Talks Schedule

2026

Monday, Jun 29, 2026

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

    • Armita Nourmohammad (Washington) New Talk
    • Ilya Nemenman (Emory) New Talk
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Karen Alim (TU Munich) “Learning with the flow”.
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Giuseppe Mussardo (SISSA) Integrability and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum and Classical Field Theory

2026

Monday, Jun 29, 2026

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

    • Armita Nourmohammad (Washington) New Talk
    • Ilya Nemenman (Emory) New Talk
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 12:15PM Blackboard Lunch

    • Karen Alim (TU Munich) “Learning with the flow”.
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Giuseppe Mussardo (SISSA) Integrability and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quantum and Classical Field Theory

2026

Tuesday, Jun 30, 2026

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

    • Wallace Marshall (UCSF) the cell as a low pass filter: frequency domain analysis of habituation in Stentor
    • Manu Prakash (Stanford) New Talk
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Marco Biroli (Univ. Paris-Saclay) Discovering and decoding latent mean-field structure with variational autoencoders
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Jeremy Gunawardena (Harvard) Tutorial

2026

Wednesday, Jul 01, 2026

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

    • Alison Patteson (Syracuse) New Talk
    • Jordi Garcia Ojalvo (UPF) Minimal internal representations in living systems
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Peter Foster (USC) Physical Bioenergetics of Oocytes

2026

Thursday, Jul 02, 2026

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

    • Mingming Wu (Cornell) Mechanical adaptation and learning in cells
    • Arvind Murugan (U. Chicago) New Talk
  • Small Seminar Room 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • John Barton (Pittsburgh) Learning from and forecasting evolutionary dynamics
    • Henry Alston (ENS Paris) Optimal sensing with phase separation
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Aleksandra Walczak (ENS Paris) Tutorial: learning in the the immune system

2026

Friday, Jul 03, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Jul 04, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Jul 05, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Monday, Jul 06, 2026

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

    • Meet and Greet
    • Nidhi Pashine (Syracuse) Mechanical memories in soft matter systems
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Nathalie Balaban (Hebrew Univ.) Tutorial

2026

Tuesday, Jul 07, 2026

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

    • Shenshen Wang (UCLA) New Talk
    • Gautam Reddy (Princeton) Learning as Distributed Computation

2026

Wednesday, Jul 08, 2026

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

    • Douglas Durian (U. Penn) Intelligent electronic metamaterials that learn how to compute
    • Thierry Mora (ENS Paris) New Talk
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Yuhai Tu (Flatiron Institute) Tutorial

2026

Thursday, Jul 09, 2026

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

    • Jen Schwarz (Syracuse) New Talk

2026

Friday, Jul 10, 2026

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

    • . () Topical discussion

2026

Saturday, Jul 11, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Jul 12, 2026

No talks scheduled.