Quantitative Life Sciences (QLS) and the Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine (CAMBAM) are pleased to offer weekly interdisciplinary seminars during the fall and winter terms.
Seminars are presented in a hybrid format on Tuesdays from 12-1pm EST.
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In Person:听550 Sherbrooke, Room 189听
To watch video recordings of past seminars, visit our听.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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January 7 |
Re Mansbach |
Learning from Life: Lessons from ML and Biophysical Simulations |
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January 14 |
Alex Diaz-Papkovich |
Low-dimensional representations of high-dimensional biobank data |
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January 21 |
Kanaka Rajan |
Brain-Wide Compositionality and Learning Dynamics in Biological Agents |
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January 28 |
Chris Bauch |
Dynamical regimes and tipping points in coupled social-ecological systems |
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February 4 |
QLS Research Day | |
| February 11 | Daniel Streicker (University of Glasgow) Sponsored by QLS |
Interventions to prevent zoonotic spillover from bats: promises and pitfalls |
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February 18 |
Kevin Thurley |
Modeling cell-cell interaction networks and diffusion-limited cytokine signaling in T cell populations |
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February 25 |
Chris听Eliasmith (University of Waterloo) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
The algebra of cognition |
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March 4 |
No Seminar | Reading Week |
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March 11 |
Ivette Perfecto (University of Michigan) Sponsored by QLS |
Ants play rock, paper, scissors: implications of intransitivities in competitive ant communities |
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March 18 |
Timothy Brady (UCSD) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
Visual memory as a window into the nature of mental representations |
| March 25 |
Wiktor Mlynarski |
Building a theory of sensory coding for active behavior |
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April 1 |
Ilker Yildirim (Yale University) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
Reverse-engineering cognitive and neural representations with multilevel computational theories |
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April 8 |
Guillaume Blanchet |
Using commonly gathered data to estimate metacommunity models |
| April 15 | Mark Lewis (University of Victoria) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
One equation helps solve three paradoxes in the spatial ecology of predators and prey |
| April 22 | Peter Mucha (Dartmouth College) Sponsored by CAMBAM |
Community Detection in Networks: Pruning and Picking Parameters |
| April 29 | Selin Jessa (Stanford University) Sponsored by QLS |
Dissecting gene regulation syntax using glass-box machine learning |
QLS thanks听Dr. Jesse Shapiro, Dr. Suresh Krishna, and Dr. Celia Greenwood听for their help with organizing the seminars.