| Friday 9 May 2025 | |
| Events for day: Thursday 28 December 2023 |
| 10:00 - 12:30 Weekly Seminar Biological models: articulating what is possible School BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES A review of enlightenment philosophy and mathematical modelling to emphasize how evolutionary theory/modelling is in the same tradition. We'll review foundational ideas in evolutionary biology in the light of this history by looking at the concept of the gene. We'll look at the important role of sex allocation theory in establishing evolutionary modelling/theory in general because of how well it satisfied important features of this scientific tradition. The idea of Darwin, Cobbs, Fisher, Hamilton, and Trivers will be covered as the foundations of sex allocation theory. I will the introduce a reinterpretation of evolution of sex ratio that sho ... 11:00 - 12:00 Theory weekly seminar (TWS) On Primordial Black holes School PARTICLES AND ACCELERATORS Abstract: In this talk, I briefly review Primordial Black Holes with a particular emphasis on their generation mechanism and the relevance of the primordial universe to their abundance. Meeting Place: Seminar Room, School of Particles and Accelerators, IPM Link to Join Virtually: https://meet.google.com/fnv-dfkk-ghb ... 14:00 - 16:00 Journal Club - Weekly Perceptual decisions are biased by the cost to act School COGNITIVE SCIENCES Based on: https://elifesciences.org/articles/18422 Meeting Place: Seminar Room, School of Cognitive Sciences, IPM |