Luciano Marraffini Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Rockefeller University CRISPR-Cas: acquired immunity in prokaryotes Location: Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building lower level
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Location: Room 357 Levin Building Enrique Fatas School of Business and Economics Loughborough University Democracy fights in darkness It is an empirical regularity that democratic countries go to war with each other less than pairs of dictatorships (the so called dyadic interaction). The question is whether this relation is causal: do democracies […]
Catherine Hartley Department of Psychology NYU Developmental tuning of action selection Computational reinforcement learning models provide a framework for understanding how individuals can evaluate which actions are beneficial and which are best avoided. To date, these models have primarily been leveraged to understand learning and decision-making in adults. In this talk, I will […]
Charles Yang Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania The Linguistic Basis of Natural Number Only humans learn language and only humans develop the concept of natural number: How are these two abilities related? We propose that the Successor Function, which provides the infinity of natural numbers, becomes available to children through learning the […]
Jane Wang Department of Physics Cornell University Insect Flight: from Newton’s law to Neurons Insects are the first evolved to fly, and to fly is not to fall. How does an insect fly, why does it fly so well, and how can we infer its ‘thoughts’ from its flight dynamics? We have been […]