Data-Driven Discovery of Interpretable and Predictive Models of Emergent Behaviors in Complex Systems

Presentations

• Data-driven dynamical systems discovery: Embracing uncertainty.

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Niall Mangan

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Niall Mangan

    • Northwestern University

  • Alasdair D Hastewell

    • NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology, Chicago IL, 60611, USA
    • National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Manu Jayadharan

    • Northwestern University

  • Yuxiang Feng

    • Northwestern University

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• Discovering the emergent nonlinear dynamics of acoustically levitated cube clusters

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Anne Xia

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Melody X Lim

    • Cornell University

  • Anne Xia

    • Yale University

  • Jason Z Kim

    • Cornell University

  • Bryan VanSaders

    • Drexel University

  • Heinrich M Jaeger

    • University of Chicago

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• Weak form Estimation of Nonlinear Dynamics (WENDy) for Nonlinear-in-Parameters ODEs

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08881

  Presenters

  • Nicholas Rummel

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Nicholas Rummel

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Learning Models from Network Dynamics Data using Weak Form SINDy

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Moyi Tian

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Moyi Tian

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • David M Bortz

    • University of Colorado Boulder
    • University of Colorado

  • Nancy Rodríguez

    • University of Colorado Boulder

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• Unravelling parametric variation of multiscale dynamics from data

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Gautam Sridhar

    • Paris Brain Institute
    • Sorbonne University

  Authors

  • Gautam Sridhar

    • Paris Brain Institute
    • Sorbonne University

  • Antonio Carlos Costa

    • Paris Brain Institute
    • ICM Paris

  • Claire Wyart

    • Paris Brain Institute

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• (R)evolving Geometry of Condensed Generalized States in the Hippocampal Cognitive Map

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Jason Z Kim

    • Cornell University

  Authors

  • Jason Z Kim

    • Cornell University

  • James Patarasp Sethna

    • Cornell University

  • Itai Cohen

    • Cornell University

  • Weinan Sun

    • Cornell University

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  ORAL · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM

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• Mutual Information Estimators for Optimal Joint Embeddings

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Paarth Gulati

    • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Emory University

  Authors

  • Paarth Gulati

    • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Emory University

  • Sean A Ridout

    • Emory University

  • Ilya M Nemenman

    • Emory University

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• Detecting structural transitions in nonequilibrium systems using entropy bounds

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Publication: 1. G. Ariel and H. Diamant, Phys. Rev. E 102, 022110 (2020).
  2. B. Sorkin, J. Ricouvier, H. Diamant, and G. Ariel, Phys. Rev. E 107, 014138 (2023).
  3. B. Sorkin, A. Be'er, H. Diamant, and G. Ariel, Soft Matter 19, 5118 (2023).
  4. B. Sorkin, H. Diamant, and G. Ariel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 147101 (2023).
  5. B. Sorkin, G. Ariel, and H. Diamant, Variational principle for deriving relations between transport coefficients and entropy, in preparation.

  Presenters

  • Haim Diamant

    • Tel Aviv University

  Authors

  • Haim Diamant

    • Tel Aviv University

  • Benjamin Sorkin

    • Princeton University

  • Gil Ariel

    • Bar-Ilan University

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• Towards Coordinate- and Dimension-Agnostic Machine Learning for Partial Differential Equations

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2505.16549

  Presenters

  • Trung Phan

    • Claremont Colleges (Scripps and Pitzer)

  Authors

  • Trung Phan

    • Claremont Colleges (Scripps and Pitzer)

  • Yannis G Kevrekidis

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • George A Kevrekidis

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Soledad Villar

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Juan M Bello-Rivas

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Information and Optimization in Markov Decision Process Models of Drug Protocols

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Jonathan Asher Pachter

    • Case Western Reserve University

  Authors

  • Jonathan Asher Pachter

    • Case Western Reserve University

  • Peng Chen

    • Case Western Reserve University

  • Jacob G Scott

    • Case Western Reserve University
    • Cleveland Clinic

  • Michael Hinczewski

    • Case Western Reserve University

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