Theory Lunch

Research talks are formal and typically focus on data. The goal of of the Tri-I Theory Lunch is to concepts in biology over an informal lunchtime chalk talk. Theory lunch is co-hosted by my group and the group of Ed Reznik at MSKCC. Food is provided.

Come learn how people think in different fields, get to know your colleagues, and potentially uncover resonances with your own research. We definitely took inspiration from the Theory Lunch series that Jeremey Gunawardena previously ran at Harvard.

Theory Lunch chalk talk

Theory lunch is often (but not always) held in the Physics Seminar Room at Rockefeller (CRC A30). If you’re in the NYC area and you’d like to join or present an upcoming meeting, please write to me.

Upcoming Speakers

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
November 20, 2026 Dr. Jacob Zavatone-Veth Rockefeller University Learning and identifying computations in recurrent neural networks
December 18, 2026 Dr. Stephen Martis MSKCC To be announced

Past Speakers

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
October 30, 2026 Dr. Sarah Kostinski NYU First passage statistics in biophysics
June 12, 2026 Dr. Merav Stern Rockefeller Physics Fellow Dynamical Mean-Field Theory: A Framework for Linking Structure and Dynamics in Biological Networks
May 15, 2026 Dr. Jialong Jiang Rockefeller Physics Fellow Inferring Gene Interactions from Correlation Data with Perturbations
April 3, 2026 Dr. Carlos Sonnenschein Tufts Traveling from the Old Biology to the New
March 27, 2026 Dr. Tobias Janowitz CSHL Dynamic Systems Theory of Cancer Cachexia
January 23, 2026 Dr. Jerelle Joseph Princeton Modeling Biomolecular Condensates
November 14, 2025 Dr. Jeremy Owen Princeton Chromatin as a Three-Dimensional Memory Machine
October 24, 2025 Dr. Akshit Goyal ICTS Bangalore Finding Signatures of Life Guided by Ecological Principles
September 26, 2025 Dr. Phil Kidd Flatiron Robust Feedback Control Implemented by a Single C. elegans Neuron