The Center for the Physics of Biological Function (CPBF), a joint effort between The Graduate Center at CUNY and Princeton University
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Today, HM The King presented the #QEPrize2025 trophies to Dr Bill Dally, Dr Fei-Fei Li, Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Jensen Huang, Professor John Hopfield, Dr Yann LeCun, and Professor Yoshua Bengio at St James’s Palace.
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8 Oct 2025
Believe it or not, we're almost halfway through our Monday Seminar Series for the semester. Thank you to those who have visited us so far: Mor Nitzan, Daniel Blair, Liam Holt and Sahand Hormoz.
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18 Sep 2025
Congratulations Kelsey Hallinen, who is starting a new position as Assistant Physics Professor at University of Oregon!
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25 Aug 2025
Missed John Hopfield's Nobel speech? Here's the online version: journals.aps.org/rmp/abstrac…
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7 Aug 2025
It was an honor to write this, but also great fun. A chance to look back at the classics, and think about the path forward. #Physics is a beautiful human endeavor.
A Review on the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable #MachineLearning with #ArtificialNeuralNetworks" highlights the origins of this work in physics of living systems and what the future holds for the field.
go.aps.org/4m6HO5R
ALT An illustration of an artificial neural network, a series of connected colored circles inside of a cartoon of a brain.
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Now out in Physical Review Letters: work led by Andrew Pyo showing that the accumulation of beneficial mutations can be greatly accelerated by a mutation rate that decreases with increasing relative fitness.
journals.aps.org/prl/abstrac…
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