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Join Daniel as he discusses what makes control so hard, especially in the face of incomplete or rapidly changing information about the world
About this Event
Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert is fascinated by how the brain controls our every movement. The ease with which humans move our arms, our eyes, even our lips when we speak masks the true complexity of the control. While computers can now beat grandmasters at chess, no computer can yet control a robot to manipulate a chess piece with the dexterity of a six-year-old child. Join Daniel as he discusses what makes control so hard, especially in the face of incomplete or rapidly changing information about the world.
Daniel Wolpert read medicine at Cambridge before completing an Oxford Physiology DPhil & a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT. He joined the faculty at the Institute of Neurology, UCL in 1995 & moved to Cambridge University in 2005 where he was Professor of Engineering & a Royal Society Research Professor. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) & made a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator. In 2018 he joined the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University as Professor of Neuroscience. His research interests are computational & experimental approaches to human movement.
Wednesday November 13, 2019
Lecture: 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Lecture Hall (3rd Floor)
2950 Broadway (at 116th Street)
New York, NY
RSVP by Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Registration is required; Seating is first come, first served.
This event will also be live streamed .
For more information about this event, please contact the Zuckerman Institute at zuckermaninstitute@columbia.edu
This talk is part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture series, offered free to the public to enhance understanding of the biology of the mind & the complexity of human behavior. The lectures are hosted by Columbia's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute & supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
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