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AI Seminar- Virgil Griffith: Quantifying Synergy in Complex Systems

Speaker: Virgil Griffith, PhD from the California Institute of a Technology

Talk Title: Quantifying Synergy in Complex Systems

Abstract: Synergy is a fundamental concept in complex systems that has received much attention in computational biology. One clear application of synergistic information is in computational genetics. It is well understood that most phenotypic traits are influenced not only by single genes but by interactions among genes—for example, human eye-color is cooperatively specified by more than a dozen genes. The magnitude of this “cooperative specification” is the synergistic information between the set of genes X and a phenotypic trait Y . Another application is neuronal firings where potentially thousands of presynaptic neurons influence the firing rate of a single post-synaptic (target) neuron. Yet another application is discovering the “informationally synergistic modules” within a complex system.

Biography: Virgil Griffith is a newly minted PhD from the California Institute of a Technology. He is now works in Silicon Valley within the cryptocurrencies space.

Home Page: http://virgil.gr


Host: Greg Ver Steeg

Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=77c09f802a064f5d8935e818a691815a1d

Location: ISI- Marina Del Rey-Conf Rm # 1135

WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=77c09f802a064f5d8935e818a691815a1d

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Peter Zamar