SigmaCamp 2020 - lectures

As in the past years, every day the campers will have a choice of one of several lectures - informal presentations given by actively working specialists in different areas of science and math. You will be able to choose one of 4 or 5 lectures every day. We encourage you to attend lectures from different disciplines – it might surprise you how tightly interconnected math, physics, chemistry, and biology are!

All lectures will be given by zoom; the links will appear in your schedule once you add a lecture to your schedule.

Below is the list of lectures, arranged by day. All lectures will be given at 12PM Eastern Time (except for the opening lecture on Aug 16)

Sunday, August 16

Opening lecture by Andrei Antonenko (Stony Brook): Why Study Linguistics: The Value of Expertise

Monday, August 17

• Human Genome, Now in 3D, by Leonid Mirny (MIT)
• On the Many Incarnations of Symmetry in Physics, by Shlomo Razamat (Technion, Israel)
• On the Distribution of Primes, by Yuri Tschinkel (NYU)
• How Chemistry Can Help Us Defeat SARS-CoV2, by Mark Lukin (Stony Brook)

Tuesday, August 18

• Mutational Asymmetry, 'germline', and 'soma' in the World of Viruses, by Konstantin Khrapko (Northeastern)
• From Quantum Mysteries to Quantum Technologies, by Igor Pikovski (U. of Stokholm)
• Are All Infinities the Same?, by Sofya Raskhodnikova (Boston U.)
• Brain Circuit Algorithms, by Richard Granger (Dartmouth)

Wednesday, August 19

• A Mathematical Trip to Worlds in Dimensions Two and Four, by Moira Chas (Stony Brook)
• Can We Analyze Data While Respecting Privacy?, by Adam Smith (Boston U.)
• Space-Time Wormholes and Quantum Mechanics, by Herman Verlinde (Princeton)
• Emergence of Geometry and Topology in Physics, by Sasha Abanov (Stony Brook)
• How Bacteria Talk to Each Other, by Bonnie Bassler (Princeton)

Thursday, August 20

• Space, Time, and the Fourth Dimension, by Robbert Dijkgraaf (Inst. for Advanced Study)
• Forensic Chemistry, by Eugene Pinkhassik (U. of Connecticut)
• What Is Randomness?, by Alexander Shen (Montpelier)
• Le mouvement, c'est la vie. Bacterial Locomotion and Navigation Systems, by Yaroslava Polosina (U. of Washington)

Friday, August 21

• Machine Learning on Network Data, by Steven Skiena (Stony Brook)
• From Energy Storage and Production to Powering Space Travel - an Order of Magnitude Approach, by Gil Refael (Caltech)
• Energy Versus Death – the Problem of Mitochondria, by Alexander Galkin (Columbia U.)
• Quantum Counting and Computing, by Zhenghan Wang (Microsoft Station Q)