Date Apr 15, 2019, 12:00 pm – 12:00 pm Location Joseph Henry Room, Jadwin Hall Audience A free lecture open to the public. Share on X Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Speaker Markus Meister Affiliation California Institute of Technology Presentation Large Ratios in Brain Science Details Event Description In physics and engineering dimensionless numbers frequently help to characterize the state of a system. I will present a series of vignettes about unusually large dimensionless numbers that arise in brain science. These can indicate issues that are poorly understood, and in some cases clearly misunderstood.
