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KITP Program: Neurophysics of Active Sensing
(Jul 14 - Aug 15, 2025)
Coordinators: David Kleinfeld, Matthieu Louis, Pavan Ramdya, Tatyana Sharpee, and Julie H. Simpson
Scientific Advisors: Kathleen Cullen and Massimo Vergassola

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Time Speaker Title
7/14, 1:30pm all participants
UCSB
Introductions and Meet/Greet
7/15, 9:00am Kathy Nagel
NYU Med
Disinhibition of a recurrent attractor gates a persistent goal signal for olfactory navigation[Video][CC]
7/15, 11:00am Venki Murthy
Harvard
Tracking scent trails: algorithms and mechanisms[Video][CC]
7/16, 9:00am David Schoppik
NYU
Something fishy about eye movements and locomotion[Slides][Video][CC]
7/16, 10:45am Thierry Emonet
Yale
Flies navigational responses to odor motion and gradient cues are tuned to plume statistics[Embargoed]
7/17, 9:00am Eugenia Chiappe
Champalimaud
Go with the Visual Flow: Circuit Mechanisms for Active Gaze Control[Embargoed]
7/17, 10:45am Massimo Vergassola
UCSD
Navigation by sensing olfactory cues[Video][CC]
7/17, 3:45pm Dmitri Chklovskii
Flatiron Institute
How do animals detect visual motion?[Video][CC]
7/18, 9:00am Matthew Wachowiak
Utah
The neurochemistry of active sensing by the olfactory system: Odorant metabolism suggests a novel role for inhalation-linked timing in odor coding and perception[Video][CC]
7/18, 10:30am David Kleinfeld
UCSD
The neurophysics of orofacial active sensing[Video][CC]
7/18, 11:30am Marie Suver
Vanderbilt
Active antennal sensing in Drosophila[Protected][Video][CC]
7/21, 9:00am Mitya Chklovskii
Flatiron
What does the neuron do? A new model for Neuroscience and AI[Slides][Video][CC]
7/21, 11:00am John Tuthill
UW
How does the nervous system generate the walking rhythm?[Video][CC]
7/22, 9:00am Kathy Cullen
Johns Hopkins
Predictive Coding of Self-Motion: Cerebellar Computations for Active Perception and Motor Control[Protected][Video][CC]
7/22, 10:45am Yonatan Aljadeff
UCSD
High dimensional predictive coding and active hiding[Video][CC]
7/23, 9:00am Tatyana Sharpee
Salk Institute
Active sensing in a distorted world[Video][CC]
7/23, 10:45am Lisa Fenk (Max Planck)
Lisa Kroell (MPI)
Neural mechanisms for active eye movements in Drosophila[Embargoed]
7/24, 9:00am Scott Pluta
Purdue
Neural mechanisms for localizing unexpected external motion[Video][CC]
7/24, 10:45am Lisa Stowers
Scripps (TSRI)
Strategic vomeronasal sampling modulates sensory signals during natural behavior[Video]
7/24, 3:45pm Dima Rinberg
NYU
THEORY: what the nose tells the brain[Video][CC]
7/25, 9:00am Andrew Gordus
Johns Hopkins
Dynamic sensing of web vibrations by postural changes in spiders[Video][CC]
7/25, 10:45am Matt Smear
Oregon
Olfactory bulb and hippocampus track breathing rhythms and place[Video][CC]
7/28, 9:00am Simon Sponberg
Georgia Tech
Linking action and perception in agile flower tracking flight of hawkmoths[Video][CC]
7/28, 11:00am Jane Wang
Cornell
Physics and Evolution of Insect Flight[Video][CC]
7/29, 9:00am Alipasha Vaziri
Rockefeller
Tools of the Trade[Embargoed]
7/29, 11:00am Brad Dickerson
(Princeton)
Jessica Fox
(Case Western)
Functional organization & multimodal sensory integration of haltere feedback for fly flight[Video][CC]
7/30, 9:00am Leo Petreanu
Champalimaud
Neural mechanisms for learning and storing world knowledge in sensory cortical areas[Video][CC]
7/30, 11:00am Katrin Vogt
U Konstanz
The complex social life of fly larvae[Video][CC]
7/31, 9:00am Sung Soo Kim
UCSB
Vector Computation for Navigation in Drosophila Central Complex[Video][CC]
7/31, 11:00am Ellie Heckscher
U Chicago
How is behavior constrained by development and evolution?[Video][CC]
7/31, 3:45pm Madhu Venkadesan
Yale
Dynamics of muscle fatigue[Video][CC]
8/01, 9:00am Floris Van Breugel
Nevada
information gathering as a guiding principle for movement[Embargoed]
8/01, 10:45am Cris Niell
U Oregon
Active vision and freely-moving visual behavior in the mouse[Video][CC]
8/04, 9:00am David Golomb
Ben-Gurion U
Object localization and control of vibrissa movement by touch and CPG during active sensing[Video][CC]
8/04, 10:45am Claire Wyart
ICM Paris
Actively sensing flow in fish: Interoception vs Exteroception[Video][CC]
8/04, 12:15pm David Kleinfeld
UCSD
Low- and high-level neural control of active sensing [Video]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
8/05, 9:00am Noah Cowan
JHU
Toward a Control Theory for Active Sensing[Video][CC]
8/05, 10:45am Akinao Nose
U Tokyo
How is motor pattern generated in Drosophila larva?[Video][CC]
8/06, 9:00am Max Joesch
IST Austria
Collective Neuronal Dynamics of Visual Spatial Attention[Video][CC]
8/06, 10:45am Gaspar Tkacik
IST Austria
The curse of optimality (and a bit of optimal adaptive coding)[Video][CC]
8/07, 9:00am Dima Rinberg
NYU
Olfactory information processing: Temporal sequences, geometry and relevance[Video][CC]
8/07, 10:15am Orit Peleg
CU Boulder
Active sensing and communication in fireflies and honeybees[Embargoed]
8/07, 11:00am Brian Smith
ASU
Sniffing antennae: How positioning and movements optimize odor detection in flying and walking honey bees[Video][CC]
8/07, 3:45pm Orit Peleg
CU Boulder
THEORY: How Local Sensing Leads to Animal Group Behavior
8/08, 9:00am Jean Baptiste Masson
Pasteur
Embodied neuroscience of decision making in drosophila larva[Video][CC]
8/08, 10:45am Mei Zhen
U Toronto
The language of a worm[Video][CC]
8/08, 10:45am Matt Smear
Oregon
Visualizing & Sonifying NeuroData (ViSoND) for enhanced observation[Video][CC]
8/11, 9:15am Julie Simpson
UCSB
Active sensing in grooming flies[Video][CC]
8/11, 10:50am Pavan Ramdya
EPFL
Learned affordances and object manipulation in Drosophila[Embargoed]
8/11, 3:45pm David Golomb
Ben-Gurion U
Special Theory Talk: Orientation selectivity in the visual cortex - The cortical mechanism[Video][CC]
8/12, 9:00am Matthieu Louis
UCSB
Instantaneous active sampling enables precise turning control during larval navigation[Protected][Video][CC]
8/12, 10:45am Helen Hou
CSHL
Sensitive detection and analysis of whole-face movement in mice/machine learning in olfaction[Embargoed]
8/12, 11:25am Alexei Koulakov
CSHL
Can theory help you win a fight?[Video][CC]
8/13, 9:00am Jonathan Victor
Cornell
(Visual) task-dependent active sensing[Video][CC]
8/13, 10:45am Christopher Kirst
UCSF
Functional self-reconfiguration processes in neuronal networks[Video][CC]
8/13, 11:25am Giorgio Nicoletti
ICTP
Inference of decision-making strategies with finite memory states[Video][CC]
8/14, 9:00am Students QBio School Presentations I: Neurophysics of Active Sensing[Video][CC]
8/14, 10:45am Students QBio School Presentations II: Neurophysics of Active Sensing[Video][CC]
8/14, 3:45pm Alex Koulakov
CSHL
THEORY: Predictive coding in the early olfactory system[Video][CC]
8/15, 9:00am Andrew Leifer
Princeton
Active sensorimotor processing in C. elegans: context dependency and state switching navigation[Video][CC]
8/15, 10:45am Madhu Venkadesan
Yale
How to run on uneven terrain[Video][CC]
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