Seminars

Instructions

1. Check the internal calendar for a free seminar slot. If the seminar is not at the booked time of Tue 5pm, you have to call or email Sharyn [510-643-4971, climons@berkeley.edu] to book a room. You have to do this as early as possible of she will be pissed. It is not easy for them to find rooms. The 3 rooms they can get are 5101 Tolman, the Beech Room (3rd floor Tolman, and the Barker seminar room (no more than 20 people...). They can also book the LSA large seminar room through MCB if given enough warning.
2. Make a note on this page in the Tentative Speakers section that you are going to invite a speaker. Please include your name and email as host in case somebody wants to contact you.
3. Invite a speaker.
4. As soon as the speaker confirms, put the information in the Confirmed Speakers section.
5. Put the date into the internal calendar
6. Notify kilian [1] that we have a confirmed speaker so that I can update the web page. Please include title and abstract.
7. Notify Pachelle [2] about the seminar date.
8. (Tony added: Paschelle has left. Sharyn O'Keefe is doing her work temporarily: climons@berkeley.edu)

--Kilian 21:48, 4 November 2005 (PST)

Tentative Speakers

May 30

• Speaker: tim lewis
• Affiliation: uc davis
• Host: thomas
• Title:
• Abstract:

Previous Seminars

November 22, 2005

• Speaker: Scott Makeig
• Affiliation: Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD
• Title: Viewing event-related brain dynamics from the top down

November 29, 2005

• Speaker: Stanley Klein
• Affiliation: School of Optometry, UC Berkeley
• Title: Limits of Vision and psychophysical methods (video)

December 6, 2005

• Speaker: Special debate between Walter J. Freeman and Robert Hecht-Nielsen
• Affiliation: University of California at Berkeley (Walter). University of California at San Diego (Robert)
• Title: Waves or words in neocortex
• Video: Walter, Robert

December 13, 2005

• Speaker: Paul Rhodes
• Affiliation: Stanford University
• Title: Simulations of a thalamocortical column with compartment model cells and dynamic synapses (video)

January 3

• Speaker: Dan Butts
• Affiliation: Harvard University
• Host: Thomas
• Title: "Temporal hyperacuity": visual neuron function at millisecond time resolution

January 17

• Speaker: Erhardt Barth
• Affiliation: Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, Luebeck, Germany
• Host: Bruno
• Title: Guiding eye movements for better communication (video)

January 23 (Monday)

• Speaker: Read Montague
• Affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine
• Host: Bruno
• Title: Abstract plans and reward signals in a multi-round trust game

February 7

• Speaker: Christian Wehrhahn
• Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany
• Host: Tony
• Title: Seeing blindsight: motion at isoluminance?

February 14

• Speaker: Jack Cowan
• Affiliation: U Chicago
• Host: Bruno
• Title: Spontaneous pattern formation in large scale brain activity: what visual migraines and hallucinations tell us about the brain (video)

February 21

• Speaker: Gerard Rinkus
• Affiliation: Brandeis University
• Host: Bruno
• Title: Hierarchical Sparse Distributed Representations of Sequence Recall and Recognition (video)

February 28

• Speaker: Dario Ringach
• Affiliation: UCLA
• Host: thomas
• Title: Population dynamics in primary visual cortex

March 7

• Speaker: Michael Wu
• Affiliation: Gallant lab/UC Berkeley
• Host: Bruno
• Title: A Unified Framework for Receptive Field Estimation

March 14

• Speaker: Mate Lengyel
• Affiliation: Gatsby Unit/UCL London
• Host: fritz
• Title: Firing rates and phases in the hippocampus: what are they good for? (video)

March 15

• Speaker: Mate Lengyel
• Affiliation: Gatsby Unit/UCL London
• Host: fritz
• Title: Bayesian model learning in human visual perception (video)

March 21

• Speaker: Mark Schnitzer
• Affiliation: Stanford University
• Host: Amir
• Title: In vivo microendoscopy and computational modeling studies of mammalian brain circuits

April 4

• Speaker: Odelia Schwartz
• Affiliation: The Salk Institute
• Host: Bruno
• Title: Natural images and cortical representation

April 10

• Speaker: Charles Anderson
• Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine
• Host: Bruno
• Title: A Comparison of Neurobiological and Digital Computation (video)

April 11

• Speaker: Charles Anderson
• Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine
• Host: Bruno
• Title: Population Coding in V1 (video)

April 18

• Speaker: Risto Miikkulainen
• Affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin
• Host: Bruno
• Title: Computational maps in the visual cortex (video)

May 2

• Speaker: Dileep George
• Affiliation: Numenta
• Host: Bruno
• Title: Hierarchical, cortical memory architecture for pattern recognition

June 15

• Speaker: Philip Low
• Affiliation: Salk Institute
• Host: Tony
• Title: A New Way To Look At Sleep

June 20

• Speaker: Vincent Bonin
• Affiliation: Smith Kettlewell Institute
• Host: Thomas
• Title:

Confirmed Speakers

July 18

• Speaker: Evan Smith
• Affiliation: Redwood Center/Stanford
• Host: Bruno
• Title: TBA

Aug 1

• Speaker: Carol Whitney
• Affiliation: U Maryland
• Host: Bruno
• Title: What can Visual Word Recognition Tell us about Visual Object Recognition?