Complexity in Biological systems B

Chair Information
Chairman: 
Avraham Be'er
Chairman details: 
Avraham Be'er (Ben Gurion University)
Information
Location: 
Eng. 271
Program start time: 
16:15
Program end time: 
18:00

Lectures for this program:

Lecture Time Speaker Lecture subject
16:15-16:30 Shay Be'er Effect of reaction-step-size noise on the dynamics of stochastic populations
In stochastic population dynamics, one form of non-demographic noise is extrinsic noise which introduces uncertainty ove...
16:30-16:45 Or Levy[1] Retroelements Network – activity and dynamics in genome evolution
Retroelements (REs) are transposable genetic elements that propagate via a 'copy and paste' mechanism in a manner simila...
16:45-17:00 Yael Fried Communities as cliques
High-diversity assemblages are very common in nature, still the factors allowing for the maintenance of biodiversity are...
17:00-17:15 Nimrod Shaham [1] Continuous parameter working memory in a balanced chaotic neural network
Neurons,
17:15-17:30 Noga Weiss Mosheiff [1] An Efficient Coding Theory for a Dynamic Trajectory Predicts non-Uniform Allocation of Grid Cells to Modules in the Entorhinal Cortex
Neurons in an area of the mammalian brain, the medial entorhinal cortex, fire only when the animal is located in pa...
17:30-17:45 Haim Weissmann Predicting Catastrophic shifts
Catastrophic shif
17:45-18:00 Merav Stern Evoked responses in recurrent networks with multiple sub-populations
We study the evoked responses of recurrent neural networks composed of multiple sub-populations of neurons ("cell-types"...