Pint of Science May 19th-21st @ Wearies - Navigating to Future
Tue, May 20
|Wearies (Parking in Back)
https://pintofscience.us/event/navigating-to-the-future
Time & Location
May 20, 2025, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Wearies (Parking in Back), 2819 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405, USA
About the event
Get your tickets here: https://pintofscience.us/event/navigating-to-the-future
How can you get to your favorite spot using the shortest route or get your food delivered faster? Join us to learn how organisms and AI learn to choose the most convenient routes in real life.
From Options to Actions: Studying Decisions in Navigating Rats
Sukriti Gupta (Graduate Student, UCLA)
Making decisions is part of daily life, but not all choices are the same. Some involve comparing options directly, while others require accepting or rejecting based on past experience. In my research, I study these decisions in rats by baiting them with uncertain sugar rewards, focusing on how choices unfold across space.