NYU/CNS : Activities : Swartz Seminar

Date

Speaker

Title

Sept. 18

Alexei Koulakov
(CSHL)

Deciphering the olfactory code

Sept. 25

Ken Miller
(Columbia)

The stabilized supralinear network: a simple circuit mechanism underlying multi-input integration in sensory cortex

Oct. 2

Jose Carmena
(UC Berkeley)

Large-scale neural circuit dynamics during neuroprosthetic skill learning

Oct. 30

Máté Lengyel
(Cambridge)

Cortical response variability: circuit mechanisms and function

Dec. 4

Sophie Denève
(ENS)

Efficient population coding in recurrent spiking networks

Dec. 8

Ken Harris
(UCL)

The organization of neocortical population activity

* Special Seminar, Tuesday 10:30am in Meyer 551 *

Dec. 11

Alan Anticevic
(Yale)

Developing mechanistic biomarkers for psychiatry: harnessing pharmacology, neuroimaging and computation

Dec. 18

David Freedman
(Chicago)

Neuronal mechanisms of visual categorization and category learning

Jan. 29

Joshua Vogelstein
(Johns Hopkins)

Open connectome project & neurodata: enabling petascale extensible neuroscience

Feb. 5

Stephanie Palmer
(Chicago)

Understanding vision through the lens of prediction

* Special Seminar *

Mar. 4
* 12pm *

Claudia Clopath
(ICL)

Emergence of functional connectivity in plastic networks

Mar. 11

Rony Paz
(Weizmann)

Geometric rule-learning in primate neurons

* Special Seminar *

Apr. 1

David Redish
(Minnesota)

Good deals and bad deals: suboptimal decision-making in the over-cognitive rat (with implications for economics and psychiatry)

Apr. 22

Liam Paninski
(Columbia)

Challenges and opportunities in statistical neural data analysis

May 6

Mehrdad Jazayeri
(MIT)

Scalar timing in the cortico-basal ganglia circuits

May 20

Nicolas Brunel
(Chicago)

Inferring learning rules in cortical circuits