Physics of Neural Systems II

Presentations

• Self-organising neural systems

  Invited-In-person · Invited · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Adrienne Fairhall

    • University of Washington

  Authors

  • Adrienne Fairhall

    • University of Washington

  • David Bell

    • University of Washington

  • Alison Duffy

  • Ilse Dippenaar

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• A deeper dive into neural mechanisms of Drosophila color preference

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Zichao Liu

    • University of Miami

  Authors

  • Zichao Liu

    • University of Miami

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• Slow timescales generically emerge from divisive normalization

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Mia Morrell

    • New York University (NYU)

  Authors

  • Mia Morrell

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Flaviano Morone

    • New York University (NYU)

  • David Heeger

  • Stefano Martiniani

    • New York University (NYU)

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• Feedback control algorithms in animal's neural behavior

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: Z. J. Wang, Insect Flight, from Newton's law to Neurons, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2016
  Z. J. Wang, J. Melfi. Jr., A. Leonardo, Righting mechanisms in the dragonfly's righting reflex, Science, 2022
  O, Wetherbee and Z. J. Wang, Discovering Stable Flapping Flight and Explicit Criteria for Stability in Morphological Space, APS Global Summit, 2024
  Z. J. Wang, Stability and Optimal Conditions for 1D time-delayed control algorithm, preprint

  Presenters

  • Z Jane Wang

    • Cornell University

  Authors

  • Z Jane Wang

    • Cornell University

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• Pitching in for optimal (yaw) estimation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.21081

  Presenters

  • Charles Edelson

    • Princeton Univeristy

  Authors

  • Charles Edelson

    • Princeton Univeristy

  • Robert de Ruyter

    • Indiana University Bloomington

  • Sima Setayeshgar

    • Indiana University Bloomington

  • William Bialek

    • Princeton University

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•  A Nonlinear Information-Theoretic Approach Reveals the Low Dimensionality of Visual Neural Codes

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Eslam Abdelaleem

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Eslam Abdelaleem

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Leo Wood

  • Benyuan Liu

    • Georgia institute of technology

  • M. Shane Li

  • Yung-Ying Chen

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Simon Sponberg

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Audrey Sederberg

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Quenching variability of Drosophila larval behavior using multi-sensory stimulation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Silverio Johnson

    • Syracuse University

  Authors

  • Silverio Johnson

    • Syracuse University

  • Mirna Skanata

    • Syracuse University

  • Yiming Xu

    • Syracuse University

  • Sophie DeCristofaro

  • Taylor Powell

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• Simple low-dimensional computations explain neuronal activity

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Publication: Christopher W. Lynn. "Simple low-dimensional computations explain variability in neuronal activity", arXiv preprint (2025).

  Presenters

  • Christopher Lynn

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Christopher Lynn

    • Yale University

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• Emergence of strong connections in branching neurons

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Bryce Lowden

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Bryce Lowden

    • Yale University

  • Christopher Lynn

    • Yale University

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• Bayesian Calibration of Seizure Risk Forecasting using Electrocorticographic Network Features

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Louis Nemzer

    • Nova Southeastern University

  Authors

  • Louis Nemzer

    • Nova Southeastern University

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• Large scale collective neural cell dynamics in Alzheimer's Disease and aging

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Anna Emenheiser

    • University of Maryland College Park

  Authors

  • Anna Emenheiser

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Emma Gentry

  • Sylvester Gates III

  • Kan Cao

  • Wolfgang Losert

    • University of Maryland College Park

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• Machine Learning with Living Neural Networks

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Noah Chongsiriwatana

    • University of Maryland College Park

  Authors

  • Noah Chongsiriwatana

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Anna Emenheiser

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Sylvester Gates III

  • Karima Perry

    • US Army Research Laboratory

  • Kate O'Neill

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Wolfgang Losert

    • University of Maryland College Park

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• Ubiquity of Uncertainty in Neuron Systems

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 6:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Bennett Lamb

    • University of Virginia

  Authors

  • Brandon Le

    • University of Virginia

  • Bennett Lamb

    • University of Virginia

  • Luke Benfer

  • Sriharsha Sambangi

  • Nisal Geemal Vismith

    • University of Virginia

  • Akshaj Jagarapu

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