Dr. Sreekantan will tell his story, from a Physics PhD earned in the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, to Houston to Minneapolis and back to Austin, where he is now with RGM Advisors LLC, a proprietary trading firm that applies scientific methods and computing power to trading in multiple asset classes...

The absence of specific sequence motifs marking the origins of replication has been a serious hindrance to the understanding of the mechanisms that regulate the initiation and the maintenance of the replication program in different eukaryotic cell types. Our wavelet-based pattern recognition methodology...

Bacteria swim through fluids by rapidly turning their flagella, and individual tissue cells migrate across surfaces in a cyclic process of expansion, adhesion, and retraction. These canonical types of motion, however, are not characteristic of cells within large, dense aggregates, such as bacterial...

Tidal flow over topography in a density-stratified ocean leads to the generation of internal waves. When these internal waves break, mixing of heat and salt can occur which may play a role in the large-scale ocean overturning circulation. I will describe numerical simulations of the nonlinear...

Swarming bacteria move in multicellular groups and exhibit adaptive resistance to multiple antibiotics. Analysis of this phenomenon has revealed the protective power of high cell densities to withstand exposure to otherwise lethal antibiotic concentrations. We find that high densities promote bacterial...