Fluid flows induced by nutrient gradients in the vicinity of microbial colonies help direct the expansion of those microbes into new territory.
Watch the March 28, 2019, interview with Prof. Subir Sachdev, co-recipient of the 2018 International Center for Theoretical Physics Dirac Medal for cross-disciplinary approaches to many-body systems: https://www.youtube.com/embed/9EODiPsh0uU.
Motivated by the success in many different fields of science and engineering, such as image recognition and analysis of big data in biology, machine learning has recently come to prominence in condensed matter physics – in particular, for the purpose of classification and detection of phase transitions...
