October 2026: Cal's paper on local imperfect feedback control in non-equilibrium biophysical systems, enabled by response constraints, is accepted at Physical Review X! arXiv
October 2026: CIPHER, our collaboration with the Goyal Lab showing that fluctuation structure predicts genome-wide perturbation outcomes, is accepted at Nature Biotechnology! bioRxiv
September 2026: Daiki and Hector's work with Monika Scholz on neuromodulation-inspired gated associative memory networks is accepted at PNAS! arXiv
September 2026: New on the arXiv: Matt Du shows a coherent advantage in the computational expressivity of excitonic networks, with Cal Floyd and Dipti Jasrasaria. arXiv
2026: Our work showing that non-equilibrium active noise enhances generative memory in diffusion models is accepted at Nature Communications! arXiv
2026: Cal Floyd will join Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor in January 2027. Congratulations, Cal!
2026: Deb Sankar Banerjee is now an Assistant Professor at the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Kolkata. Congratulations, Deb!
2026: Jordan Shivers has moved on to a second postdoc at Rice University. Congratulations, Jordan!
2026: Welcome to Akashnathan Aranganathan, who joins the group as an AI+Science Fellow!
2026: Out this year: Cal on learning to control non-equilibrium dynamics (Newton), Matt on hidden nonreciprocity in active matter (Phys. Rev. Research), Deb on learning via mechanosensitivity in cytoskeletal networks (PRX Life), and our collaboration with the King lab on light-induced pattern formation in 2D perovskites (Nano Letters). NewtonPRRPRX LifeNano Letters
2026: Welcome to Disha Sanwal, who joins the group as a graduate student!
2025
2025: Cal's paper on the limits of computational expressivity of non-equilibrium biophysical processes, with Aaron Dinner and Arvind Murugan, is out in Nature Communications! Paper
2025: Our collaboration with the Park and Liu groups on room-temperature charge localization in ion-coupled bilayer transistors is out in Science! Paper
2025: Two papers in PRX Life: Agnish and Matt on Hebbian unlearning and non-equilibrium steady states, and Jordan on the stochastic thermodynamics of growing protocells. Hebbian unlearningProtocells
2025: Lissa's thermodynamic framework for branched actin networks is out in eLife, and our work with the Semenov group on chemical waves in reaction-diffusion networks is out in Chemical Science. eLifeChem. Sci.
2025: Matt and Agnish's review, Physical Considerations in Memory and Information Storage, is out in the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry.
October 2025: New on the bioRxiv with the Dickinson lab: mapping the diverse topologies of protein–protein interaction fitness landscapes. bioRxiv
June 2025: New on the bioRxiv with the Goyal lab: fluctuation structure predicts genome-wide perturbation outcomes (CIPHER). bioRxiv
2024
November 2024: New on the arXiv: non-equilibrium active noise enhances generative memory in diffusion models. arXiv
2024: Frank Gao's work with the Riesenfeld group on dissecting bursty transcriptional dynamics is out in PNAS! Paper
2024: Matt's paper on active oscillatory associative memory is out in J. Chem. Phys., and Cal's work on pattern formation in odd viscoelastic fluids is out in Phys. Rev. Research! JCPPRR
April 2024: New on the arXiv: Cal on learning to control non-equilibrium dynamics using local imperfect gradients. arXiv
2023
November / December 2023: Agnish's work on how associative memory properties may be improved by activity/active dynamics accepted for publication at Physical Review X!
November 2023: New work by Lissa Rennert on a thermodynamic theory for the adaptive behavior of branched actin networks has been posted on the bioRxiv!
October 2023: New collaborative work with the Anderson group is now out in JACS! Agnish proposed a percolation-like theory to explain some of the phenomenology seen in experiments.
October 2023: Check out work by Cal Floyd on how "odd" viscoelasticity helps support a new mechanism for pattern formation! Posted on the arXiv!
October 2023: New work by Yuqing Qiu (in collaboration with the Dinner group) showing how representation learning helps inform a minimal physical theory for flows in actin networks due to active stresses and turnover! Posted on the arXiv!
July 2023: New work by Matt Du on how activity modulates retrieval dynamics. Posted on the arXiv!
June 2023: New work by Frank Gao (in collaboration with the Riesenfeld group) on a new method to extract meaningful cell transition data from RNA velocities! Posted on the bioRxiv!
June 2023: Cal's work with the Bhamla group on a model for the dynamics of ultrafast contraction in systems with myonemes is now out in PNAS!
April 2023: Suri gave a KITP Chalk talk on active associative memory. YouTube
February 2023: Suri was awarded the ACS PHYS early career prize in theoretical chemistry!
2023: Collaborative projects with the Park group and the Talapin group published in JACS and Science!
2023: Many new people in the group! Welcome Jordan, Deb, Matt and Aditya!
2021
2021: Many updates from 2021! Check out our new papers (on time dependent assembly, thermodynamics of cytoskeletal patterning, non-equilibrium associative memory and much more!). Also welcome to new group members, Agnish (2020), Frank (2020), Cal (2021) and Lissa (2021).
2020
December 2020: Check out Zhenghan and Laura's new papers (in the publications page!)
April 2020: The group was just awarded a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar award!
March 2020: Zhenghan's paper on rectification of energy and motion in parity violating metamaterials gets accepted for publication at Physical Review X!
January 2020: Clara's paper on robustness in multicyclic models of biochemical oscillators gets accepted for publication at the Journal of Chemical Physics and gets chosen as an Editor's pick!
2019
December 2019: Clara's paper detailing how energy dissipation can increase robustness of oscillations accepted for publication at Physical Review E!
December 2019: Paper with Etienne and Takahiro showing how dissipation can be used to control phase transitions and mobility accepted for publication at New Journal of Physics!
October 2019: Paper with Laura, Etienne and Takahiro accepted for publication in Physical Review X!
September 2019: New work with Etienne and Takahiro exploring connection between dissipation and organization submitted!
September 2019: Zhenghan's new paper on mechanisms for anomalous transport in chiral active liquids submitted!
September 2019: Clara's new paper investigating robustness in biological clocks submitted!
September 2019: Nick's paper with Kinjal on the dynamics of tactoid droplets submitted!
July 2019: Zhenghan's paper posted on the arXiv!
May 2019: Kinjal's paper with the Gardel group gets accepted for publication in PNAS!
April 2019: Clara's paper gets highlighted by JCP Highlight
February 2019: Nick and Kinjal's paper on screening in dense ionic liquids gets included in the JCP Editors' choice 2018 collection!
February 2019: Group welcomes a new postdoc! Yuqing Qiu will be a joint postdoc along with the Dinner group. Welcome Yuqing!
January 2019: Clara's paper on interfacial fluctuations in driven liquids gets picked to be highlighted as an Editor's pick!
January 2019: Clara gets a poster prize for her poster describing her work on oscillations in non-equilibrium biochemical networks. Congrats Clara!
January 2019: Suri gave a talk on dissipation induced transitions in membranes at the Berkeley Statistical Mechanics Meeting
2018
December 2018: The group was just awarded the NSF CAREER award!
October / November 2018: Suri visited UMD (Stat Phys seminar), UCSD, Utah (Chemistry Seminars), MIT (Biophysics seminar) and Northwestern (Applied Math Seminar).
September 2018: Suri gives a talk on stochastic thermodynamics of growing membranes @STET18, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden!
August 2018: Suri gives a talk on dissipation induced phase transitions @ EIOSM2018, ICTS, Bengaluru!
August 2018: New paper with Kim, Kinjal and Tom and Margaret has been posted!
August 2018: New paper with Laura, Etienne and Takahiro has been posted!
August 2018: Clara's new paper has been posted!
July 2018: Suri gives a talk on dissipation induced phase transitions @Telluride!
July 2018: Kinjal accepts faculty position @ UC Merced! Congrats Kinjal!!
June 2018: Nick's new paper on a lattice model for ionic liquids has been submitted!
May 2018: Michael awarded the Anthony Turkevich award, congratulations!
May 2018: Suri gives a talk on Topological modes in non-equilibrium systems at a workshop on topological protection in messy systems @GeorgiaTech!
April 2018: Suri gives a talk on non-equilibrium self-assembly @Brandeis!
March 2018: Michael's new paper has been posted!
March 2018: Clara's new paper has been posted!
February 2018: New paper in collaboration with Vincenzo Vitelli's group posted!
February 2018: Clara and Laura's paper on energy flows in driven liquids has been accepted for publication at PNAS, congrats!
February 2018: Suri gives a talk at a symposium on non-equilibrium dynamics and information processing at Okinawa.
January 2018: Suri gives a talk at Active Matter Session at UC Berkeley.
2017
October 2017: Clara awarded Arts, Science and Culture Fellowship. Congratulations!
August 2017: Nick gives talk at the Gordon Research Seminar accompanying the GRC Liquids meeting Gordon Research Seminar
July 2017: Suri organized the Telluride School on Theoretical Chemistry (with Toru Shiozaki, Joan-Emma Shea, and Tom Miller).
May 2017: Suri gives a talk at the CNLS meeting on Statistical Mechanics.
March 2017: Michael awarded NSF Fellowship. Congratulations, Michael!
March 2017: Laura Tociu joins the group. Welcome!
February 2017: Suri gives a talk at the Department of Physics, UIC.
February 2017: Congratulations to the group for being awarded the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship! Congrats also to the Dickinson group @ UChicago Chemistry for the same award. Sloan Fellows
January 2017: Kinjal's paper in collaboration with Gardel group accepted in PNAS
January 2017: Kinjal and Nick's paper in collaboration with Talapin group accepted in Nature
2016
December 2016: Lectures on information processing in biology at ICTS Lectures
November 2016: Nick is awarded the MRSEC Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!
October 2016: Suri gives a talk at the Applied Physics Department, Harvard University.
October 2016: Suri gives a talk at the Material Science and Engineering Department, UIUC.
October 2016: Michael's paper on non-equilibrium self-assembly accepted at PNAS. Congratulations, Michael!
October 2016: Manuscript on Topological Modes with Arvind accepted at Nature Communications.
June 2016: Workshop on condensed phase dynamics at Telluride Workshop
May 2016: Rutgers statistical mechanics meeting Meeting