Talks

• Enzymes as viscoelastic catalytic machines

  Geneva 2025

• Walks in Rotation Spaces Return Home When Doubled and Scaled

  Courant App. Math 2025

• Quasiparticles, flat bands, and exotic topology in hydrodynamic matter

  NYU 2025

• The Rolling Stones, All Down the Line

  Weizmann Physics Colloquium 2024 · video

• Deciphering Proteins in Theory and Experiment

  STATPHYS28 Tokyo 2023 · video

• Protein as a mathematical problem

  Oberwolfach 2023

• The usefulness of quantum concepts in soft matter: quasiparticles, flat bands, and exotic topology in hydrodynamic matter

  UC Santa Barbara 2022 · video (IBS)

• Protein: amorphous evolving matter

  Weizmann 2021

• The Mechanics of Evolution

  Soft Matter School 2019

• Green function of correlated genes in a minimal mechanical model of protein evolution

  Harvard 2018

• Computation and mechanics in living matter

  Turing Machines in Biology, Oxford 2018

• Mechanics and information in a minimal model of protein evolution

  KITP 2018 · audio

• Physical model of the genotype-to-phenotype map of protein

  APS 2017

• What is protein? – a geometric view

  Solvay 2016

• What is the dimension of molecular recognition?

  Harvard 2015

• The structure of living information systems

  Geneva 2014

• Seeking simplicity in complex biomolecules

  London 2014

• Coding a Life full of Errors

  PiTP, Institute for Advanced Study 2012

• Loops and self reference in the construction of dictionaries

  Institute for Advanced Study 2012 · video

• The Physics of 2D microfluidic droplets

  Harvard 2012

• Is the most abundant protein on Earth, Rubisco, slow and inefficient, optimal or both?

  Institute for Advanced Study 2011

• Geometry and Molecular Information

  von Neumann Lederberg Symposium, Institute for Advanced Study 2009

• Physics of the Cell's Nucleus

  Introduction to Physical Biology

• Ribosome: The engine of the living von Neumann’s constructor

  Institute for Advanced Study

• The Physics of Molecular Recognition

• The Game of Chromosome Organization

• Sequence Recognition by Conformational Changes: Homologous Recombination and the Ribosome

• Physical Principles of Molecular Information Systems

• Casting polymer nets to optimize noisy molecular codes

• The Physical Language of Molecules

• Conformational Proofreading: Enhancing molecular recognition by structural changes