Meetup : Tel Aviv: Rationality in the Immune System

There was a change of speaker after the first announcement.

On Tuesday, February 24, Liran Valadarsky will be speaking on rationality in the immune system.

Our immune system needs to balance many simultaneous and often contradictory tasks. For example, a weak inflammatory response might be insufficient to fight an infection while too strong of a response causes unnecessary damage and, in extreme cases, system failure. How does the immune system extract the relevant information from its environment and 'update its beliefs' so as to carry out the most relevant response?

Liran has a BSc in biology and is currently in transition between MSc and PhD in Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Where: Google, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon Street, Tel Aviv. Meet at the 29th floor (not the Google Campus floor). We'll then move to a room.

When: Tuesday, February 24 at 19:00

Contact: If you can't find us, call Anatoly, who is graciously hosting us, at 054-245-1060; or Joshua at 054-569-1165.

Facebook: Join the group. If you have FB, please RSVP at the FB event which will appear there, to help us get a sense of what to expect.

You can also post questions at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lesswrong-tel-aviv