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The Center for the Physics of Biological Function (CPBF), a joint effort between The Graduate Center at CUNY and Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Joined August 2017
Today, HM The King presented the #QEPrize2025 trophies to Dr Bill Dally, Dr Fei-Fei Li, Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Jensen Huang, Professor John Hopfield, Dr Yann LeCun, and Professor Yoshua Bengio at St James’s Palace.
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Believe it or not, we're almost halfway through our Monday Seminar Series for the semester. Thank you to those who have visited us so far: Mor Nitzan, Daniel Blair, Liam Holt and Sahand Hormoz.
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Congratulations Kelsey Hallinen, who is starting a new position as Assistant Physics Professor at University of Oregon!
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Missed John Hopfield's Nobel speech? Here's the online version:
journals.aps.org
The 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton. This paper is the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.
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It was an honor to write this, but also great fun. A chance to look back at the classics, and think about the path forward. #Physics is a beautiful human endeavor.
A Review on the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable #MachineLearning with #ArtificialNeuralNetworks" highlights the origins of this work in physics of living systems and what the future holds for the field. https://t.co/xmT0QKjsWf
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Now out in Physical Review Letters: work led by Andrew Pyo showing that the accumulation of beneficial mutations can be greatly accelerated by a mutation rate that decreases with increasing relative fitness. https://t.co/At4MqGVVw0
journals.aps.org
Motivated by recent observations that mutation rates can be correlated with individual fitness, we analyze an evolutionary hill-climbing model with fitness-dependent mutation rates. Our results show...
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