Visit of Professor Michael Shelley of NYU and the Simons Foundation

Professor Michael Shelley of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, and Leader of the Biophysical Modeling Group at the Flatiron Institute at the Simons Foundation, will give the AME seminar next Wednesday, October 3, at 3:30pm in SSL 150. He will talk about the mathematical modeling and simulations of several active processes and flows in the cell, including cell division.

Title: ACTIVE MECHANICS AND FLOWS IN THE CELL

Abstract: Many fundamental phenomena in eukaryotic cells — nuclear migration,
spindle positioning, chromosome segregation — involve the interaction of
(often transitory) cytoskeletal elements with boundaries and fluids.
Understanding the consequences of these interactions require specialized
numerical methods for their large-scale simulation, as well as
mathematical modeling and analysis. In this context, I will discuss the
recent interactions of mathematical modeling and large-scale, detailed
simulations with experimental measurements and perturbations of
activity-driven biomechanical processes within the cell.

Bio:
Michael Shelley holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics (1985) from the
University of Arizona. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton
University, and then joined the faculty of mathematics at the University
of Chicago (1988). He joined the Courant Institute at New York University
in 1992 where he is the George and Lilian Lyttle Professor of Applied
Mathematics. Since 2015 he has also been the Group Leader in Biophysical
Modeling at the Flatiron Institute of the Simons Foundation.