At this Dinners With Interesting People (DWIP) event, the featured guest will be Vijay Balasubramanian. As you can see from the linked page and from his Google Scholar page, Vijay's work covers a wide area of apparently different fields -- his recent papers include things like "de Sitter space is sometimes not empty" and also things like "Neuronal bases of efficient coding of natural scenes in rat visual cortex" and "Is stochastic thermodynamics the key to understanding the energy costs of computation?"

Depending on your background, these topics may seem intimidatingly dense, but Vijay has a genius for explaining deep ideas in an accessible way -- and he brings his diverse areas of work together with the explanation

I am interested in how natural systems manipulate and process information, producing new forms of self-organization.

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