1. Activities
  2. Talks Schedule

Talks Schedule

2026

Friday, Jun 26, 2026

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

    • . () Topical Discussion: Learning as a metaphor
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM iSTRUM

2026

Monday, Jun 22, 2026

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

    • Meet and Greet
    • Arup Chakraborty (MIT) How the humoral immune system learns
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM iSTRUM
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Jordan Horowitz (Michigan) A geometry for nonequilibrium response
    • Aditya Mahadevan (NITMB/UChicago) Scenarios for evolution in models of diverse ecosystems

2026

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

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

    • Sam Gershman (Harvard) Reimagining the biology of memory
    • Yasmine Meroz (Tel Aviv Univ.) TBA
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM iSTRUM
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Robert Jack (Cambridge) Active and non-reciprocal matter built from particles on lattices
    • Stefano Sarao Mannelli (Chalmers) Learning Dynamics in Diffusion Models
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Aneta Koseska (MPINB) Biological computations and learning without attractors

2026

Wednesday, Jun 24, 2026

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

    • Michael Elowitz (Caltech) New Talk
    • Lulu Qian (Caltech) New Talk
    • New Talk
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM iSTRUM
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Sunghan Ro (Harvard) Scalar active matter in disorder

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

2026

Friday, Jun 26, 2026

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

    • . () Topical Discussion: Learning as a metaphor
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main) 09:00AM iSTRUM

2026

Saturday, Jun 27, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Jun 28, 2026

No talks scheduled.

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) New Talk
  • 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.