Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit

UCL Gatsby Unit

External Seminars

Unless otherwise stated, seminars are held currently in the Basement Seminar Room B10 at 16:00, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
These seminars are open to attendees from outside the unit.


Date	Speaker and Title
23 May 2012	Marc Toussaint B10 Basement Room Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4PM T.B.A
1 May 2012	Angela Yu B10 Basement Room Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4PM "Often Wrong, but Never in Doubt: Pascal's Wager in Everyday Cognition"
18th April 2012	Gasper Tkacik B10 Basement Room Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4PM T.B.A
11th April 2012	Bert Kappen B10 Basement Room Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4PM The variational Garrote
14 March 2012	Iain Murray B10 Basement Room Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4PM T.B.A
29th February 2012	Sumeettpal Singh B10 Basement Room Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4PM Parameter Estimation for Hidden Markov Models with Intractable Likelihoods
22nd February 2012	Vikash Mansinghka B10 Basement Room Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4PM How to be stochastic about probabilistic programming, and why it is worth the trouble
15th February 2012	Danny Bickson B10 Basement Room Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 11am Large scale iterative computation using GraphLab
1st February 2012	Michael Black B10 Basement Room Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4PM Modernizing Muybridge: From 3D Models of the Body to Decoding the Brain
18th January 2012	Tugkan Batu B10 Basement room Seminar, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4pm Testing Properties of Discrete Distributions
11th January 2012	Daniel Butts B10 Basement room Seminar, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4pm Linking nonlinear models to mechanism in pre-cortical vision
8th December 2011	Ilya Sutskever (Internal Seminar) Gatsby Seminar room, 4th Floor, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4PM Training and Applications of Recurrent Neural Networks
8th December 2011	Arnaud Doucet B10 Basement room Seminar, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 1pm The expected auxiliary variables method for Monte Carlo simulation
6th December 2011	Alexander Smola B10 Basement room Seminar, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4pm Scaling Machine Learning to the Internet
9th November 2011	Larry Yaeger B10 Basement room Seminar, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4pm Evolutionary Selection of Neural Network Structure and Function
4th November 2011	Davd Greenberg 4th Floor Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 3pm Oh, behave: problems and solutions in data analysis for two photon imaging in awake and freely moving animals
12th October 2011	Carlos Brody B10 Basement room Seminar, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4pm Optimal integration of evidence for decision-making in the rat
11th October 2011	Peter Shizgal FIL Seminar room, 12 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, 4pm The neural computation of utility: contributions from the study of brain stimulation reward
28th September 2011	Philip Hennig B10 Basement room Seminar, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Gaussian Systems
21st September 2011	Matthias Bethge B10 Basement room Seminar, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 4pm How effective are neural model representations in capturing the higher-order correlations of natural images?
28th July 2011	Jay McClelland B10 Basement room Seminar, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR Two Mechanisms of Human Contingency Learning
27th July 2011	Matthias Seeger B10 Basement room Seminar, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR Approximate Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Inverse Problems: A Computational Viewpoint
21th July 2011	Geoffrey Hinton Roberts Building Room 106 Lecture Theatre 4pm How to force unsupervised neural networks to discover the right representation of images
18th July 2011	Reinforcement Learning Seminar B10 Alexndra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 1.30pm - 2.30pm
15th July 2011	Khalid El-Arini B10 basement Room Seminar, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR Beyond Keyword Search: Discovering Relevant Scientific Literature
13th July 2011	*CANCELLED*Alfonso Renart B10 Alexndra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 16.00pm Temporal Correlations in Cortical Circuits
13th July 2011	Byron Boots Wednesday 13th July 2011, 4pm Basement room seminar B10 Alexandra House Spectral Approaches to Learning about State
13th July 2011	Aaron Hertzmann Wednesday, 13th July, 11-noon in Malet Place Eng 1.02 Principles of Humanoid Locomotion Control
6th July 2011	Leslie Valiant (Book Ticket using the below link) Harvard Please book Tickets here
5th July 2011	Angela Yu UCSD B10 Alexndra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR (10.30am) Optimal decision-making in inhibitory control
4th July 2011	(CANCELLED) Reinforcment Learning Seminar B10 Alexndra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 1.30pm - 2.30pm (CANCELLED)
27th June 2011	Reinforcment Learning Seminar B10 Alexndra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR 1.30pm - 2.30pm
22nd June 2011	Matthew Blaschko University of Oxford Structured Prediction and Inference for Scene Analysis
20th June 2011	Reinforcment Learning Seminar PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE: Foster Court 101, UCL Reasoning under uncertain observations in robots
13th June 2011	Read Montague (Reinforcment Learning Seminar) Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London; Virginia Tech Models of other minds during two-party social exchange
8th June 2011	Zhaoping Li UCL Human wavelength discrimination of monochromatic light explained by optimal decoding
25th May 2011	John beggs Indiana University Information flow through local cortical networks is not democratic
12th May 2011	Rich Sutton Edmonton Gradient Temporal-difference Learning Algorithms
11th May 2011	Fred Wolf MPI and BCCN Goettingen Decoding the Pinwheel by an EvoDevo Approach
4th May 2011	JP Thivierge University of Ottawa Functional and Structural Organization of Neural Networks: Some experiments, a little theory, and a lot of open questions
27 April 2011	Mitya Chklovskii Janelia Farm, HHMI Predictive Sparse Coding: A Dynamical Circuit Model of Early Sensory Processing
20 April 2011	Kenji Fukumizu (Seminar Room 4th Floor Alexandra House) The Institute of Statistical Mathematics Department of Statistical Modeling Kernel Bayes' Rule: Bayesian inference with positive definite kernels
14th April 2011	Eric Shea Brown University of Washington Cooperative dynamics in simple neural circuits
13th April 2011	Jonathan Huang (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch1/) Carnegie Mellon University Politics, Preferences and Permutations: Probabilistic Reasoning with Rankings
6 April 2011	Tim Vogels (Seminar Room B10 (Basement)Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR) Institute of Neuroinformatics, EPF Lausanne Inhibitory synaptic plasticity generates global and detailed balance of excitation and inhibition
5 April 2011	John Van Opstal (FIL Seminar Room 12 Queen Square) Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Department of Biophysics "Optimal Control of Saccades by Spatial-Temporal Activity Patterns in the Monkey Superior Colliculus"
4 April 2011	Hiro Nakahara (FIL Seminar Room 12 Queen Square) Laboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience RIKEN Brain Science Institute Two issues in neural value-decision making: emulating the other’s decision processes, and time representations
31 Mar 2011	Vicenc Gomez SNN Adaptive Intelligence, Radboud University "A likelihood-based framework for the analysis of discussion threads"
30 Mar 2011	Olivier Cappé Telecom ParisTech & CNRS, Paris The KL-UCB Algorithm for Bounded Stochastic Bandits and Beyond
23 Mar 2011	James Cussens Department of Computer Science, University of York Bayesian network learning with cutting planes
16 Feb 2011	Richard Hahnloser Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH and University of Zurich The hebbian theory of sensorimotor learning and its application to birdsong learning
02 Feb 2011	Wong-Lin Kongfatt How amyloid plaques can affect the hippocampo-septal network rhythm: A viewpoint from a computational model
19 Jan 2011	Sebastien Bouret Team Motivation Brain & Behavior. Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epiniere. Paris, France. Motivational value: Contribution of ventral prefrontal areas and catecholaminergic systems in monkeys.
15 Dec 2010	Matteo Caradini UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Dynamics of population activity in visual cortex
20 Oct 2010	François Caron INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest EM and Gibbs algorithms for generalized Bradley-Terry models
13 Oct 2010	Larry Snyder Washington University, School of Medicine Dept of Anatomy & Neurobiology Your attention, please: The role of LIP in behavior
09 Sept 2010	Aapo Hyvarinen Dept of Mathematics and Statistics & Dept of Computer Science University of Helsinki Advances in the analysis of spontaneous EEG and MEG by independent
TBC	Michael Buice NIDDK, NIH, USA Finite Size Effects and Information in Neural Networks
11 Jun 2010 4th Floor	Carson Chow Mathematical cell modelling section NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, USA
9 Jun 2010	Alain Destexhe UNIC, CNRS, France Neuronal "noise", from single cells to populations and from experiments to models
1 Jun 2010	Angela Yu Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD, USA Optimal decision-making in an active visual search task: effects of spatial statistics on motor planning and sensory processing
25 May 2010	Nathaniel Daw Center for Neural Science, New York University, UCL Title: tbc
24 May 2010	Rudolf Cardinal Cambridge University, UK Delayed reinforcement: an update on animal studies
19 May 2010	Mate Lengyel Biological and Computational Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK Single cell computations: smarter than you think, dumber than you hope
17 May 2010 TIME: 14.00	Paul Schrater Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota, USA Rational control of aspiration in learning
5 May 2010	Mark Girolami Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK Riemann Manifold Langevin and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
14 Apr 2010	Nick Lesica Ear Institute, UCL, UK New tools for the analysis and modeling of population spike trains
31 Mar 2010	Michael Littman Computer Science Department, Rutgers, USA Efficiently Learning to Behave Efficiently
26 Mar 2010 TIME: 12.00	Dan Butts Department of Biology, University of Maryland, USA Beyond the receptive field: the role of inhibition in formatting sensory information
22 Mar 2010	Gatsby Unit Quinquennial Symposium REGISTRATION REQUIRED Further Details
12 Mar 2010 TIME: 16.30 4th floor seminar room	Eric Xing School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, USA Dynamic Network Tomography: Model, Algorithm, Theory, and Application
24 Feb 2010	Guillaume Obozinski Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, USA Group Lasso extensions and sparse structured dictionary learning
17 Feb 2010	Peter Sollich & Matthew Urry Department of Mathematics, King's College London, UK Kernels and learning curves for Gaussian process regression on random graphs
10 Feb 2010	Lael Schooler Max Planck Institute, Germany Marr, Memory, and Heuristics
27 Jan 2010	Fabian Sinz Max Planck Institute for biological Cybernetics, Germany Contrast Gain Control in Natural Image Representations
18 Jan 2010	Andrew Gelman Department of Statistics and Department of Political Science, Columbia University, USA Creating structured and flexible models: some open problems
13 Jan 2010	Sophie Deneve Group for Neural Theory, ENS, France Bayesian inference with spikes. Implication for the neural code, sensory processing and working memory
6 Jan 2010	Mayank Mehta Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Neurology, UCLA, USA Synaptic plasticity, oscillations and place cells
02 Dec 2009	Paul Bressloff Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK Stochastic neurodynamics, master equations and the system-size expansion
26 Nov 2009 TIME: 15.00	Eugene Izhikevich Brain Corporation, USA Spike-Timing Theory of Working Memory
25 Nov 2009	Steve Furber School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK Biologically-Inspired Massively-Parallel Architectures - computing beyond a million processors
18 Nov 2009	Richard Shiffrin Indiana University, USA title: tbc
11 Nov 2009	Bert Kappen Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands KL control theory and decision making under uncertainty
14 Oct 2009 TIME: 12.00	Mike Jordan Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, USA Completely Random Measures for Bayesian Nonparametrics
30 Sep 2009	Ozgur Simsek Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany Behavioral building blocks for autonomous agents
23 Sep 2009	Jack Cowan Gordon Center for Integrative Science, University of Chicago, UK A stochastic model of large-scale brain activity
9 Sep 2009	Ethan Bromberg-Martin NIH, USA A neural pathway for information-seeking
26 Jun 2009 TIME: 14.30	Sebastian Seung Howard Hughes Medical Institute and MIT, USA The computational challenges of connectomics
15 Jun 2009 TIME: 14.30	Stephanie Chow Princeton, USA Context-dependent modulation of functional connectivity: S2 to PFC connections in two-stimulus-interval discrimination tasks
10 Jun 2009	Carl van Vreeswijk Neurophysics and Physiology of the Motor System, René Descartes University, France Contrast Invariance and the Contrast Response Function in a model of V1.
9 June 2009 TIME: 14.30 4th Floor seminar room	Anne Collins INSERM-ENS, Paris Cognitive control, learning and exploration
27 May 2009	Stephen Coombes School of Mathematical Sciences, Nottingham University, UK Dynamics of Morris-Lecar networks
13 May 2009	Robbie Jacobs Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, USA Is Human Learning Optimal?
8 May 2009 TIME: 15.30	Brendan Frey University of Toronto, on sabbatical at Microsoft Research, Cambridge The Regulation of RNA in Brain Tissues
29 Apr 2009	Roger Ratcliff Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, USA Insights from Physiological Measures into Modeling Simple Decision Processes
17 Mar 2009 TIME: 14.00	Jon Cohen Princeton, USA Converging evidence for the role of dopamine in adaptive control of cognition: Computational, neuroimaging and interventional studies
6 Mar 2009 TIME: 15.00	Bruno Olshausen Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and School of Optometry, UC Berkeley, USA Learning transformational invariants from natural movies
19 Feb 2009	Alan Yuille UCLA, USA Recursive Compositional Models for Vision
18 Feb 2009	Bert Kappen Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Control as an (approximate) inference problem
4 Feb 2009	Nicolas Brunel CRNS, France Irregular states in randomly connected networks
28 Jan 2009	Nick Lesica Biology Department, LMU, Germany Population coding of azimuthal space in mammals and birds
18 Dec 2008 TIME: 14.30	Geoff Goodhill QBI, University of Queensland, Australia Measuring and modeling the limits of axon guidance by molecular gradients
15 Dec 2008 TIME: 17.00 Lower Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Psychology Dept Bedford Way	Antonio Rangel Caltech, USA The neurobiology of self-control
3 Dec 2008	Christian Machens Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris Functional but not anatomical separation of "what" and "when" in prefrontal cortex
26 Nov 2008	Partha Mitra Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA Evolution of Song Culture in the Zebra Finch
14 Nov 2008 TIME: 15.30	Marina Meila University of Washington, USA Consensus finding, exponential models, and infinite rankings
5 Nov 2008	Tim Behrens Oxford University Learning and the ACC
27 Oct 2008 TIME: 15.00	Stefan Roth TU Darmstadt, Germany High-Order Markov Random Fields for Low-Level Vision
22 Oct 2008	Adrienne Fairhall University of Washington, USA The biophysics of adaptive coding on multiple timescales
8 Oct 2008	John Hertz Nordita, Sweden Inferring Spike Pattern Distributions from Data
6 Oct 2008 TIME: 15.30 VENUE: 4th floor seminar room, Alexandra House	Erik Sudderth University of California, Berkeley, USA Shared Segmentation of Natural Scences using Dependent Pitman-Yor Process
1 Oct 2008 16.30	Michael Berry Princeton, USA Reading a Correlated Population Code
24 Sep 2008	Sharon Goldwater University of Edinburgh A Bayesian approach to language learning

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