Seminars

Instructions

1. Check the internal calendar for a free seminar slot.
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.

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

Tentative Speakers

March 7

• Speaker: Tim Lewis
• Affiliation: UC Davis
• Host: thomas
• Title: TBA
• Abstract: TBA

Previous Seminars

Tuesday 22nd of November 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
• Abstract:

Tuesday 29th of November 2005

• Speaker: Stanley Klein
• Affiliation: School of Optometry, UC Berkeley
• Title: TBA
• Abstract:

Tuesday 6th of December 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
• Abstract:

January 3

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

January 17

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

Confirmed Speakers

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
• Abstract:

January 31

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

February 7

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

February 21

• Speaker: Rod Rinkus
• Affiliation: Brandeis University
• Host: Bruno
• Title: Hierarchical Sparse Distributed Binary Representations for Time-Invariant Recognition and Recall of Complex Sequences Learned with Single Trials
• Abstract: TBA

February 28

• Speaker: Dario Ringach
• Affiliation: UCLA
• Host: thomas
• Title: TBA
• Abstract: TBA

March 14

• Speaker: Mate Lengyel
• Affiliation: Gatsby Unit/UCL London
• Host: fritz
• Title: Spike timing-based autoassociative memories
• Abstract: TBA