• 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

Tuesday 24 November 2015

• 12:00 - Adaptation to natural input statistics: a key to dendritic computation and plasticity
  TBA

Wednesday 27 January 2016

• 13:00 - Probabilistic Synapses
  Prof Peter Latham (University College of London)

Wednesday 10 February 2016

• 13:00 - Learning in cortical networks through error back-propagation
  TBA

Wednesday 17 February 2016

• 13:00 - A single pair of neurons links sleep to memory consolidation in Drosophila melanogaster
  Prof Leslie Griffith (Brandeis University)

Wednesday 2 March 2016

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Pablo Jercog (IDIBAPS & Cellex Inst., Barcelona)

Tuesday 15 March 2016

• 13:00 - Optogenetic silencing of anterior cingulate cortex disrupts model-based reinforcement learning in mice
  Thomas Akam (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 March 2016

• 13:00 - Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation
  Prof Andrea Herz (LMU Munich)

Wednesday 6 April 2016

• 13:00 - Emergence of connectivity motifs via the interaction of long-term and sort-term plasticity
  Dr Eleni Vasilaki (University of Sheffield)

Monday 25 April 2016

• 12:00 - Relating Circuit Dynamics to Computation: Robustness and Dimension-specific Computation in Cortical Dynamics
  TBA

Wednesday 4 May 2016

• 13:00 - Control of entropy in internal models
  Dr Jill O'Reilly (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 May 2016

• 13:00 - Multidimensional imbalances in excitation/inhibition in Fragile-X Syndrome
  Dr Cian O'Donnell (University of Bristol)

Monday 13 June 2016

• 15:00 - Neural Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex: Ensemble Codes, Oscillatory Structure and Avalanches during short-term memory
  Dr Matthias Munk (University of Tübingen and Systems Neurophysiology, Technical University Darmstadt)

Monday 20 June 2016

• 13:00 - A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Active Cognition
  Dr Angela Yu (University of California San Diego)

Wednesday 22 June 2016

• 13:00 - Information seeking and randomness drive human exploration
  Dr Bob Wilson (University of Arizona)

Wednesday 17 August 2016

• 16:00 - A mean-field theory for drift-diffusion dynamics of spiking continuous attractor models
  Mr Alex Seeholzer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

Wednesday 21 September 2016

• 13:00 - Reconciling flexible neuromodulation, variability and regulatory control in neurons
  Dr Tim O'Leary (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 19 October 2016

• 13:00 - Spatial scales of homeostatic plasticity in mouse visual cortex
  Dr Tara Keck (University College London)

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• 13:00 - Preplay and path planning in maze-like environments with attractor networks
  Mr Dane Corneil (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

Wednesday 23 November 2016

• 13:00 - Neuronal computation: A tale of dendritic structure and function
  Dr Ben Torben-Nielsen (University of Hertfordshire)

Wednesday 14 December 2016

• 13:00 - Predictive coding as a model of cortical function
  Dr Michael Spratling (Kings College London)

Wednesday 11 January 2017

• 13:00 - Next generation neural field modelling
  Prof Stephen Coombes (University of Nottingham)

Wednesday 15 February 2017

• 13:00 - Modeling Neural and Performance Correlates of Attention
  Miss Grace Lindsay (Columbia University)

Wednesday 15 March 2017

• 13:00 - Testing complex brain-computational models to understand how the brain works
  Dr Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 23 March 2017

• 14:00 - Wellcome Open Research – author led publishing
  Mr Michael Markie (F1000)

Wednesday 5 April 2017

• 13:00 - Diverse population coupling ensures robust yet flexible stimulus representation in a recurrent network model of perceptual learning
  Dr Yann Sweeney (Imperial College London)

Wednesday 26 April 2017

• 13:00 - STDP balance and morphology influences the appearance of the dendritic mosaic
  Dr Nicolangelo Iannella (University of Nottingham)

Wednesday 10 May 2017

• 13:00 - The Agony of Choice: Optimal Policies for Value-based Decision Making
  Prof Alexander Pouget (University of Geneva)

Wednesday 17 May 2017

• 13:00 - Towards state and parameter estimation in neural populations models (of anaesthesia)
  Prof Ingo Bojak (University of Reading)

Wednesday 14 June 2017

• 13:30 - Optical Tools for Dissecting Neural Information Processing
  Dr Simon Schultz (Imperial College London)

Thursday 22 June 2017

• 13:30 - Mechanism underlying the retinal computation of predictive sensitization
  Dr David Kastner (UCSF)

Thursday 29 June 2017

• 14:00 - A Spiral Attractor Network Drives Rhythmic Locomotion in Aplysia
  Dr Mark Humphries (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 5 July 2017

• 13:30 - Rethinking Reward: Dopamine Signals in Learning and Motivation
  Prof Josh Berke (UC San Francisco)

Wednesday 13 September 2017

• 13:30 - Approximate Inference and Deep Generative Models
  Dr Danilo Jimenez Rezende (Deepmind)

Thursday 21 September 2017

• 13:30 - Basal ganglia activity: The good, the bad, and the depressed
  Prof Jonathan Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)

Wednesday 27 September 2017

• 13:30 - What can we learn from local field potentials (LFPs) recorded in the brain?
  Dr Gaute Einevoll (Norwegian University of Life Sciences and University of Oslo)

Wednesday 11 October 2017

• 13:30 - Biophysical model of the olfactory system of honey bees predicts qualitatively different responses to mixtures
  Prof Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex)

Wednesday 1 November 2017

• 13:30 - Continuous visual inference and hierarchical attractor dynamics
  Prof Jochen Braun (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 13:30 - What is simplicity in a complex auditory world?
  Dr Dan Goodman (Imperial College London)

Wednesday 22 November 2017

• 13:30 - Controlling Populations of Neurons
  Prof Jeff Moehlis (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Friday 24 November 2017

• 13:15 - Dynamic compartmentalization in dendrites enables branch-specific learning
  Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)

Wednesday 29 November 2017

• 13:30 - Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system
  Dr Matthew Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)

Monday 11 December 2017

• 13:30 - A theory of the dynamics of deep learning: Consequences for semantic development
  Dr Andrew Saxe (Harvard)

Wednesday 13 December 2017

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Frédéric Piel (Imperial College London)

Tuesday 6 February 2018

• 14:00 - Flexible statistical inference for mechanistic models of neural dynamics
  Dr Pedro Goncalves (CAESAR)

Tuesday 27 February 2018

• 13:00 - A kinetic account for amphetamine action
  Dr Peter Hasenhuetl (CNCB, Oxford)

Monday 26 March 2018

• 13:30 - Believing in dopamine
  Prof Sam Gershman (Harvard)

Wednesday 28 March 2018

• 13:00 - Flexible, optimal motor control in a thalamo-cortical circuit model
  Dr Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 4 April 2018

• 13:00 - Quantum neural networks
  Deyan Mihaylov (Cambridge)

Wednesday 18 April 2018

• 13:00 - Source reconstruction from extracellular potentials, from single cells to whole brains
  Prof Daniel Wojcik (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland)

Monday 23 April 2018

• 13:30 - Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamics
  Dr Mehrdad Jazayeri (McGovern Institute, MIT)

Wednesday 9 May 2018

• 13:30 - Dendritic error backpropagation in deep cortical microcircuits
  João Sacramento (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Wednesday 16 May 2018

• 13:30 - Synaptic and network mechanisms of serial biases in spatial working memory
  Dr Albert Compte (IDIBAPS)

Wednesday 23 May 2018

• 13:30 - Modelling the mechanisms of place cell remapping and grid cell realignment
  Prof Cesar Renno-Costa (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte)

Wednesday 30 May 2018

• 13:00 - Hierarchical inference and learning using distributed neural representations of uncertainty
  Eszter Vertes (Gatsby)

Wednesday 6 June 2018

• 13:00 - Interneuron circuits for top-down guided plasticity of sensory representations
  Dr Katharina Wilmes (Imperial College London)

Wednesday 13 June 2018

• 13:30 - Learning to Believe: Prediction error adaptation as an efficient neurocomputational mechanism for learning about risky outcomes
  Dr Kelly Diederen (King's College London)

Tuesday 26 June 2018

• 13:30 - The role of confidence in learning to make good decisions
  Prof Jan Drugowitsch (Harvard University)

Wednesday 22 August 2018

• 14:00 - Integrating new knowledge without catastrophic interference: Computational and theoretical investigations in a hierarchically structured environment
  Prof James L. McClelland (Stanford University)

Thursday 23 August 2018

• 15:00 - "Artiphysiology" reveals V4-like shape tuning in a deep network trained for image classification.
  Prof Wyeth Bair (University of Washington)

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 13:00 - Neural Mechanisms of Temporal Processing in the Central Auditory System: A Neurotheory of Gap Detection
  Prof Jennifer Linden (UCL)

Friday 16 November 2018

• 14:00 - Understanding contextual influences on auditory cortical processing
  Prof Stephen David (Oregon Hearing Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University)

Wednesday 5 December 2018

• 13:30 - Understanding sensorimotor circuits implementing zebrafish behavior
  Dr James Fitzgerald (HHMI Janelia Research Campus)

Wednesday 12 December 2018

• 13:30 - Unifying computational and experimental descriptions of cortical networks across scales
  Dr Padraig Gleeson (UCL)

Wednesday 19 December 2018

• 10:30 - Propagating waves in visual cortex and their computational role
  Dr Alain Destexhe (CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, and European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience, Paris)

Friday 15 February 2019

• 13:15 - Various approaches to online inference - human behavior and theoretical models
  Dr Rava Azeredo da Silveira (ENS Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)

Tuesday 19 March 2019

• 13:30 - A multiscale perspective of cortical computational dynamics
  Dr Nima Dehghani (MIT)

Tuesday 26 March 2019

• 13:30 - Learning and memory with complex synaptic plasticity
  Dr Subhaneil Lahiri (Stanford)

Monday 1 April 2019

• 13:30 - From Connectivity Matrices to Rate Dynamics
  Dr Merav Stern (University of Washington)

Friday 3 May 2019

• 15:00 - Spatio-temporal control of neural activity through gain modulation in cortical circuit models
  Dr Jake Stroud (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 8 May 2019

• 13:30 - Corticostriatal computations in learning and decision making
  Prof Michael Frank (Brown University)

Monday 13 May 2019

• 13:30 - Transient OFF responses in auditory cortex: a signature of non-normal dynamics?
  Giulio Bondanelli (Ecole normale superieure, Paris)

Wednesday 15 May 2019

• 13:30 - Memory in the Insect Mushroom Body: Computational models for learning, retention, transfer, and extinction
  Prof Martin Nawrot (University of Cologne)

Thursday 7 April 2022

• 11:00 - On biologically-plausible meta-learning
  Joao Sacramento (ETH Zurich)

Friday 25 November 2022

• 12:00 - Computational Neurology and Active Inference
  Thomas Parr (UCL)

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 13:00 - Spatial uncertainty and environmental geometry in navigation
  Mate Lengyel (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 13:00 - Controlling synchrony by precisely timed pulses: A possible approach to deep brain stimulation
  Professor Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam)

Wednesday 29 March 2023

• 13:00 - Simultaneous and separable latent encoding of arm movement direction and kinematics in motor cortex
  Professor Mark Humphries (University of Notthingham)

Thursday 30 November 2023

• 14:30 - A simple neural network to structure thoughts using rapidly changing synapses
  Sanjay Manohar (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 January 2024

• 11:00 - How to learn useful representations in a structured world
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jane Wang (Deepmind)

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 14:30 - A neural manifold view of motor control
  Juan A Gallego (Imperial College London)

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 14:30 - Zero-shot numerical reasoning in dual stream neural networks and the primate visual system
  Jessica Thompson (University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 March 2024

• 14:30 - Controlling Populations of Neural Oscillators
  Prof Jeff Moehlis (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Thursday 25 April 2024

• 14:30 - Neural representations of learning and behavior
  Alex Cayco-Gajic (École Normale Supérieure Paris)

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 14:00 - A dynamic attractor network model of memory coding
  Marta Boscaglia (University of Leicester)

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 14:30 - Meta-training neural networks to control themselves
  Chris Summerfield (University of Oxford), Kai Sandbrink (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 10:45 - Sparse coding – how a neurophysiological constraint is also a ubiquitous and powerful cortical learning mechanism
  Anthony Burkitt (University of Melbourne)

Thursday 13 June 2024

• 14:30 - Predictive and interpretable: using artificial neural networks and classic cognitive models to understand human learning and decision making
  Maria Eckstein (Deepmind)

Thursday 26 September 2024

• 15:00 - Time Makes Space: Emergence of Place Fields in Networks Encoding Temporally Continuous Sensory Experiences
  Dr Vijay Balasubramanian (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 15:00 - A prospective code for value in the serotonin system
  Dr Richard Naud (University of Ottawa)

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 15:00 - Brain-like learning with exponentiated gradients
  Dr. Jonathan Cornford (MILA)

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Luke Taylor (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)