Dr. F.C. Kohli Centre of ExcellencePerspectives in Mathematical SciencesJanuary 10–February 4, 2022Thursday, 3 February 2022, 19:30 ISTShiladitya Banerjee, Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU)Title Physics of living and evolving matter (Video Recording) Abstract Living matter operates far from equilibrium, constantly consuming and dissipating energy to perform their defining features of growth, self-replication, motility and adaptation to changing environments. These dynamical processes are governed by complex, time-dependent interactions between a large number of molecular components that are impossible to measure or characterize in detail. As a result, bottom-up approaches to modeling the dynamics of living systems are computationally and mathematically challenging. In this talk I will discuss top-down approaches to modeling the dynamics of living matter, formulated in terms of collective system variables that are able to predict the emergent dynamics in a range of living systems, from growing microbes to morphing tissues and interacting cell populations. Identifying the collective modes of dynamics in these systems has revealed new mathematical rules and strategies that underlie biological form, function, and self-organization across different spatiotemporal scales. About the speaker
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Shiladitya Banerjee is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Carnegie
Mellon University working in the area of Theoretical and
Computational Biophysics. Banerjee did his undergraduate studies at
Chennai Mathematical Institute, and earned his Ph.D. in Physics from
Syracuse University in 2013. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the
University of Chicago (2013-2016), Banerjee became a Faculty in the
Department of Physics & Astronomy at University College London in
2016, where he was appointed a Royal Society University Research
Fellow. He moved to his current position at Carnegie Mellon in
2020. Research in the Banerjee Lab is focused on developing
mathematical and computational models for the dynamics of living
systems and organisms.
