Past Seminars
Computational Neuroscience Seminar Series 2019 – 2020
All seminars take place in HSB-G328at 3:30 unless otherwise noted.
January 22
Pam Reinagel, Associate Professor of Neurobiology, UCSD
“Willingness to work: A neuroeconomic model of rat effort allocation”
February 19
Nicole Rust, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
March 4 Postponed
Randy O’Reilly, Professor of Psychology, Computer Science, and the Center for Neuroscience, UC Davis
March 18 Postponed
Sara Solla, Professor of Physiology, Northwestern University
March 31 *HSB T739 Postponed
Matt Botvinick, Director of Neuroscience Research, DeepMind
April 15 Postponed
Jeremiah Cohen, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
April 29 Postponed
Odelia Schwartz, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Miami
Computational Neuroscience Seminar Series 2018 – 2019
All seminars take place in HSB-G207 at 3:30 unless otherwise noted.
October 22 *9:30 AM
David Kastner, Resident, UCSF
October 24
Anne Collins, Assistant Professor, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley
“Working memory influences reinforcement learning computations in brain and behavior”
December 5
Stephanie Palmer, Assistant Professor, Physics, UChicago
“Understanding vision through the lens of prediction”
December 13 – cohosted with PBIO
Michael Long, Associate Professor, Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU
9:30 AM, HSB G328
April 24
Ann Hermundstad, Group Leader, Janelia
May 15
Carina Curto, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Pennsylvania State
May 22
Uri Hasson, Professor, Neuroscience, Princeton
Computational Neuroscience Seminar Series Spring 2018
All seminars take place in HSB-G207 at 3:30 unless otherwise noted.
April 4
Howard Chizeck, Professor, Electrical Engineering, co-director UW BioRobotics Lab
April 25
CNC Lab Meeting: Pasupathy Lab, Biological Structure
“Encoding visual objects in clutter.”
May 2
Anisha Keshavan, Postdoctoral Fellow, eScience Institute/iLABS
“Leveraging Web Technology to Address Challenges with Big Data in Neuroscience”
May 16
CNC Lab Meeting: Kutz Lab, CSE
“Neurosensory network functionality, adaptation, and robustness: Paradigms for data-driven control”
May 17 – cohosted with PBio Seminar Series
Brent Doiron, Associate Professor, Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
2018 Swartz Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Visitor
HSB G-328, 9:30 AM
“New Cortex. Who dis(inhibition)?”
May 21 – cohosted with Neuroscience Seminar Series
Anne-Marie Oswald, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
2018 Swartz Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Visitor
HSB T-747, 3:30 PM
“Navigating space without a map of Piriform Cortex”
May 23
Kevin Coffey, Postdoctoral Fellow, Pharmacology
“Next-gen Sequencing of TRAP/RiboTag mRNA from Serotonergic Raphe Neurons Identifies a Small Subset of Stress-Sensitive Genes”
May 30
Corinne Teeter, Scientist, Allen Institute for Brain Science
“Defining the building blocks of neural networks: characterizing and classifying neurons using generalized leaky integrate and fire models”