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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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Monday, Aug 11

9:00am Neurophysics of Active Sensing Fred Kavli Auditorium
All participants
Wrap-Up
Julie Simpson (UCSB)
Active sensing in grooming flies
10:45am Neurophysics of Active Sensing Fred Kavli Auditorium
Pavan Ramdya (EPFL)
Learned affordances and object manipulation in Drosophila
3:45pm Neurophysics of Active Sensing Simons Amphitheater
David Golomb (Ben-Gurion Univ.)
Special Theory Talk: The Ring Attractor

Tuesday, Aug 12

9:00am Neurophysics of Active Sensing Fred Kavli Auditorium
Matthieu Louis (UCSB)
Instantaneous active sampling enables precise turning control during larval navigation
10:45am Neurophysics of Active Sensing Fred Kavli Auditorium
Helen Hou (CSHL)
Alex Koulakov (CSHL)
Sensitive Detection and Analysis of Whole-Face Movement in Mice/Can theory help you win a fight?

Wednesday, Aug 13

9:00am Neurophysics of Active Sensing Fred Kavli Auditorium
Jonathan Victor (Cornell)
(Vision) task-dependent active sensing
10:45am Neurophysics of Active Sensing Fred Kavli Auditorium
Christopher Kirst (UCSF)
Dynamical mechanisms for flexible computations in neuronal networks
Giorgio Nicoletti (ICTP)
Inference of decision-making strategies with finite memory states

Thursday, Aug 14

9:00am Neurophysics of Active Sensing Fred Kavli Auditorium
Students (UCSB)
QBio School Presentations: Neurophysics of Active Sensing
10:45am Neurophysics of Active Sensing Fred Kavli Auditorium
Student Presentations Part II (UCSB)
QBio: Neurophysics of Active Sensing
3:45pm Neurophysics of Active Sensing Simons Amphitheater
Alex Koulakov (CSHL)
THEORY: Predictive coding in the early olfactory system

Friday, Aug 15

9:00am Neurophysics of Active Sensing Fred Kavli Auditorium
Andrew Leifer (Princeton)
Active sensorimotor processing in C. elegans: context dependency and state switching navigation
10:45am Neurophysics of Active Sensing Fred Kavli Auditorium
Madhu Venkadesan (Yale)
How to run on uneven terrain