Event Category: General

CBS Seminar: Liqun Luo

Title: Wiring Specificity of Neural Circuits. NW B103. Coffee and cookies at 11:45…

Searching for a faculty position

Joshua Sanes and Kenny Blum will lead an interactive discussion with pre-registered postdocs planning to seek faculty jobs in neuroscience. NW 425. 3:30-5…

Neurolunch: Ningjing Xia

Sensory representation and learning in an olfactory cocktail party task. NW 243. Lunch at 11:45….

Neurolunch: Joseph Paton (Champalimaud)

Special Neurolunch: Joseph Paton (Champalimaud). Title: Hierarchy and heterarchy of circuit mechanisms for behavioral control. Lunch at 11:45….

CBS Special Seminar: Srdjan Ostojic

Understanding the structure-function mapping in recurrent neural network models of cognitive tasks. NW 425 (note location and day of the week: Thursday). Coffee and cookies at 11:45…

CBS Seminar: Richard Naud

A prospective code for value in the serotonin system. NW 243. Coffee and cookies at 11:45…

CBS Seminar: Marc Freeman

Dynamic neuromodulatory roles for astrocytes in circuit activity and behavior. NW 243. Coffee and cookies at 11:45…

Antonia Marin-Burgin

Learning embeds mixed-selectivity and associative encoding in piriform cortex. N.B.: NW 425. Coffee and cookies at 11:45….

CBS Seminar: Marie Dacke

The dynamic nature of the dung-beetle compass systems. NW 243. Coffee and cookies at 11:45…

Neurolunch: Bo Liu (Murthy lab)

One nose but two nostrils, local vs global learning rules: Learn to align with sparse connections between two olfactory cortices. NW 243. Lunch at 11:45…

CBS Seminar: Leo Kozachkov

Building Performant and Brain-Like Recurrent Models from Neurons and Astrocytes. NW B103 and Panopto…

CBS Seminar: Aran Nayebi

Bridging Neural Dynamics to Goal-Directed Behavior Across Species and Timescales. NW B103 and Panopto…

Neurolunch: Ugne Klibaite (Ölveczky lab)

Multi-scale classification of social behavior using high-resolution 3D tracking of freely interacting animals. With collaborator Tianqing Li. NW 243…

RL2: CBS NeuroTheory Reinforcement Learning Workshop

August 29 8a – 8p Geological Lecture Hall and Northwest Café, see https://www.rlandthebrain.com/.

RL at Harvard is a one-day workshop on reinforcement learning. We will learn about foundational concepts, discuss the latest advances, and make connections between disparate parts of the field. The latter half of the workshop will be a symposium on the neurobiology of causality and contingency, including a debate about the potential role of dopamine in learning causal relationships….

Special Seminar: Mark Schnitzer

Applied Physics Colloquium in Pierce 209 Friday 9/8 at 11am.
Imaging brain dynamics with light: New technologies and studies of large-scale cortical coding…

CBS Seminar: Shaul Druckmann

Relating circuit dynamics to computation: robustness and dimension-specific computation in cortical dynamics. NW243. Coffee and cookies at 11:45….

CBS Seminar: Andres Bendesky

An evolutionarily novel adrenal cell type promotes parental care in monogamous mice. NW243. Coffee and cookies at 11:45….

CBS Seminar: Arif Hamid

Striatal dopamine-wave mechanisms for agentic reward learning. NW243. Coffee and cookies at 11:45….

CBS Seminar: Na Ji

Imaging the brain at high spatiotemporal resolution.
NW243 and Zoom…

CBS Seminar: Giorgio Gilestro

Divergent evolution of sleep homeostasis opens new perspectives on the function of sleep. NW243 and Zoom…

CBS Seminar: Albert Lee

Mental navigation and telekinesis with a hippocampal map-based brain-machine interface. NW243 and Zoom…

Theory Tea

Srijani Saha on Evaluating the Role of Edge-Surface Reconstruction in Complex Lightness Illusions…

Theory Tea

Jacob Zavatone-Veth and Paul Masset will be presenting on “Compressed sensing in olfaction” in NW EW1…

Theory Tea: Tanishq Kumar

When bad models are good
(When can a misspecified model achieve lower generalization error than a correctly specified model?)…