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CNI Seminar: Benjamin Machta

November 27, 2018
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Benjamin Machta Department of Physics Yale University   Information geometry and Bayesian priors for model selection    Science is filled with toy models: abstractions of complicated systems that ignore microscopic details even when they are known. These toy models are often as good and even better than more accurate models. But why? In this talk […]

Penn graduate students, postdocs, and RAs are invited to lunch with Penn faculty. Not a talk – they’ll take 10 minutes to introduce their work, then it’s pure conversation. Sandwiches and drinks served.   Dom Sisti, Asst Prof of Medical Ethics: Neuroethics of Psychiatry   Location: 200 Goddard Labs

David Anderson Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics University of Wisconsin, Madison   Location: David Rittenhouse Labs, A4   Relating network structure to dynamical properties in biological interaction systems   Models of cellular processes are often represented with networks that describe the interactions between the constituent molecules. These networks are usually incredibly complex. However, hidden […]