Elias Tannira
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 3:10 pm in Olin 141
Vision
Vision is a sensory input caused by light absorption in the eye. It allows organisms to survey
their environment for resources and harm, increasing their chance of survival. To be maximally
useful, vision needs to be reliable. Reliability is achieved by being consistently sensitive to the
weakest stimuli through decreasing the eye’s “internal noise level”. In this talk, we examine what
constitutes the eye’s internal noise level. We also delve into the underlying physics of the
molecular, cellular, and neural configurations contributing to the noise level’s minimization,
allowing organisms to see even in conditions of dim light.
This is our LAST comps talk! Whether you still need to attend one or not, join us for this wrap-up to the 2024-2025 comps season.