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SUMMARY:Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry\, Morphogenesis and Mathematics
DESCRIPTION:Mathematics and Biology I: Morphometry\, Morphogenesis and Mathematics \nDates: February 23–March 11\, 2026 \nLocation: Harvard CMSA\, Room G10\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge MA \nMathematics\, Morphometry and Morphogenesis is a 3-week program at the Harvard CMSA\, which will bring together researchers from a few different communities with a common aim—to understand shape and its development and evolution in living matter. \nThe aim is to bring together those interested in evolutionary and developmental biology\, soft and active matter physics\, and differential\, discrete and computational geometry and topology\, especially with a statistical bent. Although each of these fields has developed powerful tools and deep insights into form\, function\, and dynamics\, opportunities for them to meet and interact are rare. This workshop aims to foster dialogue and discovery across these disciplinary boundaries—where paleontologists\, developmental biologists\, physicists\, computer scientists and mathematicians can exchange ideas\, identify shared challenges\, and spark new collaborations. We envision this as a chance not only to showcase exciting advances within each domain\, but also to chart new directions together at the intersection of evolution\, development\, and geometry. \nThe first week will have a few tutorials on developmental and evolutionary aspects of morphology\, computational geometry\, statistics and dynamical systems\, along with a workshop-style meeting with research talks\, setting the stage for longer stays and new collaborations over the following weeks. \nPlease note that this is an in-person event. \n  \nWeek 1: Feb 23–27\, 2026: Teaching lectures and research seminars \nThe teaching lectures span a broad range of topics\, including statistical shape and morphometric analysis\, dynamical systems\, differential geometry\, and current themes in morphogenesis\, developmental biology\, and evolutionary developmental biology in Week 1. \n  \nWeek 2-3: March 2–5 & 10–11\, 2026: Research seminars and discussion \nWeeks 2 and 3 will cover development\, regeneration\, and evolution from quantitative\, morphometric\, and mathematical perspectives. \n  \nTopics include: \n🧬 Organoids & Tissue-Engineered Models \n🔬 Computational Imaging & Geometry \n⚙️ Biophysics\, Mechanics & Theory \n🌱 Developmental Biology & Evo-Devo \n  \nSpeakers: \n\nSalem al-Mosleh\, University of Maryland Eastern Shore\nVanessa Barone\, Stanford University\nYohannes Bellaiche\, Institut Curie\nAlain Chedotal\, Institut de la Vision\nGary P.T. Choi\, Chinese University of Hong Kong\nStefano Di Talia\, Duke University\nPaul Francois\, McGill University\nJianping Fu\, University of Michigan\nThomas Gregor\, Pasteur Institute & Princeton\nSahand Hormoz\, Harvard\nHelen James\, Smithsonian Institution\nPurnati Khuntia\, Harvard\nAllon Klein\, Harvard Medical School\nElena Kramer\, Harvard University\nThomas Lecuit\, College de France & IBDM\nDaniel Lew\, MIT\nL. Mahadevan\, Harvard\nM. Lisa Manning\, Syracuse\nAdam Martin\, MIT\nSean Megason\, Harvard\nNoah Mitchell\, University of Chicago\nAkankshi Munjal\, Duke\nNipam Patel\, MBL Woods Hole\nOlivier Pourquié\, Harvard Medical School\nAdrienne Roeder\, Cornell University\nMattia Serra\, UC San Diego\nSuraj Shankar\, University of Michigan\nAnuj Srivastava\, Johns Hopkins\nSebastian Streichan\, UC Santa Barbara\nBerta Verd\, University of Oxford\n\n  \nOrganizers: \n\nSalem al-Mosleh\, University of Maryland Eastern Shore\nVanessa Barone\, Stanford\nL. Mahadevan\, Harvard\nAkankshi Munjal\, Duke\nOlivier Pourquie\, Harvard\n\n  \nVideos from the program are available at the CMSA Youtube Channel. \nMathematics and Biology Playlist \nWeek 1: Feb 23–27\, 2026 – Workshop \nMonday\, 2/23/26 \n\n9:00–9:30 am: Breakfast\n\n9:30–10:30 am: Tutorial: Anuj Srivastava (Johns Hopkins) — Advances in Statistical Shape Analysis of Biological Structures\n\n10:30–11:00 am: Tea Break\n\n11:00 am–12:00 pm: Tutorial: Anuj Srivastava (Johns Hopkins) — Advances in Statistical Shape Analysis of Biological Structures\n\n12:00–1:30 pm: Lunch: CMSA Common Room\, catered\n\n1:30–2:15 pm: Research Talk: Noah Mitchell (University of Chicago) — Mechanical canalization of 3D chiral morphogenesis\n\nTuesday\, 2/24/26 \n\n9:00–9:30 am: Breakfast\n\n9:30–10:30 am: Tutorial: Mattia Serra (UCSD) —Tissue Flows\, Morphogen Transport and Positional Information: A Dynamical Systems Framework \n\n10:30–11:00 am: Tea Break\n\n11:00 am–12:00 pm: Tutorial: Mattia Serra (UCSD) — Tissue Flows\, Morphogen Transport and Positional Information: A Dynamical Systems Framework \n\n12:00–1:30 pm: Lunch Break\n\n1:30–2:15 pm: Research Talk: Paul Francois (McGill) — Waddington Landscapes in the Age of Machine Learning\n\nWednesday\, 2/25/26 \n\n9:00–9:30 am: Breakfast\n\n9:30–10:30 am: Tutorial: Olivier Pourquie (Harvard) — Segmentation and body axis\n\n10:30–11:00 am: Tea Break\n\n11:00 am–12:00 pm: Tutorial: Akankshi Munjal (Duke) — Principles of Tissue Morphogenesis\n\n12:00–1:30 pm: Lunch: CMSA Common Room\, catered\n\n1:30–2:15 pm: Research Talk: Allon Klein (Harvard) — Stochastic Cell State Transitions\n2:15–3:00 pm: Research Talk: Salem Al-Mosleh (University of Maryland) — Linking Geometry\, Evolution\, & Development of Bird Beaks\n\nThursday\, 2/26/26 \n\nIn-person discussions\n\nFriday\, 2/27/26 \n\n9:00–9:30 am: Breakfast\n\n9:30–10:30 am: Tutorial: Vanessa Barone (Stanford)\n\n10:30–11:00 am: Tea Break\n\n11:00 am–12:00 pm: Tutorial: Vanessa Barone (Stanford)\n\n12:00–1:30 pm: Lunch Break\n\n1:30–2:15 pm: Research Talk: Alain Chedotal (Institut de la Vision) — Tridimensional analysis of human development\n\n2:15–3:00 pm: Research Talk: Jianping Fu (University of Michigan) — Bioengineering Human Embryo and Organ Models\n\n\n  \nWeek 2: March 2–5\, 2026 \nMonday\, 3/2/26 \n\n9:00–9:30 am: Breakfast\n\n9:30–10:30 am: Research Talk: Thomas Lecuit (Collège de France) —Encoding neuronal shape in the stochastic dynamics of branching processes\n\n10:30–11:00 am: Tea Break\n\n11:00 am–12:00 pm: Research Talk: Danny Lew (MIT) — Tuning the Cell Polarity Circuit: location and number of polarity sites\n12:00–1:30 pm: Lunch: CMSA Common Room\, catered\n\n1:30–2:15 pm: Research Talk: Suraj Shankar (University of Michigan)\n2:15–2:50 pm: Trainee Research Talk: Wenhui Tang (Harvard) — Wetting dynamics and mechanics in human vertebrate somite formation\n2:50–3:05 pm: Tea Break\n3:05–3:35 pm: Trainee Research Talk: Ludwig Hoffmann (Harvard) — Shape deformations through mechanochemical feedback\n4:30–5:30 pm: CMSA Colloquium: L Mahadevan (Harvard) — Inverse problems in soft and active matter\n\nTuesday\, 3/3/26 \n\n9:00–9:30 am: Breakfast\n\n9:30–10:30 am: Research Talk: Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) — Mechanisms generating robustness in flower morphogenesis\n\n10:30–11:00 am: Tea Break\n\n11:00 am–12:00 pm: Research Talk: Gary Choi (Chinese University of Hong Kong) — Quantifying shape variation using quasi-conformal geometry\n\n12:00–1:30 pm: Lunch Break\n\n1:30–2:15 pm: Research Talk: Akankshi Munjal (Duke) — Shaping the inner ear from the Outside in\n\n2:15–2:50 pm: Trainee Research Talk: Sean McGeary (Harvard) — Uncovering principles of tissue organization with massively parallel cell-interaction assays\n2:50–3:05 pm: Tea Break\n3:05–3:35 pm: Trainee Research Talk: Oliver Inge (Harvard) —Combinatorial BMP4 and activin direct the choice between alternate routes to endoderm in a stem cell model of human gastrulation\n3:40–4:10 pm: Trainee Research Talk: Mehrana Raeisian Nejad (Harvard) — Stress-shape misalignment in confluent cell layers\n\nWednesday\, 3/4/26 \n\n9:00–9:30 am: Breakfast\n\n9:30–10:15 am: Research Talk: Nipam Patel (Marine Biology Lab\, Woods Hole) — Cellular Morphogenesis at the Nanoscale: Structural color in butterflies\n\n10:15–11:00 am: Tea Break\n\n11:00 am–12:00 pm: Research Talk: M. Lisa Manning (Syracuse) — Sparse mesenchymal cell networks as a fluid under tension (and possibly as tunable matter)\n\n12:00–1:30 pm: Lunch Break: CMSA Common Room\, catered\n\n1:30–2:30 pm: Research Talk: Research Talk: Stefano Di Talia (Duke) — Encoding Geometric Memory During Zebrafish Appendage Regeneration \n\n2:30–3:00 pm: Trainee Research Talk: Suhrid Ghosh (Harvard) — One Cell After Another: Mechanical Counting in Reproductive Evolution\n\n3:00–3:15 pm: Tea Break\n3:15–4:05 pm: Research Talk: Sean Megason (Harvard) — Algorithms for Creating Form: How multiscale control systems make development robust\n4:10–4:40 pm: Trainee Research Talk: Alexandru Bacanu (Harvard) — Forcing tissues into shape: mechanical development in the early human brain\n\nThursday\, 3/5/26 \n\n9:00–9:30 am: Breakfast\n\n9:30–10:30 am: Research Talk: Sebastian Streichen (UCSB) — Physics of Living Systems: From embryos to structured active matter\n\n10:30–11:00 am: Tea Break\n\n11:00 am–12:00 pm: Research Talk: Berta Verd (University of Oxford) — Evolving phenotypic diversity \n\n12:00–1:30 pm: Lunch Break\n\n1:30–2:15 pm: Research Talk: Elena Kramer (Harvard) — Life in a box: Generating developmental complexity while bound by cell walls\n\n2:20–2:50 pm: Trainee Research Talk: Beatrice Steinert (Brown) — Grids and Folds: Morphogenetic Mechanisms of Body Plan Organization\n\n2:50–3:05 pm: Tea Break\n3:05–3:35 pm: Trainee Research Talk: Rikki Garner (Harvard)\n3:40–4:10 pm: Trainee Research Talk: Chaitra Prabhakara (Harvard) — One Morphogen\, Diverse Patterns: Unraveling Muscle Formation Across the Embryonic Gut Axis\n\n  \nWeek 3: March 10–11\, 2026 \nTuesday\, 3/10/26 \n\n9:00–9:30 am: Breakfast\n\n9:30–10:30 am: Research talk: Adam Martin (MIT) — Getting in shape: geometry\, mechanics\, and signaling in living epithelia\n\n10:30–11:00 am: Tea break\n\n11:00 am–12:00 pm: Research talk: Yohannes Bellaiche (Institut Curie) — How do cells and tissues sense their size to tailor their dynamics during development?\n12:00–1:30 pm: Lunch Break\n\n1:30–2:15 pm: Research talk: Sahand Hormoz (Harvard) — Learning the rules of morphogenesis\n\nWednesday\, 3/11/26 \n\n9:00–9:30 am: Breakfast\n\n9:30–10:15 am: Research talk: Thomas Gregor (Pasteur Institute & Princeton) — From Fluctuations to Form: Empirical Laws and Scaling Principles in Development\n\n10:15–11:00 am: Research talk: Allison Kann (Harvard) — How to rebuild an organ: The cellular choreography of whole-body regeneration\n\n11:00–11:30 am: Tea Break\n11:30 am–12:00 pm: Research talk: Chandra Kuyyamudi Ashwinikumar (Harvard)\n12:00–12:30 pm: Research talk: Purnati Khuntia (Harvard) — Role of Nucleus in Building Epithelial Tissues \n1:00 pm: Lunch: CMSA Common Room\, catered\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/bioshape_2026/
LOCATION:CMSA 20 Garden Street Cambridge\, Massachusetts 02138 United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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SUMMARY:Solitonic Symmetry: Cohomology with TFT Coefficients
DESCRIPTION:Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar \nSpeaker: Sanjay Raman\, Harvard \nTitle: Solitonic Symmetry: Cohomology with TFT Coefficients \nAbstract: We review the formalism of https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.00939\, which develops the theory of solitonic symmetry in quantum field theory. The algebraic structure of solitonic symmetry is determined by the fusion of topological functionals in a given path-integral formulation of topological field theory\, and acts generically on topological defects determined by homotopy classes of maps to a “space of fields.” We will argue that the structure of solitonic symmetry in a theory with field space (Y) assembles into what looks like the cohomology of (Y) with coefficients in TFTs. We study this formalism in examples and show in particular that the maximal invertible solitonic subsymmetry reduces to the expected result.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/quantumgeo_3326/
LOCATION:Science Center 507\, 1 Oxford Street\, Cambridge\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
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