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

in January

• Speaker: Mark Schnitzer
• Affiliation: Stanford
• Host: Amir
• Title: TBA
• Abstract: TBA
• note: He will be speaking at an Ivry lab meeting on Monday this year but I invited him to give a seminar next year.

February 28

• Speaker: Dario Ringach
• Affiliation: UCLA
• 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:

Tuesday 13th of December 2005

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

January 17

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

Confirmed Speakers

January 3

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

January 23 (Monday)

• Speaker: Read Montague
• Affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine
• Host: Bruno
• Title:
• 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: TBA
• Abstract: TBA
• Host:

February 21

• Speaker: Rod Rinkus
• Affiliation: Brandeis
• Host: Bruno
• Title: TBA
• Abstract: TBA