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Talks Schedule

2026

Thursday, Jul 16, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:15AM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • New Talk

2026

Monday, Jul 13, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:15AM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Francis Corson (ENS Paris) How cells agree on making an embryo
    • Elad Schneidman (Weizmann Inst.) Architectural design principles of learning neural circuits
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Baruch Meerson (Hebrew Univ.) Invasion fronts of random walkers with cooperative reproduction
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Menachem Stern (AMOLF) Tutorial: Contrastive physical learning

2026

Tuesday, Jul 14, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:15AM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Ahmed El Hady (MPI-AB) Learning to forage
    • Mary Lisa Manning (Syracuse) Can physical learning drive hypotheses about mechanisms governing embryonic development?
  • Simons Amphitheater 02:00PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Bertrand Lacroix A Chez Toine (King's College London) Parametric correlations in non-Hermitian disordered dynamics

2026

Wednesday, Jul 15, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:15AM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Sidhartha Goyal (U. Toronto) Learning in regeneration
    • Dmitri Chklovskii (Simons Foundation) Intelligence from Instability: Prediction and Control in Dynamical Worlds
  • Simons Amphitheater 01:30PM New Trends in Non-equilibrium Dynamics

    • Madan Rao (NCBS) Active Control of Organelle Size and Number
    • Federica Ferretti (NITMB) Towards a statistical characterization of antibody immunodominance
  • Simons Amphitheater 03:30PM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • Nidhi Pashine (Syracuse) Mechanical memories in soft matter systems

2026

Thursday, Jul 16, 2026

  • Simons Amphitheater 09:15AM Biological Learning without a Brain

    • New Talk

2026

Friday, Jul 17, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Saturday, Jul 18, 2026

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2026

Sunday, Jul 19, 2026

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2026

Monday, Jul 20, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) From Local Growth Fluctuations to Organ-Scale Coordination: Building Robust Plant Organ
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 01:30PM
    • J1 Orientation

2026

Tuesday, Jul 21, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Xavier Trepat (IBEC) Understanding and programming tissue shape transitions
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Ertugrul Ozbudak (Northwestern) Two distinct timers control somite segmentation
    • Mattia Serra (UCSD) Positional Information and Information Flows in Dynamic Tissues

2026

Wednesday, Jul 22, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Anne Lise Routier Kierzkowska (U. de Montréal) New Talk
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Hadrien Oliveri (MPI-PZ) Hydromechanical field theory of plant morphogenesis
    • Karen Alim (TU Munich) Morphing of vascular networks

2026

Thursday, Jul 23, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Vanessa Barone (Stanford) Few cells, endless forms: echinoderms as a model for morphogenetic variation in early development
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Mary Lisa Manning (Syracuse) Features of rigidity transitions that depend on geometry (instead of coordination) in morphogenesis
    • Katharina Sonnen (Hubrecht Inst.) TBA

2026

Friday, Jul 24, 2026

  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Agata Burian (Univ. Silesia) Interplay between organ and vascular patterning in plants
  • Fred Kavli Auditorium 10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants

    • Aryeh Warmflash (Rice) Signaling dynamics and self-organization in stem-cell models of early development

2026

Saturday, Jul 25, 2026

No talks scheduled.

2026

Sunday, Jul 26, 2026

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