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SCGB NY-Area Postdoc Meeting

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts a postdoc-focused NYC-area group meeting every other month to bring together postdocs interested in neural coding and dynamics, to discuss ideas and data.

The speakers this month are:

Jennifer Crodelle
Curant Institute, NYU, Laboratory of David McLaughlin
Modeling visual circuit development in mice through synaptic plasticity

Xu An
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Laboratory of Josh Huang
Cortical circuits for coordinating food handling and manipulation

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SCGB West Coast Postdoc Meeting

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain invites hosts a quarterly west coast postdoc meeting series to bring together postdocs interested in neural coding and dynamics to discuss ideas and data. Registration is required.

The speakers for the fall meeting are:

Alexandra Kling, Postdoctoral Fellow in Chichilnisky lab, Neurosurgery Dept, Stanford University
Stochastic model of cone sampling in macaque ganglion cell receptive fields

Ali Mohebi, Postdoctoral Scholar in Berke lab, UCSF
Cholinergic interneurons drive dopamine release during motivated approach

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SCGB Boston-area Postdoc Meeting Series

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts a postdoc-focused Boston-area group meeting every other month to bring together postdocs interested in neural coding and dynamics, to discuss ideas and data.

Honi Sanders
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT
Hippocampal Remapping as Hidden State Inference

Ali Yousefi
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, WPI (Formerly Postdoc at BU; Advisor: Uri T. Eden)
Decoding Hidden Cognitive States From Behavior and Physiology Using a Bayesian Approach

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SCGB NY-Area Postdoc Meeting

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts a postdoc-focused NYC-area group meeting every other month to bring together postdocs interested in neural coding and dynamics, to discuss ideas and data.

The speakers this month are:

Shreya Saxena
Columbia University, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Laboratories of Liam Paninski and John Cunningham
Localized semi-nonnegative matrix factorization (LocaNMF) of widefield calcium imaging data

Walter Fischler
Columbia University, Laboratory of Richard Axel
The role of olfactory landmarks in place cell formation and navigation

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SCGB West Coast Postdoc Meeting

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts a postdoc-focused Bay area group meeting every other month to bring together postdocs interested in neural coding and dynamics, to discuss ideas and data.

Riccardo Beltramo
Postdoctoral Fellow, Scanziani lab, UCSF
A visual cortex for the superior colliculus

Laura Driscoll
Postdoctoral Fellow, Shenoy & Sussillo Labs, Stanford University
Constraints shape dynamics in multitask networks

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SCGB NY-Area Postdoc Meeting

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts a postdoc-focused NYC-area group meeting every other month to bring together postdocs interested in neural coding and dynamics, to discuss ideas and data.

Alice Mosberger
Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University
Action discovery and refinement in the mouse forelimb

Katie Ferguson
Yale University School of Medicine
Inhibitory Contributions to Cortical Circuit Dynamics

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Upcoming Related Events

IBRO-SIMONS Computational Neuroscience Imbizo

ISi-CNI is an opportunity for African and international students to learn about cutting edge research techniques in computational neuroscience. This school aims to promote computational neuroscience in Africa by bringing together international and local students under the tutelage of world-leading experts in the field. The format will be a combination of intensive lectures on advanced topics in computational and theoretical neuroscience as well as practical exercises in simulation and data analysis. Deadline to apply: July 1, 2019

Dimensionality reduction and population dynamics in neural data

The aim of this conference is to gather together a number of key players in the effort for developing methods for dimensionality reduction in neural data and studying the population dynamics of networks of neurons from this angle. We aim to review the current approaches to the problem, identify the major questions that need to be addressed in the future, and discuss how we should move forward with those questions. Application deadline: September 22, 2019

Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) 2020

The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange of experimental and theoretical/computational approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. Cosyne topics include (but are not limited to): neural basis of behavior, sensory and motor systems, circuitry, learning, neural coding, natural scene statistics, dendritic computation, neural basis of persistent activity, nonlinear receptive field mapping, representations of time and sequence, reward systems, decision-making, synaptic plasticity, map formation and plasticity, population coding, attention, and computation with spiking networks. Participants include pure experimentalists, pure theorists, and everything in between.

Main meeting: 27 February-01 March 2020 in Denver, Colorado
Workshops: 02 March-03 March 2020 in Breckenridge, Colorado

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Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation 2020

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in developing executable models of neural computation/processing of the brain of model organisms. A major aim of the workshop is to explore the integration of various sensory and control circuits in higher brain centers. A Fruit Fly Brain Hackathon is being conducted in conjunction with the workshop. Workshop participants are welcome to attend the hackathon.

From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys)

Artificial intelligence (AI) and neural networks have long drawn on neuroscience for inspiration. However, in spite of tremendous recent advances in AI, natural intelligence is still far more adept at interacting with the real world in real-time, adapting to changes, and doing so under significant physical and energetic constraints. The goal of this meeting is to bring together researchers at the intersection of AI and neuroscience, and to identify insights from neuroscience that can help catalyze the development of next-generation artificial systems.

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