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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 [...]

We are happy to announce that applications for 2020 admission to our graduate training programs is now open! The Computational Neuroscience Graduate Training Program provides 1 year of funding to students working in theoretical and computational neuroscience. You must be a current UW PhD student to apply. This year, we unfortunately only have training slots for US citizens and permanent residents. For more information and the application, please visit the CNTG page. Applications [...]

On this Juneteenth, the CNC acknowledges the deep and enduring impact of systemic anti-Black racism across society and the urgency of overcoming it. We stand against the racism and violence that has taken the lives of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and many more Black Americans. We pledge to do the work needed in our own community to address and counter racism. Black Lives Matter.

Physics graduate student Charlie Fieseler, mentored by CNC theorist Nathan Kutz, recently successfully defended his thesis on neuronal dynamics in the model organism C. elegans. Taking advantage of the experimental insight into  behavioral encoding of the neuronal activity and the underlying structural circuits in C. elegans, Fieseler proposed a framework for C. elegans neuronal dynamics from a control theory perspective. The model suggested a core dynamic system that produced simple signals, which were [...]