KeyesFest 2023: StatMech Meets Data Science

StatMech Meets Data Science Symposium Recognizing the Contributions of Tom Keyes to Science and Society

KeyesFest 2023 Program:

8:50-9:00 Welcome

9:00-9:30 Brian Space, NC State University, “The Keyes to my Success”

9:30-10:00 David Stelter, Spectral Sciences Inc., “Data driven turbulence modeling”

10:00-10:30 Guy Seeley, Verisk - Atmosphere and Environment Research, “I Came for the Statistical Mechanics, but Stayed for the Fun”

10:30-11:00 Morning Coffee

11:00-11:30 Bjoern Reinhard, Boston University, Chemistry, “Lipid Coated Nanoparticles: From Virus-Mimicry to Plasmonic Nanoreactors”

11:30-12:00 Qiang Cui, Boston University Chemistry, “Exploring Membrane Phase Properties with Machine Learning and Simple Models”

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:00 Preston Moore, St. Joseph’s University, “Something Old, Something New: Simulations of Soft Interfaces”

2:00-2:30 Jaegil Kim, GSK - Clinical Bioinformatics, “Mutational Signature in Human Cancers and its Therapeutic Implication”

2:30-3:00 Edyta Malolepsza, Broad Institute – Bioinformatics, “From Water Freezing to Genetic Testing”

3:00-3:30 Afternoon Coffee

3:30-4:00 Janamejaya Chowdhary, Electronic Transaction Consultants, “Multi-Sensor Input Based Vehicle Tracking”

4:00-4:30 Ted Kalbfleisch, University of Kentucky, “From the Fifth Floor to Equine Genetics, an Unlikely Trajectory or: Imagine the Spherical Horse”

4:30-5:00 David Coker, Boston University, Chemistry, “Polaritons Entropy and Spectroscopy”

5:00-5:30 Open session — Tom Keyes, Boston University, Chemistry