Computational Neuroscience Seminar and Event Series 2024 – 2025
Our seminars typically take place on Wednesdays at 12pm in South Campus Center Room 354 (SOCC) unless otherwise noted. Seminars are normally followed by lunch and open work/collaboration hours in the afternoon. To see the full list of upcoming events and receive reminders (including related seminars on campus), please subscribe to our calendar.
CNC Seminars 2024 - 2025
| March 5 | Brent Doiron, University of Chicago | |
| February 12 | Sama Ahmed, University of Washington Psychology | |
| January 29 | Anitha Pasupathy, University of Washington | |
| November 20 (Foege S060, 12:00pm) | Carl Petersen, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Context- and learning-dependent sensorimotor transformation |
| November 13 (SOCC 354, 12:00pm) | Research Roundtable with Stuber, Bruchas, and Golden labs Short overviews and updates with CNC labs | |
| November 6 (SOCC 354, 12:00pm) | Mariano Gabitto, Assistant Investigator, Allen Institute for Brain Science | Leveraging statistical machine learning models to understand Alzheimer's Disease progression |
| October 23 (SOCC 354, 12:00pm) | Anamika Agrawal, Shanahan Fellow, Allen Institute/UW | “The multi-scale brain: the impact of local structure and dynamics on brain function and dysfunction” |
| October 16 (HSB G417, 12:00pm) | Andreas Neef, Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks | “Cell physiology for network neuroscience” |
| October 9 | Samuele Virgili, Sorbonne University | “Perturbative approach to the retina: Probing feature selectivity of retinal ganglion cells during complex stimulation” |
| October 2 | Nicole Rust, Professor, University of Pennsylvania | “Elusive Cures” |
| September 18 | Peter Dayan, Max Planck Institute | “Tail Risk in Sequential Choice” |
Computational Neuroscience Seminar and Event Series 2023 – 2024
June 26, 2024
Adrian Negrean, Scientist, Allen Institute
“Functional architecture of intracellular oscillations in hippocampal dendrites”
June 5, 2024
Rich Pang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University
“Mnemonic encoding of extended social communication signals in Drosophila”
May 29, 2024
Eric Denovellis, Research Scientist, UCSF
“Understanding cognitive representations and dynamics through statistical machine learning”
March 27, 2024
Sven Dorkenwald, Shanahan Postdoctoral Fellow, Allen Institute/UW
“MICrONS dataset: Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex”
March 13, 2024
Greg Stephens, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
“A Markovian dynamics for C. elegans behavior across scales”
January 17, 2024
Ulises Pereira-Obilinovic, Scientist, Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
“Dynamics in Networks with Learning Rules Inferred from Data”
October 18
Caroline Runyan, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
“Population codes across cortex: Context, inhibition, and signal transmission between areas”
October 16 (12 PM)
William Bialek, Professor, Physics, Princeton
October 10 – 13
NeuroAI in Montreal
September 13
Andy Leifer, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience & Physics, Princeton
“Neural signal propagation atlas of C. elegans”
August 9
Luca Mazzucato, Assistant Professor, Biology and Mathematics, University of Oregon
“Multitasking via baseline control in recurrent neural networks”
July 26
Srdjan Ostojic, École normale supérieure
“The role of sub-population structure in computations through neural dynamics”
Computational Neuroscience Seminar Series 2022 – 2023
All seminars take place in HSB-G328at 1:30 unless otherwise noted.
September 27 – 30
NeuroAI in Seattle meeting
October 26
Ann Kennedy, Assistant Professor, Physiology, Northwestern University
November 2
Robbe Goris, Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
November 16
IN-BIC meeting with Alain Destexhe
December 1 (co-hosted with PBIO)
Vince Costa, Assistant Professor, Oregon Health and Science University
January 4
Lucas Sjulson, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
February 1
Gordon Berman, Assistant Professor, Biology, Emory University
February 15
Carsen Stringer, Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus
February 28 (Tuesday)
Alex Williams, Assistant Professor of Neural Science, NYU and Associate Research Scientist, Center for Computational Neuroscience at Flatiron Institute
March 29
Kiah Hardcastle, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
April 19
Stefano Fusi, Professor, Neuroscience, Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University
May 3
Kwabena Boahen, Professor, Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
May 10-11
Neural Computation and Engineering Connection
Journal Club
Join us for another quarter of UW’s Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club. We meet each Tuesday at 9:30 – 10:30 AM in the CNC space (HSB G-207). See more information on upcoming papers at https://sites.google.com/a/uw.edu/neurotheoryjc/home