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
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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 […]
Location: Levin Auditorium (lower level, Levin Building) Karine GIbbs, Harvard University Local communication of self-identifying information between cells modulates emergent behaviors of a bacterial swarm
Mark Histed Unit on Neural and Computational Behavior NIMH Cortical sensory processing at the single neuron level: circuits, computations, and behavior During any behavior, many thousands or millions of neurons in the brain change their activity. To understand how the brain controls behaviors, it is important to identify the computational steps required, and […]
Peter Mucha Department of Mathematics Department of Applied Physical Sciences Curriculum in Informatics and Computational Biology UNC Chapel Hill Location: 10 Leidy Labs Communities and Classification in Network Data Community detection describes the organization of a network in terms of patterns of connection. A wide variety of methods for community detection have […]