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The B.S. in Physics Returns to Sonoma State University!

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September 23, 2024

How do Neurons, Humans, and Artificial Neural Networks Predict?

Sarah Marzen
Pitzer, Scripps, and Claremont McKenna College

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Dr. Sarah Marzen of Pitzer, Scripps, and Claremont McKenna College will pose the question: Do neurons, humans, and artificial neural networks predict efficiently, and if so, how? Dr. Marzen attacks this problem with information theory and machine learning, applied to new experimental data.