Computational Neuroscience Seminars - 1999 Talks


  • 17.12.99 Samy Bengio (IDIAP) Modeling High-Dimensional Discrete Data with Multi-Layer Neural Networks Abstract

  • 10.12.99 Ruedi Stoop (INI Zurich). Synchronization along Arnold tongues: The control of oscillations and chaos in canonical neocortical microcircuits Abstract

  • 03.12.99 James Henderson (LIA, EPFL; and Univ. of Exeter). Temporal Neural Networks for language processing Abstract

  • 26.11.99 Alix Herrmann (MANTRA, EPFL). Neuronal signal transmission in the presence of noise: a model study Abstract

  • 19.11.99 Juergen Schmidhuber (IDSIA Lugano). Reinforcement learning in partially observable environments Abstract

  • 12.11.99 J. Leo van Hemmen (TU Munich). How the desert scorpion localizes its prey
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  • 05.11.99 Stefano Fusi (Uni Bern). The world according to a synapse: local spike based learning rules
    Abstract

  • 29.10.99 Melanie Aeschlimann (UNIL, Lausanne). Modeling dendritic growth cones during neuronal development

  • 11.6.99 Jean-Pierre Nadal (ENS, Paris). Population coding and statistical inference

  • 01.6. *** TUESDAY, 11h15! *** Alexander Gorban (Institute of Computational Modeling, Krasnoyarsk) Generation of explicit knowledge from empirical data through pruning of trainable neural networks
  • 28.5.99 Rolando Grave de Peralta Menendez (Functional Brain Mapping Lab, HCUG, Geneva) Modeling of EEG data
  • 25.5.99 *** TUESDAY! 12h15 *** Bernhard Schoelkopf (GMD, Berlin) Support Vector Machines
  • 21.5.99 Perry Moerland (IDIAP, Martigny) Results on a Mixture of Expert model (Note the change of date)
  • 14.5.99 Werner Kistler (TU-Munich) Time-Slicing: A Model for Cerebellar Function Based on Synchronization, Reverberation, and Time Windows
  • 7.5.99 Peter Koenig (INI, Zurich) Learning and Dynamics in (real) neural nets
  • 30.4.99 Sean Hill (UNIL) Modeling Large-Scale Thalamocortical Networks
  • 16.4.99 Felix Gers (IDSIA, Lugano) Learning in recurrent networks
  • 5.2.1999 Auke Jan Ijspeert (LAMI) Central pattern generators for locomotion in lamprey and salamander: Model optimization by evolutionary algorithms
  • 29.1.1999 Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Trieste). Fast information processing in networks of spiking neurons
  • 22.1.1999 Hanspeter Mallot (MPI, Tubingen). The view-based approach to navigation and cognitive maps. We will take advantage of Hanspeter Mallot's presence at EPFL and organize a short series of related talks around it:
    22.1.1999 BIOINSPIRED APPROACHES TO NAVIGATION
    • 9h30-10h30 Hanspeter A. Mallot: Tutorial
    • 10h45-11h30 Angelo Arleo: Models of hippocampal place fields and navigation of autonomous robots
    • 11h30-12h15 Joseba Urzelai: Modular evolved control architectures for autonomous robots
    • (LUNCH)
    • 14h15-15h15 Hanspeter A. Mallott: (research talk) The view-based approach to navigation and cognitive maps
    • 15h15-15h45 Discussion

  • 15.1. Fabrizio Smeraldi (LAMI). Retina-type preprocessing and Support Vector Machines for Face Recognition