Name: Dr Rui Ponte Costa
University of Oxford
http://ruipcosta.weebly.com

Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar : Stable brains in dynamic worlds: a key role of cortico-cerebellar loops
Date: 27 February 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Dr Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)

Events this person is hosting:

Tuesday 24 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Adaptation to natural input statistics: a key to dendritic computation and plasticity
Date: 24 November 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2015)
Speaker
Venue: ,
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

How to learn useful representations in a structured world
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 29 January 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Jane Wang (Deepmind)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Organisers: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Zero-shot numerical reasoning in dual stream neural networks and the primate visual system
Date: 22 February 2024, 14:30 - 15:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Jessica Thompson (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 27 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Probabilistic Synapses
Date: 27 January 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2016)
Speaker : Prof Peter Latham (University College of London)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 10 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Learning in cortical networks through error back-propagation
Date: 10 February 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 4th week, Hilary 2016)
Speaker
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organiser: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 17 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

A single pair of neurons links sleep to memory consolidation in Drosophila melanogaster
Date: 17 February 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Hilary 2016)
Speaker : Prof Leslie Griffith (Brandeis University)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 2 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Title TBC
Date: 2 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Hilary 2016)
Speaker : Dr Pablo Jercog (IDIBAPS & Cellex Inst., Barcelona)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 15 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Optogenetic silencing of anterior cingulate cortex disrupts model-based reinforcement learning in mice
Date: 15 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 9th week, Hilary 2016)
Speaker : Thomas Akam (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Department of Experimental Psychology, C113 Weiskrantz Room
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 16 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation
Date: 16 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 9th week, Hilary 2016)
Speaker : Prof Andrea Herz (LMU Munich)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 6 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Emergence of connectivity motifs via the interaction of long-term and sort-term plasticity
Date: 6 April 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, -2nd week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Dr Eleni Vasilaki (University of Sheffield)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Control of entropy in internal models
Date: 4 May 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Dr Jill O'Reilly (University of Oxford)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Multidimensional imbalances in excitation/inhibition in Fragile-X Syndrome
Date: 18 May 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 4th week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Dr Cian O'Donnell (University of Bristol)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Neural Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex: Ensemble Codes, Oscillatory Structure and Avalanches during short-term memory
Date: 13 June 2016, 15:00 - 16:00 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Dr Matthias Munk (University of Tübingen and Systems Neurophysiology, Technical University Darmstadt)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Room
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 20 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Active Cognition
Date: 20 June 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 9th week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Dr Angela Yu (University of California San Diego)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Pharmacology Dept, Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

Information seeking and randomness drive human exploration
Date: 22 June 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 9th week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Dr Bob Wilson (University of Arizona)
Venue Details: Experimental Psychology Dept - Rawlins room
Organisers: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford), Jill O'Reilly (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 17 August 2016 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

A mean-field theory for drift-diffusion dynamics of spiking continuous attractor models
Date: 17 August 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 (Wednesday, 17th week, Trinity 2016)
Speaker : Mr Alex Seeholzer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 September 2016 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Reconciling flexible neuromodulation, variability and regulatory control in neurons
Date: 21 September 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, -2nd week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Dr Tim O'Leary (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 16 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Preplay and path planning in maze-like environments with attractor networks
Date: 16 November 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Mr Dane Corneil (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Neuronal computation: A tale of dendritic structure and function
Date: 23 November 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Dr Ben Torben-Nielsen (University of Hertfordshire)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Predictive coding as a model of cortical function
Date: 14 December 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 10th week, Michaelmas 2016)
Speaker : Dr Michael Spratling (Kings College London)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

Next generation neural field modelling
Date: 11 January 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 0th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Prof Stephen Coombes (University of Nottingham)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Modeling Neural and Performance Correlates of Attention
Date: 15 February 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Miss Grace Lindsay (Columbia University)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford), Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 15 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Testing complex brain-computational models to understand how the brain works
Date: 15 March 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 9th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Dr Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford), Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Diverse population coupling ensures robust yet flexible stimulus representation in a recurrent network model of perceptual learning
Date: 5 April 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, -2nd week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Dr Yann Sweeney (Imperial College London)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

STDP balance and morphology influences the appearance of the dendritic mosaic
Date: 26 April 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 1st week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Dr Nicolangelo Iannella (University of Nottingham)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organisers: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford), Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

The Agony of Choice: Optimal Policies for Value-based Decision Making
Date: 10 May 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Prof Alexander Pouget (University of Geneva)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford), Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Towards state and parameter estimation in neural populations models (of anaesthesia)
Date: 17 May 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 4th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Prof Ingo Bojak (University of Reading)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Optical Tools for Dissecting Neural Information Processing
Date: 14 June 2017, 13:30 - 14:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Dr Simon Schultz (Imperial College London)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford), Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 June 2017 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

Mechanism underlying the retinal computation of predictive sensitization
Date: 22 June 2017, 13:30 - 14:30 (Thursday, 9th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Dr David Kastner (UCSF)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Organisers: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford), Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 June 2017 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

A Spiral Attractor Network Drives Rhythmic Locomotion in Aplysia
Date: 29 June 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 10th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker : Dr Mark Humphries (University of Manchester)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford), Dr Tim P Vogels (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

What can we learn from local field potentials (LFPs) recorded in the brain?
Date: 27 September 2017, 13:30 - 14:30 (Wednesday, -1st week, Michaelmas 2017)
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

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

Title TBC
Date: 11 October 2017, 13:30 - 14:30 (Wednesday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker : Prof Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Organisers: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford), Dr Tim Vogels, Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

A simple neural network to structure thoughts using rapidly changing synapses
Date: 30 November 2023, 14:30 - 15:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Sanjay Manohar (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

How to learn useful representations in a structured world
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 29 January 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Jane Wang (Deepmind)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Organisers: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

A neural manifold view of motor control
Date: 15 February 2024, 14:30 - 15:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Juan A Gallego (Imperial College London)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Zero-shot numerical reasoning in dual stream neural networks and the primate visual system
Date: 22 February 2024, 14:30 - 15:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Jessica Thompson (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 March 2024 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

Controlling Populations of Neural Oscillators
Date: 28 March 2024, 14:30 - 15:30 (Thursday, 11th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Prof Jeff Moehlis (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Neural representations of learning and behavior
Date: 25 April 2024, 14:30 - 15:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Alex Cayco-Gajic (École Normale Supérieure Paris)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Meta-training neural networks to control themselves
Date: 16 May 2024, 14:30 - 15:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Chris Summerfield (University of Oxford), Kai Sandbrink (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Predictive and interpretable: using artificial neural networks and classic cognitive models to understand human learning and decision making
Date: 13 June 2024, 14:30 - 15:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Maria Eckstein (Deepmind)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organiser: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA