NLM DIR Seminar Schedule
UPCOMING SEMINARS
RECENT SEMINARS
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June 30, 2026 Jaya Srivastava
Disrupted Regulation of Essential Genes Mediates Dementias and Age-Associated Disorders -
June 11, 2026 Angela Jiang
Identification and Evolutionary Analysis of Steroid-Metabolism Enzymes in Gut Microbes -
June 10, 2026 Luda Diatchenko
New Insights on Pain Biology from Human Transcriptomics: How Stimulation of Immune Response Shapes Pain Resolution -
June 9, 2026 Pascal Mutz
Characterization of covalently closed circular RNA replicators detected in (meta)transcriptomic data -
June 4, 2026 Madeleine Clore
Explaining why AlphaFold struggles to predict mutational effects
Scheduled Seminars on May 24, 2022
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Abstract:
Applying methods of theoretical physics to questions in biology is gradually becoming a mainstream practice. In the coming years, this new modus operandi may reveal insights to questions once thought unanswerable. The connections between theoretical physics, life and consciousness will be explored. The author
will then provide a brief explanation of the resurgence in research of quantum spin chains, tractable non-classical physical models that may be scaled up to model biochemical and cellular behavior. Following will be a survey of the most seminal models in this field and the methods used to solve find solutions analytically. To conclude, the numerical and analytical results of the of the Alternating Anisotropic XY Quantum Spin chain will be presented. The results will highlight the invariance of the ground state energy with respect to anisotropy of this model, a divergence from previous models.