Workshop "Information processing and decision-making in biology" - 11 March

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

You are most welcome to attend the informal workshop
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that will take place on *Monday, March 11* *at ICTP *in the common area 
of the ex-SISSA building, 2nd floor, next to the QLS section.

Please feel free to forward this message on to your colleagues and 
students who may be interested in attending

*Program*

10:00 - 10:40 Tetsuya J. Kobayashi "Geometric structure of 
nonequilibrium chemical reaction networks"

10:40 - 11:10 Shuhei A. Horiguchi "Feedback control of chemical reaction 
networks"

11:10 - 11:40 Takehiro Tottori "Theory for Optimal Estimation and 
Control with Resource Limitations and its Applications to Biological 
Problems"

11:40 - 12:00 Masaki Kato "Understanding cell population sharing 
information through the environment as reinforcement learning"

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 14:30 Debraj Das "Thermodynamic tradeoffs constrain 
decision-making of nonequilibria in the human brain"

14:30 - 15:00 Giorgio Nicoletti "Tuning transduction from hidden 
observables to optimize information harvesting"

15:00-15:30 Alessandro Ingrosso "A computation-dissipation tradeoff for 
machine learning at the mesoscale"

15:30 - 16:00 Yonathan Sarmiento "On the area swept by a biased 
diffusion till its first-exit time: Martingale approach and gambling 
opportunities"



Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-2240623
www.ictp.it/research/qls.aspx
e-mail:qls at ictp.it