Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Identifying key processes in the evolution of language"
Christine Cuskley, Università La Sapienza
Language forms the bedrock for all of our social interactions, be they interpersonal, performative, or economic. Understanding language therefore has the potential to further our understanding of a whole host of…
Condensed Matter Seminar: "The memory of sand"
Matthieu Wyart, New York University
Complex systems are characterized by an abundance of meta-stable states. To describe such systems statistically, one must understand how states are sampled, a difficult task in general when thermal equilibrium does…
Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar
Samaya Nissanke (Caltech)
High Energy Theory Seminar
Alejandro Satz
Condensed Matter Seminar: "The Criticality Hypothesis: How cortical networks might optimize information processing"
John Beggs , Indiana University
To function optimally, living neuronal networks have been hypothesized to operate near a critical point, poised between a phase where activity is damped and a phase where activity is amplified. However, previous…
Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar
Lucianne Walkowicz (Princeton)
High Energy Theory Seminar
Matteo Fasiello
High Energy Theory Seminar
Jim Halverson (KITP)
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Elucidating principles of biological signal processing using microfluidic and optogenetic tools"
Megan McClean, Princeton University
Biological networks, like electrical circuits, take specific inputs (nutrient availability, stress, hormones) and convert them into appropriate outputs (transcriptional responses, metabolic remodeling). Electrical…