Category: Departmental Seminars

Alkan KabakçıoğluKoç University “Out-of-equilibrium dynamics in biology and machine learning” AbstractDynamical trajectories in high-dimensional systems can exhibit complex and sometimes counterintuitive behaviors driven by noise. We here provide two examples: one from biology, involving the folding and melting dynamics of nucleic acids under thermal drive, and another from machine learning, where the training process can…

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“Nature of gravitational phase transitions” AbstractPhase transitions are central to understanding the behavior of matter both in our daily lives and in extreme environments like nuclear matter in neutron stars. In this talk, we will have a look at an even more abstract example, where gravity itself, rather than matter, goes through phase transitions. Namely,…

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