https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Victor_Quintanar-ZilinskasVictor Quintanar-Zilinskas - Revision history2026-04-06T02:39:20ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.1https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?title=Victor_Quintanar-Zilinskas&diff=39287&oldid=prevVictorqz at 07:53, 27 April 20112011-04-27T07:53:51Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Victor Quintanar-Zilinskas''' is a graduate student at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Irvine University of California, Irvine]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. With [http://www.ucidevcell.org/faculty/edwin-monuki/ Ed Monuki], he studies the systems biology of transcription factor gradient maintenance over long distances and the developmental effects of mechanical forces</del>. His research focus, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">advised by [http://cbmspc.eng.uci.edu/ Zoran Nenadic] and </del>linked with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">interesting </del>experimental results of his collaborators [http://jn.physiology.org/content/103/4/2301.abstract Xiangmin Xu], [http://frostiglab.bio.uci.edu/ Ron Frostig], and [http://<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cahill</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bio</del>.uci.edu/ <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Larry Cahill</del>], is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the emergence of </del>system-level information processing <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">properties of </del>many-neuron (on the order of 1000s) networks. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Institute SFI] faculty member [http://lander-office.bio.uci.edu/landerfacts.html Arthur Lander] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is, in one way or another, involved with all of Victor's projects</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Victor Quintanar-Zilinskas''' is a graduate student at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Irvine University of California, Irvine]. His <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">current </ins>research focus, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>linked with the experimental results of his collaborators [http://jn.physiology.org/content/103/4/2301.abstract Xiangmin Xu], [http://frostiglab.bio.uci.edu/ Ron Frostig], and [http://<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">www</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">faculty</ins>.uci.edu/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">profile.cfm?faculty_id=3220 Raju Metherate</ins>], is system-level <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dynamics and </ins>information processing <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </ins>many-neuron (on the order of 1000s) networks. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">His advisors are [http://cbmspc.eng.uci.edu/ Zoran Nenadic] and </ins>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Institute SFI] faculty member [http://lander-office.bio.uci.edu/landerfacts.html Arthur Lander].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Victor intends <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for </del>his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">research focus </del>to<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, in the near future, evolve into </del>the study of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">following two phenomena (the second requiring understanding </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first). One, the working </del>brain <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">frequently witnesses </del>brief episodes of self-organized synchrony between groups of neurons<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Two, </del>complex dynamics <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">generate information </del>(Turing patterns are an illustration of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this idea</del>); this is difficult to study <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in the brain</del>, but <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there are </del>[http://www.ics.uci.edu/~welling/publications/papers/herding_icml09_final.pdf modeling] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</del>and [http://www.jneurosci.org/content/30/27/9017.abstract <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">EEG analysis</del>]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">) </del>results <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to suggest that probability inferences (and and information that is fundamentally an interpretation of, rather than intrinsic to, sensory input, e.g. instinctive evaluation of odorant toxicity) </del>are <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">among the types </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cognitively useful information that the brain's dynamics can produce</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Over the next five years, </ins>Victor intends <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to turn the focus of </ins>his <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">network modeling </ins>to the study of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1) </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">information-processing consequences </ins>of the brain<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s frequent </ins>brief episodes of self-organized synchrony between groups of neurons <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2) the potential for cognitive utilization of information generated by </ins>complex dynamics (Turing patterns are an illustration of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">such generation</ins>); <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">what he will learn </ins>this <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">summer at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Institute SFI] (from both modules and peers) will be highly applicable to the pursuit of these topics. The latter topic </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">particularly </ins>difficult to study, but <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">information-generative </ins>[http://www.ics.uci.edu/~welling/publications/papers/herding_icml09_final.pdf modeling] and [http://www.jneurosci.org/content/30/27/9017.abstract <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">olfactory computation</ins>] results are <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">likely starting points </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">reference</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Victor intends for his research focus to, in the near future, evolve into the study of the following two (related) phenomena. First, the working brain frequently witnesses brief episodes of self-organized synchrony between groups of neurons. Second, complex dynamics generate information (Turing patterns are an illustration of this idea). This is difficult to study in the brain, but there are [http://www.ics.uci.edu/~welling/publications/papers/herding_icml09_final.pdf <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Modeling</del>] (and [http://www.jneurosci.org/content/30/27/9017.abstract EEG analysis]) results to suggest that probability inferences (and and information that is fundamentally an interpretation of, rather than intrinsic to, sensory input, e.g. instinctive evaluation of odorant toxicity) are among the types of cognitively useful information that the brain's dynamics can produce.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Victor intends for his research focus to, in the near future, evolve into the study of the following two (related) phenomena. First, the working brain frequently witnesses brief episodes of self-organized synchrony between groups of neurons. Second, complex dynamics generate information (Turing patterns are an illustration of this idea). This is difficult to study in the brain, but there are [http://www.ics.uci.edu/~welling/publications/papers/herding_icml09_final.pdf <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">modeling</ins>] (and [http://www.jneurosci.org/content/30/27/9017.abstract EEG analysis]) results to suggest that probability inferences (and and information that is fundamentally an interpretation of, rather than intrinsic to, sensory input, e.g. instinctive evaluation of odorant toxicity) are among the types of cognitively useful information that the brain's dynamics can produce.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Victor Quintanar-Zilinskas''' is a graduate student at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Irvine University of California, Irvine]. His <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">current </del>research focus is the emergence of system-level information processing properties of many-neuron (on the order of 1000s) networks<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; he also studies the systems biology </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">transcription factor gradient maintenance over long distances</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Victor Quintanar-Zilinskas''' is a graduate student at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Irvine University of California, Irvine<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]. He includes among his interests the systems biology of transcription factor gradient maintenance over long distances and the developmental effects of mechanical forces; these lines of work are pursued with [http://www.ucidevcell.org/faculty/edwin-monuki/ Ed Monuki</ins>]. His research focus<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, advised by [http://cbmspc.eng.uci.edu/ Zoran Nenadic] and linked with the interesting experimental results of his collaborators [http://jn.physiology.org/content/103/4/2301.abstract Xiangmin Xu], [http://frostiglab.bio.uci.edu/ Ron Frostig], and [http://cahill.bio.uci.edu/ Larry Cahill], </ins>is the emergence of system-level information processing properties of many-neuron (on the order of 1000s) networks<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Institute SFI] faculty member [http://lander-office.bio.uci.edu/landerfacts.html Arthur Lander] is, in one way or another, involved with all </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Victor's projects</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Victor was raised in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California Palo Alto, CA] and his interests and outlooks are heavily influenced by his upbringing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley Silicon Valley's] technoculture. He double-majored in math and biology at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University Santa Clara University] (class of 2009), where he did his first computational neuroscience research, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">engendering </del>his current interests. He also worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gbowker/ Geoffrey Bowker] (who was, at the time, at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University Santa Clara University]) to characterize the work practices of scholar communities that study complex systems (e.g. networks of ecologists that study various facets of the same ecosystem) and explain them in the context of the historical trajectory of scientific understanding of the systems under study. The study's conclusion, which will be appreciated by but unsurprising to this page's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Institute SFI]-affiliated readers, was that the increasing temporal resolution of data is encouraging a shift from the study of system processes to the study of salient events (e.g. shifts between stable states of the composition of an ocean bacteria population; large storms). Victor's current "applied philosophy" interest is the connections between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism Constructivism], creativity theory, and interdisciplinarity--<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">especially when the interdisciplinarity </del>is a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">consequence of the study </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a complex/systems phenomenon. Currently, few dispute the intuition that arriving at an understanding of a complex phenomenon can involve some conceptual creativity that crosses traditional disciplinary bounds--but, this idea currently lacks the kind of philosophical crystallization that 1) would reveal various corollaries 2</del>) <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">enable its explicit application in scientific and educational practice</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Victor was raised in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California Palo Alto, CA] and his interests and outlooks are heavily influenced by his upbringing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley Silicon Valley's] technoculture. He double-majored in math and biology at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University Santa Clara University] (class of 2009), where he did his first computational neuroscience research, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sparking </ins>his current interests. He also worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gbowker/ Geoffrey Bowker] (who was, at the time, at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University Santa Clara University]) to characterize the work practices of scholar communities that study complex systems (e.g. networks of ecologists that study various facets of the same ecosystem) and explain them in the context of the historical trajectory of scientific understanding of the systems under study. The study's conclusion, which will be appreciated by but unsurprising to this page's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Institute SFI]-affiliated readers, was that the increasing temporal resolution of data is encouraging a shift from the study of system processes to the study of salient events (e.g. shifts between stable states of the composition of an ocean bacteria population; large storms). Victor's current "applied philosophy" interest is the connections between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism Constructivism], creativity theory, and interdisciplinarity--<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and in these ideas informing educational practice (Victor </ins>is a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">huge fan </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">curricular individualization</ins>).</div></td></tr>
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He also worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gbowker/ Geoffrey Bowker] (who was, at the time, at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University Santa Clara University]) to characterize the work practices of scholar communities that study complex systems (e.g. networks of ecologists that study various facets of the same ecosystem) and explain them in the context of the historical trajectory of scientific understanding of the systems under study. The study's conclusion, which will be appreciated by but unsurprising to this page's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Institute SFI]-affiliated readers, was that the increasing temporal resolution of data is encouraging a shift from the study of system processes to the study of salient events (e.g. shifts between stable states of the composition of an ocean bacteria population; large storms). Victor's current "applied philosophy" interest is the connections between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism Constructivism], creativity theory, and interdisciplinarity--especially when the interdisciplinarity is a consequence of the study of a complex/systems phenomenon. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In short</del>, few dispute the intuition that arriving at an understanding of a complex phenomenon can involve some conceptual creativity that crosses traditional disciplinary bounds, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lack </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this idea's </del>philosophical crystallization <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">suggests strongly </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we do not yet deeply understand this intuition's meaning </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">corollaries</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Victor was raised in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California Palo Alto, CA] and his interests and outlooks are heavily influenced by his upbringing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley Silicon Valley's] technoculture. He double-majored in math and biology at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University Santa Clara University] (class of 2009), where he did his first computational neuroscience research, engendering his current interests. He also worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gbowker/ Geoffrey Bowker] (who was, at the time, at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_University Santa Clara University]) to characterize the work practices of scholar communities that study complex systems (e.g. networks of ecologists that study various facets of the same ecosystem) and explain them in the context of the historical trajectory of scientific understanding of the systems under study. The study's conclusion, which will be appreciated by but unsurprising to this page's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Institute SFI]-affiliated readers, was that the increasing temporal resolution of data is encouraging a shift from the study of system processes to the study of salient events (e.g. shifts between stable states of the composition of an ocean bacteria population; large storms). Victor's current "applied philosophy" interest is the connections between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism Constructivism], creativity theory, and interdisciplinarity--especially when the interdisciplinarity is a consequence of the study of a complex/systems phenomenon. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Currently</ins>, few dispute the intuition that arriving at an understanding of a complex phenomenon can involve some conceptual creativity that crosses traditional disciplinary bounds<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">--but</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this idea currently lacks </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">kind </ins>of philosophical crystallization that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1) would reveal various corollaries 2) enable its explicit application in scientific </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">educational practice</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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