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Meetings are held at 3pm (UK time) on Fridays. To receive notifications of future seminars, please email one of the organisers (Conor Houghton, Rui Ponte Costa, Seán Froudist-Walsh, Laurence Aitchinson).

Speakers for Spring/Summer 2023:

30/06/23: Camilo Libedinsky (NUS, Singapore)

01/06/23: Loreen Hertag (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

12/05/23: Leonidas Richter (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany)

21/04/23: Joana Cabral (University of Minho/Champalimaud, Portugal)

14/04/23: Xiao-Jing Wang (New York University, US)

03/03/23: Heike Stein (ENS, Paris, France)

24/02/23: Kris Jensen (University of Cambridge, UK)

17/02/23:  Ulises Pereira-Obilinovic (Allen Institute, US)

03/02/23: Conor Houghton (Bristol, UK).

Meetings are hold at 3pm on Fridays.

14/10/22: Neural Computation seminar (G.10 LT Fry Building): Seán Froudist-Walsh (Bristol)  (Hosts: Conor/Rui/Laurence)

Gradients of receptor expression shape distributed cognitive functions

18/11/22: Neural Computation seminar (TBD): Luke Prince (Graphcore)  (Hosts: Rui/Joe)

Parallelism, efficiency, scaling and brain

02/12/22: Neural Computation seminar (online): Richard Naud (University of Ottawa)  (Hosts: Rui/Joe)

A ternary neural code resolves error and sharpening signals

TBA: Neural Computation seminar: Sean O’Toole (FMI Basel) – TBA (Hosts: Kevin/Rui)

Meetings are hold at 3pm on Fridays.

TBA: Neural Computation seminar: Seán Froudist-Walsh (New York University) – TBA (Hosts: Conor/Rui/Laurence)

TBA: Neural Computation Seminar: Joao Sacramento (ETH Zurich) – TBA (Host: Rui Ponte Costa/Will Greedy/Heng Zhu)

• April 29th: Neural Computation seminar:

Srikanth Ramaswamy (Newcastle University) – What can deep neural networks learn from neuromodulatory systems? (Hosts: Rui Ponte Costa/Heng Zhu/Majia Filipovica)

Meetings are hold at 3pm on Fridays.

8 Oct: NC Seminar: Kate Storrs (Justus Liebig University) – Understanding mid-level vision through unsupervised learning (Hosts: Rui Ponte Costa/Milton Llera Montero/Kevin Nejad)

15 Oct: TBA

22 Oct: TBA

29 Oct: NC seminar: Sadra Sadeh (Imperial College London) – Excitatory-inhibitory balance modulates the formation and dynamics of neuronal assemblies in cortical networks (Hosts: Rui Ponte Costa/Joe Pemberton/Will Greedy)

3 Dec: NC Seminar: Joao Sacramento (ETH Zurich) – TBA (Host: Rui Ponte Costa)

Most meetings on Fridays at 3pm

22 January Hannes Saal (Sheffield): Expansion and contraction of resource allocation in sensory bottlenecks

5 Feb Benigno Uria (Google Deepmind): The Spatial Memory Pipeline: A deep-learning model of spatial understanding in brains and machines.

26 Feb Mac Shine (Sidney University): TBA

19 March ethics discussion on reanimation at zoom 963 0962 4747

26 March Demian Battaglia ( Aix-Marseille University):  Complex neural variability as a resource for cognitive information processing at zoom 963 0962 4747

9 April Jennifer Culbertson (Edinburgh) Understanding nominal word order through information theory and biased learning  at zoom 963 0962 4747

16 April Sander Keemink (Champalimaud):  The underlying geometry of spiking neural networks – on inequalities and convex optimization at zoom 993 6866 9173 Passcode: 028770 

23 April Áine Byrne (U. College Dublin): Next generation neural mass models: an introduction at zoom 963 0962 4747

30 April Seth Bullock (CS) Collective construction in artificial insects at zoom 963 0962 4747

7 May there is an interesting talk in maths which clashes so we won’t have a seminar of our own: https://www.bristolmathsresearch.org/seminar/giacomo-zanella/

14 May learning salon video and discussion at zoom 963 0962 4747

21 May Will Carr: Ripples and memory reactivation patterns in humans
and
Jonathan Blackman: Dopamine, Sleep and Cognition – DOPAMIND Study

28 May John Butler (Dublin TU)  Two become one: Multisensory Data and Future Modelling at zoom 963 0962 4747

4 June Will Greedy. Journal club talk on https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00857-x at zoom 963 0962 4747

14:30 to 16:30 on Friday 30 October at zoom 991 7487 4920

Most meetings on Fridays at 3pm at zoom 991 7487 4920

2 October Chloe / Naomi

9 October Journal Club: the NumPy paper – Conor

16 October we will watch and discuss Paul Cisek’s learning salon talk. www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/6

23 October Stefan Frank (Radboud U. Nijmegen) “Neural language models and human reading behaviour”

30 October Join mini-away-day with the mathematical biology group: cnumeeting.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2020/10/20/nc_versus_mb

6 November Casimie Ludwig “Temporal Control in Modelling Eye Fixations”

13 November Matt Suderman / Paul Yousefi “DNA methylation predictors: applications, statistical considerations, and new directions”

20 November learning salon talk by Melanie Mitchell followed by discussion.

27 November Venkat Ramaswamy (BITS-Pilani, India; https://theory.ncbs.res.in/vramaswamy)
“Axiomatic theory for neural circuit computation”

4 December Kanaka Rajan (Mount Sinai, New York; https://www.rajanlab.com)

11 December Cristina Savin (New York University; https://csavin.wixsite.com/savinlab)
“Task-specific routing of information in neural circuits via structured noise”

CNU lab meetings are usually at 3pm on Fridays. More info on bristolcnu.github.io

24 July 2020 – CNU seminar: Jan Schulz (University of Basel)

“Nonlinear dendritic inhibition: A trickle that stops the wave”

17 July 2020 – CNU seminar: Helen Barron (Oxford)

“Hippocampal-neocortical interactions in prediction and memory”

10 July 2020 –  Stephen Montgomery (Life Sciences, U of Bristol)

“Sensory and cognitive adaptations in butterfly brains”

3 July 2020 – CNU seminar: James Bennett (Sussex)

“Probing reinforcement learning in Drosophila melanogaster”

Our meetings are for now hosted online.

CNU lab meetings are usually at 3pm on Fridays. See also our list highlighting computational neuroscience seminars across the university. More info on bristolcnu.github.io

12 June 2020 – CNU seminar: Jake Stroud (University of Cambridge)

“A unifying model of prefrontal dynamics across task epochs during working memory”

22 May 2020 – CNU seminar: Tatjana Tchumatchenko (MPI Frankfurt)

“How proteins navigate dendrites”

15 May 2020 – CNU seminar:

“Attention in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Machine Learning”

Grace Lindsay (UCL)

7 May 2020 – CNU seminar:

“On feedback and robustness in spiking networks, and its implications for perturbation experiments”

William Podlaski (Oxford/Champalimaud) [hosted online]

24 April 2020 – Rahul Gupta (CNU / Computer Science)

10 April 2020 – No meeting, public holiday.

20 March 2020 – Thomas Delaney (CNU/Computer Science)

13 March 2020 – no meeting

6 March 2020 – no meeting (clash with SCEEM research conference)

28 Feb 2020 – CNU seminar: Deep learning research directions (Graphcore)

21 Feb 2020 – Song Liu (School of Maths, Bristol)

‘Learning Differential Patterns using Density Ratio Estimation: with Applications in Neuroscience’

14 Feb 2020 – CNU seminar: Everton Agnes (Oxford)

‘Learning with interacting synapses’

31 Jan 2020 – Emma Roscow

‘Replay in brains and machines’

24 Jan 2020 – Claire Hales (PPN)

17 Jan 2020 – Aleks Domanski (PPN)

‘Decoding the sequential contributions of hippocampal-frontal cortical cell assemblies to spatial decision making’

Our meetings are for now hosted online.

13 Dec – Emma Roscow (CNU)

6 Dec – TBD

3 Dec (2pm) – CNU seminar: Romain Veltz (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis)

On a toy network of neurons interacting through a nonlinear dendritic compartment

29 Nov – No meeting

22 Nov – Sean Roberts (Anthropology)

Causal Graphs will save us all from Big Data

15 Nov – Haris Organtzidis (PPN/CNU)

Journal club: Cortical Circuit Dynamics Are Homeostatically Tuned to Criticality In Vivo, Ma et al., 2019, Neuron (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627319307378)

8 Nov – Michael Brudfords (Bristol)

Generative models for analysing clinical neuroimaging data

1 Nov – CNU seminar: Laurence Aitchison (CNU) Bayesian inference for synaptic plasticity and deep learning

25 Oct – Ashley Tyrer (CNU)

Noradrenaline in Optimal Decision Making and State-Action Prediction Error

18 Oct – Beatriz Mizusaki (CNU) Representation variability in somatosensory circuits

11 Oct – Milton Llera Montero (EP/CNU) journal club on: