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Introduction to Computational Neuroscience


Upcoming events:

In this lecture series, outstanding researchers will present central topics in computational and theoretical neuroscience. All speakers will give both a research talk and a general introduction to a computational neuroscience topic.

01 February 2024, 16:00 *BIOZENTRUM*
 
Tim Behrens | University of Oxford and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

Representing the structure of problems
18 January 2024, 11:30
 
Julijana Gjorgjieva | TU Munich

Shaping cortical computations via short- and long-term synaptic plasticity

Location: Zoom or FMI

Organizers: Fiona Muellner Julian Rossbroich,

Questions, suggestions?
CNIB contact address: computational.neuroscience@fmi.ch


Previous events 2022-2023

14/12/2023 *Biozentrum*

Talk at 14:30

Workshop at 10:30  
Juan Alvaro Gallego | Imperial College London
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Understanding how the brain learns and controls movement through neural manifolds

Revealing and studying neural manifolds
11th of August
*IN-PERSON*


Talk at 10:15

Workshop at 11:30  
Everton Agnes | Biozentrum- University of Basel
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Linking accessibility, allocation, and inhibitory gating in a model of context-dependent associative memory

Incorporating contextual control in Hopfield networks
19th of July
*IN-PERSON*


Talk at 14:00

Workshop at 10:00  
Andrew Saxe | Sainsbury Wellcome Trust, London
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The Neural Race Reduction: Dynamics of nonlinear representation learning

Learning dynamics in deep linear networks
26th of April *ONLINE*

Talk at 14:00

Workshop at 16:30  
Joel Zylberberg | York University, Toronto
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AI for Neuroscience for AI

How to force artificial neural networks to form more brain-like representations
1st of March *IN-PERSON*

Talk at 13:00

Workshop at 16:30  
Adrienne Fairhall | University of Washington
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Rich representations in dopamine

Biological mechanisms of reinforcement learning in birdsongs
07th of June *ONLINE*

Talk at 17:00

Workshop at 18:30  
Mark Goldman | UC Davis
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Integrators in short- and long-term memory

Linear network theory, with applications to memory networks

FMI ACCESS
Please access the FMI at its Porte at Maulbeerstrasse 66. At the Porte, visitors should state their names and affiliations. They will check the names and ask the visitor to write their last names on a sticker and let the visitor through. Please take the elevators to the seminar room on the 5th floor. In order to avoid a last minute crunch and delays to the seminar, it is strongly advised to show up at the Porte about 10 minutes before the beginning of the seminar.
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