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 (at the corner of 168th St. and Haven Ave. - view map).

Upcoming Seminars

Friday 11 May, 2012
Joshua Gold
University of Pennsylvania
“Rational regulation of learning by pupil-linked arousal systems”

2011-2012 Academic Year

Monday 19 Sep, 2011 - 12:30PM
Emo Todorov
University of Washington
“Optimal control in biology and engineering”
Friday 23 Sep, 2011
Paul Miller
Brandeis University
“Memory, associations and solving cognitive tasks by plasticity in randomly connected neural circuits”
Monday 26 Sep, 2011 - 12:30PM
Shaul Druckmann
Janelia Farm
“Overcomplete representations and neuronal circuit dynamics”
Friday 30 Sep, 2011
Dean Buonomano
UCLA
“Short-term Synaptic Plasticity, Neural Dynamics, and Telling Time”
Friday 7 Oct, 2011
Pentti Kanerva
Stanford University
“Computing with Large Neural Circuits”
Friday 14 Oct, 2011
Ofer Tchernichovski
City College
“Vocal exploration and syntax learning in songbirds”
Friday 28 Oct, 2011
Jens Kremkow
SUNY Optometry
“The role of excitation-inhibition correlation in cortical information processing; Adaptive sampling of visual stimuli in thalamic and cortical neurons”
Friday 4 Nov, 2011
Richard Hahnloser
ETH Zurich
“Neural coding in the auditory forebrain of songbirds”
Friday 18 Nov, 2011
Michael Graupner
NYU
“Synaptic input correlations during spontaneous activity evoked in vitro in the auditory cortex”
Friday 2 Dec, 2011
Shimon Marom
Technion
“Interpretations of response fluctuations in neurons, networks and simple behavior”
Friday 9 Dec, 2011
Bill Bialek
Princeton University
“Birds, brains, and B-cells”
Friday 13 Jan, 2012
Arno Klein
Columbia University
“Brain Labelling”
Friday 20 Jan, 2012
Matthew Harrison
Brown University
“Learning the Network Structure of Cortical Microcircuits”
Friday 17 Feb, 2012
Haim Sompolinsky
Hebrew University
“Sensory Selectivity in Random Cortical Circuits”
Friday 9 Mar, 2012
Anne Churchland
Cold Spring Harbor
“Putting the pieces together: integrating information across time and sensory modalities for decision-making”
Friday 16 Mar, 2012
Wei Ji Ma
Baylor College of Medicine
“Probabilistic inference in visual cognition”
Friday 23 Mar, 2012
John Wixted
UC San Diego
“A cellular and systems consolidation theory of forgetting”
Friday 6 Apr, 2012
Loren Frank
UCSF
“Awake replay in the hippocampus: Is it memory?”
Friday 13 Apr, 2012
Maurizio Mattia
ISS
“Heterogeneous attractor cortical modules for motor planning in premotor cortex and other”
Friday, 20 Apr, 2012
Mikhail Rabinovich
UCSD
“Cognitive information flow dynamics”
Friday 27 Apr, 2012
Howard Eichenbaum
Boston University
“The hippocampus in space and time”
Friday 11 May, 2012
Joshua Gold
University of Pennsylvania
“Rational regulation of learning by pupil-linked arousal systems”
Friday 18 May, 2012
Jack Gallant
UC Berkeley
TBA
Friday 25 May, 2012
Winrich Freiwald
Rockefeller University
TBA
Friday 1 June, 2012
Brent Doiron
University of Pittsburgh
TBA

2010-2011 Academic Year

Wednesday 15 Sep, 2010
Gustavo Deco
Pompeu Fabra University
“How Local Network Oscillations lead to Functional Networks during Rest”
Friday 24 Sep, 2010
Michiel Remme
NYU
“The Role of Ongoing Dendritic Oscillations in Single-Neuron Dynamics”
Friday 1 Oct, 2010
Yoram Burak
Harvard
“Visual inference amid eye movements”
Friday 8 Oct, 2010
John Hopfield
Princeton
“What is Thinking? The dynamics of mental exploration”
Friday 15 Oct, 2010
Tony Zador
Cold Spring Harbor
“Timing in the auditory cortex”
Friday 22 Oct, 2010
James DiCarlo
MIT
“Untangling object recognition: The convergence of systems neuroscience and computer vision.”
Friday 29 Oct, 2010
Steve Grossberg
Boston University
“The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map: From Grid Cells to Navigation”
Thursday 4 Nov, 2010 - 12:00PM
Wulfram Gerstner
EPFL
“From Hebb to STDP to neuromodulation - Modeling reward-modulated synaptic plasticity”
Friday 5 Nov, 2010
Carlos Brody
Princeton
“Near-optimal integration of evidence for decision-making in the rat”
Friday 19 Nov, 2010
Emery Brown
Harvard-MIT
“Characterizing General Anesthesia-Induced Loss of Consciousness”
Friday 3 Dec, 2010
Yuriy Mishchenko
Columbia University
“Bayesian inference of neural connectivity from calcium imaging data in the presence of hidden inputs”
Friday 10 Dec, 2010
Simona Cocco & Remi Monasson
Princeton University
“Two inverse approaches to infer functional interactions from the spiking activity of a neural population”
Friday 14 Jan, 2010
Randy Bruno
Columbia University
“Wakefulness abolishes cortical up-down states”
Friday 28 Jan, 2010
Edward Wallace
University University of Chicago
“Noise-driven synchrony in spiking neural networks: avalanches and quasi-cycles”
Friday 4 Feb, 2011
Bill Newsome
Stanford University
“Linking action to reward: a dynamical systems approach to prefrontal cortex activity”
Friday 11 Feb, 2011
Daniel S Fisher
Stanford University
“Can Evolutionary Dynamics Be Understood Quantitatively?”
Friday 18 Feb, 2011
Jozsef Fiser
Brandeis University
“Statistically optimal inference and learning in the cortex: behavioral and neural evidence and a computational framework“
Friday 4 Mar, 2011
Zach Mainen
Champalimaud
Friday 11 Mar, 2011
Asohan Amarasingham
CCNY
“An Analysis of Connectivity in a Neuronal Population”
Friday 18 Mar, 2011
Ruben Moreno Bote
University of Rochester
“Weak synchrony in networks with finite input information”
Friday 25 Mar, 2011
Robert Shapley
NYU
“The Rise and Fall of the Receptive Field Hypothesis in V1 Cortex”
Friday 1 Apr, 2011
Alain Destexhe
UNIC-CNRS
“Extracting signatures of neuronal activity from local field potentials”
Friday 8 Apr, 2011
Todd Coleman
UIUC
Friday 15 Apr, 2011
Michael Spratling
King's College London
“A Predictive Coding Model of V1 Response Properties, Gain Modulation, and Visual Attention”
Friday 22 Apr, 2011
Thierry Emonet
Yale University
“A bacterium's perspective on chemosensing and exploration”
Friday 29 Apr, 2011
Sheila Nirenberg
Cornell University
“Testing hypotheses about coding and computation in the visual system... and something new about retinal prosthetics”
Friday 6 May, 2011
Robert Froemke
NYU
“Long-term modification of cortical synapses improves sensory perception”
Thursday 12 May, 2011, 2:00PM
Byron Yu
Carnegie Mellon University
“Extracting shared firing rate fluctuations from neural populations”
Friday 13 May, 2011
Geoff Hinton
University of Toronto
“How to force unsupervised neural networks to discover the right representation of images”
Friday 27 May, 2011
Michael Frank
Brown University
“Mechanisms of hierarchical reinforcement learning and action selection in corticostriatal circuits”
Friday 3 June, 2011
Adrien Peyrache
Rutgers University
“Organization of cell assemblies in the hippocampal-neocortical network: implication of sleep in memory formation and learning”
Friday 10 June, 2011
Romain Brette
Ecole Normale Supérieure
“Dynamics of neural excitability”
Friday 17 June, 2011
Tiago Maia
Columbia University
“Neuromodulators, the brain, and behavior: Computational and empirical investigations”
Friday 24 June, 2011
Tatiana Engel
Yale University
“Flexible decision making and learning in networks with a working memory circuit”

2009-2010 Academic Year

Friday 18 Sep, 2009
Aurel Lazar
Columbia University
“Population encoding with Hodgkin-Huxley neurons”
Friday 25 Sep, 2009
Vladimir Vapnik
NEC Labs
“A New Learning Paradigm: Learning Using Privileged Information“
Friday 2 Oct, 2009
Barak Pearlmutter
NUI Maynooth
Friday 23 Oct, 2009
Kresimir Josic
University of Houston
“Correlation transfer and coding in neuronal populations”
Friday 30 Oct, 2009
Partha Mitra
Cold Spring Harbor
“Darwin In The Lab: Experimental Evolution Studies in Finches and Fruit Flies”
Friday 6 Nov, 2009
David Terman
Ohio State
“Some mathematical modeling issues associated with Parkinson's disease”
Friday 13 Nov, 2009
Eve Marder
Brandeis
“Beyond Optimality: Parameter Variance in Healthy Brains”
Friday 4 Dec, 2009
Tony Movshon
NYU
“Feedforward systems for encoding and decoding visual information”
Friday 11 Dec, 2009
Armen Stepanyants
Northeastern University
“Statistical theory of excitatory synaptic plasticity”
Friday 8 Jan, 2010
Dezhe Jin
Penn State
“Neural basis of song syntax in songbirds”
Friday 15 Jan, 2010
Nate Sawtell
Columbia University
“Mechanisms for sensory prediction in a cerebellum-like circuit”
Friday 22 Jan, 2010
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
“How the cortex gets its folds: connectivity-driven white matter scaling and folding in primate brains”
Friday 29 Jan, 2010
Matthias Kaschube
Princeton
“High-precision cross-scale analysis of cortical development and tissue morphogenesis”
Friday 12 Feb, 2010
Glen Prusky
Cornell
“Stimulating Experience-Dependent Plasticity of Vision Over the Lifespan”
Friday 5 Mar, 2010
Paul Tiesinga
UNC Chapel Hill
“The role of interneuron diversity in the cortical circuit for attention”
Friday 12 Mar, 2010
Bruno Olshausen
UC Berkeley
“Hierarchical models of vision via factorization of sparse components”
Friday 19 Mar, 2010
Ed Ott
University of Maryland
“Emergent Behavior in Large Systems of Coupled Plase Oscillators”
Friday 26 Mar, 2010
Nancy Kopell
Boston University
“Rhythms, cell assemblies and binding in the nervous system: From physiology to function”
Friday 2 Apr, 2010
Jay McClelland
Stanford
“Dynamics of decision making: Theory, Physiology, and Behavior”
Friday 9 Apr, 2010
Jose-Manuel Alonso
SUNY State College of Optometry
“Functional circuits in primary visual cortex”
Friday 16 Apr, 2010
Nicolas Brunel
Universite Rene Descartes
“Spike-timing and firing-rate dependent plasticity as calcium-induced transitions in a bistable synaptic model”
Friday 23 Apr, 2010
David McCormick
Yale
“The Neocortex Operates in a Sparse and Reliable Regime”
Friday 30 Apr, 2010
Reza Shadmehr
Johns Hopkins
“Internal models in motor control”
Friday 7 May, 2010
Eero Simoncelli
NYU
“Bayesian perception and representation of visual motion”
Friday 14 May, 2010
Michael Kahana
U. Penn
“Context and episodic memory”
Friday 21 May, 2010
Jaime de la Rocha
Alfonso Renart
Rutgers
“Spiking Correlations in Recurrent Cortical Circuits”
Friday 28 May, 2010
Terry Sejnowski
Salk
“A New View of the Neuropil”
Friday 9 July, 2010
Michael DeWeese
UC Berkeley
“Minimum Probability Flow: a novel machine learning technique for parameter estimation”
Friday 23 July, 2010
Zhe Chen
Harvard-MIT
“Precise Mapping of Visual Receptive Fields by Tomographic Reconstruction”
Thursday 29 July, 2010
*** 12:00 PM ***
Biswa Sengupta
Cambridge University
“Energy Efficiency in Single-Neuron Models”

2008-2009 Academic Year

Friday 12 Sep, 2008
Alex Roxin
Columbia U
“Linking behavioral and neuronal models of two-choice decision making”
Friday 19 Sep, 2008
Rafael Yuste
Columbia U
“Dendritic Spines and Linear Networks”
Friday 26 Sep, 2008
Gwendal Le Masson
French Institute of Health and Medical Research
“Spinal cord plasticity in the context of chronic pain : an experimental and theoretical study”
Friday 3 Oct, 2008
David Field
Cornell U
“Information, invariance and the space of natural scenes”
Friday 10 Oct, 2008
Marcelo Magnasco
Rockefeller U
Friday 24 Oct, 2008
Rebecca Saxe
MIT
“Mens Rea: neural mechanisms of belief attribution for moral judgment”
Friday 31 Oct, 2008
Henry Abarbanel
UCSD
“Dissecting and Modeling Neurobiological Networks: Dynamical Electrophysiology”
Friday 7 Nov, 2008
Bill Geisler
UTexas Austin
“Natural Systems Analysis”
Friday 14 Nov, 2008
Ilya Nemenman
Los Alamos National Laboratory
“Nonlinearity, Memory, and Phase Transitions in Learning”
Friday 5 Dec, 2008
Mikhail Rabinovich
UCSD-Institute for Nonlinear Science
“Transient versus attractors in the brain”
Friday 12 Dec, 2008
Sergei Gepshtein
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
“Gabor's Uncertainty Principle and Vision”
Friday 9 Jan, 2009
Philip Sabes
UCSF- Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience
Friday 16 Jan, 2009
Fritz Sommer
Berkeley
“Functional roles of network dynamics in the peripheral visual system”
Friday 23 Jan, 2009
Chris Eliasmith
U. Waterloo
“How to build a brain”
Friday 30 Jan, 2009
Maxim Volgushev
U. Connecticut
Friday 6 Feb, 2009
Glen Prusky
Weill Cornell Medical College
“Experience-Dependent Plasticity of Vision Over the Lifespan”
Friday 20 Feb, 2009
Stefan Rotter
Freiburg University
“Correlations in Cortical Networks”
Friday 6 Mar, 2009
Sophie Deneve
Ecole Normale Superieure
“Bayesian inference in neural dynamics”
Friday 20 Mar, 2009
David Heeger
New York University
“The Normalization Model of Attention”
Friday 3 Apr, 2009
Anita Disney
New York University
Friday 10 Apr, 2009
Michael Hasselmo
Boston University
“Grid cells and oscillations in entorhinal cortex”
Friday 17 Apr, 2009
Pietro Mazzoni
Columbia University
“How To Generalize Less During Visuomotor Adaptation”
Friday 24 Apr, 2009
Diego Contreras
UPenn
Friday 1 May, 2009
Andre Longtin
University of Ottawa
“Driven recurrent sensory networks and plasticity”
Friday 8 May, 2009
Adi Rangan
New York University
Friday 15 May, 2009
Bill Bialek
Princeton University
“Efficient representation in genetic networks”
Friday 22 May, 2009
Maria Geffen
Rockefeller University
“Encoding of natural signals in the olfactory and auditory systems”
Friday 29 May, 2009
Lisa Manning
Princeton University
“Analyzing transient amplification in material flows: non-normal operators and non-steady states”
Friday 19 June, 2009
Patrick Drew
University of California, San Diego
“Plumbing the Cortex: Imaging Microvascular Dynamics in the Awake Rodent Brain”
Friday 26 June, 2009
Mark Churchland
Stanford University
“Stimulus onset quenches neural variability: a widespread cortical phenomenon”
Friday 9 Aug, 2009
David Nguyen
MIT
“Towards the decoding of ripple oscillations based on instantaneous frequency measures”

2007-2008 Academic Year

Friday 30 May, 2008
Kurt Thouroughman
Washington U
“Neural Computation and Human Motor Behavior”
Friday 9 May, 2008
Tai Sing Lee
CMU
“Neural encoding of 3D scene statistics for perceptual inference”
Friday 2 May, 2008
Alex Reyes
NYU
“Circuitry underlying neuronal firing in the auditory cortex”
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
“Neural correlates of decision-making under risk and ambiguity”
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
“Neural Circuit Computation of Decision Making”
Friday 22 Feb, 2008
Konrad Koerding
Northwestern University
“Movement Adaptation: Multiple Timescales and Causes of Motor Errors”
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
“Collective Neuronal Dynamics and Drift-Diffusion Models for Decision Making”
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
“Natural Image Statistics and Contextual Visual Processing”
Friday 9 Nov, 2007
Nathaniel Daw
New York University
“Semi-Rational Models of Decision Making: Exploration and Credit Assignment”
Friday 26 Oct, 2007
Laurenz Wiskott
Humboldt U.-Berlin
“Slow Feature Analysis For Modeling Complex Cells in V1 and its Relationship to Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity”
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”