Computational Neuroscience Seminars - 2001 Talks



  • 07-12-01, Friday 14h15, IN-J-011 (Mantra Cave)
    Fritjof Helmchen
    , MPI fuer Medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg
    A close look into the brain: in vivo imaging in neocortex using two-photon microscopy
     

  • 23-08-01, Thursday, 12h15, Rue de Bugnon 9
    Henry Markram , Weizmann Institute, Israel
    The Omnipotent Cortical Circuit

  • 17-08-01, Friday, 14h15, IN-J-011 (Mantra Cave)
    Werner Kistler, , Erasmus University Rotterdam,
    A reverse engineering approach to cerebellar function
    Abstract.

  • 10-08-01, Friday, 14h15, IN-J-011 (Mantra Cave)
    Steven N. Fry, , Berkeley,
    Navigation principles of the Fly
    Abstract.
  • 27-07-01, Friday, 14h15, IN-J-011 (Mantra Cave)
    Ruben Moreno, , University of Madrid,
    Mean firing rate and CV for a leaky IF neuron with exponentially correlated input Fly
     
  • 20-07-01, Friday, 14h15, IN-J-011 (Mantra Cave)
    Francois Fleuret, EPFL and INRIA
    Tutorial an some Thoughts on Reinforcement Learning
     
  • 11-07-01, Wednesday 11h, IN-J-011 (Mantra Cave)
    Regina Mudra, Institut fuer Neuroinformatik ETH/UZ
    Using an egocentric space representation for navigation on a robot
    Abstract.
  • 08-06-01, Friday 14h15, IN-J-011 (Mantra Cave)
    Sid Wiener, Lab. de Physiologie de la Perception et de l'Action, Collège de France, Paris
    Neuronal bases for spatial orientation and navigation
    Abstract.
  • 27-04-01, Friday 14h15, IN-J-011 (Mantra Cave)
    Arnaud Tonnelier(Grenoble)
    Nonlinear dynamics and travelling waves in neural networks
    Abstract.

  • 24-04-01, Tuesday, 12h15 IN-202 (Colloque du DI)
    José del R. Millán (Joint Research Centre of the European Commision, Ispra, Italy).
    Adaptive Wearable Brain-Computer Interfaces
    Abstract.

  • 06-04-01, Friday, 14h15 In-J-011 (Mantra-Cave)
    Julien Mayor (UNIL, Physique Theorique).
    Phase transition in thermosensitive polymers
     

  • 06-04-01, Friday, 17h15 IN-200 (Thesis defense)
    Felix Gers (IDSIA, Lugano).
    Long Short-Term Memory in Recurrent Neural Networks
    Abstract.

  • 23-03-01, Friday 14h15, IN-J-011 (Mantra Cave)
    Francois Fleuret University of Chicago, Computer Science Department Coarse-to-fine face detection and pose estimation
    Abstract.

  • 26-02-01, Monday 14h15, IN-J-011 (Mantra Cave)
    Valeria del Prete (Sissa, Trieste)
    A Theoretical Model for Coding Movements
    Abstract.

  • 23-02-01, Friday 14h15, IN-J-011 (Mantra Cave)
    Silvia Chiappa (Milano) Analysis of Adaptive Brain Interfaces (ABI) project by the means application of mathematical tools to provide a more solid formulation and understanding of the learning paradigm.
    Abstract.

  • 15-02-01, Thursday 14h15, IN-J-011 (Mantra Cave)
    Evan Haskell (Courant Institute, NYU, and Sissa, Trieste) Population Density Methods for Large-Scale Modeling of Neuronal Networks with Realistic Synaptic Kinetics: Cutting the Dimension Down to Size
    Abstract.

  • 9-02-01, 14h15, IN-J-011 (Mantra Cave)
    Didier Herschkowitz (Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France).
    Retarded unsupervised learning (in French)
    Abstract.

  • 9-02-01, 17h15, IN-J-201 (Batiment Central d'Informatique, au-dessus de la Cafeteria)
    Alix Hermann (Centre Mantra, EPFL,).
    Signal Transmission Properties of Spiking Neurons - Defense publique de these
    Abstract.

  • 25-01-01 (Thursday, 14h15)
    Tony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY).
    Computation in the rat auditory cortex
    Abstract.
  • 19-01-01
    Nicolas Brunel (Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France).
    Effects of synaptic noise and filtering on the frequency response of spiking neurons
    Abstract.

  • 09-01-01 (Tuesday, 10h15)
    Alain Destexhe (Unité de Neurosciences Intégratives et Computationnelles (CNRS), France).
    Models of dendritic integration in neocortical neurons in vivo
    Abstract.