MINS ANNUAL FLEXNER LECTURE November 3, 2021 4:00pm – 7:30pm EDT Biomedical Research Building, BRB Gaulton Auditorium and Lobby Contact Info: jfowlkes@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Events
Wendy Suzuki Department Neural Science and Psychology New York University Good anxiety: Harnessing fear to feel better, think better, and do better Each year the CNS Public Talk Series highlights an issue or theme. The 2021-2022 theme is Wellbeing and the Brain. Lectures run 4:30-5:30 followed by discussion and a reception. Our lectures are free to […]
Matt Lasmanis Chief Technology and Innovations Officer Sage Therapeutics Title forthcoming Everyone is welcome to attend and can register here: http://bit.ly/nobectalks NoBeC (Norms and Behavioral Change) Talks showcase interdisciplinary early career and senior researchers working on norms and behavioral change around the world. Organized by the Penn Center for Social Norms and Behavioral […]
Michael Frank Brown University “Abstraction and Generalization in Reinforcement Learning”
Yoav Ram Mathematical Ecology and Evolution School of Zoology Tel Aviv University via Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95635439981?pwd=dVRuYVhJU3l4RW1WbDE4NjIrUzFFZz09 Non-vertical cultural transmission and the evolution of cooperation We use a cultural-evolutionary model to find conditions for the evolution of cooperation under vertical, oblique, and horizontal cultural transmission. These conditions, which have interesting parallels with Hamilton’s rule, […]