Saket Navlakha Integrative Biology Laboratory Salk Institute for Biological Studies Algorithms and data structures in the (fruit fly) brain A fundamental challenge in neuroscience is to understand the algorithms that neural circuits have evolved to solve computational problems critical for survival. In this talk, I will describe how the olfactory circuit in the […]
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Anne Churchland Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Movement-related activity dominates cortex during sensory-guided decision making
Penn grad students, postdocs and RAs are invited to lunch with interesting guests. Not a seminar – they’ll take 10 minutes to introduce their work, then it’s pure conversation. Sandwiches and drinks served. Paul Mitchell is a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology. He will be discussing scientific racism in the study of the […]
Luciano Marraffini Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Rockefeller University CRISPR-Cas: acquired immunity in prokaryotes Location: Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building lower level
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 […]