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PMMH’s weekly seminar is held every Friday at 11 am (map)
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Séminaire PMMH - Ada Altieri (MSC, Paris)
From disordered Generalized Lotka-Volterra models to gut microbiome complexity
Inferring species interactions in highly heterogeneous ecological communities and developing a robust, predictive theory of ecological stability remain major challenges, due both to the amount of data required and the complexity of the underlying interaction network.
In this talk, I will present a high-dimensional version of the Lotka–Volterra model incorporating demographic fluctuations and heterogeneous interactions among species.
I will then explore its relevance to the human gut microbiome. Through dataset analysis from both healthy individuals and patients with inflammatory bowel disease, I will show that distinct physiological states of the gut microbiome map onto different noise-driven and disorder-driven regimes of the Generalized Lotka-Volterra model.
Finally, I will discuss extensions beyond the standard logistic-growth and purely competitive frameworks that can promote coexistence, thereby offering a new perspective on the long-standing diversity–stability debate.
References :
[1] A. Altieri, F. Roy, C. Cammarota, G. Biroli, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 258301 (2021)
[2] J. Pasqualini, A. Maritan, A. Rinaldo, S. Facchin, E. V. Savarino, A. Altieri* & S. Suweis*, eLife 14, RP105948 (2026)
[3] N. Patil, A. Altieri, arXiv:2607.24328 (2026)
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Séminaire PMMH — Benjamin Apffel (ENS Lyon)
Vendredi 16 octobre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Computing with Frustrated Space-Time Metamaterials
Space-time metamaterials are engineered media whose constitutive parameters are modulated simultaneously in both space and time. They are now used to achieve unprecedented wave control. However, the vast majority of studies operate in the stable regime, where modulation parameters are chosen to ensure linear wave (…)
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