Martiniani, New York University
"Absorbing State Dynamics of Stochastic Gradient Descent"

4:15 pm
DAVID CHANDLER LECTURE
Howard Stone, Princeton University
"Active Matter, Biological Condensates, and Transcriptional Responses to Flow: A Fluid Mechanics Perspective"

9:00 am
Ramin Golestanian, University of Oxford
"Recent developments in non-reciprocal active matter"

9:30 am
John Bechhoefer, Simon Fraser University
"Identifying Information Engines"

10:00 am
John Brady, Caltech
"The role of hydrodynamic interactions on phase separation in active matter systems"

10:45 am
Nicole Yunger Halpern, National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Non-Abelian Transport Distinguishes Three Usually Equivalent Notions of Entropy Production"

11:15 am
Taka Tanimura, Kyoto University
"Nonequilibrium quantum thermodynamics described as intensive and extensive variables"

11:45 am
Juan Garrahan, University of Nottingham
"Making rare events typical in quantum circuits"