Event time:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Location:
Bass Center for Molecular and Structural Biology ()
266 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
“The uses of memory in olfactory search”
Many organisms, from insects to mammals, have developed exquisite skills in searching for sources of odor, from huge distances and in highly unpredictable environments. How are sequences of sparse odor detections encoded in the memory of the searcher? And how are these translated into effective strategies to reach the source in the shortest time? In this talk I will review some attempts at answering these questions from an algorithmic viewpoint, with emphasis on the parsimonious usage of memory.
Hosts: Thierry Emonet and Michael Abbott
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