Press

Office hours episode 6

We are working with the labs of Marc Schmidt (Penn Biology) and Kostas Daniilidis (Penn Engineering) to simultaneous record all the birds in an aviary as they sing, interact and form a social network: Smart aviary poised to break new ground in behavioral research

The optimal immune repertoire of bacteria

Particle physics on the brain

  Penn researchers investigate how songbirds teach themselves song

   Brain's location tracking cells use transcendental number system

   Perception is Reality

   The Maps Inside Your Head

   Adaptive molecular sensing in the olfactory and immune systems

   How we see: information transmission by the retina

   Navigating our world with a mental GPS

   Diversity and self-organization of neural circuits

   Séminaire Générale of the Ecole Normale Supérieure
   Solvay Colloquium (Solvay Institute, Brussels)

   Penn Arts and Sciences Magazine  p. 30-35

   The Brain From All Sides

   The Variational Universe: From Strings to Neurons

   The limits of intelligence

   On matters of the brain

• Snapping the birthplace of the human eye  (Physics World)
• New image database could explain the evolution of the human eye  (Technology Review) 
• Visions of Africa shaped eye evolution (Science Magazine)
• Bright vs. Dark in Natural Scenes (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics seminar)

    It's a dark world out there

    Vijay Balasubramanian discusses the physics of brain with kids from age 3 to age 85.

    How smart can you get?  Your brain and the limits of intelligence

    The physics of human and superhuman vision