Numbers and Nature 2022

Non-MIT Attendees — Tim Ticket registration and
Covid health attestation required for campus access.
 

Using your smartphone, follow this link to the MIT Tim Ticket site for the symposium and complete the following registration steps:

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• Enter the PIN code you received and tap Login.
   
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• Present your Tim Ticket QR code below the scanner near the door. You can display your QR code from the MIT Tim Tickets mobile application or by printing it out from the visitors.mit.edu website.
   

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You must repeat the health attestation each day prior to visiting campus.
 

Masks are not required but are strongly encouraged.

View, download, or print the full symposium program

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The event will also be available via livestream:

bit.ly/feigenbaum2022-livecast

Questions? Contact:  Alma Pellecer | pellecer@mit.edu

Thursday, June 2 
Lecture Hall 6-120, Building 6
 

• 8:30 Registration
• 9:00 Welcome
  Daniel Rothman — Professor of Geophysics and Co-Director of the Lorenz Center, MIT-EAPS
  Gemunu Gunaratne — Moores Professor of Physics, University of Houston

9:10 - MORNING LECTURE SESSION 1

• Maps and Shapes
  L. Mahadevan — Professor of Physics, de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard
• Geometry, Topology, and Electrophysiology
  Adam Cohen — Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Physics, Harvard
• Mitchell's Role in Chaos (Presented via Zoom)
  Albert Libchaber — Detlev W. Bronk Professor of Physics, Rockefeller University

10:40 Coffee Break  —  Chipman Room 6-104

11:00 - MORNING LECTURE SESSION 2

• Ein Sturm im Wasserglas
  Bjorn Hof — Professor of Physics, IST Austria
• Hydrodynamics and Microbes
  Alex Petroff — Professor of Physics, Clark University
• Life and Death of Turbulence (Presented via Zoom)
  Nigel Goldenfeld — Swanlund Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics, UC San Diego

12:30 Lunch on your own

2:00 AFTERNOON LECTURE SESSION 1

• Optics, Vision, and Evolution After Mitchell Feigenbaum
  Jean-Pierre Eckmann — Professeur Honoraire, University of Geneva
• The DeltaCELT Rattleback and Anamorphic Images
  Ken Brecher — Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Emeritus, Boston University
• Stories of Fluids and Light (Presented via Zoom)
  Reymond E. Goldstein — Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, University of Cambridge
• Mathematics, Computation, and Nature
  Stephen Wolfram — Founder and CEO, Wolfram Research

4:00 Coffee Break  —  Chipman Room 6-104

4:30 PUBLIC LECTURE

• Four Illusions
  Sir Michael Berry — Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus), University of Bristol

6:00 Public Reception  |  Ida Green Lounge, Building 54, Room 923

7:30 Dinner | Morss Hall, Walker Memorial, Building 50
By Invitation — Registration Required

Friday, June 3
Lecture Hall 6-120, Building 6

• 8:30 Registration

9:00 MORNING LECTURE SESSION 1

• Turbulence, From Newton’s Quadratic Law of Drag to Mitchell Feigenbaum and Recent Times
  Yves Pomeau — Emeritus Research Director, French National Centre for Scientific Research
• Broken Symmetries in Living Systems
  Nikta Fakhri — Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Professor, MIT-Physics
• Overcoming the Random Closed Packed Barrier: Crystallization in Granular Media (Presented via Zoom)
  Harry Swinney — Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin

10:30 Coffee Break  —  Chipman Room 6-104

11:00 MORNING LECTURE SESSION 2

• Singularity in a Teacup — When Nature Gives Infinity
  Dwight Barkey — Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick
• Vortex Sheets and Turbulent Statistics (Presented via Zoom)
  Sasha Migdal — Research Professor of Physics, NYU
• Venus as a Potentially Habitable Planet
  Sara Seager — Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Science, Professor of Physics, and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT-EAPS, Physics and AeroAstro

12:30 Lunch on your own

2:00 AFTERNOON LECTURE SESSION 1

• Encoding Patterns in Single-Cell Locomotion: Oscillations, Synchronization, and Excitability
  Kirsty Wan — ERC Starting Grantee, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter
• The Mysteries of Gaps and Pile-Ups at Planetary Resonances
  Renu Malhotra — Louise Foucar Marshall Science Research Professor and Regents Professor of Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona
• Neural Manifolds for Control of Movement (Presented via Zoom)
  Sara A. Solla — Professor of Neuroscience and Physics, Northwestern
  
   

3:30 Coffee Break  —  Chipman Room 6-104

4:00 AFTERNOON LECTURE SESSION 2

• Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs
  John Bush — Professor of Applied Mathematics and Fluid Dynamics, MIT-Math
• Shocks and Surprises: Screening of Elasticity by Plastic Charges in Amorphous Solids
  Itamar Procaccia —  Barbara and Morris L. Levinson Professorial Chair in Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Glassy Dynamics in Earth’s Carbon Cycle
  Dan Rothman — Professor of Geophysics and Co-Director of the Lorenz Center, MIT-EAPS

5:30 Adjourn

Header Image from Bronzes: Chaos, New Science, New Art  by the artist Rhonda Roland Shearer, with a foreward written by Mitchell J. Feigenbaum.