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The CNC is thrilled to announce we are seeking candidates for a tenure-track, 12-month service period assistant professor position. We seek an individual to specialize in computational or theoretical neuroscience. The successful applicant will play a key role in the growth of the Center, which serves as the theoretical and computational core of campus programs in neurobiology and neural engineering, will have many opportunities for collaboration within UW’s extensive neuroscience community, and will [...]

Scott Sterrett In the Zoom era and under the restrictions of COVID-19, the neuroscience community has found creative ways to transform lectures, seminars, conferences, and even summer schools to online experiences. The adversity has also led to the invention of some entirely new platforms. One exciting virtual forum that started this fall is The Learning Salon, a weekly discussion which explores “bridges and contentions in biological and artificial learning”. UW CNC Co-Director [...]

  The UW Computational Neuroscience Center, led by Drs Adrienne Fairhall (UW Physiology and Biophysics) and Eric Shea-Brown (UW Applied Mathematics), has received an NSF AccelNet award to build an international network of universities and industrial partners to accelerate research at the interface between neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Deeper understanding of brain algorithms and the cellular mechanisms that implement them have the possibility of suggesting novel approaches to artificial intelligence. This [...]

The CNC is excited to announce local author Ted Chiang will speak in the next installment of our Neuroscience, AI, and Society seminar series. Ted is an award-winning science fiction author, known for his short stories focused on humanity's relationship to technology and scientific discovery. His short story "Story of Your Life" was adapted into the movie Arrival.   Ted will speak on "Reasoning about the Body". The talk will be held remotely [...]

Applied Mathematics graduate student Matthew Farrell, mentored by Eric Shea-Brown recently successfully defended his thesis, focused on the behavior of artificial neural networks. These networks form representations of input data and transform these representations gradually over stages, such as the layers of a deep neural network. Matt investigated how the structure of these representations changes over these stages and what drives these changes. Dr. Farrell plans to continue his research as a postdoctoral [...]

The University of Washington Computational Neuroscience Center is seeking applications for a prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Swartz Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. Fellows will join the vibrant, collaborative UW theoretical neuroscience community. This fellowship provides the unique opportunity to work with any of the CNC’s faculty members, with the freedom to design and develop projects and new collaborations. Participating faculty members’ research includes theory, computation and data analysis, and members interact extensively with colleagues [...]