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This week, Artemy Kolchinsky from UPF Barcelona will be the next speaker of the Collaboratorium Seminar Series! 🗣️"Stochastic thermodynamics: promises and challenges for studying living systems" 📅29/02/24 - 10:00 ➕info and registration: tinyurl.com/547ap33e

How close are living systems to optimal states? In our new paper in Physical Review Research with Artemy Kolchinsky and Jordi we searched for universal bounds to this problem within the context of free energy harvesting, with special attention to molecular machines journals.aps.org/prresearch/pdf…

Our paper with Jordi and Ricard Solé is out! We consider the problem of finding the nonequilibrium steady state that optimizes free energy harvesting + illustrate it on the amazing photosynthetic bacteriorhodopsin system. A long time in the making ...

New preprint, comments very welcome. I argue from basic principles of thermo that Jeremy England's "Statistical physics of self-replication" doesn't provide a thermodynamic bound on replication. In fact, I show that no such bound is possible in principle arxiv.org/abs/2404.01130

📣 Announcement to all OoLEN members! Join us for our upcoming in-person meeting, #IOoL2024, at the ISIS in Strasbourg, France 🇫🇷 from Sept 23-25, 2024. 🗓️ Registration Deadline: June 9, 2024. See the Discourse for details! #OoLEN #OriginsOfLife

The path of complexity: It's been a long journey but the presses are now running to offer a small curated venue for weird papers that could scare disciplinary journals. nature.com/articles/s4426…

New preprint on the partial information decomposition, information bottleneck (IB) & info theory for complex systems. I formulate redundancy as an IB-style tradeoff between compression & prediction, giving the redundancy bottleneck curve arxiv.org/abs/2405.07665 Comments welcome!

Hiring! Open postdoc position in fundamental nonequilibrium stat mech and ML applied to active materials: jasonrgreen.net/openings

Very excited to be organizing (with Adam Frank and Artemy Kolchinsky) the workshop on Information Driven Dtates of Matter to be held at University of Rochester from 07/10-07/12. We have a truly stellar (and international) cast; see details below. Thanks to generous support from John Templeton Foundation (1/4)

Now accepting applications for the 2025 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. Complexity Fellows contribute to SFI’s research and collaborate with leading researchers worldwide. If you’ve completed your PhD in any scientific discipline, and are interested in transdisciplinary

Our very fun collaboration with Paul Riechers, Chaitanya Gupta, and Mile Gu is out. Combining quantum thermodynamics and convex optimization, we find inputs that optimize different kinds of process-level observables

🚨Job alert! Physics of Life Dresden offers excellent postdoc fellowships. It includes up to a 4-year position with salary and research funds. The next deadline for application is 01.11. Don't miss this opportunity! 🤓 Please RT #postdocjobs physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/career-educati…

The Fujishima Lab is seeking an international student interested in the intersection of astrobiology and synthetic biology, who is also willing to apply for the ELSI Integrated Doctoral Course starting in April 2025. If you're interested, please feel free to contact me😉

We are hiring! Join our Department of Chemistry at UMass Boston as a tenure-track Assistant Professor (Inorganic Materials). Please spread the word. bit.ly/4eBeD6z

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Graduating PhDs and postdocs in AI, ML, Cogsci, or related areas: apply to work with me and others on AI models of visual and multimodal reasoning. Two years of funding with possible extension to a third year. Application deadline November 22. santafe.edu/about/jobs/pos…

🚨Job alert!🚨 Come join us at the Inverse Complexity Lab! Inverse Complexity Lab We’re hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join our group at IT:U, Linz, Austria. skewed.de/lab/call.html Deadline is 30 Nov 2024. 1/8

Postdoc opportunity! Join us in heavenly Vancouver (Canada) to develop fundamental nonequilibrium stat mech, thermo, and info theory applied to biomolecular machines and in close collaboration with experiment. Details: sfu.ca/physics/sivakg…