Mini-Symposium Celebrating the Life of Mitchell Feigenbaum

Event Details

Speaker(s)

Torsten Wiesel, M.D., president emeritus, The Rockefeller University, Introductory Remarks

William Bialek, Ph.D., John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics, Princeton University, Searching for Simplicity—The Lessons of Period Doubling

Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Ph.D., professor emeritus, The University of Geneva, Feigenbaum's Work on Optics, Vision, and Evolution

Speaker bio(s)

William Bialek, Ph.D. is the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics at Princeton University, and Visiting Presidential Professor of Physics at The CUNY Graduate Center. A theorist, he has worked on a variety of problems at the interface between physics and biology, trying to connect general physical principles to the detailed behavior of particular systems, from developing embryos to networks of neurons and flocks of birds. He received the 2013 Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience and in 2017, the Max Delbruck Prize from the Biological Division of the American Physical Society.

Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Ph.D. is professor of physics and mathematics (retired) at the University of Geneva. His work covers chaos theory, Feigenbaum Universality, stochastic partial differential equations, and theoretical biology. Soon after Feigenbaum’s ground-breaking discovery of period doubling, Eckmann, together with students and colleagues, gave the first mathematical proof of the scheme and showed that the universality holds in arbitrary dimensions with the same constant.

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Please rsvp to Nathan Rudder at nrudder@rockefeller.edu.

Contact

Nathan Rudder

Phone

(212) 327-8966

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Nathan Rudder
(212) 327-8966
nrudder@rockefeller.edu