Seminars

Wednesday 13th of August 2008: Joshua Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; From calcium imaging to spikes, using state-space methods (video)
Wednesday 23rd of July 2008: Bill Bialek, Princeton University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Networks, codes, and information flow (video)
Wednesday 28th of May 2008: Xin Wang, USC; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Translation of sensory neural code across the retinothalamic synapse (video)
Tuesday 27th of May 2008: Xin Wang, USC; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Recovering retinal and extraretinal receptive fields of LGN cells (video)
Wednesday 21st of May 2008: Kwabena Boahen, Stanford University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Neurogrid: Emulating a million neurons in the cortex (video)
Wednesday 14th of May 2008: Nick Priebe, University of Texas, Austin; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Contrast-invariant orientation tuning in simple cells of visual cortex (video)
Wednesday 30th of April 2008: Thanos Siapas, Caltech; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Hippocampal Network Dynamics and Memory Formation
Monday 28th of April 2008: Sen Cheng, Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, UCSF; 508-20 Evans Hall, 03:00pm; How are episodic memories stored in the hippocampus? (video)
Wednesday 23rd of April 2008: Mark Goldman, UC Davis; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Modeling the mechanisms underlying memory-related neural activity (video)
Wednesday 16th of April 2008: Ueli Rutishauser, Caltech; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; State dependent computation using coupled recurrent networks (video)
Tuesday 15th of April 2008: Harald Atmanspacher, Institut fuer Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e.V.; 508-20 Evans Hall, 04:00pm; Contextual emergence of mental states from neurodynamics (note changed time) (video)
Wednesday 02nd of April 2008: Marty Usrey, UC Davis; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Functional properties of neuronal circuits for vision (video)
Monday 24th of March 2008: Hiroyuki Ito, Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto Sangyo University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 10:30am; Dynamics of Spike Synchrony in Cat LGN - high precision, non-Poissonian property and non-stationarity (video)
Thursday 20th of March 2008: Dana Ballard, University of Texas, Austin; 405 Soda Hall, 12:30pm; Towards a model of embodied cognition (video)
Wednesday 19th of March 2008: Dana Ballard, University of Texas, Austin; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Distributed Synchrony: A Model of Cortical Signaling (video)
Wednesday 12th of March 2008: Ilana Witten, Stanford University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Spatial Processing in a Complex Auditory Environment (video)
Friday 07th of March 2008: Junji Ito, RIKEN Brain Science Center; 508-20 Evans Hall, 02:00pm; Phase-locking of visually evoked first spikes to eye movement related to LFP oscillations
Thursday 06th of March 2008: Peter Robinson, Brain Dynamics Center, Westmead Millenium Institute, Westmead Hospital; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Quantitative Modeling of Multiscale Brain Activity (video)
Wednesday 27th of February 2008: Jean-Philippe Lachaux, INSERM, Lyon; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; BrainTV : a novel approach for online mapping of human brain functions (video)
Wednesday 20th of February 2008: Costa Colbert, Evolved Machines, Inc. and Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Electrophysiological, Optical, and Computational Studies of Dendritic Excitability (video)
Wednesday 13th of February 2008: Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 02:00pm; Sparse time-frequency representations and the neural coding of sound (video)
Wednesday 06th of February 2008: Pam Reinagel, UCSD; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Coding in Context: How context influences representation of visual information in the LGN (video)
Wednesday 30th of January 2008: Kai Miller, University of Washington; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Changes in local cortical activity are revealed by a power law in the cortical potential spectrum (video)
Friday 30th of November 2007: Todd S. Horowitz, Harvard Medical School; 508-20 Evans Hall, 02:00pm; Attention, motion, and trajectories (video)
Tuesday 27th of November 2007: Geoff Hinton, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; How are error derivatives represented in the brain (video)
Tuesday 13th of November 2007: Sonja Gruen, Gruen Research Unit Computational Neuroscience Group RIKEN Brain Science Institute Gruen Research Unit, Computational Neuroscience Group, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako-City, Japan; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Detection of coordinated network activity in massively parallel spike trains
Wednesday 31st of October 2007: Jason Kerr, Population imaging group, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany.; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Spatial Organization of Neuronal Population Responses in vivo: can you repeat that?
Monday 29th of October 2007: Laurenz Wiskott, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-University Berlin; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Slow feature analysis for modeling place cells in the hippocampus and its relationship to spike timing dependent plasticity
Tuesday 23rd of October 2007: Liam Paninski, Columbia Univesrity; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Combining biophysical and statistical methods for understanding
neural codes
Wednesday 03rd of October 2007: Flip Sabes, Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience and the Department of Physiology, UCSF; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Sensory integration and adaptation: behavior, optimality, and neural models
Tuesday 04th of September 2007: Lucas C. Parra, The City College of New York; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:30pm; On reading and writing the brain: Using electric field potentials to read
and modulate the timing of neuronal activity
Tuesday 21st of August 2007: Jeremy Lewi, Georgia Tech; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:30pm; Adaptively optimizing neurophysiology experiments for estimating encoding models
Thursday 28th of June 2007: Chris Tyler & Lora Likova, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; Mechanisms of 2D and 3D Object Processing
Tuesday 15th of May 2007: Ray Guillery, University of Madisson, WI; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; Thalamus and Sensorimotor Aspects of Perception
Tuesday 08th of May 2007: Lokendra Shastri, ICSI, UC Berkeley; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; Micro-circuits of Episodic Memory: Structure Matches Function in the Hippocampal System (video)
Tuesday 24th of April 2007: Jeff Johnson, UC Davis; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; What does EEG tell us about the timecourse of object recognition? (video)
Tuesday 17th of April 2007: Steve Waydo, California Institute of Technology; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; Sparse Coding in the Human MTL: Experimental Results and Computational Modeling (video)
Tuesday 10th of April 2007: Andrew Ng, Stanford University; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; Unsupervised discovery of structure for transfer learning
Tuesday 03rd of April 2007: Robert Miller, Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Otago University; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; Axonal conduction time and human cerebral laterality
Tuesday 20th of March 2007: Jeff Hawkins, Numenta; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 01:30pm; Hierarchical Temporal Memory:
Biological Mapping to Neocortex and Thalamus (video)
Tuesday 13th of March 2007: Chris Wiggins, Columbia University; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 01:30pm; Optimal signal processing in small stochastic biochemical networks
Tuesday 06th of March 2007: Pietro Perona, Caltech; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; An exploration of visual recognition (video)
Thursday 01st of March 2007: Hiroki Asari, Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; 5101 Tolman Hall, 11:00am; Sparse Representations for the Cocktail Party Problem (video)
Tuesday 20th of February 2007: Yair Weiss, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; What makes a good model of natural images? (video)
Tuesday 13th of February 2007: Tobi Delbruck, Inst of Neuroinformatics, UNI-ETH Zurich; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; Building a high-performance event-based silicon retina leads to new ways to compute vision (video)
Tuesday 23rd of January 2007: Giuseppe Vitiello, Department of Physics “E.R.Caianiello”, Salerno University; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; Relations between many-body physics and nonlinear brain dynamics (video)
Tuesday 09th of January 2007: Boris Gutkin, ENS, Paris; 5101 Tolman Hall, 12:00pm; Spike Generation Dynamics, Their Modulation and the Consequences for Network Behavior
Tuesday 05th of December 2006: Tanya Baker, U Chicago; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; What Forest Fires Tell Us About the Brain (video)
Tuesday 28th of November 2006: Thomas Dean, Brown University / Google; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; Learning Invariant Features Using Inertial Priors, or
"Why Google might want to be in the neocortex business?" (video)
Tuesday 21st of November 2006: Urs Köster, University of Helsinki; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; Towards Multi-Layer Processing of Natural Images (video)
Tuesday 14th of November 2006: Andrew D. Straw, Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; Closed-Loop, Visually-Based Flight Regulation in a Model Fruit Fly (video)
Tuesday 07th of November 2006: Mitya Chklovskii, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; What determines the shape of neuronal arbors? (video)
Tuesday 31st of October 2006: Matthias Kaschube, Princeton University; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; A mathematical constant in the design of the visual cortex
Tuesday 03rd of October 2006: J. L. McClelland, Mind, Brain & Computation/MBC, Psychology Department, Stanford; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; Graded constraints in English word forms (video)
Monday 25th of September 2006: Peter Latham, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London; Barker 124-126, 12:00pm; Requiem for the spike (video)
Tuesday 19th of September 2006: Jerry Feldman, ICSI, UC Berkeley; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; From Molecule to Metaphor: Towards a Unified Cognitive Science (video)
Tuesday 05th of September 2006: Tom Griffiths, Psychology/Cogsci, UC Berkeley; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; Natural Statistics and Human Cognition (video)
Tuesday 01st of August 2006: Carol Whitney, U Maryland; 5101 Tolman, 12:00pm; What can Visual Word Recognition Tell us about Visual Object Recognition? (video)
Tuesday 18th of July 2006: Evan Smith, Redwood Center/Stanford; 5101 Tolman, 12:00pm; Efficient auditory coding
Tuesday 20th of June 2006: Vincent Bonin, Smith Kettlewell Institute; 5101 Tolman, 12:00pm; TBA
Thursday 15th of June 2006: Philip Low, Salk Institute; 5101 Tolman, 12:00pm; A New Way To Look At Sleep
Tuesday 02nd of May 2006: Dileep George, Numenta; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Hierarchical, cortical memory architecture for pattern recognition
Tuesday 18th of April 2006: Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas at Austin; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; How can a system as complex as the human visual system be constructed? (video)
Tuesday 11th of April 2006: Charles Anderson, Washington University School of Medicine; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Population Coding in V1 (video)
Monday 10th of April 2006: Charles Anderson, Washington University School of Medicine; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 04:00pm; A Comparison of Neurobiological and Digital Computation (video)
Tuesday 04th of April 2006: Odelia Schwartz, The Salk Institute; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Natural images and cortical representation
Tuesday 21st of March 2006: Mark Schnitzer, Stanford University; Beach Room - 3105 Tolman, 12:30pm; In vivo microendoscopy and computational modeling studies of mammalian brain circuits
Wednesday 15th of March 2006: Mate Lengyel, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 10:00am; Bayesian model learning in human visual perception (video)
Tuesday 14th of March 2006: Mate Lengyel, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Firing rates and phases in the hippocampus: what are they good for? (video)
Tuesday 07th of March 2006: Michael Wu, Gallant lab/UC Berkeley; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; A Unified Framework for Receptive Field Estimation
Tuesday 28th of February 2006: Dario Ringach, UCLA; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Population dynamics in primary visual cortex
Tuesday 21st of February 2006: Gerard Rinkus, Brandeis University; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Hierarchical Sparse Distributed Representations of Sequence Recall and
Recognition (video)
Tuesday 14th of February 2006: Jack Cowan, U Chicago; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Spontaneous pattern formation in large scale brain activity: what visual migraines and hallucinations tell us about the brain (video)
Tuesday 07th of February 2006: Christian Wehrhahn, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Seeing blindsight: motion at isoluminance?
Monday 23rd of January 2006: Read Montague, Baylor College of Medicine and Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ); 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; Abstract plans and reward signals in a multi-round trust game
Tuesday 17th of January 2006: Erhardth Barth, Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, Luebeck, Germany; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; Guiding eye movements for better communication (video)
Tuesday 03rd of January 2006: Dan Butts, Harvard University; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; "Temporal hyperacuity": visual neuron function at millisecond time resolution
Tuesday 13th of December 2005: Paul Rhodes, Stanford University; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; Simulations of a thalamocortical column with compartment model cells and dynamic synapses. (video)
Tuesday 06th of December 2005: Robert Hecht-Nielsen, Computational Neurobiology, UC San Diego; 5101, 04:00pm; Debate: "Waves or words in cortex?" -- Part 2: Confabulation Theory (video)
Tuesday 06th of December 2005: Walter J Freeman, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; Debate: "Waves or words in cortex?" -- Part 1: A field-theoretic approach to understanding neocortex (video)
Tuesday 29th of November 2005: Stanley Klein, School of Optometry, UC Berkeley and Vision Science and Neuroscience Graduate Groups; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; Limits of Vision and psychophysical methods (video)
Tuesday 22nd of November 2005: Scott Makeig, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; Viewing event-related brain dynamics from the top down
Friday 04th of November 2005: John Tsotsos, Department of Computer Science and Center for Vision Research, York University; 5101 Tolman, 02:30pm; Can Distributed Local Saliency Computations Solve the Feature Binding Problem?
Tuesday 25th of October 2005: Jose Carmena, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; Brain-machine interfaces: a new paradigm for the study of cortical adaptation
Tuesday 18th of October 2005: Matthias Bethge, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; How independent are the components of linear models adapted to the statistics of natural scenes?
Tuesday 11th of October 2005: Simon Osindero, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets
Tuesday 27th of September 2005: John Lisman, Brandeis University; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; A new approach to the invariance problem in visual recognition: using a log-polar Fourier transform in a spatial array of computational centers

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