Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 17 October 2017

• 13:00 - Making Cell Assemblies: What can we learn about plasticity from spiking neural network models?
  Dr Friedemann Zenke (University of Oxford)

Events this person is hosting:

Wednesday 13 September 2017

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

Wednesday 15 November 2017

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

Friday 24 November 2017

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)
• 13:15 - Dynamic compartmentalization in dendrites enables branch-specific learning
  Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 11 December 2017

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

Tuesday 27 February 2018

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

Monday 23 April 2018

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

Wednesday 9 May 2018

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

Wednesday 30 May 2018

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

Wednesday 6 June 2018

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

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)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 13 September 2017

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

Thursday 21 September 2017

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

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)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 2 October 2017

• 09:00 - Burst Ensemble Multiplexing: Relating Active dendrites and Cortical Microcircuits
  Dr Richard Naud (University of Ottawa)

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)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 15 November 2017

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

Friday 24 November 2017

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)
• 13:15 - Dynamic compartmentalization in dendrites enables branch-specific learning
  Dr Willem Wybo (EPFL)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 29 November 2017

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

Wednesday 13 December 2017

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

Tuesday 6 February 2018

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

Tuesday 27 February 2018

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

Monday 26 March 2018

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

Wednesday 28 March 2018

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

Wednesday 4 April 2018

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

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)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Monday 23 April 2018

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

Wednesday 9 May 2018

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

Wednesday 16 May 2018

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

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)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 30 May 2018

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

Wednesday 6 June 2018

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

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)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Tuesday 26 June 2018

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

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)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

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)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

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)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

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)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 5 December 2018

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

Wednesday 12 December 2018

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

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)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

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)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Tuesday 19 March 2019

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

Tuesday 26 March 2019

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

Monday 1 April 2019

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

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)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum

Wednesday 8 May 2019

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

Monday 13 May 2019

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

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)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum