{"title": "Special Biomathematics Seminar – Yasmine Meroz (TAU)", "start": "2026-11-11T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T14:00:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/biology/biophysics"], "description": "A special biomathematics seminar, open to all and with seating first come first served. Yasmine Meroz of Tel Aviv University gives a talk titled 'Plants as a Window on Decentralized Computation and Mechanical Intelligence', presenting plants as a model system in which sensing, information processing and behavior emerge from growth and mechanics without a brain or nervous system. She shows how plants represent directional light as vectors, with perceptual distortions akin to optical illusions, and how climbing plants test the stiffness of supports before twining around them. The seminar is hosted by Omer Karin at Imperial College London and takes place in room 130 of the Huxley Building on the South Kensington Campus.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/special-biomathematics-seminar-yasmine-meroz-tau-122183/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/216244/special-biomathematics-seminar-yasmine-meroz-tau/", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T14:00:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Biomathematics seminar – Alejandro Torres-Sánchez (EMBL-Barcelona)", "start": "2026-11-09T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T14:00:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/biology"], "description": "A biomathematics seminar at Imperial College London, open to all and running for one hour in room 140 of the Huxley Building on the South Kensington Campus. The speaker is Alejandro Torres-Sánchez from EML-Barcelona, invited by Barbara Bravi. His talk, 'Can one see a force? Inferring mechanics from images of cells and tissues', discusses how mechanical forces shaping cells and tissues can be inferred from images rather than measured directly. He presents EchoEx, a differentiable simulation framework built on JAX, illustrated by inferring the mechanics of the actin cable during zebrafish gastrulation from live imaging.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/biomathematics-seminar-alejandro-torres-sanchez-embl-barcelo-106231/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/216139/biomathematics-seminar-alejandro-torres-sanchez-embl-barcelona/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Beinghood: More-than-Human Intelligence and Ancestral Futures", "start": "2026-11-19T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland", "address": "Fitzroy Street 50, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment", "society"], "description": "A hybrid talk and conversation on beinghood, a mode of existence grounded in relation, presence, agency and participation in a world of many beings. It features Fernanda Gebara, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, in conversation with Jemma Foster, Founder and Director of Wild Alchemy Labs. Drawing on Gebara's forthcoming book Chanting Spring: Indigenous Wisdom for Ancestral Futures and her two decades of work with Indigenous peoples, particularly in the Amazon, the discussion explores plant intelligence, ancestral intelligence and how recognising other beings as sources of knowledge might guide responses to ecological and social crises. 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Using plant biodata to trigger notes on a specially built modular synthesizer in a process called 'bionsonification', he crosses boundaries between the more-than-human fungal world and electronic music. The event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK's national festival of the humanities, led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mushroom-music-and-dance-gig-70650/", "official_url": "https://sohopoly.co.uk/events/mushroom-music-and-dance-gig/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e76a85a37a39dc0e894dbd72b53b2e10eef2668ffbee9cbbec3d7f428415832a-2000.webp"}]}