Talks Schedule

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) How matter finds the unlikely
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
    Note: General Interest Talk

    • 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

    • This tutorial will not take place.

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

    • Mathis Guéneau (LPTHE) Spatiotemporal Characterization of Active Dynamics in Channels: Theory and Experiments
  • 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) How matter finds the unlikely
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
    Note: General Interest Talk

    • 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

    • This tutorial will not take place.

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

    • 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) Tutorial: Physics of Learning

2026

Thursday, Jul 09, 2026

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

    • Jen Schwarz (Syracuse) Can Sand Learn?
  • 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.