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Physics of Behavior

  • Skylight Room and via Zoom 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 (map)

Friday, October 7
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT
Skylight Room and via Zoom

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The physics of behavior aims at a more complete characterization of complex animal movements under more naturalistic conditions. This symposium samples recent progress in this field. We will hear from theorists and experimentalists as they discuss how ideas from dynamical systems theory and statistical physics can create simple yet predictive models of animal behavior across scales, and how new methods, driven by advances in computer vision and deep learning, are bringing us toward precise and automated quantifications of behavior in diverse organisms and contexts.


10:00 AM
Quantifying behavior using deep learning
Talmo Pereira
Salk Institute

11:30 AM
Break

12:00 PM
Physics of behavior across scales:
from partial observations to long time scales through maximally predictive states

António Carlos Costa
École Normale Supérieure, Paris

1:30 PM
Lunch in Skylight Room

2:30 PM
Quantifying the structure of multi-agent behavior
Ann Kennedy
Northwestern University


This event is sponsored in part by the Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a joint effort of the CUNY Graduate Center and Princeton University.

Earlier Event: October 4
Excited Strings
Later Event: October 13
Seminar with Yara Yingling