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This week, the Hidden Brain Podcast spoke with psychologist and neuroscientist Emily Falk about why our minds often conspire against our best interests, and how we can regain control.
Recent advances in network science have greatly increased our understanding of the structure and function of many networked systems, ranging from transportation networks and ecosystems to biochemical and gene transcription pathways. By integrating tools from data analysis, mathematical modeling and statistical inference with network science, our faculty work to determine fundamental organizational principles of biological processes. This cross-disciplinary research brings together faculty with interests in molecular, cellular and organismal biology, mathematics, statistics, chemistry, engineering and more. Work in this field by Warren Center affiliates includes developing mathematical tools to understand how brain networks reconfigure over time, using machine learning algorithms to infer RNA biogenesis, looking at neural modeling to understand how information is processed in the nervous system, and using computational algebraic geometry techniques for estimating evolutionary trees.
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Professor Katy Milkman will talk with Emily Falk about her new book. This is Falk's first book, and provides a window into the impacts of the brain’s value, self-relevance, and social relevance systems..
Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology
In this "exhilarating, genre-bending exploration," Professors Zurn and Bassett harness their respective expertise in philosophy and neuroscience to get irrepressibly curious about curiosity, and what drive it.
Meyerson Conference Center 223, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
PIK Professor Konrad Kording will discuss "Problems in Science."