CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building


2023-10-02 13:30: Structured recognition for generative models with explaining away (Changmin Yu, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK)

2023-10-10 14:00: A new look at eye design (Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, Cambridge)

2023-10-10 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Department of Zoology, Cambridge)

2023-10-24 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rui Xia, Edward Young)

2023-10-31 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Samuel Eckmann)

2023-10-31 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Samuel Eckmann)

2023-10-31 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Samuel Eckmann)

2023-11-14 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-11-14 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-11-21 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis, Puria Radmard)

2024-02-14 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Changmin Yu ( Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK))

2024-02-21 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis (University of Cambridge))

2024-02-27 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge))

2024-02-27 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge))

2024-03-12 10:00: Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning (Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and Postdoc the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2024-03-12 10:00: Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning (Jonathan Tsay - Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and currently postdoc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge)

2024-03-19 10:00: Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for subcortical routing of cortex-wide dynamics during cognition (Seán Froudist-Walsh, U Bristol)

2024-05-01 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rui Xia, Youjing Yu)

2024-05-08 12:15: Unifying the mechanisms of the hippocampal and prefrontal cognitive maps (James Whittington, Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University & Oxford University)

2024-05-20 10:00: Integrated Spin model with global inhibition for decision making (Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute of Science)

2024-05-24 10:00: Circuit for memory-based action selection (Marta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2024-06-05 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-06-18 10:00: Learning Bayesian inference models of cortical visual processing (Rodrigo Echeveste, sinc(i), Santa Fe, Argentina)

2024-06-24 10:00: Causal inference during motion perception, and its neural basis (Ralf Haefner, Department for Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester)

2024-10-11 17:00: Geometry of population coding in large and transcriptomically-identified cortical populations (Ken Harris, University College London)

2024-10-29 13:30: Sensory prediction errors in thalamocortical circuits (Daniel Kornai; Máté Lengyel)

2024-11-12 13:30: Geometry of neural representations (Carl Ashworth; Ishan Kalburge)

2024-11-26 13:30: State space models (as alternatives to Transformers) (Yashar Ahmadian; Qingyun Chen)

2024-12-03 14:00: Relating the diversity of firing rates to the dimension of variability in recurrent networks (Brent Doiron, University of Chicago)

2025-01-07 11:00: Modelling C. elegans pharynx (Dana Sherman, Weizmann)

2025-01-07 15:00: Evaluating dynamical systems hypotheses for pattern generation in motor cortex (Lea Duncker, Columbia)

2025-01-21 15:00: Data-driven models of neural and behavioural learning (N Alex Cayco Gajic, École Normale Supérieure)

2025-02-11 15:00: Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action (Dominik Straub, TU Darmstadt)

2025-02-11 15:45: Neural circuit reorganisation and functional resilience (Noor Sajid, Max Planck for Biological Cybernetics)

2025-02-12 15:00: Certain about uncertainty? Latent representations of VAEs optimized for visual tasks. (Josefina Catoni, Universidad Nacional del Litoral)

2025-02-18 15:00: Hopfield Networks: From Neuroscience to Machine Learning and Back (Youjing Yu; Tim Lin)

2025-03-04 15:00: The Continual Learning (CL) Theory (Sasha Rivkind; Nicolas Anguita)

2025-03-11 15:00: Integrating Random Memory Patterns and Spatial Maps in Food-Caching Birds (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-04-15 15:00: In-Context Learning (Yashar Ahmadian; Nandini Shiralkar)

2025-05-06 15:00: The successor representation, its neural substrate, and behavioural consequences. (Puria Radmard; Daniel Kornai)

2025-05-13 14:00: Quantifying individuality in neural circuit representations (Alex Williams (NYU))

2025-05-16 14:00: Connectome-based Echo State Networks (James McAllister (Ulster))

2025-05-27 11:00: Dendrites, Synaptic Plasticity and Hippocampal Place Fields​ (Carl Ashworth; Saeyeon Kwon)

2025-06-03 11:00: Discovering reward-guided learning strategies from large-scale datasets (Kimberly Stachenfeld (DeepMind, Columbia))

2025-06-10 11:00: Context, Computation, and Continuity: Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Decision-Making (Máté Lengyel; Guillaume Hennequin)

2025-06-10 11:00: Context, Computation, and Continuity: Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Decision-Making (Máté Lengyel; Guillaume Hennequin)

2025-06-17 11:00: Multitasking and compositionality in brain and in neural networks (Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge)

2025-09-16 13:15: The Fruit Fly Connectome and Beyond (Yijie Yin; Saeyeon Kwon)

2025-09-23 13:15: Cerebellum Computation (Carl Ashworth; Youjing Yu)

2025-10-21 13:15: Thalamocortical Interactions for Flexible Cognition (Rui Xia; Daniel Kornai)

2025-10-29 16:00: From Data to Models to Understanding: Evaluating Neural Latents and Finding Decision Boundaries in Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) (Kabir Dabholkar, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

2025-11-11 13:15: Neural basis of decision making (Guillaume Hennequin ( University of Cambridge); Robert Crossen)

2025-11-18 13:15: Lazy-rich learning (Dr Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge)

2025-11-18 13:15: Lazy-rich learning (Dr Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge)

2025-12-02 13:15: Tiny & Gigantic Neural Networks (Puria Radmard; Nicolas Anguita)

2026-01-22 14:30: Frugal computation (Xaq Pitkow (CMU))

2026-01-29 09:00: Infinite Hidden Semi-Markov Models (Carl Ashworth; Vince Velkey)

2026-02-03 09:00: Mind-body dualism: A perceptual core (Ehud Ahissar, Weizmann Institute for Science)

2026-02-12 09:00: Compositional Generalization and Learning (Rui Xia; Daniel Kornai)

2026-02-26 09:00: Multiplexed representations of decision content and uncertainty in visual processin (Dominik Straub; Ishan Kalburge)

2026-03-26 09:00: Hippocampal neuronal activity is aligned with action plans (Changmin Yu)