• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 27 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 10 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 17 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 2 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 15 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 16 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 13 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 22 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 17 August 2016 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 19 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 16 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 14 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 11 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 15 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 23 March 2017 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 5 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 14 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 22 June 2017 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 29 June 2017 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 5 July 2017 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 13 September 2017 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 21 September 2017 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 27 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 11 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 13 December 2017 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 26 March 2018 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 28 March 2018 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 4 April 2018 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 18 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 22 August 2018 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 12 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 19 December 2018 (11th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 26 March 2019 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 1 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Friday 25 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 23 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 12 June 2025 (21st Week, Hilary Term)

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