Neurotheory Seminar Series

Unless stated otherwise, seminars are at 11:30 a.m in the 7th floor conference room (room 719) of the Kolb Annex of the NY State Psychiatric Institute (at the corner of 168th St. and Haven Ave. - view map).

Upcoming Seminars

Christian Machens
Champalimaud Foundation
“Efficient coding and balanced networks: a unification”

Past Seminars

View a history of past seminars here.

2012-2013 Academic Year

Patrick Roberts
Oregon Health & Science University
“Simulating symptomatic treatments for neurological and psychiatric disease to improve drug development and discovery”
Arianna Maffei
SUNY Stony Brook
“Experience-dependent plasticity of thalamocortical and cortico-cortical circuits”
Francesco Battaglia
University of Amsterdam
“Behavioral strategy dependent, NMDA receptor modulated changes in hippocampal dynamics and spatial representations”
John Cunningham
Washington University, St Louis
“From single neuron statistics to neural population analyses”
Guilio Tononi
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Canceled due to storm.
Tatyana Sharpee
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
“Minimal models of neural responses to natural stimuli”
Fred Wolf
Max Planck Institute, Göttingen
“Deterministic chaos in balanced state networks”
Daeyol Lee
Yale
“Reinforcement, punishment, and basal ganglia”
Robert Gütig
Max Planck Institute, Göttingen
“Self-supervised neuronal processing of sensory streams”
Mark D'Esposito
UC Berkeley
TBA
Alexei Koulakov
Cold Spring Harbor Lab
“Deciphering the olfactory code”
Yali Amit
University of Chicago
“A simple network model for a variety of delay match to sample tasks”
Alessandro Treves
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)
“A phase transition into higher cognition”
Ila Fiete
University of Texas, Austin
“Evidence of a new (exponentially strong) class of population codes in the brain”
Randall O'Reilly
University of Colorado, Boulder
“How adaptive control emerges from multiple intracting brain systems”
Misha Ahrens
Janelia Farm
“Functional circuit discovery via whole-brain imaging at cellular resolution using light-sheet microscopy”
Carl Petersen
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
“Synaptic mechanisms of sensory perception”
Nicole Rust
University of Pennsylvania
“The neural mechanisms involved in finding objects and switching between targets”
Jonathan Pillow
Uniersity of Texas, Austin
“Beyond Barlow: a Bayesian theory of efficient neural coding”
Bence Ölveczky
Harvard University
“Functional modularity in motor skill learning”
Kresimir Josic
University of Houston
“Measuring and interpreting correlated neuronal responses”
Stephen Scott
Queen's University
“Putting sensory back into motor control”
Eva Pastalkova
HHMI Janelia Farm
“Internally generated hippocampal activity and episodic memory”
Nathaniel Daw
New York University
“Computational mechanisms for learning from reward: Beyond reinforcement”
Christian Machens
Champalimaud Foundation
“Efficient coding and balanced networks: a unification”
Jonathan D. Victor
Weill Cornell Medical College
“How high-order image statistics shape cortical visual processing”
Michael Kahana
University of Pennsylvania
TBA
Maneesh Sahani
Gatsby Foundation
TBA
Michael Yartsev
Princeton University
TBA