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Penn Today Office Hours podcast
Office hours episode 6
Penn today article on our collaboration to study songbird community formation
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
Penn News article about paper on why bacteria maintain a limited amount of CRIPSR immune memory
The optimal immune repertoire of bacteria
CERN article on work in our lab
Particle physics on the brain
Penn News article about our work on how songbirds learn song
Penn researchers investigate how songbirds teach themselves song
OMNIA article about our work on grid cells in the brain and your “sense of place”
Brain's location tracking cells use transcendental number system
OMNIA article that profiles Penn researchers studying perception
Perception is Reality
NIH Colloquium Videocast
The Maps Inside Your Head
Lecture at the International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India
Adaptive molecular sensing in the olfactory and immune systems
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Director's Blackboard Lecture:
How we see: information transmission by the retina
TedX seminar:
Navigating our world with a mental GPS
Lecture series at ICTP-SAIFR, Sao Paolo, Brazil:
Diversity and self-organization of neural circuits
The maps inside your head (colloquium about our lab's research)
Séminaire Générale of the Ecole Normale Supérieure
Solvay Colloquium (Solvay Institute, Brussels)
A multidimensional mind (an article profiling our research)
Penn Arts and Sciences Magazine p. 30-35
SAS Frontiers article about students John Briguglio and Xuexin Wei
The Brain From All Sides
Santa Fe Institute Lecture by Vijay Balasubramanian
The Variational Universe: From Strings to Neurons
Scientific American discusses our work on constraints on efficiency of neural circuits
The limits of intelligence
ICTP Colloquium by Vijay Balasubramanian:
On matters of the brain
Discussions of our work on natural scene statistics
- 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)
Science magazine features our work on bright/dark processing in retina
It's a dark world out there
Kids BBQ at the Aspen Center for Physics
Vijay Balasubramanian discusses the physics of brain with kids from age 3 to age 85.
Santa Fe Institute lecture by Vijay Balasubramanian
How smart can you get? Your brain and the limits of intelligence
Phil Nelson gives the Heinz Pagels Lecture at the Aspen Center for Physics
The physics of human and superhuman vision