Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Oxford Neurotheory Forum is a space to present and discuss recent research in computational neuroscience. The current organising committee is: Jascha Achterberg, Rafal Bogacz, Charlotte Collingwood, Rui Ponte Costa, Benoit Duchet, Nicol Harper, Maija Filipovica, Samuel Liebana Garcia and Michal Wojcik.

History: This forum was established in 2015 by Tim Vogels, Rui Ponte Costa and Rafal Bogacz. Previous organisers have also included: Andrew Saxe, Friedmann Zenke and Chaitanya Chintaluri.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford), Dr Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford)
Timing: Thursdays at 2:30pm (monthly or more frequently)
Web Address: https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/research/oxford-neurotheory
Organising department: Medical Sciences Division

Talks:

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

Editors: Anne Bowtell, Nicole Harris, Jacqueline Pumphrey, Rui Costa