Wednesday 4 May 2016

• 14:00 - Thalamocortical Interactions
  Professor Andrew King (University of Oxford), Professor Zoltan Molnar (University of Oxford ), Dr Tim Vogels, Dr Holly Bridge (University of Oxford ), Professor Simon Butt (University of Oxford ), Miss Jacqui Stacey (University of Oxford ), Dr Anna Hoerder Suabedissen (University of Oxford), Dr Louise Upton (University of Oxford), Mr Michael Lohse (University of Oxford), Mr Sebastian Vásquez-López, Dr Tommas Ellender (University of Oxford)
  Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• 14:30 - Making Motor Memories - Temporal patterns of activity in neuronal networks
  Dr Tim Vogels

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 13:30 - What is simplicity in a complex auditory world?
  Dr Dan Goodman (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 24 November 2017

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)

Monday 11 December 2017

• 13:30 - A theory of the dynamics of deep learning: Consequences for semantic development
  Dr Andrew Saxe (Harvard)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Tuesday 6 February 2018

• 14:00 - Flexible statistical inference for mechanistic models of neural dynamics
  Dr Pedro Goncalves (CAESAR)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 23 April 2018

• 13:30 - Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamics
  Dr Mehrdad Jazayeri (McGovern Institute, MIT)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 9 May 2018

• 13:30 - Dendritic error backpropagation in deep cortical microcircuits
  João Sacramento (University of Bern, Switzerland)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 16 November 2018

• 14:00 - Understanding contextual influences on auditory cortical processing
  Prof Stephen David (Oregon Hearing Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 12 December 2018

• 13:30 - Unifying computational and experimental descriptions of cortical networks across scales
  Dr Padraig Gleeson (UCL)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 14 June 2019

• 11:00 - Chloride ion dynamics in the nervous system
  Dr Joseph Raimondo (University of Cape Town)

Friday 15 November 2019

• 14:00 - Structure in the randomness of trained recurrent neural networks
  Dr. Omri Barak (Technion Israel Institute of Technology)

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 14:00 - Synaptic plasticity as inference
  Alex Antrobus (Gatsby Unit, University College London)

Tuesday 17 March 2020

• 14:00 - ONLINE: Cellular/circuit dysfunction in a model of Dravet syndrome - a severe childhood epilepsy.
  THIS TALK IS NOW AN ONLINE SEMINAR (100 places) https://zoom.us/j/7644908050
  Ethan M. Goldberg, MD, PhD (The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)

Monday 2 October 2017

• 09:00 - Burst Ensemble Multiplexing: Relating Active dendrites and Cortical Microcircuits
  Dr Richard Naud (University of Ottawa)

Wednesday 11 October 2017

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Prof Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex)
• 13:30 - Biophysical model of the olfactory system of honey bees predicts qualitatively different responses to mixtures
  Prof Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 13:30 - What is simplicity in a complex auditory world?
  Dr Dan Goodman (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 24 November 2017

• 13:15 - Dynamic compartmentalization in dendrites enables branch-specific learning
  Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 29 November 2017

• 13:30 - Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system
  Dr Matthew Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Tuesday 6 February 2018

• 14:00 - Flexible statistical inference for mechanistic models of neural dynamics
  Dr Pedro Goncalves (CAESAR)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 16 May 2018

• 13:30 - Synaptic and network mechanisms of serial biases in spatial working memory
  Dr Albert Compte (IDIBAPS)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 15 February 2019

• 13:15 - Various approaches to online inference - human behavior and theoretical models
  Dr Rava Azeredo da Silveira (ENS Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 3 May 2019

• 15:00 - Spatio-temporal control of neural activity through gain modulation in cortical circuit models
  Dr Jake Stroud (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 3 October 2019

• 14:00 - The geometry of abstraction
  Prof Stefano Fusi (Columbia University, New York)