Suri Vaikuntanathan (UChicago): AI+ Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series

Organized by the University of Chicago’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

Agenda
4:00pm – 4:45pm:  Presentation
4:45pm – 5:00pm:  Q&A
5:00pm – 5:30pm: Reception

Meeting location
William Eckhardt Research Center. Room 401
5640 S Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
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Suriyanarayanan (Suri) Vaikuntanathan, Associate Professor, University of Chicago. We develop and use tools of equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to understand the behavior of complex systems in physical chemistry, soft condensed matter physics, and biophysics. Specific research directions include:

Statistical Mechanics of Driven Systems and Self Assembly Out of Equilibrium:

Understanding the statistical mechanics of self assembly and pattern formation under non-equilibrium conditions remains an important open problem. We are interested in developing theoretical and simulation methodologies that enable the study of far from equilibrium systems and elucidate the principles of assembly, stability and self organization in non-equilibrium conditions.

Information Processing and Control in Biology:

Energy dissipation is a characteristic feature of feedback and information processing circuits in biological systems. Research in our group will explore tradeoffs between efficiency and dissipation in biological circuits and motors, and the strategies utilized by biological systems to ensure sensitivity and robustness in noisy dissipative environments.

Organization and Assembly in Soft Matter: 

Our group pursues projects related to solvation thermodynamics and the statistical mechanics of self assembly in a number of systems ranging from lipid membranes to nanocyrstals in ionic melts.

Parking
Campus North Parking
5505 S Ellis Ave
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