Models, Inference & Algorithms (MIA)

9:00 - primer with breakfast; 10:00 - meeting; 10:50 - discussion

for details and virtual links for upcoming talks.

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The Models, Inference & Algorithms (MIA) Initiative at the ӳ��ý supports learning and collaboration across the interface of biology and medicine with mathematics, statistics, machine learning, and computer science. Our weekly meetings are open and pedagogical, emphasizing lucid exposition of computational ideas over rapid-fire communication of results. Learn more about MIA and its history.

Upcoming Talks

Check out our full fall 2024 talks list below, , and watch our past talks in the .

Meeting Details

Hosted by the , MIA meetings feature a 9:00 am primer with breakfast, 10:00 am meeting, and 10:50 am discussion. They are located at the ӳ��ý in Acadia (75 Ames St., M1) unless noted otherwise, and virtually. If you do not have a ӳ��ý badge, please arrive 10 minutes early to 75 Ames St. with an ID to check in with security. We will escort folks up at 8:55 and 9:55 am.

Please to join our mailing list for event updates and to receive Zoom links for viewing the talks virtually.

Email mia-team@broadinstitute.org to be escorted up if you arrive outside of the pickup times or if you have any questions.

Check out the for past recordings.

Organizers

Current co-chairs: (since Sep '23) and (since Jan '24).

MIA's efforts are driven by the Steering Committee: , , , , , , , (co-chair, Jan '23 - May '24), , , Sumaiya Iqbal, , and Alex Bloemendal (co-chair, Sept '15 - Jan '22)

and Alex Bloemendal founded MIA in the fall of 2015.

MIA Talks Search

Date	Speaker	Title
Sep 25	Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School Postdoctoral Fellow at the Whitehead Institute Schmidt Center Postdoctoral Fellow at the ӳ��ý of MIT & Harvard Ph.D. candidate at MIT Ph.D. candidate at MIT Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT	Lightning Talks []
Oct 2	MIA Steering Committee	Community Day
Oct 9	Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, Boston University	Flux Balance Analysis and shadow prices in constrained optimization []
Oct 9	Ph.D. candidate, Boston University	Modeling genotype to phenotype: a search for the right variables and the “natural” objects of selection []
Oct 16	Ph.D. student Department of Computer Science Yale University	Primer: Large Language Models and Biological Foundation Models []
Oct 16	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Dept. of Int. Medicine, Yale University	Single-cell analysis in the age of LLMs []
Oct 23	Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Using Advanced Molecular Dynamics Simulation Techniques to Characterize Large-Scale Conformational Transitions in Transporters []
Oct 23	Ashkan Fakharzadeh Ghaan Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Department of Biochemistry, and Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Using Advanced Molecular Dynamics Simulation Techniques to Characterize []
Oct 30	Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics University of Massachusetts Boston	Primer: Tensor Methods for Omics Data Analysis
Oct 30		C-ZIPTF: stable tensor factorization for zero-inflated multi-dimensional genomics data
Nov 6	Marnix Medema Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University & Research	Deciphering the Chemical Language of Microbiomes []
Nov 6	Victoria Pascal Epigenetics in cancer and cell differentiation group in Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP)	Algorithms for metabolic pathway discovery and analysis in the human microbiome []
Nov 20	Abraham Gihawi University of East Anglia	Separating Fact from Fiction – Microbial DNA in Tumours