Soft Math Lab

Always at a junction ...

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Articulating
Paper cuts into art forms
Tells stories quietly.
For more, see https://t.co/hXAfqC3yBh

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and now onto bodies - starting with the experimental exploration of vertebrate gastrulation modes: https://t.co/fSZwIOmU2u, and continuing by recreating a gastrulation morphospace: https://t.co/O8ltMeDRoK

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and then continuing with - the beak of the finch - https://t.co/6l7kOM6NET followed by a broader study of beaks across other avian radiations: https://t.co/O0HCxgkbBl ...

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At last we are at the beginning! Linking natural history and natural philosophy, an evolutionary approach to developmental questions starts with the ... egg (which did come before the chick!): https://t.co/oA9Zdibekt

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"It is not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life'," said Lewis Wolpert. Can one create a gastrulation phase-diagram linking natural history and natural philosophy?... see https://t.co/nbAfOLP1CF

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Shining steelpan songs,
2d xylophone rhythms,
sunsets on islands!
Localization landscapes for elliptic operators -> confined eigenmodes -> melodious percussion!
Read https://t.co/rUqj7G1usR or hear https://t.co/a2gpqCVAaq

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What is the cognitive basis for visual image categorization into small/large, animate/inanimate, faces/places etc.? Robustness -> invariant measures combining geometry + statistics -> contour curvature histograms that are neurally plausible! For more, see https://t.co/iO77jXdKWb

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Continuing the story of growth, form, and function of avian beaks, linking natural history to natural philosophy, from finches to honeycreepers ... https://t.co/SuCQBTeFLS

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In multi-agent societies, excessive cooperation -> senescence/aging, while excessive competition -> cheating/cancer. So is there an optimal level of competition to delay (the inevitability of) aging? Yes! For more, see https://t.co/hgCy8XlImM

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Tenure Track position in
Harvard Organismic and Evolutionary Biology - focus on Evolution, including experimental, theoretical, or computational approaches - details here https://t.co/jaQJMGGM5N

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Tenure Track positions in
(i) Harvard Physics - foci include Theory of Soft/Living Matter, Quantum Information Theory - details here https://t.co/eFsSnNdxKz
(ii) Harvard Applied Math - foci include Generative AI, Deep Learning - details here
https://t.co/wypp8OGMWZ

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Artists and scientists of different minds,
Studied coiling jets of similar kinds,
In helices and spirals they'd both prance,
Via a fluidically reinforced romance,
Writing and painting through learning that binds.

For more, see https://t.co/vbP1f46WIi

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Postdoc position. Aim: Quantify consumption and waste production in a 450 person residential community. Approach: design/deploy sensors, statistical analysis and math modeling, outreach. Goal: guiding policy for climate change adaptation. Apply here https://t.co/w7dd4a1HfI

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Physical intelligence? Emergence of cooperative excavation in ants and r(obotic)ants follows from simple local rules and a malleable environment that is a dynamic communication channel. See https://t.co/8NsztYDY5l

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A saw bent into a J sounds dull. But shape it into an S and it can sing! Why? Because of an inflection line in curvature associated with broken (inversion) symmetry - leading to topologically protected modes. For more, see here https://t.co/BmvVmYXnTG

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Brushing a hair curl links topology, geometry, mechanics and some pain (hopefully not too much!). A minimal model of the process is that of a single tine combing a double helix. For more, see https://t.co/81z5ZJDhui

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How can one reconfigure a compact planar shape into another ? And do so without changing any lengths/angles? Kirigami shows a new way ... and also solves an old problem by cutting a circle to square it. See https://t.co/hmA1AUXGBS

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Simple neutrally stable structures can be stitched together into assemblies to create (almost) any shape - totimorphs! See https://t.co/TLAbGvg8Ku and https://t.co/b6hy9d4UC5