Talks Schedule

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) Learning diversity in the immune response
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Léo Touzo (ENS Paris) Odd wave turbulence
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Yuhai Tu (Flatiron Institute) Dynamics of Learning: Lessons from Living Systems to Artificial Neural Networks

2026

Monday, Jul 06, 2026

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

    • Karen Alim (TU Munich) Learning Matters
    • Ilya Nemenman (Emory) Tutorial: AI in Academic Everyday Life
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Pierre Illien (Sorbonne Univ.) Non-Gaussian density fluctuations in the Dean-Kawasaki equation
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Nathalie Balaban (Hebrew Univ.) Tutorial: memory, single cell heterogeneity and consequences for antibiotic response

2026

Tuesday, Jul 07, 2026

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

    • Shenshen Wang (UCLA) Immune learning in a physical world
    • Gautam Reddy (Princeton) Learning as Distributed Computation
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Giuseppe Del Vecchio Del Vecchio (Univ. Paris-Sud) Sluggish diffusion and search strategies
    • Sriram Ganeshan (CCNY) Chiral cellular automaton and their hydrodynamics

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) Learning diversity in the immune response
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Léo Touzo (ENS Paris) Odd wave turbulence
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Yuhai Tu (Flatiron Institute) Dynamics of Learning: Lessons from Living Systems to Artificial Neural Networks

2026

Thursday, Jul 09, 2026

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

    • Jen Schwarz (Syracuse) Can Sand Learn?
    • Suraj Shankar (Michigan) New Talk
  • Small Seminar Room 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Corey O'hern (Yale) Cell shape emerges from motion
    • Marco Biroli (Univ. Paris-Saclay) Discovering and decoding latent mean-field structure with variational autoencoders

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.

2026

Monday, Jul 13, 2026

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

    • Francis Corson (ENS Paris) New Talk
    • Elad Schneidman (Weizmann Inst.) New Talk
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Baruch Meerson (Hebrew Univ.) Invasion fronts of random walkers with cooperative reproduction
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Menachem Stern (AMOLF) Tutorial: Contrastive physical learning

2026

Tuesday, Jul 14, 2026

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

    • Ahmed El Hady (MPI-AB) Learning to forage
    • Mary Lisa Manning (Syracuse) New Talk
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Bertrand Lacroix A Chez Toine (King's College London) Parametric correlations in non-Hermitian disordered dynamics

2026

Wednesday, Jul 15, 2026

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

    • Sidhartha Goyal (U. Toronto) New Talk
    • Dmitri Chklovskii (Simons Foundation) New Talk
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Madan Rao (NCBS) TBA
    • Federica Ferretti (NITMB) Towards a statistical characterization of antibody immunodominance
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Nidhi Pashine (Syracuse) Mechanical memories in soft matter systems

2026

Thursday, Jul 16, 2026

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

    • New Talk

2026

Friday, Jul 17, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Jul 18, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Jul 19, 2026

No talks scheduled.

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