New Postdoc Position at BottinLab (University of Trento) on AI-driven eye-tracking and neural decoding of mental images and dreams (fMRI/MEG + ML/DNN). Deadline application on August 29th, 2025.
Are you finishing your postdoc and now looking for a junior prosition in academia? This is for you if you are interested in combining AI and statistical physics.
We announce two Simons-FAPESP tenure-track research professor positions to begin in 2026, with the first in connections of physics to biology and the second in other areas related to theoretical physics. Candidates are encouraged to apply before Aug 31.
Join us in Danang, Vietnam to celebrate the 14th edition of CSoNet 2025! Submission deadline has been extended to August 18, 2025.
Computation is perhaps one of the most influential terms of the last century. However, I believe we must reformulate this concept in terms of its substrate, that is, what performs the computations. Today I am going to review a paper in that direction, which opens up avenues toward understanding chemical computation.
How and why did human language evolve? What are the social, cognitive and environmental pressures that drive the emergence of language and shape its structure? As a postdoctoral researcher, you will explore the ecological conditions under which compositionality and dishonest signalling emerge in novel communication systems, using state-of-the-art Virtual Reality experiments.
How and why did human language evolve? What are the social, cognitive, and environmental pressures that drive the emergence of language and shape its structure? As a PhD candidate, you will explore the ecological conditions under which compositionality and dishonest signalling emerge in novel communication systems, using state-of-the-art swarm robotics models.
PhD in Developing an EEG-based neural model of human working memory, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Application deadline is 18 August 2025, or until filled
The Polish Symposium on Physics in Economics and Social Sciences (FENS 2025) is a well-established event that has been bringing together physicists, economists, and social scientists interested in applying statistical physics methods to challenges encountered in their respective fields.
While there is not full consensus on how to define the specifics of Open-Ended Evolution (OEE), at a high level it describes organisms that are continuously evolving and changing, rather than eventually reaching a state where nothing changes. The paper I am going to review today proposes a formal framework for discussing OEE. Surprisingly, the authors allude to undecidability and computational irreducibility, which reminds us of many other narratives we have discussed here. What's new under their lens? Is evolution a computational phenomenon?