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Tomorrow evening, October 25th, Neural Computation and Engineering graduate student Kaitlyn Casimo will be presenting a Halloween special at the Pacific Science Center: “Frankenstein: a modern postmortem”. This talk will present an updated take on the fascinating moral ambiguities of the Frankenstein story and where we stand today, both technically and ethically, on the engineering of minds. "Frankenstein" is the latest in a series that Kaitlyn has presented in her role as a [...]

Please save the date for the 2018 Neural Computation and Engineering Connection, which will be held on January 18 and 19 at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering and the Hub. The meeting will have an excellent lineup of local and invited speakers. Schedule to follow.

Two young computational neuroscientists, who contributed so much to the UW community when they were here as graduate students, offer some reflections and previews of the faculty life. Joshua Goldwyn is starting a faculty position in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Swarthmore College.  He is feeling “thrilled” to be in a “unique environment that features rigorous academics in a wonderfully warm and supportive community” where “the students are second-to-none in their [...]

The Department of Physiology and Biophysics has a junior faculty position available in computational neuroscience open now; this new recruit will be a member of the UW-CNC. Also, the Department of Biological Structure will be hiring two new junior faculty members in systems and circuit neuroscience! Very exciting opportunity for a coordinated hire. Please spread the word!

We'd like to congratulate several of our postdoctoral fellows who have moved or are moving on to real jobs. Anatoly Buchin came to UW in 2016 as a Swartz postdoc working with the Fairhall lab on network models of Hydra. Anatoly did his PhD with Boris Gutkin at the École Normale Superieure on interactions between biophysical properties of neurons and network dynamics, a background he brought to his several projects at UW and [...]

In a recent SfN webinar Developing a 21st Century Workforce, moderated by Katja Brose, speakers Huda Akil, Elisabeth van Bockstaele and Adrienne Fairhall discussed training for career paths beyond academic science, the importance of interdisciplinary training, and strategies for programs and individual students to gain opportunities to enhance students' quantitative backgrounds. At UW, UWIN, the Computational Neuroscience program and the CSNE aim to provide students with these training opportunities and to give exposure [...]