New Minds in Computation and Cognition
WTI Postdoctoral Symposium
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
9:30 am - 12:15 pm
100 College Street
Floor 11, Workshop 1116
WTI presents three outstanding young scientists to share their research bridging computation and cognition. Join us on January 22 at 100 College to learn about new findings across these fields and explore potential collaborations with aspiring computational Wu Tsai Postdoctoral Fellows. All Yale community members are welcome.
View the working agenda and speakers below. Faculty members, if you would like to meet one-on-one with any of these speakers, please contact WTI's program manager, Liz Knapp.
Agenda + Speakers
Arrive early for breakfast and coffee beginning at 9:30 am in the Floor 11 lounge.
Genetics, anatomy, and state are embedded in the activity of individual neurons
Area: Computational and systems biology
Lab of Keith Hengen, Washington University
From tokens to thought: How do large language models learn?
Area: Artificial intelligence
Labs of Tim Rocktäschel and Ed Grefenstette, University College London
Abstraction in human and machine learning
Area: Quantitative and computational neuroscience
Labs of Tom Griffiths and Jon Cohen, Princeton University