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Name: Dr Friedemann Zenke
University of Oxford
http://fzenke.net/
Events this person is speaking at:
Tuesday 17 October 2017
Making Cell Assemblies: What can we learn about plasticity from spiking neural network models?
Date: 17 October 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Venue: Biology South Parks Road, South Parks Road OX1 3RB
Venue Details: Schlich Theatre
Organiser:
Nils Kolling (Junior Research Fellow, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Helen Barron (University of Oxford )
Events this person is hosting:
Wednesday 13 September 2017
Approximate Inference and Deep Generative Models
Date: 13 September 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Danilo Jimenez Rezende (Deepmind)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: lecture theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 15 November 2017
What is simplicity in a complex auditory world?
Date: 15 November 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Dan Goodman (Imperial College London)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Hosts:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Friday 24 November 2017
Title TBC
Date: 24 November 2017, 13:00 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Dynamic compartmentalization in dendrites enables branch-specific learning
Date: 24 November 2017, 13:15 - 14:15
Speaker
:
Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Host:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Monday 11 December 2017
A theory of the dynamics of deep learning: Consequences for semantic development
Date: 11 December 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Andrew Saxe (Harvard)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Tuesday 27 February 2018
A kinetic account for amphetamine action
Date: 27 February 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Peter Hasenhuetl (CNCB, Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Monday 23 April 2018
Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamics
Date: 23 April 2018, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Mehrdad Jazayeri (McGovern Institute, MIT)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Wednesday 9 May 2018
Dendritic error backpropagation in deep cortical microcircuits
Date: 9 May 2018, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
João Sacramento (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Hierarchical inference and learning using distributed neural representations of uncertainty
Date: 30 May 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Eszter Vertes (Gatsby)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 6 June 2018
Interneuron circuits for top-down guided plasticity of sensory representations
Date: 6 June 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Katharina Wilmes (Imperial College London)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Library
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Integrating new knowledge without catastrophic interference: Computational and theoretical investigations in a hierarchically structured environment
Date: 22 August 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Prof James L. McClelland (Stanford University)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Events this person is organising:
Wednesday 13 September 2017
Approximate Inference and Deep Generative Models
Date: 13 September 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Danilo Jimenez Rezende (Deepmind)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: lecture theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Thursday 21 September 2017
Basal ganglia activity: The good, the bad, and the depressed
Date: 21 September 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Prof Jonathan Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 27 September 2017
What can we learn from local field potentials (LFPs) recorded in the brain?
Date: 27 September 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Gaute Einevoll (Norwegian University of Life Sciences and University of Oslo)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 2 October 2017
Burst Ensemble Multiplexing: Relating Active dendrites and Cortical Microcircuits
Date: 2 October 2017, 9:00 - 10:00
Speaker
:
Dr Richard Naud (University of Ottawa)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Venue Details: CNCB seminar room, 2nd floor
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Biophysical model of the olfactory system of honey bees predicts qualitatively different responses to mixtures
Date: 11 October 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Prof Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 15 November 2017
What is simplicity in a complex auditory world?
Date: 15 November 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Dan Goodman (Imperial College London)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Hosts:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Friday 24 November 2017
Title TBC
Date: 24 November 2017, 13:00 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Dynamic compartmentalization in dendrites enables branch-specific learning
Date: 24 November 2017, 13:15 - 14:15
Speaker
:
Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Host:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 29 November 2017
Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system
Date: 29 November 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Matthew Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 13 December 2017
Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 13 December 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Frédéric Piel (Imperial College London)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 6 February 2018
Flexible statistical inference for mechanistic models of neural dynamics
Date: 6 February 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Dr Pedro Goncalves (CAESAR)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Host:
Dr Tim Vogels
Tuesday 27 February 2018
A kinetic account for amphetamine action
Date: 27 February 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Peter Hasenhuetl (CNCB, Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Monday 26 March 2018
Believing in dopamine
Date: 26 March 2018, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Prof Sam Gershman (Harvard)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 28 March 2018
Flexible, optimal motor control in a thalamo-cortical circuit model
Date: 28 March 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Library
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 4 April 2018
Quantum neural networks
Date: 4 April 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Deyan Mihaylov (Cambridge)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Library
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 18 April 2018
Source reconstruction from extracellular potentials, from single cells to whole brains
Date: 18 April 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Prof Daniel Wojcik (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Library
Organisers:
Dr Chaitanya Chintaluri (University of Oxford),
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Chaitanya Chintaluri (University of Oxford)
Monday 23 April 2018
Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamics
Date: 23 April 2018, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Mehrdad Jazayeri (McGovern Institute, MIT)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Wednesday 9 May 2018
Dendritic error backpropagation in deep cortical microcircuits
Date: 9 May 2018, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
João Sacramento (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Wednesday 16 May 2018
Synaptic and network mechanisms of serial biases in spatial working memory
Date: 16 May 2018, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Albert Compte (IDIBAPS)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 23 May 2018
Modelling the mechanisms of place cell remapping and grid cell realignment
Date: 23 May 2018, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Prof Cesar Renno-Costa (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Homero Barrocas Soares Esmeraldo (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Hierarchical inference and learning using distributed neural representations of uncertainty
Date: 30 May 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Eszter Vertes (Gatsby)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Small Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 6 June 2018
Interneuron circuits for top-down guided plasticity of sensory representations
Date: 6 June 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Katharina Wilmes (Imperial College London)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Library
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 13 June 2018
Learning to Believe: Prediction error adaptation as an efficient neurocomputational mechanism for learning about risky outcomes
Date: 13 June 2018, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Kelly Diederen (King's College London)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 26 June 2018
The role of confidence in learning to make good decisions
Date: 26 June 2018, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Prof Jan Drugowitsch (Harvard University)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Integrating new knowledge without catastrophic interference: Computational and theoretical investigations in a hierarchically structured environment
Date: 22 August 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Prof James L. McClelland (Stanford University)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Thursday 23 August 2018
"Artiphysiology" reveals V4-like shape tuning in a deep network trained for image classification.
Date: 23 August 2018, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Prof Wyeth Bair (University of Washington)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Professor Andrew Parker (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)
Host:
Professor Andrew Parker (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics)
Wednesday 14 November 2018
Neural Mechanisms of Temporal Processing in the Central Auditory System: A Neurotheory of Gap Detection
Date: 14 November 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Prof Jennifer Linden (UCL)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Library
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 16 November 2018
Understanding contextual influences on auditory cortical processing
Date: 16 November 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Prof Stephen David (Oregon Hearing Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Tim Vogels,
Professor Andrew King (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 5 December 2018
Understanding sensorimotor circuits implementing zebrafish behavior
Date: 5 December 2018, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr James Fitzgerald (HHMI Janelia Research Campus)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Andrew Saxe (Harvard),
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Andrew Saxe (Harvard)
Wednesday 12 December 2018
Unifying computational and experimental descriptions of cortical networks across scales
Date: 12 December 2018, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Padraig Gleeson (UCL)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Chaitanya Chintaluri (University of Oxford),
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Tim Vogels
Wednesday 19 December 2018
Propagating waves in visual cortex and their computational role
Date: 19 December 2018, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker
:
Dr Alain Destexhe (CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, and European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience, Paris)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 15 February 2019
Various approaches to online inference - human behavior and theoretical models
Date: 15 February 2019, 13:15 - 14:15
Speaker
:
Dr Rava Azeredo da Silveira (ENS Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 19 March 2019
A multiscale perspective of cortical computational dynamics
Date: 19 March 2019, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Nima Dehghani (MIT)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 26 March 2019
Learning and memory with complex synaptic plasticity
Date: 26 March 2019, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Subhaneil Lahiri (Stanford)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 1 April 2019
From Connectivity Matrices to Rate Dynamics
Date: 1 April 2019, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Dr Merav Stern (University of Washington)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 3 May 2019
Spatio-temporal control of neural activity through gain modulation in cortical circuit models
Date: 3 May 2019, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Dr Jake Stroud (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 8 May 2019
Corticostriatal computations in learning and decision making
Date: 8 May 2019, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Prof Michael Frank (Brown University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Monday 13 May 2019
Transient OFF responses in auditory cortex: a signature of non-normal dynamics?
Date: 13 May 2019, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Giulio Bondanelli (Ecole normale superieure, Paris)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Memory in the Insect Mushroom Body: Computational models for learning, retention, transfer, and extinction
Date: 15 May 2019, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Prof Martin Nawrot (University of Cologne)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA