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

Presentations

• Data-driven dynamical systems discovery: Embracing uncertainty.

  Invited-In-person · Invited

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

  Presenters

  • Niall Mangan

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Niall Mangan

    • Northwestern University

  • Alasdair Hastewell

    • National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology

  • Manu Jayadharan

  • Yuxiang Feng

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• Discovering the emergent nonlinear dynamics of acoustically levitated cube clusters

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Anne Xia

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Melody Lim

    • Cornell University

  • Anne Xia

    • Yale University

  • Jason Kim

    • Cornell University

  • Bryan VanSaders

    • Drexel University

  • Heinrich Jaeger

    • University of Chicago

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

  Oral-In-person

  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-In-person

  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 Bortz

    • University of Colorado Boulder

  • Nancy Rodríguez

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• Unravelling parametric variation of multiscale dynamics from data

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Gautam Sridhar

    • Paris Brain Institute

  Authors

  • Gautam Sridhar

    • Paris Brain Institute

  • Antonio Carlos Costa

    • ICM Paris

  • Claire Wyart

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

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Jason Kim

    • Cornell University

  Authors

  • Jason Kim

    • Cornell University

  • James Sethna

    • Cornell University

  • Itai Cohen

    • Cornell University

  • Weinan Sun

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• Optimizing Reservoir Computing for Reconstructing Ergodic Properties

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

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

  Presenters

  • Akira Kawano

    • Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology

  Authors

  • Akira Kawano

    • Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology

  • Ilia Soroka

  • Greg Stephens

    • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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• Mutual Information Estimators for Optimal Joint Embeddings

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Paarth Gulati

    • Emory University

  Authors

  • Paarth Gulati

    • Emory University

  • Sean Ridout

    • Emory University

  • Ilya Nemenman

    • Emory University

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• Detecting structural transitions in nonequilibrium systems using entropy bounds

  Oral-In-person

  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

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

  Oral-In-person

  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 Kevrekidis

  • George Kevrekidis

  • Soledad Villar

  • Juan Bello-Rivas

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

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Jonathan Pachter

    • Case Western Reserve University

  Authors

  • Jonathan Pachter

    • Case Western Reserve University

  • Peng Chen

    • Case Western Reserve University

  • Jacob Scott

  • Michael Hinczewski

    • Case Western Reserve University

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