Name: Dr Rafal Bogacz
University of Oxford
Events this person is speaking at:
Thursday 17 May 2018
Computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia
Date: 17 May 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing
Organiser:
Niki Andrew (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Events this person is hosting:
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)
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 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)
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)
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)
Events this person is organising:
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 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 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 5 July 2017
Rethinking Reward: Dopamine Signals in Learning and Motivation
Date: 5 July 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Prof Josh Berke (UC San Francisco)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Organiser:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
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
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
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
Wednesday 22 November 2017
Controlling Populations of Neurons
Date: 22 November 2017, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
:
Prof Jeff Moehlis (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Venue: Le Gros Clark Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QX
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
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)
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 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)
Thursday 2 December 2021
A complementary systems theory of meta-learning
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 2 December 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
João Sacramento (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 7 April 2022
On biologically-plausible meta-learning
Date: 7 April 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
:
Joao Sacramento (ETH Zurich)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
On biologically-plausible meta-learning
Date: 7 April 2022, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
:
Joao Sacramento (ETH Zurich)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 15 February 2023
Spatial uncertainty and environmental geometry in navigation
Date: 15 February 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Máté Lengyel (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Samuel Liebana Garcia (University of Oxford),
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Spatial uncertainty and environmental geometry in navigation
Date: 15 February 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Samuel Liebana Garcia (University of Oxford),
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 22 February 2023
Controlling synchrony by precisely timed pulses: A possible approach to deep brain stimulation
Date: 22 February 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Host:
Benoit Duchet (University of Oxford)
Controlling synchrony by precisely timed pulses: A possible approach to deep brain stimulation
Date: 22 February 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 29 March 2023
Simultaneous and separable latent encoding of arm movement direction and kinematics in motor cortex
Date: 29 March 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Mark Humphries (University of Notthingham)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Host:
Thijs van der Plas (University of Oxford)
Simultaneous and separable latent encoding of arm movement direction and kinematics in motor cortex
Date: 29 March 2023, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Mark Humphries (University of Notthingham)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Host:
Thijs van der Plas (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 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 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)
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)
