We are recruiting undergraduate students to present posters about their BE-related research projects in our symposium for a 60-minute time slot. As a participant, you will learn how to design and pitch your poster from the BE Communication Lab, and have your poster printed for free by BE-IT.You’ll have the opportunity to discuss your work with the fabulous folks who make up our department while enjoying free food and drinks (not to mention, symposium presentations always strengthen a CV). Oh, and those who present the best posters will be awarded prizes! What’s not to love?If you are interested, talk to your research advisor, and sign up here.

Book: Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse.All are welcome, even if you haven't read the book. Feel free to bring your own tea or coffee and enjoy a great conversation with fellow book lovers.If you are interested in joining the discussion, please email this.is.jemma.koo@gmail.com.

Date/Time: Friday April 25, 2-4pm ESTIn-person location: 46-6011 (Simons Center for the Social Brain)Zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/3188129440Title: Multi-Object Working Memory and Motion Prediction in the Primate BrainAbstract:Primates excel at rapid learning and flexible generalization in many domains. For example, we can learn how to drive a car after just a few hours of practice, then readily generalize when driving an unfamiliar car. Rapid learning and flexible generalization are thought to rely on a reusable mental model of the world in terms of objects and how objects move. However, the mechanisms by which the brain represents scenes of objects and predicts their motion are largely mysterious. To address this knowledge gap, we studied (i) how the brain represents multi-object scenes, and (ii) how the brain predicts the motion of an object through time. For both of these questions, we considered long-standing cognitive theories and tested these theories in neural data, namely neural activity recorded from monkeys trained on multi-object representation and prediction tasks. In this defense I will present the outcomes of this work, focusing primarily on the neural mechanisms of motion prediction.

Page lab I "Epigenomic Landscape of the Human "Inactive" X Chromosome"

Ten minutes for your mind@2:50 every day at 2:50 pm in multiple time zones:Europa@2:50, EET, Athens, Helsinki (UTC+2) (7:50 am EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88298032734Atlantica@2:50, EST, New York, Toronto (UTC-4) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85349851047Pacifica@2:50, PST, Los Angeles, Vancouver (UTC=7) (5:50 pm EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85743543699Almost everything works better again if you unplug it for a bit, including your mind. Stop by and unplug. Get the benefits of mindfulness without the fuss.@2:50 meets at the same time every single day for ten minutes of quiet together.No pre-requisite, no registration needed.Visit the website to view all @2:50 time zones each day.at250.org or at250.mit.edu

Speaker: Andrei Negut (EPFL)In person or on Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92441268505Title: q-characters for quantum loop algebrasAbstract: The representation theory of quantum affine algebras has been the subject of intense study for almost 30 years, an important aspect of which are the q-characters introduced by Frenkel-Reshetikhin. I will survey recent developments that generalize this framework (specifically that of the Hernandez-Jimbo category O) to quantum loop groups associated to any Kac-Moody Lie algebra, and introduce new shuffle algebra tools for the computation of q-characters.