SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences (LS26)

Invited Presentations

Lorin Crawford

Microsoft Research, U.S.

Joint Plenary Speaker with the 2026 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN26)

When More Isn’t Better: A Lesson from Rethinking Scale in Single-cell Foundation Models

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Heather Harrington

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany

Topology for Multiscale Biology

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Dagmar Iber

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Mathematics of Self-Organisation Across Scales

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Kenta Ishimoto

Kyoto University, Japan

Nonreciprocity in Cell Locomotion

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Ruian Ke

Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.

From Small-noisy to Big-biased Data: Modeling, Learning and Inference Across Scales Under Uncertainty During Pandemic Crisis

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Helen Moore

University of Florida, U.S.

Counterintuitive Optimization for Airplanes and Medicines: How to Improve Patient Outcomes Using Mathematics

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Jonathan Rubin

University of Pittsburgh, U.S.

Parkinsonian Oscillations Episode 2: Motor Rescue

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