Neurotheory Seminar Series

Unless stated otherwise, seminars are at 11:30 a.m (NO LONGER AT 1pm) in the 7th floor conference room (room 719) of the Kolb Annex of the NY State Psychiatric Institute (building #3 on this map).

Next Seminar:

Friday 25 April, 2008
Brent Doiron
Univ of Pittsburgh
“Microcircuits and Macrodynamics in cortical processing”

2007-2008 Academic Year

Friday 30 May, 2008
Kurt Thouroughman
Washington U
“TBA”
Friday 9 May, 2008
Tai Sing Lee
CMU
“TBA”
Friday 2 May, 2008
Alex Reyes
NYU
“TBA”
Friday 25 April, 2008
Brent Doiron
Univ of Pittsburgh
“Microcircuits and Macrodynamics in cortical processing”
Friday 18 April, 2008
Stephanie Palmer
Princeton
“Predictive Information in the Retina”
Friday 11 April, 2008
Patric Kanold
Univ. of Maryland
“Early circuits that regulate cortical development and plasticity”
Friday 4 April, 2008
Ifat Levy
NYU
“TBA”
Friday 28 March, 2008
Bard Ermentrout
Univ. of Pittsburgh
“Reading the thoughts of a mollusk: The neural origins of seashell structure and pattern”
Friday 21 March, 2008
Note: this talk was cancelled, and rescheduled for May 16
Takao Hensch
Harvard University
“GABA circuit control of visual cortical plasticity”
Friday 14 March, 2008
Matthew Botvinick
Princeton University
“A Computational Substrate for Goal Directed Behavior”
Friday 7 March, 2008
Xiao-Jing Wang
Yale University
“TBA”
Friday 22 Feb, 2008
Konrad Koerding
Northwestern University
“TBA”
Friday 15 Feb, 2008
Yael Niv
Princeton University
“Opportunity Costs and response rates: How dopamine helps us choose how hard to work.”
Friday 18 Jan, 2008
Uri Rokni
Harvard
“Why Activities of Single Neurons in the Song Motor System do not Reflect the Song Structure”
Friday 11 Jan, 2008
Boris Gutkin
Group for Neural Theory, ENS-Paris and College de France.
“A Neurodynamics framework for understanding nicotine addiction”
Friday 14 Dec, 2007
Adam Kohn
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Adaptation in the cortical visual hierarchy”
Friday 7 Dec, 2007
Philip Holmes
Princeton University
“TBA.”
Friday 30 Nov, 2007
Bartlett Mel
University Southern California
“Some new (and Surprising) Roles for NMDA Channels in Single Neuron Computation”
Friday 16 Nov, 2007
Odelia Schwartz
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“TBA.”
Friday 9 Nov, 2007
Nathaniel Daw
New York University
“TBA.”
Friday 26 Oct, 2007
Laurenz Wiskott
Humboldt U.-Berlin
“TBA.”
Friday 19 Oct, 2007
Harel Shouval
UT-Houston
“Learning to represent interval timing”
*ROOM CHANGE*- This talk will be at 1:00 p.m in the Kolb Annex Room 570 (Mahoney Center)
Friday 12 Oct, 2007
Jonathan Victor
Cornell U.
“Estimation of information from neural data: why it is challenging, and why many approaches are useful”
Friday 28 Sep, 2007
Daniel A. Butts
Cornell U.
“Timing precision in the visual system: how and why”
Friday 21 Sep, 2007
Nestor Parga
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
“Predicting the receptive fields of V1 simple cells from the scale properties of natural scenes.”
Friday 14 Sep, 2007
Don Katz
Brandeis University
“"Single-neuron and network dynamics of taste perception"”

2006-2007 Academic Year

Friday 1 July, 2007
Misha Tsodyks
Weizmann Institute
“Short-term synaptic plasticity for short-term memory”
Friday 15 June, 2007
Fred Reike
University of Washington
“Mechansims generating correlated activity in retinal ganglion cells”
Friday 1 June, 2007
Michael Lewicki
Carnegie Mellon University
“Information theoretic models of auditory coding”
Friday 5 May, 2007
David Blake
Medical College of Georgia
“Cortical implant studies of machine learning in sensory discrimination”
Friday 27 April, 2007
Jaime dela Rocha
NYU
“Correlation between neural spike trains increases with firing rate”
Friday 20 April, 2007
Geoffrey E. Hinton
U. of Toronto
“How to learn many layers of cortical representation without any supervision.”
Friday 6 April, 2007
Kamal Sen
BU
“Neural Discrimination of Complex Natural Sounds in Songbirds.”
Friday 30 March, 2007
Sebastian Seung
MIT
“Operant Matching: A Unifying Principle for Neuroeconomics.”
Friday 23 March, 2007
Olivia White
MIT
“TBA.”
Friday 16 March, 2007
Nicole Rust
MIT
“The mechanisms underlying motion pattern invariance in area MT”
Friday 2 March, 2007
Angel Peterchev
Columbia University
“Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Non-Invasive Tool for Probing and Modulating Brain Function.”
Friday 23 Feburary, 2007
Misha Tsodyks
Weizmann Institute of Science
“Context-dependent learning in the visual system”
Friday 16 Feburary, 2007
Gordon Pipa
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
“Neuronal Self Organization in Theory and Experiment: Behaviorally Relevant Cell Assemblies and Plasticity in the Liquid State Machine”
Friday 9 Feburary, 2007
Dean Buonomano
UCLA
“Temporal processing and neural dynamics in cortical networks”
Friday 2 Feburary, 2007
John Rinzel
NYU
“Biophysics of timing computations in auditory brain stem.”
Friday 26 January, 2007
ROOM AND TIME CHANGE! Neurological Institute Alumni Auditorium, 3:00 p.m
Tim Vogels
Brandeis/Columbia University
“Signal Processing in Neural Networks.”
Friday 15 December, 2006
ROOM CHANGE: Kolb Annex 5th floor conference room
Mark Goldman
Wellesley College
“Dissecting the mechanisms underlying persistent neural activity in a neural integrator.”
Tuesday 12 December, 2006
Yang Dan
U.C Berkeley
“Coding of natural stimuli in the visual cortex.”
Tuesday 14 November, 2006
John Krakauer
Columbia U.
“Adaptation to visuomotor rotation: savings and interference.”
Friday 10 November, 2006
Bijan Pesaran
NYU.
“Cortical networks for movement planning and execution.”
Friday 3 November, 2006
Matthias Wittlinger
U. Ulm.
“Path Integration in the Desert Ant Cataglyphis Fortis-odometry and slope detection.”
Friday 13 October, 2006
Vijay Balasubramanian
U. Penn.
“Natural scene statistics and the organization of the retina.”
Friday 29 September, 2006
Note changed location: Kolb Annex 5th floor conference room
Gayle Wittenberg
Princeton University
“Mapping neural activity patterns onto changes in synapse strength.”
Friday 15 September, 2006
David Brainard
U. Penn.
“Color from a single cone? A Bayesian model of the appearance of very small spots.”

2005-2006 Academic Year

Monday 19 September, 2005
Nicholas Brunel
CNRS, Paris
“Optimal information storage and the distribution of synaptic weights: experiment vs. theory.”
Friday 14 October 2005
Mitya Chklovskii
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
“Random and specific features of cortical microcircuits”
Friday 21 October 2005
Michael Berry
Princeton University
“Detection and Prediction of Temporal Patterns by the Retina”
Friday 28 October 2005
Nestor Parga
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
“Response properties of Neurons in the High Conductance State”
Friday 4 November 2005
Elad Schneidman
Princeton University
“Weak pairwise correlations imply strongly correlated network states in a neural population code”
Friday 18 November 2005
Fred Wolf
Max Planck Institute, Göttingen
“The first micro-seconds in the life of a cortical action potential”
Wednesday 23 November 2005
Paul Ganter
Centre for the Biology of Memory, Trondheim, Norway
“The diversity of hippocampal interneurones - just difficult to describe or functionally relevant?”
Friday 2 December 2005
Emilio Salinas
Wake-Forest University
“How behavioral constraints may affect optimal sensory representations”
Friday 16 December 2005
David Cai
NYU
“Spatiotemporal Dyanmics of Primary Visual Cortex”
Monday 9 January 2006
Carl van Vreeswijk
CNRS, Université René Descartes
“Shunting inhibition in a spatially extended model neuron”
Friday 13 January 2006
Roger Traub
SUNY Downstate
“Critical role of electrical coupling in thalamocortical circuits: very fast oscillations (>70 Hz), gamma (30-70 Hz), spindles”
Tuesday 24 January 2006, 2pm
Matthias Kaschube
Berstein Center for Computational Neuroscience & MPI for Dynamics and Self-Oranization, Göttingen
“A selection principle for the pattern of orientation columns in the visual cortex”
Friday 27 January 2006
Adrienne Fairhall
U. Washington
“Probing the biophysics of neural computation”
Friday 10 February 2006
Konrad Körding
MIT
“Human Movement as an Optimal Decision Process”
Friday 24 February 2006
Todd Troyer
Univ. of Maryland
“Temporal variability and the structure of the vocal pattern generator in zebra finches”
Friday 10 March 2006
( Talk postponed to June 2, 2006 )
Alfonso Renart
Rutgers
“Optimal Transmission of Population Codes in Feed-forward Networks”
Monday 20 March 2006
Theo Geisel
MPI for Dynamics and Self-Oranization, Göttingen
“Universal scaling laws of human travel -- how dollars help improve epidemic forecasts”
Friday 24 March 2006
Roger Ratcliff
Ohio State
“The Effects of Aging on Performance on Two Choice RT Tasks”
Friday 7 April 2006
Duncan Watts
Columbia
“Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age”
Friday 21 April 2006
Lance Optican
NIE
“Visual working memory: New evidence and new theory of how we remember what we just saw”
Friday 28 April 2006
Risto Miikkulainen
The University of Texas at Austin
“Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex”
Friday 5 May 2006
Guoqiang Bi
University of Pittsburgh
“Persistent reverberatory activity in small neuronal circuits: dynamics, synaptic mechanisms and plasticity”
Friday 19 May 2006
Tatyana Sharpee
UCSF
“From noise to natural signals: Adaptation and optimality of neural representations”
Thursday 25 May 2006 4pm
Duane Nykamp
University of Minnesota
“Inferring causal subnetworks within neuronal networks”
Friday 26 May 2006 10:30am
Christian Machens
Cold Spring Harbor
“Flexible control of neural networks: combining short-term memory and decision-making”
Tuesday 30 May 2006 12pm
Ila Fiete
UC Santa Barbara
“A theory for reinforcement learning in spiking neural networks, with an application to song learning in songbirds”
Friday 2 June 2006 12pm
( Talk rescheduled from 10 March 2006)
Alfonso Renart
Rutgers
“Optimal Transmission of Population Codes in Feed-forward Networks”
Tuesday June 6 2006 12pm
Alexei Koulakov
Cold Spring Harbor
“Activity and chemoaffinity in the development of neural maps”
Tuesday June 13 2006 12pm
Eric Shea-Brown
NYU
“Dynamics of integration and correlation in timing and decisions”
Friday 16 June 2006
Sheila Nirenberg
Weill Medical College, Cornell University
“Testing hypotheses about neural computations using targeted cell class ablation”
Monday 19 June 2006
Matteo Carandini
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco
“Dynamics of population activity in primary visual cortex”
Tuesday 20 June 2006, 12 pm
Ethan Goldberg
NYU
“Fast-spiking GABAergic neocortical interneurons: Molecular contributions to cellular function”
Wednesday 28 June 2006, 2 pm
Riccardo Zecchina
ICTP, Italy
“Learning by message passing in networks of discrete synapses”

Spring, 2005

Friday 10 June 2005
John Beggs
Dept. of Physics , Indiana University
“Neuronal avalanches may optimize information transmission and storage”
Friday 3 June 2005
Bill Bialek
Dept. of Physics, Princeton University
“Do real neurons provide an efficient representation of predictive information?”
Friday 27 May 2005
Mike Weliky
Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, University of Rochester
“Development of visual cortical circuit dynamics: Impact upon the emergence of sensory coding”
Friday 6 May 2005
Carlos Brody
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
“Working memory and decision making in a simple model of two-stimulus-interval discrimination.”
Friday 29 April 2005
Alex Koulakov
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
“Modeling retinocollicular development guided by molecular gradients: Neural development as an optimization process”
15 April 2005
Harvey Swadlow
University of Connecticut
“The impact of a thalamocortical impulse on awake sensory neocortex”
Friday 8 April 2005
Alex Pouget
University of Rochester
“Bayesian Inference in Cortical Circuits”