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Quantum Physics Beyond Simple Systems (2014)

St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort State Road 187 kilometer 4.2, Río Grande, Puerto Rico

Organizers: Boris Altshuler, Columbia University Vladimir Falko, Lancaster University Charles Marcus, Neils Bohr Institute   The Simons Symposium on Quantum Physics Beyond Simple Systems was the second symposium organized on this topic, the first having been held in 2012. It offered another opportunity for researchers to discuss the fast-evolving themes of modern quantum complex systems....

February 26, 2014: Neuroimaging Contributions to the Understanding of Brain Development in Autism

While autism clearly involves altered function of the central nervous system, the neuropathology of the disorder remains controversial. This is due in part,to the enormous complexity of the disorder, which likely has many causes and many biological trajectories. It is also due to the fact that few neuroimaging studies involve very young children or severely affected individuals. This lack of information is compounded by the fact that findings at the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) level of analysis cannot be confirmed and extended to the cellular level due to a lack of postmortem brains.

Neuroimaging Contributions to the Understanding of Brain Development in Autism

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

While autism clearly involves altered function of the central nervous system, the neuropathology of the disorder remains controversial. This is due in part,to the enormous complexity of the disorder, which likely has many causes and many biological trajectories. It is also due to the fact that few neuroimaging studies involve very young children or severely affected individuals. This lack of information is compounded by the fact that findings at the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) level of analysis cannot be confirmed and extended to the cellular level due to a lack of postmortem brains.

Genes That Regulate Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Drosophila

Circadian (~24 hour) clocks are endogenous mechanisms that time the recurring, daily activities observed in most organisms. These clocks are genetically regulated, and generate biochemical oscillations within individual cells composing most tissues. Recently our laboratory has searched for and identified genes that affect the homeostatic regulation of sleep in Drosophila. This research has uncovered specific neurons whose activity promotes sleep.

Perspectives on Big Data in Biology

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

This Biotech Symposium will focus on perspectives on big data in biology from leading practitioners in the field.

Discrete Analysis: Beyond the Boolean Cube (2014)

March 9 – 15, 2014 Organizers: Elchanan Mossel, UC Berkeley Ryan O'Donnell, Carnegie Mellon University Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz, University of Warsaw The Simons Symposium on Discrete Analysis: Beyond the Boolean Cube was the second symposium organized on this topic. The first was held in 2012 and was called Analysis of Boolean Functions. This most recent meeting...

March 12, 2014: Learning With a Nontrivial Teacher

Learning Using Privileged Information (LUPI) is a new paradigm that uses an intelligent agent (a ‘nontrivial teacher’) to supplement standard training data in the context of supervised learning algorithms. Rather than using standard, brute-force methods to address the general problem of inference and the construction of intelligent machines, the LUPI learning model allows the teacher to add additional (privileged) information to the training examples.

Learning With a Nontrivial Teacher

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

Learning Using Privileged Information (LUPI) is a new paradigm that uses an intelligent agent (a ‘nontrivial teacher’) to supplement standard training data in the context of supervised learning algorithms. Rather than using standard, brute-force methods to address the general problem of inference and the construction of intelligent machines, the LUPI learning model allows the teacher to add additional (privileged) information to the training examples.

Galactic Superwinds: Beyond Phenomenology (2014)

March 23 - 29, 2014 Organizers: Andrew Benson, Carnegie Observatories Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie Observatories The goal of this symposium was to bring together leading experts in the theory and observation of galactic superwinds — outflows of mass, momentum and energy from galaxies thought to be driven by radiation and winds from stars, and by supernova...

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