Generation, Transformation,Transmission, Memorization, Storage and Expression of Information From Cell to LLM: Signals, Structures, Knowledge and Learning (1/6)

par Mikhail Gromov (IHES)

mardi 24 mars 2026, 11:00 → 12:30 Europe/Paris

Amphithéâtre Léon Motchane (IHES)

List of topics I want to present in a mathematically palatable language.

Life processes and information systems: from the cell to large language models (LLMs).
Viruses: information storage, transmission, and evolution.
Information warfare, organic poisons, infections, and immune systems.
The central dogma (Crick): principal information flow in the cell; information reduction under protein folding.
Metastability, catalysis, and signaling: signaling in cells, plants, animals, and humans.
Information reduction and energy dissipation in epigenesis / development: the emergence of a chick from an egg.
Information flows in animal nervous systems and the human brain: (broken) symmetries in olfaction, proprioception, somatosensation, vision, and audition.
Modularity of circuitry in cells and in the brain.
Poincaré–Sturtevant stochastic representations of geometry; object-dominated life-related (visual and non-visual) signals vs. stochastic continuity of abiotic signals.
Stochastic generative combinatorics in languages.
Information spaces and Kanerva’s sparse distributed memory (SDM) model.
Artificial neural networks, information geometry, and orthogonal symmetries in LLMs.
A mathematical perspective on learning, knowledge, and understanding.