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New mathematical frameworks reveal how stable thoughts emerge from chaotic brain activity
"The mind is what the brain does," as the pioneering artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky once said. So it’d be fantastic to understand at what level of anatomy, or complexity, the brain actually carries out its processing and computation.
This quandary is precisely what captivates Fatih Dinc, a postdoctoral scholar at UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) and Geometric Intelligence Lab. Read more

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2026

Thursday, Jun 25, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:00AM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Naama Brenner (Technion) Exploratory Learning in Biological Cells
    • Andrea Liu (U. Penn) New Talk
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM iSTRUM
  • Small Seminar Room 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Gregory Schehr (Sorbonne Univ.) Large Deviations in Switching Diffusion: from Free Cumulants to Dynamical Transitions
    • Sanjib Sabhapandit (RRI) Universal winding laws in chiral active motion
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Erik Winfree (Caltech) Tutorial: Probabilistic inference and learning in energy-based neural networks and equilibrium molecular systems