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
Friday 17 May, 2013
Christian Machens
Champalimaud Foundation
“Efficient coding and balanced networks: a unification”
Past Seminars
View a history of past seminars here.2012-2013 Academic Year
Friday 28 Sept, 2012 - 12:00PM
Patrick Roberts
Oregon Health & Science University
“Simulating symptomatic treatments for neurological and psychiatric disease to improve drug development and discovery”
Friday 5 Oct, 2012
Arianna Maffei
SUNY Stony Brook
“Experience-dependent plasticity of thalamocortical and cortico-cortical circuits”
Friday 19 Oct, 2012
Francesco Battaglia
University of Amsterdam
“Behavioral strategy dependent, NMDA receptor modulated changes in hippocampal dynamics and spatial representations”
Friday 26 Oct, 2012
John Cunningham
Washington University, St Louis
“From single neuron statistics to neural population analyses”
Friday 2 Nov, 2012
Guilio Tononi
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Canceled due to storm.
Friday 9 Nov, 2012
Tatyana Sharpee
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
“Minimal models of neural responses to natural stimuli”
Friday 16 Nov, 2012
Fred Wolf
Max Planck Institute, Göttingen
“Deterministic chaos in balanced state networks”
Friday 30 Nov, 2012
Daeyol Lee
Yale
“Reinforcement, punishment, and basal ganglia”
Friday 7 Dec, 2012
Robert Gütig
Max Planck Institute, Göttingen
“Self-supervised neuronal processing of sensory streams”
Friday 14 Dec, 2012
Mark D'Esposito
UC Berkeley
TBA
Friday 11 Jan, 2013
Alexei Koulakov
Cold Spring Harbor Lab
“Deciphering the olfactory code”
Friday 18 Jan, 2013
Yali Amit
University of Chicago
“A simple network model for a variety of delay match to sample tasks”
Friday 25 Jan, 2013
Alessandro Treves
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)
“A phase transition into higher cognition”
Friday 1 Feb, 2013
Ila Fiete
University of Texas, Austin
“Evidence of a new (exponentially strong) class of population codes in the brain”
Friday 8 Mar, 2013
Randall O'Reilly
University of Colorado, Boulder
“How adaptive control emerges from multiple intracting brain systems”
Friday 15 Mar, 2013
Misha Ahrens
Janelia Farm
“Functional circuit discovery via whole-brain imaging at cellular resolution using light-sheet microscopy”
Friday 22 Mar, 2013
Carl Petersen
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
“Synaptic mechanisms of sensory perception”
Friday 29 Mar, 2013
Nicole Rust
University of Pennsylvania
“The neural mechanisms involved in finding objects and switching between targets”
Friday 5 April, 2013
Jonathan Pillow
Uniersity of Texas, Austin
“Beyond Barlow: a Bayesian theory of efficient neural coding”
Friday 12 April, 2013
Bence Ölveczky
Harvard University
“Functional modularity in motor skill learning”
Friday 19 April, 2013
Kresimir Josic
University of Houston
“Measuring and interpreting correlated neuronal responses”
Friday 26 April, 2013
Stephen Scott
Queen's University
“Putting sensory back into motor control”
Friday 3 May, 2013
Eva Pastalkova
HHMI Janelia Farm
“Internally generated hippocampal activity and episodic memory”
Friday 10 May, 2013
Nathaniel Daw
New York University
“Computational mechanisms for learning from reward: Beyond reinforcement”
Friday 17 May, 2013
Christian Machens
Champalimaud Foundation
“Efficient coding and balanced networks: a unification”
Friday 24 May, 2013
Jonathan D. Victor
Weill Cornell Medical College
“How high-order image statistics shape cortical visual processing”
Friday 31 May, 2013
Michael Kahana
University of Pennsylvania
TBA
Friday 7 June, 2013
Maneesh Sahani
Gatsby Foundation
TBA
Friday 14 June, 2013
Michael Yartsev
Princeton University
TBA