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Visualizing Quantum Matter

Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Everything around us — everything each of us has ever experienced and virtually everything underpinning our technological society and economy — is governed by quantum mechanics. Yet this most fundamental physical theory of nature often feels like a set of somewhat eerie and counterintuitive ideas of no direct relevance to our lives. Why is this? One reason is that we cannot perceive the strangeness (and astonishing beauty) of the quantum mechanical phenomena all around us by using our own senses.

Harnessing Hippocampal Stem Cells to Improve Mood and Cognition

Recent studies have implicated adult-born hippocampal neurons in pattern separation, a process by which similar experiences or events are transformed into discrete non-overlapping representations. Impaired pattern separation, Dr. Hen proposes, underlies the overgeneralization often seen in age-related memory impairments and in anxiety disorders. Dr. Hen will present evidence that strategies aimed at stimulating hippocampal neurogenesis result in improved pattern separation.

Timing Mechanisms of Critical Periods in Brain Development

Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

This lecture explores the biological bases of critical periods in brain development. Mechanisms that open and close windows of plasticity (E/I balance and molecular brakes, respectively) are implicated in autism, suggesting mistimed maturational processes that can be strategically rescued at the circuit level.

What Do Animals Really Learn? Adventures of Reinforcement Learning in the Real World

Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

In this lecture, Yael Niv will argue that the key to learning efficiently in real-world scenarios is to use a simplified representation of the task that includes only those dimensions of the environment that are relevant to obtaining reward.

2015 MPS Annual Meeting

Thursday, October 22nd – Friday, October 23rd, 2015 Download the 2015 Annual Meeting booklet (PDF). The Mathematics and Physical Sciences Annual Meeting gathered together Simons Investigators, Simons Fellows, Simons Society...

Molecular and Neural Architecture of Circuits Underlying Social Behavior in the Mouse

Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

In this lecture, Catherine Dulac will discuss the cellular and molecular architecture of neural circuits underlying instinctive social behaviors of mice. She will describe her group’s recent advances in uncovering the identity of sensory neurons that detect social cues and the identity of command circuits associated with specific social responses in male and female mice.

Clinical and translational genomics

Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

This Biotech Symposium will focus on clinical and translational genomics and the shift to precision medicine.

Understanding the Relationship Between Genes and Social Behavior: Lessons from the Honey Bee

The study of genes and social behavior is still a young field. In this lecture, Gene E. Robinson will discuss some of the first insights to emerge that describe the relationship between them. These include the surprisingly close relationship between brain gene expression and specific behavioral states; social regulation of brain gene expression; control of social behavior by context-dependent rewiring of brain transcriptional regulatory networks; and evolutionarily conserved genetic toolkits for social behavior that span insects, fish and mammals.

Storming the Ivory Tower: How to Make Autism Interventions Work in Schools

Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

In this lecture, David S. Mandell will talk about why autism interventions rarely are implemented in community practice and why they fail to achieve the same outcomes as those observed in clinical trials.

Patterns in the Primes

Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium 160 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Prime numbers have intrigued mathematicians, amateur and professional alike, for thousands of years. Some of the most pertinent questions today probably stem from classical times. In this lecture, Dr. Granville will discuss some well-known patterns in the primes and explain some of the latest progress.

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