External Seminars

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

Date

Speaker and Title

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

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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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