2018 Joshua Lederberg - John von Neumann Symposium

Towards Quantitative Biology

Hosted by: The Rockefeller University and The Simons Center for Systems Biology, Institute for Advanced Study

Monday, April 23, 2018
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Wolfensohn Hall, Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ

Registering for the Symposium

If you would like to attend the Symposium, please register through our online registration. If you will be traveling from The Rockefeller University, please tell us if you are interested in group bus service if available. The deadline for registration is April 2, 2018.

Symposium Schedule:

Registration and Coffee
Bloomberg Hall Biology Atrium
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Carina Curto
Pennsylvania State University
Emergent dynamics from network connectivity: a minimal model
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Ofer Feinerman
Weizmann Institute of Science
The physics of cooperative transport by ants
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

LUNCH
Available in Institute Dining Hall
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Santiago D. Figueira
University of Buenos Aires
A language of geometry for human acquisition of spatial sequences
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

COFFEE/TEA BREAK
Fuld Hall Common Room
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Rémi Monasson
Ecole Normale Supérieure
Learning protein constitutive motifs from sequence data
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Daniel Wolpert
University of Cambridge
Computations in human sensorimotor control
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

All talks will be held in Wolfensohn Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Contact: quantbiosymposium@ias.edu