From wti.news at yale.edu Thu Jan 2 16:28:38 2025 From: wti.news at yale.edu (Wu Tsai Institute News) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 21:28:38 +0000 Subject: [WTI-Community] 1.9 | WTI Inspiring Speaker: Andrew Leifer Message-ID: The Wu Tsai Institute invites you to our Inspiring Speaker Series: Andrew Leifer Associate Professor of Physics and Neuroscience, Princeton University ?Neural signal propagation atlas of C. elegans? Thursday, January 9, 2025 4:00 - 5:15 pm Reception to follow 100 College Street Floor 11, Workshop 1116 Faculty host: Marc Hammarlund All Yale community members are welcome. Contact wti at yale.edu with questions. 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Upcoming Inspiring Speakers January 23, 2025: Peter Robin Hiesinger | Freie Universit?t February 20, 2025: Morgan Barense | University of Toronto March 6, 2025: Olaf Sporns | Indiana University March 27, 2025: Karla Miller | Oxford April 10, 2025: Elizabeth Hillman | Columbia April 24, 2025: Rich Zemel | Columbia May 1, 2025: Dean Buonomano | UCLA May 15, 2025: Jane Wang | Google DeepMind -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Agenda + Speakers Aidan Schneider PhD candidate, lab of Keith Hengen, Washington University Computational and systems biology 10:00 - 10:45 am Laura Ruis PhD candidate, labs of Tim Rockt?schel and Edward Grefenstette, University College London Artificial intelligence 10:45 - 11:30 am Sreejan Kumar PhD candidate, labs of Tom Griffiths and Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University Quantitative and computational neuroscience 11:30 am - 12:15 pm Attention faculty members: If you are interested in exploring potential collaborations or would like the opportunity to meet one-on-one with any of the symposium speakers, please contact WTI's program manager, Liz Knapp at liz.knapp at yale.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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All members of the Yale community are welcome. Upcoming Inspiring Speakers January 23, 2025: Peter Robin Hiesinger | Freie Universit?t February 20, 2025: Morgan Barense | University of Toronto March 6, 2025: Olaf Sporns | Indiana University March 27, 2025: Karla Miller | Oxford April 10, 2025: Elizabeth Hillman | Columbia April 24, 2025: Rich Zemel | Columbia May 1, 2025: Dean Buonomano | UCLA May 15, 2025: Jane Wang | Google DeepMind Talks occur on Thursdays at 4:00 pm approximately every two weeks in the Workshop on the 11th floor of the Wu Tsai Institute at 100 College Street. Following each talk, there will be an opportunity for questions and a reception. Be on the lookout for individual event announcements and reminders as the dates approach. Subscribe for updates, and please share this invitation broadly. View all upcoming events, and contact us at wti at yale.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Upcoming Inspiring Speakers February 20, 2025: Morgan Barense | University of Toronto March 6, 2025: Olaf Sporns | Indiana University March 27, 2025: Karla Miller | Oxford April 10, 2025: Elizabeth Hillman | Columbia April 24, 2025: Rich Zemel | Columbia May 1, 2025: Dean Buonomano | UCLA May 15, 2025: Jane Wang | Google DeepMind -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: WTI Inspiring Speaker P. Robin Hiesinger-2.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1269185 bytes Desc: WTI Inspiring Speaker P. Robin Hiesinger-2.pdf URL: From wti.news at yale.edu Tue Jan 21 16:38:28 2025 From: wti.news at yale.edu (Wu Tsai Institute News) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:38:28 +0000 Subject: [WTI-Community] Thr 1.23 + Fri 1.24 | WTI Inspiring Speaker: P. Robin Hiesinger Message-ID: The Wu Tsai Institute invites you to our Inspiring Speaker Series, which includes two talks of broad interest to our community: P. Robin Hiesinger Professor and Head of Neurobiology, Freie Universit?t Berlin "How genomes make neural networks" Thursday, January 23, 2025 4:00 - 5:15 pm Reception to follow 100 College Street Floor 11, Workshop 1116 Faculty host: Damon Clark Additionally, join us on Friday, January 24, for a forum by Hiesinger, where he will discuss why neural networks underlying AI leave out the information-encoding process of genome-driven connectome development despite being modeled on biological neural networks. Further, are genome and neuronal development simply not necessary for AI? Or, if they are, what for? And what are the consequences for the resulting intelligence? 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