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Name: Dr Rui Ponte Costa
University of Oxford
http://ruipcosta.weebly.com
Events this person is speaking at:
Tuesday 27 February 2024
Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar : Stable brains in dynamic worlds: a key role of cortico-cerebellar loops
Date: 27 February 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
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)
Wednesday 15 October 2025
A neuroAI brain-wide view on learning: cortex, subcortex and neuromodulation
Date: 15 October 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Pharmacology Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Prof. Rafal Bogacz (Brain Network Dynamics Unit)
Events this person is hosting:
Tuesday 24 November 2015
Adaptation to natural input statistics: a key to dendritic computation and plasticity
Date: 24 November 2015, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Venue: ,
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Monday 29 January 2024
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
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
Zero-shot numerical reasoning in dual stream neural networks and the primate visual system
Date: 22 February 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
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 1 May 2025
Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for neuromodulation of cortex-wide dynamics during cognition
Date: 1 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Dr Sean Froudist-Walsh (University of Bristol)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Thursday 22 May 2025
Modelling human decision making and learning in continuous, interactive environments
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Thursday 12 June 2025
Temporal prediction as a sensory processing principle
Date: 12 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Sherrington Library
Organisers:
Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Thursday 18 September 2025
Identifying Communication Between Brain Regions
Date: 18 September 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Matthew Golub (University of Washington)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers:
Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Events this person is organising:
Wednesday 27 January 2016
Probabilistic Synapses
Date: 27 January 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Learning in cortical networks through error back-propagation
Date: 10 February 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Organiser:
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 17 February 2016
A single pair of neurons links sleep to memory consolidation in Drosophila melanogaster
Date: 17 February 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Title TBC
Date: 2 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Optogenetic silencing of anterior cingulate cortex disrupts model-based reinforcement learning in mice
Date: 15 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation
Date: 16 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Emergence of connectivity motifs via the interaction of long-term and sort-term plasticity
Date: 6 April 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Control of entropy in internal models
Date: 4 May 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Multidimensional imbalances in excitation/inhibition in Fragile-X Syndrome
Date: 18 May 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Neural Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex: Ensemble Codes, Oscillatory Structure and Avalanches during short-term memory
Date: 13 June 2016, 15:00 - 16:00
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
A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Active Cognition
Date: 20 June 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Information seeking and randomness drive human exploration
Date: 22 June 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
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
A mean-field theory for drift-diffusion dynamics of spiking continuous attractor models
Date: 17 August 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
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
Reconciling flexible neuromodulation, variability and regulatory control in neurons
Date: 21 September 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Preplay and path planning in maze-like environments with attractor networks
Date: 16 November 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Neuronal computation: A tale of dendritic structure and function
Date: 23 November 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Predictive coding as a model of cortical function
Date: 14 December 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Next generation neural field modelling
Date: 11 January 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Modeling Neural and Performance Correlates of Attention
Date: 15 February 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Testing complex brain-computational models to understand how the brain works
Date: 15 March 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
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
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
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
STDP balance and morphology influences the appearance of the dendritic mosaic
Date: 26 April 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
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
The Agony of Choice: Optimal Policies for Value-based Decision Making
Date: 10 May 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Towards state and parameter estimation in neural populations models (of anaesthesia)
Date: 17 May 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Optical Tools for Dissecting Neural Information Processing
Date: 14 June 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
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
Mechanism underlying the retinal computation of predictive sensitization
Date: 22 June 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
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
A Spiral Attractor Network Drives Rhythmic Locomotion in Aplysia
Date: 29 June 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
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
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
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Title TBC
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
Organisers:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford),
Dr Tim Vogels,
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 30 November 2023
A simple neural network to structure thoughts using rapidly changing synapses
Date: 30 November 2023, 14:30 - 15:30
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
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
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
A neural manifold view of motor control
Date: 15 February 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
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
Zero-shot numerical reasoning in dual stream neural networks and the primate visual system
Date: 22 February 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
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
Controlling Populations of Neural Oscillators
Date: 28 March 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
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
Neural representations of learning and behavior
Date: 25 April 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
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 9 May 2024
A dynamic attractor network model of memory coding
Date: 9 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Marta Boscaglia (University of Leicester)
Venue: Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road OX1 3TA
Venue Details: Seminar room (EP space)
Organisers:
Vitor Lopes dos Santos (University of Oxford),
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host:
Vitor Lopes dos Santos (University of Oxford)
Thursday 16 May 2024
Meta-training neural networks to control themselves
Date: 16 May 2024, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Chris Summerfield (University of Oxford),
Kai Sandbrink (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 4 June 2024
Sparse coding – how a neurophysiological constraint is also a ubiquitous and powerful cortical learning mechanism
Date: 4 June 2024, 10:45 - 11:45
Speaker
:
Anthony Burkitt (University of Melbourne)
Organisers:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Thursday 13 June 2024
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
Speaker
:
Maria Eckstein (Deepmind)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 1 May 2025
Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for neuromodulation of cortex-wide dynamics during cognition
Date: 1 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Dr Sean Froudist-Walsh (University of Bristol)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Thursday 22 May 2025
Modelling human decision making and learning in continuous, interactive environments
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Thursday 12 June 2025
Temporal prediction as a sensory processing principle
Date: 12 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Sherrington Library
Organisers:
Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Thursday 18 September 2025
Identifying Communication Between Brain Regions
Date: 18 September 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Matthew Golub (University of Washington)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers:
Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford),
Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
