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5/22/2023 Stefano delivers the Chemical Engineering Seminar at Caltech.
5/21/2023 Stefano delivers the Physical Chemistry seminar at University of California Irvine.
5/3/2023 Stefano delivers the Condensed Matter Physics seminar at UMass Amherst.
3/6/2024 Aaron, Mathias and Stefano win the 2024 APS Gallery of Soft Matter Prize describing the FReSCo algorithm. See the video and Physics magazine article.
2/21/2024 Stefano is a co-recipient of the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Collaborative Pair Pilot Project Award with Prof. André Fenton from NYU's Center for Neural Science.
1/29/2024 Stefano becomes Affiliate Faculty of the NYU Center for Data Science.
12/15/2023 New major update to FReSCo by Aaron and Mathias, now generalized to arbitrary fields OR point patterns, in real and Fourier space, using either periodic OR free boundary conditions, all at high speed O(NlogN). With these variants, we can design a field with desired correlations while obeying other constraints, e.g. conserved total mass, or point patterns with Bragg-peak-like features at arbitrary positions. Thus we obtain 2d and 3d quasicrystals nondeterministically from simple optimization!
11/25/2023 Stefano participates as a guest on the program "Si può fare" by Radio24 (radio station of the Italian financial newspaper of record "Il Sole 24 Ore", 2.2M listeners per day) to talk about Artificial Intelligence and foundation models for materials discovery. The interview is availble from minute 20 of this podcast.
11/18/2023 Stefano delivers a talk as part of the minisymposium on “Suppression and Variability in Visual Cortex” at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington D.C., titled "ORGaNICs: A Recurrent Circuit Theory of Normalization"
11/13/2023 Stefano delivers a colloquium at the Center for Computational Neurosciene, Flatiron Institute, titled: "Recurrent Circuit Theory of Cortical Communication"
10/09/2023 Stefano receives the 2023 Interdisciplinary Early Career Scientist Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) "for groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of the statistical mechanics of active and amorphous systems via the development of uniquely original approaches for quantifying order, entropy and entropy production in systems far from equilibrium, including granular and active matter, neural networks and biological systems."
09/29/2023 Shivang presents a spotlight talk and Asit a poster at the 2023 Mathematics of Neuroscience conference.
09/19/2023 U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announce the FERMat project in a joint press-release.
09/15/2023 The Martiniani Lab receives a $4.5M NSF 5-year GOALI award to develop FERMat, a foundation model for molecular and material property prediction, and ML interatomic potentials for modeling atomic behavior. This project will be performed in collaboration with a team of 6 co-PIs at U. Minnesota, U. Florida, and BYU, and 1 industry co-PI at Amazon Web Services.
09/05/2023 Mathias writes a Viewpoint for Physics (APS) titled "Active Particles Push the Boundaries of Two-Dimensional Solids".
08/29/2023 The Martiniani Lab receives a 4-year multi-PI NEI R01 with David Heeger on "Recurrent Circuit Model of Neural Response Dynamics in V1"!
08/16/2023 New paper by Satyam is out on arXiv! In "Bacteria Through Obstacles: Unifying Fluxes, Entropy Production, and Extractable Work in Living Active Matter" we combine experiments, simulation, and theory to reveal the interrelationship between local fluxes, time irreversibility, and extractable work in a living system far from equilibrium, in a single expression. En route, we introduce an analytically-tractable mechanical model of bacterial rectification, and a generalized mass transfer relation for bacterial rectification.
08/12/2023 Satyam presents a poster at the Soft Condensed Matter Physics GRC and GRS; titled "Bacteria Through Obstacles: Unifying Fluxes, Entropy Production, and Extractable Work in Living Active Matter".
08/08/2023 KIM REVIEW's firt commentary is out! KIM REVIEW, co-edited by Daan Frenkel and Steve Plimpton, publishes commentaries on important articles related to classical molecular simulations of hard and soft matter materials. It was co-founded by Stefano alongside Ellad Tadmor, Ryan Elliot, and Ron Miller.
07/27/2023 Mathematics undergraduates Carmel Pe'er, Orion Yang, and Charlie Chen from the Martiniani Lab present their work at the final symposium of the Applied Math Summer Undergraduate Research Experience organized by the Courant Institute. Here's a photo of Carmel and Orion, and Charlie presenting their work.
07/19/2023 Stefano delivers an invited talk at the virtual workshop Machine Learning Potentials - StAtus and FuturE; titled "ColabFit: An Integrated Platform for Designing, Training, Sharing, and Deploying Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials at Scale."
07/12/2023 Stefano delivers an invited talk (virtual) at the Complexity Conclave in Santa Fe, NM; titled "Play. Pause. Rewind.Linking local entropy production, fluxes, and extractable work in active matter."
07/03/2023 Stefano organizes a 2-weeks working group at the Aspen Center for Physics, CO on "Theory and circuits of cortical function and corticocortical communication” with Adam Kohn, David Heeger, Jason MacLean, Ruben Coen-Cagli. See a group photo.
06/19/2023 New paper by Josh, Eric, Amit, Gregory, and the rest of the ColabFit team is out on arXiv! In "ColabFit Exchange: open-access datasets for data-driven interatomic potentials" we introduce the ColabFit Exchange, the first database providing open access to a large collection of systematically organized datasets from multiple domains that is especially designed for IP developmen. The ColabFit Exchange consists of 106 datasets spanning nearly 70,000 unique chemistries, and is intended to continuously grow.
06/06/2023 Stefano delivers a long talk at the Energy Landscape conference in Porquerolles, France; titled "From Slices to Volumes: Unveiling the Geometry of High-Dimensional Energy Landscapes."
05/31/2023 New paper by Shivang is out on arXiv! In "Explicit Rational Function Solutions for the Power Spectral Density of Stochastic Linear Time-Invariant Systems" we introduce a Leverrier-Faddeev-type algorithm for the exact computation of the rational function coefficients of noise power spectra, as well as closed form analytical solutions for individual entries of the power spectral density matrix. We illustrate our exact solutions on a number of neural systems and evolutionary game-theoretic models.
05/25/2023 New paper by Aaron and Mathias is out on arXiv! In "Fast Generation of Spectrally-Shaped Disorder" we introduce an algorithm for generating point/packing structures with arbitrary spectral properties in O(NlogN) and perform the largest-ever numerical study of the single scattering photonic response of hyperuniform structures.
05/24/2023 Mathematics undergraduates Carmel Pe'er, Orion Yang, and Charlie Chen, join the Martiniani Lab for the Applied Math Summer Undergraduate Research Experience organized by the Courant Institute.
05/11/2023 Stefano delivers an invited complex systems seminar at Northwestern, titled "Cortical circuit theory of interareal communication".
04/06/2023 Stefano delivers a talk about Colabfit at the Mach conference 2023 in Baltimore, MD.
03/31/2023 Stefano writes a commentary for the Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics titled "Bit-propelled active matter".
03/23/2023 Stefano delivers an invited talk about the OpenKIM/Colabfit platform for the SciML webinar series organized by the ACED Arpa-E team at Carnegie Mellon University.
03/21/2023 Stefano delivers an invited talk as part of the Levich Seminar series at the Levich Institute, CCNY.
03/10/2023 Shivang presents a poster at COSYNE 2023 titled "Coherence influences the dimensionality of communication subspaces".
03/08/2023 Aaron, Praharsh, Satyam,and Shivang deliver talks at APS March meeting spanning energy landscapes, theoretical neuroscience, active matter, and disordered photonics.
03/07/2023 Stefano delivers an invited talk in the APS March meeting focus session "Information Theory and Physics".
03/05/2023 Stefano delivers a lecture on information theory in physics at the APS March meeting GSNP short course "Adventures with computational modelling and information theory: from grains to bits".
01/23/2023 Mathias Casiulis and Tom Zhang's (a HS student!) article "Estimating random close packing in polydisperse and bidisperse hard spheres via an equilibrium model of crowding" is now out in J. Chem. Phys.
01/18/2023 Stefano delivers a Computation in Science seminar at the University of Chicago
12/18/2022 Stefano delivers an invited talk at the 123rd Statistical Mechanics Conference (Rutgers University).
12/14/2022 Stefano delivers a Colloquium at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Mathematics
11/24/2022 Shivang Rawat's abstract "Coherence influences the dimensionality of communication subspaces" has been accepted at COSYNE 2023.
11/21/2022 Our article on "Model-free measurement of local entropy production and extractable work in active matter" is out on the cover of Phys. Rev. Lett. and it has been selected as an Editor's Suggestion and for a Viewpoint in Physics.