Seminars

Tuesday 06th of February 2018: Leenoy Mesulam, Princeton University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; The 1000+ neurons challenge: emergent simplicity in (very) large populations
Wednesday 31st of January 2018: Joe Makin, UCSF; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Sensory Integration, Density Estimation, and Information Retention
Wednesday 24th of January 2018: Miguel LÃ¡zaro-Gredilla, Vicarious, Inc.; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Towards artificial general intelligence: Brain-inspired CAPTCHA breaking and Atari playing (video)
Tuesday 19th of December 2017: Shaowei Lin, Singapore University of Technology and Design; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Biologically plausible deep learning for recurrent spiking neural networks.
Wednesday 13th of December 2017: Zhaoping Li, University College London; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Looking and seeing in the primary visual cortex (video)
Wednesday 29th of November 2017: Joel Kaardal, Salk Institute; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Decoding the computations of high-level auditory neurons (video)
Thursday 16th of November 2017: Jeff Hawkins, Numenta; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Have We Missed Most of What the Neocortex Does?
Allocentric Location as the Basis of Perception (video)
Wednesday 08th of November 2017: John Harte, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Maximum Entropy and the Inference of Patterns in Nature (video)
Wednesday 25th of October 2017: Caleb Kalmere, Rice University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Unsupervised Inference of the Hippocampal Population Code from Offline Activity (video)
Wednesday 11th of October 2017: Deepak Pathak, UC Berkeley/BAIR; 560 Evans, 12:30pm; Curiosity-driven Exploration by Self-supervised Prediction (video)
Wednesday 20th of September 2017: Carl Pabo, Better World Institute for Thought & Policy; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Human Thought and the Human Future
Wednesday 06th of September 2017: Gerald Friedland, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; A Capacity Scaling Law for Artificial Neural Networks (video)
Wednesday 16th of August 2017: Joshua Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Discovering Relationships and their Structures Across Disparate Data Modalities (video)
Tuesday 15th of August 2017: Ken Miller and Brent Doiron, Columbia University and University of Pittsburgh; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; The Stabilized Supralinear Network, or, The Importance of Being Loosely Balanced (Miller) /
Spatiotemporal profiles of spiking variability in recurrent networks (Doiron) (video)
Tuesday 18th of July 2017: Jordi PuigbÃ², Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona - Spain); 560 Evans, 12:30pm; State Dependent Modulation of Perception Based on a Computational Model of Conditioning (video)
Monday 10th of July 2017: David Field, Cornell University; 1011 Evans, 06:00pm; Selectivity, hyper-selectivity and gain control: A comparison of non-linear models in the early visual system (video)
Wednesday 21st of June 2017: Jasmine Collins, Google; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Capacity and Trainability in Recurrent Neural Networks (video)
Monday 19th of June 2017: Naftali Tishby, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; A Deeper Understating of Deep Learning - Why Deep Neural Networks work so well?
Wednesday 14th of June 2017: Upamanyu Madhow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSB; 560 EVans, 12:00pm; Computational experiments with two neuro-inspired abstractions: Hebbian learning and spike timing information
Friday 09th of June 2017: Pentti Kanerva, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience; 560 Evans, 11:00am; The Brain's Circuits Suggest Computing with High-Dimensional Vectors (video)
Wednesday 07th of June 2017: Saurabh Gupta, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Cognitive Mapping and Planning for Visual Navigation (video)
Friday 02nd of June 2017: Alex Terekhov, Paris Descartes University ERC FEEL; 560 Evans, 11:00am; Signs of space (video)
Tuesday 30th of May 2017: Heiko SchÃ¼tt, University of TÃ¼bingen; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Likelihood Based Evaluation for Scanpath Models in Scene Viewing
Wednesday 24th of May 2017: Pierre Sermanet, Google Brain; 560 Evans ** NOTE TIME CHANGE ***, 01:00pm; Time-Contrastive Networks: Self-Supervised Learning from Multi-View Observation (video)
Wednesday 12th of April 2017: Aapo Hyvarinen, Gatsby Institute, University College London; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning
Wednesday 22nd of March 2017: Michael Frank, Magicore Systems; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; The Future of the Multi-core Platform Task-Superscalar Extensions to Von-Neumann Architecture and Optimization for Neural Networks (video)
Friday 10th of March 2017: Chris Hillar, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience; 560 Evans, 11:00am; Elements of Theoretical Neural Science (video)
Thursday 02nd of March 2017: Jozsef Fiser, Dept. of Cognitive Science, Central European University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Learning-based and behavioural evidence for probabilistic perception in the cortex (video)
Wednesday 01st of March 2017: Sahar Akram, Starkey Hearing Research Center; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Real-Time and Adaptive Auditory Neural Processing (video)
Monday 13th of February 2017: Amir Khosrowshahi, Intel Corporation; 489 Minor Hall, 12:00pm; Building a platform for machine intelligence (video)
Thursday 09th of February 2017: Christoph von der Malsburg, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and Platonite AG; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; The Neural Code Issue (video)
Wednesday 08th of February 2017: Gautam Agarwal, Champalimaud Neuroscience Program, Portugal; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; A planning game reveals distributed patterning in player behavior (video)
Monday 06th of February 2017: Felix Wichmann, University of TÃ¼bingen; 560 Evans, 04:00pm; Computational models of vision: From early vision to deep convolutional neural networks (video)
Wednesday 30th of November 2016: Marcus Rohrbach, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Intelligent systems which can communicate about what they see (video)
Wednesday 16th of November 2016: Sebastian Musslick, Princeton Neuroscience Institute (Princeton University); 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Parallel Processing Capability Versus Efficiency of Representation in Neural Network Architectures
Wednesday 09th of November 2016: Pulkit Agrawal, EECS, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Learning to Forecast and Control from Pixels (video)
Wednesday 26th of October 2016: Eric Jonas, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor? (video)
Tuesday 25th of October 2016: Douglas L. Jones, ECE Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 560 Evans - ** note time **, 02:00pm; Optimal energy-efficient coding in sensory neurons (video)
Wednesday 12th of October 2016: Paul Rhodes, Specific Technologies; 560 Evans, 04:00pm; A novel and important problem in spatiotemporal pattern classification
Tuesday 27th of September 2016: Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal; 560 Evans - note time, 11:00am; Towards bridging the gap between deep learning and biology (video)
Thursday 08th of September 2016: Barbara Finlay, Cornell University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Evolving the visual brain: computational rules suggested by brain scaling and niche adaptations. (video)
Wednesday 07th of September 2016: Dan Stowell, Queen Mary, University of London; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Inference using the timing of vocal sequences in songbirds (video)
Monday 27th of June 2016: Taco Cohen, University of Amsterdam; 560 Evans, 04:00pm; Group Equivariant Convolutional Networks (video)
Wednesday 15th of June 2016: James Blackmon, San Francisco State University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Independently Conscious Brain Regions (video)
Wednesday 08th of June 2016: Kris Bouchard, LBNL; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; The Union of Intersections (UoI) Method for Interpretable Data Driven Discovery and Prediction
Wednesday 18th of May 2016: Melanie Mitchell, Portland State University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Using Analogy to Recognize Visual Situations (video)
Wednesday 04th of May 2016: Zhengya Zhang, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan; Evans 560, 12:00pm; Sparse Coding ASIC Chips for Feature Extraction and Classification
Monday 11th of April 2016: Hao Su, Geometric Computing Lab and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Stanford University; 560 Evans, 02:00pm; Joint Understanding of 2D Images and 3D Shapes
Wednesday 23rd of March 2016: Kwabena Boahen, Stanford University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Neuromorphic Chips: Combining Analog Computation with Digital Communication (video)
Tuesday 01st of March 2016: Leon Gatys, University of Tubingen; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; From Texture Synthesis to Neural Art (video)
Wednesday 24th of February 2016: Miguel Carreira-PerpiÃ±Ã¡n, UC Merced; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Optimisation of spectral and nonlinear embeddings (video)
Friday 19th of February 2016: Johannes BallÃ©, Eero Simoncelliâ€™s lab at NYU; 560 Evans, 11:00am; Density Modeling of Images using a Generalized Divisive Normalization Transformation (video)
Wednesday 17th of February 2016: Andrew Saxe, Harvard University; 560 Evans - ** note different time ***, 02:00pm; Hallmarks of Deep Learning in the Brain (video)
Wednesday 03rd of February 2016: Ping-Chen Huang, EECS, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Bio-Inspired Artificial Olfactory System (video)
Wednesday 16th of December 2015: Mike Landy, NYU; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; The Hebbian normalization model of cortical adaptation (video)
Monday 14th of December 2015: William Softky & Criscillia Benford, independent consultant (William Softky) and Stanford (Criscillia Benford).; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Screen Addiction as Runaway De-calibration (video)
Wednesday 02nd of December 2015: Steven Brumby, Decartes Labs; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Seeing the Earth in the Cloud (video)
Wednesday 18th of November 2015: Hillel Adesnik, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Unexpected roles for inhibitory circuits in the neocortex (video)
Tuesday 17th of November 2015: Manuel Lopes, INRIA, Bordeaux; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Exploration Biases for Task Learning In Machines and Animals (video)
Friday 13th of November 2015: David Zipser, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 11:00am; Astrocytes (video)
Wednesday 04th of November 2015: Chelsea Finn and Sergey Levine, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 01:00pm; Robotic Visuomotor Learning (video)
Friday 30th of October 2015: Garret Kenyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory; 560 Evans, 11:00am; A Deconvolutional Competitive Algorithm (DCA) (video)
Wednesday 14th of October 2015: Laurent Dinh, University of Montreal; 560 Evans, 12:30pm; NICE: Nonlinear Independent Components Estimation (video)
Tuesday 08th of September 2015: Jennifer Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Building a Large-Scale Neuromorphic Hardware Systems Roadmap (video)
Wednesday 02nd of September 2015: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, Computer Science, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Combinatorial Energy Learning for Image Segmentation (video)
Wednesday 19th of August 2015: Wujie Zhang, Columbia University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Coupling between one-dimensional networks reconciles conflicting dynamics in LIP and reveals its recurrent circuitry
Wednesday 29th of July 2015: Gonzalo Otazu, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; The Role of Cortical Feedback in Olfactory Processing (video)
Thursday 23rd of July 2015: Xuexin Wei, University of Pennsylvania; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Efficient computation in the brain -- two case studies (video)
Wednesday 22nd of July 2015: Lav Varshney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Noise-enhanced associative memory, creativity, and other problems in faulty information processing (video)
Tuesday 21st of July 2015: Felix Effenberger, Max Planck Institute; 560 Evans, 02:00pm; Discovery of salient low-dimensional dynamical structure in neuronal population activity using Hopfield networks (video)
Wednesday 01st of July 2015: Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 01:00pm; 10th Anniverary Symposium
Wednesday 24th of June 2015: Kendrick Kay, Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Using functional neuroimaging to reveal the computations performed by the human visual system
Tuesday 02nd of June 2015: David Arathorn, GIC, Bozeman, MT; 560 Evans, 04:00pm; Map-seeking circuits and their application to vision and other inverse problems
Friday 29th of May 2015: Jason Yosinski, Cornell University; 560 Evans, 11:00am; Training and Understanding Deep Neural Networks for Robotics, Design, and Perception (video)
Friday 22nd of May 2015: Dan Butts, University of Maryland; 560 Evans, 11:00am; Accounting for variability in the awake visual cortex (video)
Wednesday 13th of May 2015: Harri Valpola, ZenRobotics Ltd.; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Combining supervised and unsupervised learning (video)
Thursday 07th of May 2015: Santani Teng, MIT; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; The neural dynamics of Braille letter perception (video)
Thursday 23rd of April 2015: Alice Parker, USC; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; The BioRC Biomimetic Real-Time Cortex: Focus on Nonlinear Dendritic Computations (video)
Wednesday 15th of April 2015: Zahra M. Aghajan, UCLA; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Hippocampal Activity in Real and Virtual Environments
Wednesday 08th of April 2015: Vivienne Ming, Socos, Inc.; 560 Evans, 06:00pm; From cognitive modeling to labor markets: estimating the economic cost of unrealized human potential (video)
Wednesday 01st of April 2015: Saeed Saremi, Salk Institute; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Correlated percolation, fractal dimensions, and scale-invariant distribution of clusters in natural images (video)
Wednesday 11th of March 2015: Jozsef Fiser, Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Sampling: a probabilistic approach to cortical computation, learning, and development (video)
Wednesday 04th of March 2015: Bill Sprague, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; V1 disparity tuning and the statistics of disparity in natural viewing (video)
Tuesday 03rd of March 2015: James Cooke, Auditory Neuroscience Group, Oxford University; 560 Evans, 04:00pm; Neural Circuitry Underlying Contrast Gain Control in Primary Auditory Cortex (video)
Tuesday 03rd of March 2015: Andreas Herz, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Munich; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Neural representations of physical space: the benefits of phase precession and multi-scale codes (video)
Wednesday 25th of February 2015: Steve Chase, Carnegie Mellon University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Internal model mismatch is responsible for the majority of errors in neuroprosthetic control (video)
Wednesday 11th of February 2015: Mark Lescroart, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Boundary contours and 3D surfaces: intermediate representations of objects and scenes (video)
Monday 09th of February 2015: Andrew Oxenham, University of Minnesota; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 04:00pm; Pitch perception: All in the timing? (video)
Wednesday 28th of January 2015: Rich Ivry, Dept. of Psychology, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Embodied Decision Making: System interactions in sensorimotor adaptation and reinforcement learning (video)
Monday 26th of January 2015: Abraham Peled, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Clinical Brain Profiling: A Neuro-Computational Psychiatry (video)
Wednesday 21st of January 2015: Adrienne Fairhall, University of Washington; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Learning and variability in birdsong (video)
Wednesday 14th of January 2015: Kevin O'Regan, CNRS - UniversitÃ© Paris Descartes; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Using sensorimotor dependencies to understand the nature of perceptual experience and the notion of â€œbodyâ€ (video)
Tuesday 09th of December 2014: Dirk DeRidder, Dundedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; The Bayesian brain, phantom percepts and brain implants (video)
Tuesday 02nd of December 2014: Christof Koch, Allen Brain Institute; 125 LKS, 04:00pm; Consciousness (video)
Friday 21st of November 2014: Dan Ciresan, IDSIA; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Deep Neural Networks for Visual Pattern Recognition
Thursday 20th of November 2014: Haruo Hosoya, ATR International / JST Presto Program; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; A hierarchical statistical model of natural images explains tuning properties in V2
Wednesday 12th of November 2014: Alex Huth, Gallant lab, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Mapping semantic representation in the brain using natural language (video)
Wednesday 15th of October 2014: Tamara Broderick, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Feature allocations, probability functions, and paintboxes (video)
Wednesday 08th of October 2014: Siyu Zhang, HWNI, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Long-range and local circuits for top-down modulation of visual cortical processing (video)
Tuesday 30th of September 2014: Alejandro Bujan, Bernstein Center, University of Freiburg; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Propagation and variability of evoked responses: the role of correlated inputs and oscillations. (video)
Wednesday 24th of September 2014: Alyosha Efros, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Her Majesty the Data (video)
Friday 19th of September 2014: Joint Redwood/ICBS seminar - Gary Marcus, New York University; 5101 Tolman, 11:00am; Computational diversity and the mesoscale organization of the neocortex (video)
Friday 19th of September 2014: Anna Levina, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; 560 Evans, 09:30am; Self-organized criticality, criticality without self-organization and self-organization without criticality (video)
Tuesday 02nd of September 2014: Oriol Vinyals, Google; 560 Evans, 11:00am; Machine Translation with Long-Short Term Memory Models
Friday 15th of August 2014: JÃ¼rgen Schmidhuber, IDSIA, Switzerland; 560 Evans, 03:00pm; Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity and Intrinsic Motivation (video)
Monday 11th of August 2014: Christoph Zetzsche, UniversitÃ¤t Bremen; 560 Evans - ** note different time **, 02:00pm; Nonlinear Neural Selectivity and the Statistics of Natural Scenes
Wednesday 06th of August 2014: Georg Martius, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Information driven self-organization of robotic behavior (video)
Wednesday 23rd of July 2014: Gautam Agarwal, Redwood Center/UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Unsolved Mysteries of Hippocampal Dynamics (video)
Wednesday 02nd of July 2014: Kelly Clancy, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Volitional control of neural assemblies in L2/3 of motor and somotosensory cortices (video)
Wednesday 25th of June 2014: Peter Loxley, UNM, Los Alamos Campus; and Center for Nonlinear Studies, LANL; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; The two-dimensional Gabor function adapted to natural image statistics: An analytical model of simple-cell responses in the early visual system (video)
Wednesday 11th of June 2014: Stuart Hammeroff, University of Arizona, Tucson; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; 'Tuning the brainâ€™ â€“ Treating mental states through microtubule vibrations (video)
Wednesday 07th of May 2014: CANCELLED, TO BE RESCHEDULED - Alyson Fletcher, UC Santa Cruz; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Scalable Identification for Structured Nonlinear Neural Systems
Wednesday 30th of April 2014: Masataka Watanabe, University of Tokyo; Evans Room 560, 12:00pm; Turing Test for Machine Consciousness and the Chaotic Spatiotemporal Fluctuation Hypothesis (video)
Tuesday 29th of April 2014: Guisseppe Vitiello, University of Salerno; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Brain is a dissipative system. Is dissipation in conflict with the observed high effectiveness and reliability of brain functioning? The power law and coherence role in perception (video)
Tuesday 22nd of April 2014: Jochen Braun, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activity (video)
Wednesday 16th of April 2014: David Pfau, Columbia University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Learning Structure in Time Series for Neuroscience and Beyond (video)
Wednesday 26th of March 2014: Robert G. Smith, University of Pennsylvania; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Role of Dendritic Computation in the Direction-Selective Circuit of Retina (video)
Friday 21st of March 2014: Richard Axel, Columbia University; Stanley 105, 12:30pm; Order from Disorder: Representations of Olfactory Information in the Cortex (video)
Wednesday 19th of March 2014: Dean Buonomano, UCLA; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; State-dependent Networks: Timing and Computations Based on Neural Dynamics and Short-term Plasticity (video)
Friday 14th of March 2014: Tom Mitchell, Computer Science Dept., Carnegie Mellon University; 5101 Tolman Hall, 11:00am; Neural Representations of Language Meaning (video)
Wednesday 12th of March 2014: Carlos Portera-Cailliau, UCLA; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Circuit defects in the neocortex of Fmr1 knockout mice (video)
Thursday 06th of March 2014: Felix Effenberger, Max Planck Institut for Mathematics in the Sciences; Evans Room 560, 03:30pm; Self-organization in balanced state networks by STDP and homeostatic plasticity (video)
Tuesday 25th of February 2014: Alexander Terekhov, Laboratory of Psychology of Perception, Paris Descartes University (Paris 5).; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Constructing space: how a naive agent can learn spatial relationships by observing sensorimotor contingencies (video)
Wednesday 12th of February 2014: Ilya Sutskever, Google; 560 Evans (will start at 12:00 sharp), 12:00pm; Continuous vector representations for machine translation (video)
Wednesday 29th of January 2014: David Klein, Audience, Inc.; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Current technological applications in sensory learning (video)
Wednesday 22nd of January 2014: Thomas Martinetz, University of Luebeck; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Orthogonal Sparse Coding and Sensing (video)
Wednesday 11th of December 2013: Kai Siedenburg & Stephen McAdams, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Evans Room 560, 12:00pm; Characterizing Short-Term Memory for Musical Timbre (video)
Wednesday 04th of December 2013: Zhenwen Dai, FIAS, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.; Evans Room 560, 12:00pm; What Are the Invariant Occlusive Components of Image Patches? A Probabilistic Generative Approach (video)
Thursday 14th of November 2013: Geoffrey Goodhill, Queensland Brain Institute and School of Mathematics and Physics The University of Queensland Australia; 560 Evans, 12:30pm; Computational principles of neural wiring development
Wednesday 06th of November 2013: Garrett Kenyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Using Locally Competitive Algorithms to Model Top-Down and Lateral Interactions (video)
Thursday 31st of October 2013: Oriol Vinyals, Computer Science, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Beyond Deep Learning: Scalable Methods and Models for Learning (video)
Wednesday 30th of October 2013: Ilya Nemenman, Departments of Physics and Biology, Emory University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Large N in neural data -- expecting the unexpected (video)
Tuesday 29th of October 2013: Mitya Chklovskii, Janelia Farm, HHMI; 560 Evans, 04:00pm; Understanding the building blocks of neural computation: Insights from connectomics and theory (video)
Wednesday 09th of October 2013: Ekaterina Brocke, KTH University, Stockholm, Sweden; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Multiscale modeling in neuroscience: first steps towards multiscale co-simulation tool development (video)
Wednesday 03rd of July 2013: Mikael Lundqvist, Department of Computational Biology Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden; Evans 560, 12:00pm; Investigating the functional role of nested oscillations in a
biophysically-detailed spiking attractor network
Friday 14th of June 2013: Ross Gayler, PhD in psychology from University of Queensland; Evans Room 560, 11:00am; VSA: Vector Symbolic Architectures for Cognitive Computing in Neural Networks (video)
Wednesday 22nd of May 2013: Bijan Pesaran, Center for Neural Science, NYU; Evans 560, 12:00pm; Transforming sensory inputs into motor acts: Insights from looking, reaching and speaking (video)
Wednesday 15th of May 2013: Byron Yu, Carnegie Mellon University; Evans 560, 12:00pm; Joint Redwood/CNEP seminar: Internal model estimation for closed-loop brain-computer interfaces (video)
Friday 03rd of May 2013: Harel Shouval, UT Houston; Evans Room 560, 11:00am; What does Weber's law tell us about Neural Tuning Curves? (video)
Friday 19th of April 2013: Tom Dean, Google; LSA 101, 12:30pm; Scalable Neuroscience and the Brain Activity Mapping Project (video)
Wednesday 17th of April 2013: Wiktor MÅ‚ynarski, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences; Evans 560, 12:00pm; Statistical Models of Binaural Sounds (video)
Tuesday 09th of April 2013: Mounya Elhilali, Johns Hopkins; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Attention at the cocktail party: Neural bases and computational strategies for auditory scene analysis (video)
Wednesday 27th of March 2013: Dale Purves, Duke University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; How Visual Evolution Determines What We See (video)
Wednesday 20th of February 2013: Dolores Bozovic, UCLA; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Bifurcations and phase-locking dynamics in the auditory system (video)
Thursday 07th of February 2013: Valero Laparra, University of Valencia; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Empirical statistical analysis of phases in Gabor filtered natural images (video)
Wednesday 30th of January 2013: Jenny Read, Newcastle University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Relating neurons to perception in stereo vision (video)
Tuesday 29th of January 2013: Goren Gordon, Weizman Institute; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Hierarchical Curiosity Loops â€“ Model, Behavior and Robotics (video)
Monday 28th of January 2013: Eugene Izhikevich, Brain Corporation; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Spikes
Wednesday 23rd of January 2013: Carlos Brody, Princeton University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Neural substrates of decision-making in the rat (video)
Monday 14th of January 2013: Dibyendu Mandal, Physics Dept., University of Maryland (Jarzynski group); 560 Evans, 01:00pm; An exactly solvable model of Maxwellâ€™s demon (video)
Monday 07th of January 2013: Stuart Hammeroff, University of Arizona; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Quantum cognition and brain microtubules (video)
Friday 14th of December 2012: Ali Eslami, Univ of Edinburgh; Evans Room 560, 03:00pm; Probabilistic models of object shapes (video)
Wednesday 12th of December 2012: Ian Goodfellow, University of Montreal; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Joint Training Deep Boltzmann Machines for Classification (video)
Monday 10th of December 2012: Marius Pachitariu, Gatsby Institute, University College London; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Learning visual motion in recurrent neural networks (video)
Friday 30th of November 2012: Yan Karklin, Center for Neural Science, NYU; 560 Evans, 11:00am; Efficient coding of images and sounds: Hierarchical processing and
biological constraints (video)
Monday 19th of November 2012: Bin Yu, Dept. of Statistics and EECS, UC Berkeley; Evans 560, 12:00pm; Representation of Natural Images in V4
Wednesday 07th of November 2012: Tom Griffiths, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Identifying human inductive biases (video)
Wednesday 31st of October 2012: Jonathan Landy, UC Santa Barbara; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Mean-field replica theory: review of basics and a new approach (video)
Tuesday 23rd of October 2012: Jaimie Sleigh, University of Auckland; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Is General Anesthesia a failure of cortical information integration? (video)
Friday 19th of October 2012: Gert Van Dijck, University of Cambridge; Evans 560, 11:00am; A solution to identifying neurones using extracellular activity in awake animals: a probabilistic machine-learning approach
Monday 08th of October 2012: Sophie Deneve, Laboratoire de Neurosciences cognitives, ENS-INSERM; Evans 560, 12:00pm; Balanced spiking networks can implement dynamical systems with predictive coding (video)
Wednesday 26th of September 2012: Jason Yeatman, Department of Psychology, Stanford University; Evans 560, 12:00pm; The Development of White Matter and Reading Skills (video)
Monday 30th of July 2012: Lucas Theis, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, TÃ¼bingen; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Hierarchical models of natural images (video)
Wednesday 27th of June 2012: Jerome Feldman, ICSI/Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Evans 560, 12:00pm; The Neural Binding Problem(s) (video)
Thursday 07th of June 2012: Mitya Chklovskii, HHMI, Janelia Farm; Evans 560, 12:00pm; Understanding neural coding (video)
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012: Logan Grosenick, Stanford University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Acquisition, creation, & analysis of 4D light fields with applications to calcium imaging & optogenetics
Wednesday 18th of April 2012: Kristofer Bouchard, UCSF; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Cortical Foundations of Human Speech Production
Wednesday 14th of March 2012: David Sussillo & Valerio Mante, Stanford University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Integration and gating of sensory information is achieved by a single cortical circuit with orthogonal mixed representations (video)
Thursday 08th of March 2012: Ivan Schwab, UC Davis; Redwood Center, 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Evolution's Witness: How Eyes Evolved
Wednesday 07th of March 2012: David Sivak, Lawrence Berkeley Lab; Evans 560, 12:00pm; Measuring free energy and finding optimal control paths for non-equilibrium systems (video)
Thursday 01st of March 2012: Daniel Zoran, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Evans 560, 12:00pm; From Learning Models of Natural Image Patches to Whole Image Restoration (video)
Wednesday 29th of February 2012: Heather Read, University of Connecticut; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Transformation of sparse temporal coding from auditory colliculus and cortex (video)
Wednesday 22nd of February 2012: Elad Schneidman, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science; Evans 560, 12:00pm; Sparse high order interaction networks underlie learnable neural population codes (video)
Tuesday 24th of January 2012: Aniruddha Das, Columbia University; 560 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; What Hemodynamics can and cannot tell us about neural activity in the brain (video)
Wednesday 11th of January 2012: Ken Nakayama, Department of Psychology, Harvard University; Evans 560, 12:00pm; Subjective Contours (video)
Wednesday 14th of December 2011: Austin Roorda, School of Optometry, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; How the unstable eye sees a stable and moving world (video)
Wednesday 26th of October 2011: Shinji Nishimoto, UC Berkeley; 560 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies. (video)
Wednesday 19th of October 2011: Graham Cummins, Washington State University; 560 Evans, 12:00pm; Design of a Semantic Type System to Facilitate Data Sharing and Analysis Tool Reuse (video)
Wednesday 05th of October 2011: Susanne Still, University of Hawaii, Manoa; Evans 508-20, 12:00pm; Predictive power, memory and dissipation in learning systems operating far from thermodynamic equilibrium (video)
Tuesday 27th of September 2011: Moshe Gur, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology; 508-20 Evans, 12:00pm; On the unity of perception: How does the brain integrate activity evoked at different cortical loci? (video)
Wednesday 21st of September 2011: Michael P. Kilgard, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Dallas; Redwood Center, 508-20 Evans, 12:00pm; Directing Cortical Plasticity to Understand and Treat Neurological Disease (video)
Thursday 15th of September 2011: Kathrin Berkner, Ricoh Innovations Inc.; 508-20 Evans, 12:00pm; Multi-aperture computational imaging systems for depth, scientific analysis and human perception
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Wednesday 08th of June 2011: Alyson Fletcher, EECS, UC Berkeley; 508-20 Evans, 12:00pm; Generalized Approximate Message Passing for Neural Receptive Field Estimation and Connectivity
Thursday 26th of May 2011: Ian Stevenson, Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University; 508-20 Evans, 12:00pm; Explaining tuning curves by estimating interactions between neurons (video)
Thursday 12th of May 2011: Jack Culpepper, EECS/Redwood Center, UC Berkeley; 508-20 Evans, 12:00pm; Dissertation talk: Learned factorization models to explain variability
in natural image sequences
Monday 02nd of May 2011: Stan Klein and Cong Yu, UC Berkeley and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University; 508-20 Evans, 12:00pm; Perceptual learning as improved probabilistic inference

Perceptual Learning and its specificity and Transfer: A new perspective
Wednesday 27th of April 2011: Lubomir Bourdev, Computer Science, UC Berkeley; 508-20 Evans, 12:00pm; Poselets and Their Applications in High-Level Computer Vision Problems
Wednesday 23rd of March 2011: Bruce Cumming, National Institutes of Health; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; How the disparity selective neurons adapt to the statistics of the environment (video)
Wednesday 16th of March 2011: Vladimir Itskov, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Relating structure to function of recurrent networks (video)
Wednesday 26th of January 2011: Ernst Niebur, Johns Hopkins University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Up states are critical, down states are not (video)
Tuesday 25th of January 2011: Ruth Rosenholtz, # Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science and AI Lab, MIT; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; What your visual system sees where you are not looking (video)
Tuesday 18th of January 2011: Siwei Lyu, Computer Science Department, University at Albany, SUNY; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Divisive Normalization as an Efficient Coding Transform: Justification and Evaluation (video)
Wednesday 15th of December 2010: Claudia Clopath, Universite Paris Decartes; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Why is connectivity in barrel cortex different from that in visual cortex? - A plasticity model (video)
Monday 13th of December 2010: Jorg Lucke, FIAS; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Linear and Non-linear Approaches to Component Extraction and Their Applications to Visual Data (video)
Wednesday 01st of December 2010: Gadi Geiger, MIT; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Visual and Auditory Perceptual Modes that Characterize Dyslexics (video)
Wednesday 24th of November 2010: Eizaburo Doi, NYU; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Testing efficient coding for a complete and inhomogeneous neural population
Tuesday 23rd of November 2010: Eizaburo Doi, NYU; 508-20 Evans Hall, 01:00pm; Characterization of optimal population coding with the linear Gaussian model
Friday 19th of November 2010: Dan Butts, University of Maryland; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Common roles of inhibition in visual and auditory processing (video)
Wednesday 10th of November 2010: Martha Nari Havenith, UCL; 508-20 Evans Hall, 04:30pm; In your own time â€“ oscillations as an internal clock for visual processing (cancelled)
Wednesday 10th of November 2010: Aurel Lazar, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Encoding Visual Stimuli with a Population of Hodgkin-Huxley Neurons (video)
Monday 08th of November 2010: Patrick Ruther, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, Germany; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; The NeuroProbes project â€“ Silicon based neural probe arrays interfacing brain tissue on the electrical, chemical and mechanical domain (video)
Wednesday 03rd of November 2010: Eric Jonas and Vikash Mansinghka, Navia Systems; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Natively Probabilistic Computation: Principles, Artifacts, Architectures and Applications
Wednesday 20th of October 2010: Alexandre Francois, Department of Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Designing and implementing dynamic models of cognitive processes (video)
Wednesday 29th of September 2010: Vikash Gilja, Stanford University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Towards Clinically Viable Neural Prosthetic Systems. (video)
Wednesday 08th of September 2010: Tobi Szuts, Harvard University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Wireless recording of neural activity in the visual cortex of a freely moving rat
Thursday 02nd of September 2010: Johannes Burge, Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas, Austin; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Optimal defocus estimation in single natural images (video)
Friday 23rd of July 2010: Tilke Judd, MIT; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Learning to predict where people look (video)
Thursday 01st of July 2010: Redwood Center - 5th Anniversary Party, Redwood Center; 508-20 Evans Hall, 04:00pm; Please join us for an informal reception and refreshments to celebrate five years at UC Berkeley.
Tuesday 22nd of June 2010: Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Modeling Natural Images Using Higher-Order Boltzmann Machines
Thursday 08th of April 2010: Alan Yuille, UCLA; 508-20 Evans Hall, 01:00pm; Recursive Compositional Models for Computational Vision (video)
Friday 26th of March 2010: Felix Biessmann, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany; 508-20 Evans hall, 11:00am; CCA based methods for data with non-instantaneous couplings (video)
Monday 22nd of March 2010: Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Deep learning with multiplicative interactions (video)
Thursday 04th of March 2010: Harvey Swadlow, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Brain state and the awake thalamocortical network (video)
Wednesday 03rd of March 2010: Gaute Einevoll, Norwegian University of Life Sciences; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; What can we learn from multielectrode recordings of extracellular potentials in the brain? (video)
Wednesday 24th of February 2010: Gordon Pipa, University of Osnabrueck / MPI Frankfurt; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Our brain plays Jazz: Information processing in a self-organized and multi-scale system (video)
Wednesday 27th of January 2010: David Philiponna, Paris; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; A sensorimotor account of space and colors (video)
Tuesday 26th of January 2010: Ernst Niebur, Johns Hopkins University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; TBA
Wednesday 20th of January 2010: Tom Dean, Google; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Accelerating Computer Vision and Machine Learning Algorithms with Graphics Processors (video)
Wednesday 06th of January 2010: Susanne Still, University of Hawaii; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Interactive learning (video)
Wednesday 16th of December 2009: Pietro Berkes, Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Generative models of vision: from sparse coding toward structured models
Wednesday 18th of November 2009: Dan Graham, Dartmouth College; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; The Packet-Switching Brain: A Hypothesis (video)
Thursday 12th of November 2009: Song-Chun Zhu, UCLA; 508-20 Evans Hall, 01:00pm; Information Scaling and Perceptual Transitions in Natural Images and Video (video)
Wednesday 28th of October 2009: Andrea Benucci, UCL; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Stimulus dependence of the functional connectivity between neurons in primary visual cortex (video)
Wednesday 07th of October 2009: Anita Schmid, Weill Cornell Medical College; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Subpopulations of neurons in visual area V2 perform differentiation and integration operations in space and time (video)
Monday 28th of September 2009: Horace Barlow, University of Cambridge; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Symmetry detection in V1 through cross- and auto-correlation (video)
Wednesday 02nd of September 2009: Keith Godfrey, University of Cambridge; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Modeling visual system development - a forecast for change? (video)
Wednesday 24th of June 2009: Ole Jensen, Donders Institute, University Nijmegen, Netherlands; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Shaping functional architecture of the working brain by oscillatory activity (video)
Wednesday 03rd of June 2009: Farran Briggs, University of California, Davis; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Visual processing in thalamocortical and corticothalamic circuits
Monday 01st of June 2009: Chris Moore, MIT; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Cortical Dynamics and Perception (video)
Wednesday 27th of May 2009: Jonathan Victor, Weill Cornell Medical College; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Understanding the Computations in Primary Visual Cortex: Does Tweaking the Standard Model Suffice? (video)
Wednesday 20th of May 2009: Jonathan Pillow, University of Texas, Austin; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Understanding stimulus coding and correlation in large neural populations (video)
Wednesday 13th of May 2009: Surya Ganguli, UCSF; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Origins of short-term memory traces in neuronal networks (video)
Wednesday 06th of May 2009: Alex Pouget, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Probabilistic inferences in neural circuits: from insects to humans (video)
Wednesday 29th of April 2009: Garrett Stanley, Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech & Emory University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Precise Timing in the Neural Population Code (video)
Saturday 25th of April 2009: Jeff Hawkins, Numenta; UC Berkeley Faculty Club, 08:30am; Neocortical Theory: An effort to build intelligent machines
Wednesday 22nd of April 2009: Thomas Serre, MIT; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Mechanisms of bottom-up and top-down processing in visual perception (video)
Wednesday 08th of April 2009: Laura Walker Renninger, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Applying information models to explore eye movement behavior in patients with central field loss (video)
Wednesday 01st of April 2009: Werner Callebaut, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria; 508-20 Evans Hall, 03:30pm; The dialectics of disunity in the evolutionary synthesis and its extensions (video)
Wednesday 01st of April 2009: Werner Callebaut, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Beyond reduction and emergence (video)
Wednesday 25th of March 2009: Susana Martinez-Conde, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Perceptual and physiological effects of fixational microsaccades (video)
Tuesday 17th of March 2009: Angela Yu, UCSD; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Sequential Effects: Irrational Superstition or Adaptive Behavior? (video)
Tuesday 10th of March 2009: Nabil Bouaouli, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Efficient sensory processing could depend on excitation/inhibition balance: A view from change detection (video)
Friday 06th of March 2009: Ben Torben-Nielsen, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; 508-20 Evans Hall, 11:00am; Function shapes structure: Results from optimizing model neurons for performing particular functions (video)
Thursday 05th of March 2009: Urs Koster, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Helsinki; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Learning Natural Image Structure with a Horizontal Product Model (video)
Thursday 22nd of January 2009: Lars Kai Hansen, Technical University of Denmark; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Cognitive Component Analysis (video)
Wednesday 17th of December 2008: Francois Meyer, University of Colorado, Boulder; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; From fMRI to Behavior and Back: The Decoding of fMRI Datasets (video)
Tuesday 04th of November 2008: Giorgio Ascoli, Molecular Neuroscience Department and Director, Center for Neural Informatics, Structure, and Plasticity, George Mason University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; From dendrites to connectomics: computational neuroanatomy, neuroinformatics, and the brain (video)
Thursday 30th of October 2008: Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; What makes a neuron spike: Optimality, noise, and phase resetting
Wednesday 22nd of October 2008: Rich Zemel, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Neural Representations of Dynamic Stimuli (video)
Wednesday 15th of October 2008: Jim Crutchfield, Complexity Sciences Center, UC Davis; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Structure or Noise? (video)
Wednesday 01st of October 2008: Dileep George, Numenta; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Towards a cortical microcircuit model that integrates invariant recognition, temporal inference and attention
Wednesday 24th of September 2008: Lena H. Ting, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, and Fall 2008 Visiting Miller Professor; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Dimensional reduction in motor patterns for balance control (video)
Wednesday 17th of September 2008: Dan Butts, Institute of Computational Biomedicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Time and visual computation: how precision is generated in the visual pathway (video)
Wednesday 13th of August 2008: Joshua Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; From calcium imaging to spikes, using state-space methods (video)
Wednesday 23rd of July 2008: Bill Bialek, Princeton University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Networks, codes, and information flow (video)
Wednesday 28th of May 2008: Xin Wang, USC; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Translation of sensory neural code across the retinothalamic synapse (video)
Tuesday 27th of May 2008: Xin Wang, USC; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Recovering retinal and extraretinal receptive fields of LGN cells (video)
Wednesday 21st of May 2008: Kwabena Boahen, Stanford University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Neurogrid: Emulating a million neurons in the cortex (video)
Wednesday 14th of May 2008: Nick Priebe, University of Texas, Austin; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Contrast-invariant orientation tuning in simple cells of visual cortex (video)
Wednesday 30th of April 2008: Thanos Siapas, Caltech; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Hippocampal Network Dynamics and Memory Formation
Monday 28th of April 2008: Sen Cheng, Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, UCSF; 508-20 Evans Hall, 03:00pm; How are episodic memories stored in the hippocampus? (video)
Wednesday 23rd of April 2008: Mark Goldman, UC Davis; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Modeling the mechanisms underlying memory-related neural activity (video)
Wednesday 16th of April 2008: Ueli Rutishauser, Caltech; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; State dependent computation using coupled recurrent networks (video)
Tuesday 15th of April 2008: Harald Atmanspacher, Institut fuer Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e.V.; 508-20 Evans Hall, 04:00pm; Contextual emergence of mental states from neurodynamics (note changed time) (video)
Wednesday 02nd of April 2008: Marty Usrey, UC Davis; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Functional properties of neuronal circuits for vision (video)
Monday 24th of March 2008: Hiroyuki Ito, Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto Sangyo University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 10:30am; Dynamics of Spike Synchrony in Cat LGN - high precision, non-Poissonian property and non-stationarity (video)
Thursday 20th of March 2008: Dana Ballard, University of Texas, Austin; 405 Soda Hall, 12:30pm; Towards a model of embodied cognition (video)
Wednesday 19th of March 2008: Dana Ballard, University of Texas, Austin; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Distributed Synchrony: A Model of Cortical Signaling (video)
Wednesday 12th of March 2008: Ilana Witten, Stanford University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Spatial Processing in a Complex Auditory Environment (video)
Friday 07th of March 2008: Junji Ito, RIKEN Brain Science Center; 508-20 Evans Hall, 02:00pm; Phase-locking of visually evoked first spikes to eye movement related to LFP oscillations
Thursday 06th of March 2008: Peter Robinson, Brain Dynamics Center, Westmead Millenium Institute, Westmead Hospital; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Quantitative Modeling of Multiscale Brain Activity (video)
Wednesday 27th of February 2008: Jean-Philippe Lachaux, INSERM, Lyon; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; BrainTV : a novel approach for online mapping of human brain functions (video)
Wednesday 20th of February 2008: Costa Colbert, Evolved Machines, Inc. and Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Electrophysiological, Optical, and Computational Studies of Dendritic Excitability (video)
Wednesday 13th of February 2008: Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller University; 508-20 Evans Hall, 02:00pm; Sparse time-frequency representations and the neural coding of sound (video)
Wednesday 06th of February 2008: Pam Reinagel, UCSD; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Coding in Context: How context influences representation of visual information in the LGN (video)
Wednesday 30th of January 2008: Kai Miller, University of Washington; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Changes in local cortical activity are revealed by a power law in the cortical potential spectrum (video)
Friday 30th of November 2007: Todd S. Horowitz, Harvard Medical School; 508-20 Evans Hall, 02:00pm; Attention, motion, and trajectories (video)
Tuesday 27th of November 2007: Geoff Hinton, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; How are error derivatives represented in the brain (video)
Tuesday 13th of November 2007: Sonja Gruen, Gruen Research Unit Computational Neuroscience Group RIKEN Brain Science Institute Gruen Research Unit, Computational Neuroscience Group, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako-City, Japan; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Detection of coordinated network activity in massively parallel spike trains
Wednesday 31st of October 2007: Jason Kerr, Population imaging group, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany.; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Spatial Organization of Neuronal Population Responses in vivo: can you repeat that?
Monday 29th of October 2007: Laurenz Wiskott, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-University Berlin; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Slow feature analysis for modeling place cells in the hippocampus and its relationship to spike timing dependent plasticity
Tuesday 23rd of October 2007: Liam Paninski, Columbia Univesrity; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Combining biophysical and statistical methods for understanding
neural codes
Wednesday 03rd of October 2007: Flip Sabes, Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience and the Department of Physiology, UCSF; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:00pm; Sensory integration and adaptation: behavior, optimality, and neural models
Tuesday 04th of September 2007: Lucas C. Parra, The City College of New York; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:30pm; On reading and writing the brain: Using electric field potentials to read
and modulate the timing of neuronal activity
Tuesday 21st of August 2007: Jeremy Lewi, Georgia Tech; 508-20 Evans Hall, 12:30pm; Adaptively optimizing neurophysiology experiments for estimating encoding models
Thursday 28th of June 2007: Chris Tyler & Lora Likova, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; Mechanisms of 2D and 3D Object Processing
Tuesday 15th of May 2007: Ray Guillery, University of Madisson, WI; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; Thalamus and Sensorimotor Aspects of Perception
Tuesday 08th of May 2007: Lokendra Shastri, ICSI, UC Berkeley; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; Micro-circuits of Episodic Memory: Structure Matches Function in the Hippocampal System (video)
Tuesday 24th of April 2007: Jeff Johnson, UC Davis; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; What does EEG tell us about the timecourse of object recognition? (video)
Tuesday 17th of April 2007: Steve Waydo, California Institute of Technology; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; Sparse Coding in the Human MTL: Experimental Results and Computational Modeling (video)
Tuesday 10th of April 2007: Andrew Ng, Stanford University; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; Unsupervised discovery of structure for transfer learning
Tuesday 03rd of April 2007: Robert Miller, Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Otago University; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; Axonal conduction time and human cerebral laterality
Tuesday 20th of March 2007: Jeff Hawkins, Numenta; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 01:30pm; Hierarchical Temporal Memory:
Biological Mapping to Neocortex and Thalamus (video)
Tuesday 13th of March 2007: Chris Wiggins, Columbia University; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 01:30pm; Optimal signal processing in small stochastic biochemical networks
Tuesday 06th of March 2007: Pietro Perona, Caltech; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; An exploration of visual recognition (video)
Thursday 01st of March 2007: Hiroki Asari, Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; 5101 Tolman Hall, 11:00am; Sparse Representations for the Cocktail Party Problem (video)
Tuesday 20th of February 2007: Yair Weiss, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; What makes a good model of natural images? (video)
Tuesday 13th of February 2007: Tobi Delbruck, Inst of Neuroinformatics, UNI-ETH Zurich; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:30pm; Building a high-performance event-based silicon retina leads to new ways to compute vision (video)
Tuesday 23rd of January 2007: Giuseppe Vitiello, Department of Physics â€œE.R.Caianielloâ€, Salerno University; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; Relations between many-body physics and nonlinear brain dynamics (video)
Tuesday 09th of January 2007: Boris Gutkin, ENS, Paris; 5101 Tolman Hall, 12:00pm; Spike Generation Dynamics, Their Modulation and the Consequences for Network Behavior
Tuesday 05th of December 2006: Tanya Baker, U Chicago; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; What Forest Fires Tell Us About the Brain (video)
Tuesday 28th of November 2006: Thomas Dean, Brown University / Google; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; Learning Invariant Features Using Inertial Priors, or
"Why Google might want to be in the neocortex business?" (video)
Tuesday 21st of November 2006: Urs KÃ¶ster, University of Helsinki; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; Towards Multi-Layer Processing of Natural Images (video)
Tuesday 14th of November 2006: Andrew D. Straw, Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; Closed-Loop, Visually-Based Flight Regulation in a Model Fruit Fly (video)
Tuesday 07th of November 2006: Mitya Chklovskii, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; What determines the shape of neuronal arbors? (video)
Tuesday 31st of October 2006: Matthias Kaschube, Princeton University; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; A mathematical constant in the design of the visual cortex
Tuesday 03rd of October 2006: J. L. McClelland, Mind, Brain & Computation/MBC, Psychology Department, Stanford; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; Graded constraints in English word forms (video)
Monday 25th of September 2006: Peter Latham, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London; Barker 124-126, 12:00pm; Requiem for the spike (video)
Tuesday 19th of September 2006: Jerry Feldman, ICSI, UC Berkeley; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; From Molecule to Metaphor: Towards a Unified Cognitive Science (video)
Tuesday 05th of September 2006: Tom Griffiths, Psychology/Cogsci, UC Berkeley; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 12:00pm; Natural Statistics and Human Cognition (video)
Tuesday 01st of August 2006: Carol Whitney, U Maryland; 5101 Tolman, 12:00pm; What can Visual Word Recognition Tell us about Visual Object Recognition? (video)
Tuesday 18th of July 2006: Evan Smith, Redwood Center/Stanford; 5101 Tolman, 12:00pm; Efficient auditory coding
Tuesday 20th of June 2006: Vincent Bonin, Smith Kettlewell Institute; 5101 Tolman, 12:00pm; TBA
Thursday 15th of June 2006: Philip Low, Salk Institute; 5101 Tolman, 12:00pm; A New Way To Look At Sleep
Tuesday 02nd of May 2006: Dileep George, Numenta; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Hierarchical, cortical memory architecture for pattern recognition
Tuesday 18th of April 2006: Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas at Austin; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; How can a system as complex as the human visual system be constructed? (video)
Tuesday 11th of April 2006: Charles Anderson, Washington University School of Medicine; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Population Coding in V1 (video)
Monday 10th of April 2006: Charles Anderson, Washington University School of Medicine; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 04:00pm; A Comparison of Neurobiological and Digital Computation (video)
Tuesday 04th of April 2006: Odelia Schwartz, The Salk Institute; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Natural images and cortical representation
Tuesday 21st of March 2006: Mark Schnitzer, Stanford University; Beach Room - 3105 Tolman, 12:30pm; In vivo microendoscopy and computational modeling studies of mammalian brain circuits
Wednesday 15th of March 2006: Mate Lengyel, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London; 3105 Tolman Hall (Beach Room), 10:00am; Bayesian model learning in human visual perception (video)
Tuesday 14th of March 2006: Mate Lengyel, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Firing rates and phases in the hippocampus: what are they good for? (video)
Tuesday 07th of March 2006: Michael Wu, Gallant lab/UC Berkeley; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; A Unified Framework for Receptive Field Estimation
Tuesday 28th of February 2006: Dario Ringach, UCLA; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Population dynamics in primary visual cortex
Tuesday 21st of February 2006: Gerard Rinkus, Brandeis University; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Hierarchical Sparse Distributed Representations of Sequence Recall and
Recognition (video)
Tuesday 14th of February 2006: Jack Cowan, U Chicago; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Spontaneous pattern formation in large scale brain activity: what visual migraines and hallucinations tell us about the brain (video)
Tuesday 07th of February 2006: Christian Wehrhahn, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany; 5101 Tolman, 05:00pm; Seeing blindsight: motion at isoluminance?
Monday 23rd of January 2006: Read Montague, Baylor College of Medicine and Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ); 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; Abstract plans and reward signals in a multi-round trust game
Tuesday 17th of January 2006: Erhardth Barth, Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, Luebeck, Germany; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; Guiding eye movements for better communication (video)
Tuesday 03rd of January 2006: Dan Butts, Harvard University; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; "Temporal hyperacuity": visual neuron function at millisecond time resolution
Tuesday 13th of December 2005: Paul Rhodes, Stanford University; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; Simulations of a thalamocortical column with compartment model cells and dynamic synapses. (video)
Tuesday 06th of December 2005: Robert Hecht-Nielsen, Computational Neurobiology, UC San Diego; 5101, 04:00pm; Debate: "Waves or words in cortex?" -- Part 2: Confabulation Theory (video)
Tuesday 06th of December 2005: Walter J Freeman, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; Debate: "Waves or words in cortex?" -- Part 1: A field-theoretic approach to understanding neocortex (video)
Tuesday 29th of November 2005: Stanley Klein, School of Optometry, UC Berkeley and Vision Science and Neuroscience Graduate Groups; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; Limits of Vision and psychophysical methods (video)
Tuesday 22nd of November 2005: Scott Makeig, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; Viewing event-related brain dynamics from the top down
Friday 04th of November 2005: John Tsotsos, Department of Computer Science and Center for Vision Research, York University; 5101 Tolman, 02:30pm; Can Distributed Local Saliency Computations Solve the Feature Binding Problem?
Tuesday 25th of October 2005: Jose Carmena, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; Brain-machine interfaces: a new paradigm for the study of cortical adaptation
Tuesday 18th of October 2005: Matthias Bethge, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; How independent are the components of linear models adapted to the statistics of natural scenes?
Tuesday 11th of October 2005: Simon Osindero, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets
Tuesday 27th of September 2005: John Lisman, Brandeis University; 5101 Tolman, 04:00pm; A new approach to the invariance problem in visual recognition: using a log-polar Fourier transform in a spatial array of computational centers

future seminars