Topic: competition

Algonauts 2023 was a challenge to create the best model that predicts fMRI brain activity given a seen image. Huze team dominated the competition and released a preprint detailing their process. This journal club meeting will involve open discussion of the paper with Q/A with Huze. Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.01175.pdf Related paper also from Huze that we can discuss: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.14021.pdf

Bats are extreme aviators and amazing navigators. Many bat species nightly commute dozens of kilometres in search of food, and some bat species annually migrate over thousands of kilometres. Studying bats in their natural environment has always been extremely challenging because of their small size (mostly <50 gr) and agile nature. We have recently developed novel miniature technology allowing us to GPS-tag small bats, thus opening a new window to document their behaviour in the wild. We have used this technology to track fruit-bats pups over 5 months from birth to adulthood. Following the bat

Foraging research aims at describing, understanding, and predicting resource-gathering behaviour. Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT) is a sub-discipline that emphasises that these aims can be aided by segmenting foraging behaviour into discrete problems that can be formally described and examined with mathematical maximization techniques. Examples of such segmentation are found in the isolated treatment of issues such as patch residence time, prey selection, information gathering, risky choice, intertemporal decision making, resource allocation, competition, memory updating, group structure, and so

Bats are extreme aviators and amazing navigators. Many bat species nightly com-mute dozens of kilometres in search of food, and some bat species annually migrate over thousands of kilometres. Studying bats in their natural environment has al-ways been extremely challenging because of their small size (mostly <50 gr) and agile nature. We have recently developed novel miniature technology allowing us to GPS-tag small bats, thus opening a new window to document their behaviour in the wild. We have used this technology to track fruit-bats pups over 5 months from birth to adulthood. Following the b

This conference is a free event that includes a range of activities to stimulate the cross-fertilization of ideas, including invited speaker talks, workshops, micro talks, an undergraduate research competition, a contest to discover mathematical questions in biology, and plenty of networking opportunities. Today's speakers: Nathalie Dostatni, Christopher Obara, Hernan Garcia, Aaron Dinner, David Lubensky, Jianping Fu