Models, Inference & Algorithms (MIA)

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

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The Models, Inference & Algorithms (MIA) Initiative at the Broad Institute 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, join our mailing list, and watch our past talks in the MIA Playlist.

Meeting Details

Hosted by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center, MIA meetings feature a 9:00 am primer with breakfast, 10:00 am meeting, and 10:50 am discussion. They are located at the Broad Institute in Acadia (75 Ames St., M1) unless noted otherwise, and virtually. If you do not have a Broad 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 complete this webform 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 pick up times or if you have any questions.

Check out the MIA Playlist for past recordings.

Organizers

Current co-chairs: Orr Ashenberg (since Sep '23) and Pinar Demetci (since Jan '24).

MIA's efforts are driven by the Steering Committee: Alex Bloemendal (co-chair, Sept '15 - Jan '22), David Fischer, Eli Bingham, Lateisha Copeland-Guadarrama, Lauren Alex Golden, Marie-Madlen Pust, Martin Stražar, Orr Ashenberg, Pinar Demetci, Salil Bhate (co-chair, Jan '23 - May '24), Sam Friedman, Sumaiya Iqbal, and Tavor Baharav.

Jon Bloom and Alex Bloemendal founded MIA in the fall of 2015.

MIA Talks Search

Date	Speaker	Title
Sep 25	Randy Ellis Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School Henry Kilgore Postdoctoral Fellow at the Whitehead Institute Vidhi Lalchand Schmidt Center Postdoctoral Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard Bowen Jing Ph.D. candidate at MIT Hannes Stark Ph.D. candidate at MIT Andreas Luttens Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT	Lightning Talks
Oct 2	MIA Steering Committee	Community Day
Oct 9	Brian Cleary Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, Boston University	Flux Balance Analysis and shadow prices in constrained optimization
Oct 9	Aedan Brown Ph.D. candidate, Boston University	Modeling genotype to phenotype: a search for the right variables and the “natural” objects of selection
Oct 16	David van Dijk Yale University	A Primer on Large Language Models and Biological Foundation Models
Oct 23	Noah A Trebesch Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Molecular dynamics
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	Large-scale conformational transition in membrane transporters
Oct 30	Neriman Tokcan UMass Boston	Tensor factorization + single-cell rna-seq
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)	Microbiome
Nov 20	Abraham Gihawi University of East Anglia	Separating Fact from Fiction - Microbial DNA in Tumours