2016 Past Events
| Thursday June 30 Location: AAC 132 Time: 14:00 |
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Yulia SANDAMIRSKAYA (homepage)
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| Title:
Dynamic Neural Fields:
from modelling visual cognition to neuromorphic robots
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| Thursday June 16th Location: SV 1717A Time: 9:15am |
Tobias ROSE (homepage)
Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology, Munich |
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| Wednesday June 15th Location: AAC 132 Time: 9:30am |
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Emti Khan (homepage)
EPFL (IC) |
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Approximate Bayesian Inference : Bringing Statistics, Optimization, Machine Learning, and AI together |
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| Wednesday June 8th Location: AAC 132 Time: 9h30 |
Alireza ALEMI (homepage)
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| Title:
Three-threshold learning rule for optimal information storage in recurrent neural networks
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| Monday May 23rd Location: AAC 132 Time: 4:30pm |
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Taro TOYOIZUMI (homepage)
RIKEN, Brain Science Institute, Japan |
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Modeling the dynamic interaction of Hebbian and homeostatic plasticity. |
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| Tuesday April 12th Location: AAC 132 Time: 14h00 |
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Bernd ILLING (homepage)
University of Konstanz, Germany |
| Title:
Strain correlations in colloidal glass formers
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| Wednesday March 9th Location: AAC 120 Time: 9h30 |
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Alessandro INGROSSO (homepage)
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| Title:
Local entropy maximization and efficient learning algorithms for neural networks
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| Monday January 18th Location: AAC 014 Time: 14h00 |
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Peter LATHAM (homepage)
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit University College London |
| Title: Probabilistic synapses Abstract |
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| BMI seminar
Wednesday January 06th |
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Dora ANGELAKI (homepage)
Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, US |
| Title: A Bayesian Journey through our sixth sense: From sensors to cortex and beyond Abstract |
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| Wednesday January 20th Location: AAC 132 Time: 16h30 |
Yazan BILLEH (homepage)
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| Title: Functional, clustered, and mesoscale brain networks Abstract |
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2015 Past Events
| Thursday December 10th Location: SG 0211 Time: 13h30 |
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Alfonso RENART (homepage)
Champalimaud, Lisboa |
| Title: State-dependence of low-dimensional population dynamics in local cortical circuits Abstract |
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| Vison & Computational Neurosciene Seminar
Tuesday December 1st |
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Greg FRANCIS (homepage)
Purdue University |
| Title: tbc Abstract |
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| Thursday November 26th Location: AAC 008 Time: 1:30 pm |
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Gianluigi MONGILLO (homepage)
Centre de Neurophysique, Physiologie et Pathologie — Université Paris Descartes |
| Title: Inhibitory plasticity defines the realm of excitatory plasticity Abstract |
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| Thursday November 19 Location: AAC 008 Time: 13h30 |
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Mario Dipoppa (homepage)
University College London, UK |
| Title: Testing canonical microcircuits in mouse visual cortex Abstract |
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| Thursday November 12th Location: AAC 008 Time: 13h30 |
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Daan WIERSTRA (homepage)
Google DeepMind
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| Title: How to Build an Artificial General Intelligence Abstract |
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| Thursday November 5th Location: AAC 008 Time: 13h30 |
Mijung PARK (homepage)
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, |
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| Title:
Latent variable models (LVMs) for manifold learning and time series data
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| Thursday October 29 Location: AAC 008 Time: 13h30 |
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Sukbin LIM (homepage)
Department of Neurobiology, |
| Title: Inferring learning rules from distribution of firing rates in cortical neurons Abstract |
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| Thursday October 15 Location: AAC008 Time: 13:30 |
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Omri BARAK (homepage)
Israel Institute of |
| Title: Understanding trained recurrent neural networks Abstract |
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| Thursday October 8 Location: Time: |
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Sébastien BOURET (homepage)
ICM – Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière Paris |
| Title: Complementary roles of NA and DA neurons to the effort/ reward trade off in monkeysAbstract |
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| Thursday October 1st Location: Room AAC 132 Time: 13:30 |
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Joe PATON (homepage)
Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme |
| Title: Striatal dynamics explain duration judgments | ||
| Thursday September 24th Location: AAC 132 Time: 13h30 |
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Rui PONTE COSTA (ruipcosta.weebly.com/)
Centre for Neuronal Circuits and Behaviour
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| Title: Why does the brain need both pre- and postsynaptic long-term plasticity? Abstract |
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| Thursday September 17th Location: Room AAC 132 Time: 13:30 |
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Cristina SAVIN (homepage)
Computational and Biological Learning Lab at Cambridge University |
| Title: Spike-based probabilistic computation
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| BMI Seminar Wednesday June 10 Location: SV1717a Time: 12:15 |
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Wilson TRUCCOLO (homepage)
Brain Science Institute, Department of Neuroscience, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, |
| Title: Collective neuronal dynamics during human focal seizures Abstract |
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| Thursday May 21 Location: AAC132 Time: 13:30 |
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Srdjan OSTOJIC (homepage)
Group for Neural Theory, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, ENS Paris |
| Title: Two types of asynchronous activity in networks of excitatory and inhibitory spiking neurons Abstract |
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| Thursday April 30 Location: AAC 132 Time: 13:30 |
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Gabriel OCKER (homepage)
Graduate student, Center for Neuroscience, |
| Title: Synaptic plasticity shapes the structure of recurrent neuronal networks Abstract |
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| Thursday, April 2nd: Swiss Computational Neuroscience Seminars University of Zurich, Irchel Campus Y35 F32 (directions)General Program |
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| Time: 14.00 – 15.45 |  |
Jackob MACKE (homepage)
Max Planck Institute for Biologial Cybernetics, Tuebingen |
| Title: Correlations, criticality and common input Abstract |
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| Time: 15.45 – 16.15 | Coffee Break | |
| Time: 16.15 – 18.00 |
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Christian MACHENS (homepage)
Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme in Lisbon, Portugal |
| Title: Distributed (or mixed) representations in the brain: from data analysis to circuit mechanisms Abstract |
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| Thursday March 26 Location: AAC 132 Time: 13:30 |
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Magnus RICHARDSON (homepage)
Systems Biology Centre, |
| Title: Dynamics of the neuromodulator adenosine Abstract |
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| IC SEMINAR Friday February 27 Location: BC 420 Time: 10:15 |
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Martin ROHRMEIER (homepage)
Director Centre for Music and Science |
| Title: Musical structure at the intersection between music theory, cognition and computation Abstract |
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| IC SEMINAR Thursday February 19 Location: BC 420 Time: 10:15 |
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Yoav ARTZI (homepage)
Dpt of Computer Science & Engineering |
| Title: Situated Learning and Understanding of Natural Language More information |
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| Thursday February 12 Location: AAC132 Time: 13:30 |
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Alexander MAYE (homepage)
Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University of Hamburg · |
| Title: Models of action-based perception – achievements and challenges Abstract |
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| IC Colloquium Thursday February 5 Location: BC 420 Time: 10:15 |
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Kyunghyun CHO (homepage)
Informatics Laboratory of Adaptive Systems, |
| Title: Deep Learning: Present, Challenges and Beyond more information |
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| IC Colloquium Monday February 2 Location: BC 420 Time: 10:15 |
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Leila WEHBE (homepage)
Machine Learning Department & Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition |
| Title: The complex brain representations involved in natural reading more information |
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| Friday, January 30th: Swiss Computational Neuroscience Seminars – CMU Geneva |
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| Time: 15:00 – 16:15 |  |
Philip SABES (homepage)
Department of Physiology and Center for Integrative Neuroscience, UCSF |
| Title: From cortical activity to movement: the roles of learning, representation and dynamics Abstract |
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| Time: 16:15 – 16:45 | Coffee Break | |
| Time: 16:45 – 18:00 |  |
Mark CHURCHLAND (homepage)
Movement Generation Laboratory, Columbia University |
| Title: Motor cortex and the neural dynamics of pattern generation Abstract |
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| Thursday January 22 Location: AAC 120 Time: 13:30 |
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Riccardo ZECCHINA (homepage)
Professor, Theoretical Physics Department of Applied Science and Technology Politecnico di Torino |
| Title: Efficient learning and generalization in networks with “material” synapses Abstract |
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| Thursday January 8 Location: AAC132 Time: 14:00 |
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Lars BUESING (homepage)
Department of Statistics, Columbia University |
| Title: Probabilistic State-Space Models for Analyzing Neural Population Recordings Abstract |
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