Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Making Cell Assemblies: What can we learn about plasticity from spiking neural network models?
  Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)

Events this person is hosting:

Wednesday 13 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Approximate Inference and Deep Generative Models
  Dr Danilo Jimenez Rezende (Deepmind)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)
• 13:15 - Dynamic compartmentalization in dendrites enables branch-specific learning
  Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 11 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A kinetic account for amphetamine action
  Dr Peter Hasenhuetl (CNCB, Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Hierarchical inference and learning using distributed neural representations of uncertainty
  Eszter Vertes (Gatsby)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Interneuron circuits for top-down guided plasticity of sensory representations
  Dr Katharina Wilmes (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 22 August 2018 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Integrating new knowledge without catastrophic interference: Computational and theoretical investigations in a hierarchically structured environment
  Prof James L. McClelland (Stanford University)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 13 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Approximate Inference and Deep Generative Models
  Dr Danilo Jimenez Rezende (Deepmind)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 21 September 2017 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Basal ganglia activity: The good, the bad, and the depressed
  Prof Jonathan Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 27 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - What can we learn from local field potentials (LFPs) recorded in the brain?
  Dr Gaute Einevoll (Norwegian University of Life Sciences and University of Oslo)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 2 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 11 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)
• 13:15 - Dynamic compartmentalization in dendrites enables branch-specific learning
  Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 13 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Frédéric Piel (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A kinetic account for amphetamine action
  Dr Peter Hasenhuetl (CNCB, Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 26 March 2018 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Believing in dopamine
  Prof Sam Gershman (Harvard)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 28 March 2018 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Flexible, optimal motor control in a thalamo-cortical circuit model
  Dr Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 4 April 2018 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Quantum neural networks
  Deyan Mihaylov (Cambridge)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 18 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Source reconstruction from extracellular potentials, from single cells to whole brains
  Prof Daniel Wojcik (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Modelling the mechanisms of place cell remapping and grid cell realignment
  Prof Cesar Renno-Costa (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Hierarchical inference and learning using distributed neural representations of uncertainty
  Eszter Vertes (Gatsby)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Interneuron circuits for top-down guided plasticity of sensory representations
  Dr Katharina Wilmes (Imperial College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Learning to Believe: Prediction error adaptation as an efficient neurocomputational mechanism for learning about risky outcomes
  Dr Kelly Diederen (King's College London)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Tuesday 26 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - The role of confidence in learning to make good decisions
  Prof Jan Drugowitsch (Harvard University)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 22 August 2018 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Integrating new knowledge without catastrophic interference: Computational and theoretical investigations in a hierarchically structured environment
  Prof James L. McClelland (Stanford University)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Thursday 23 August 2018 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - "Artiphysiology" reveals V4-like shape tuning in a deep network trained for image classification.
  Prof Wyeth Bair (University of Washington)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Neural Mechanisms of Temporal Processing in the Central Auditory System: A Neurotheory of Gap Detection
  Prof Jennifer Linden (UCL)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 5 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Understanding sensorimotor circuits implementing zebrafish behavior
  Dr James Fitzgerald (HHMI Janelia Research Campus)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 12 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 19 December 2018 (11th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Propagating waves in visual cortex and their computational role
  Dr Alain Destexhe (CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, and European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience, Paris)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Tuesday 19 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - A multiscale perspective of cortical computational dynamics
  Dr Nima Dehghani (MIT)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Tuesday 26 March 2019 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Learning and memory with complex synaptic plasticity
  Dr Subhaneil Lahiri (Stanford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 1 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - From Connectivity Matrices to Rate Dynamics
  Dr Merav Stern (University of Washington)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Corticostriatal computations in learning and decision making
  Prof Michael Frank (Brown University)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Transient OFF responses in auditory cortex: a signature of non-normal dynamics?
  Giulio Bondanelli (Ecole normale superieure, Paris)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Memory in the Insect Mushroom Body: Computational models for learning, retention, transfer, and extinction
  Prof Martin Nawrot (University of Cologne)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum