Computational Brain ScienceBrain and Mind Institute

Computational Brain Sciences Talks

The computational brain sciences colloqiums series is usually held on Fridays 2pm-3pm in the Fisher conference room (RRI).


Upcoming Talks:

Date

Time 

Place

Speaker

Title

05/12/17 3 PM PAB 100 Richard Blake (UofT) Deep learning with segregated dendrites


Past talks:

Date

Time 

Place

Speaker

Title

01/20/17 2pm-3pm Fisher Conference Room (RRI) Graham Taylor (University of Guelph) Dataset Augmentation in Feature Space
10/21/16 3pm-4pm Fisher Conference Room (RRI) Steven Prescott (University of Toronto)  Somatosensory coding gone wrong: The origins of neuropathic pain
9/16/16 3:30pm Fisher Conference Room (RRI) Konrad Kording (Northwestern University)  Body vs world: who is responsible for my errors?
9/6/16 3:30pm Fisher Conference Room (RRI) Xiao-Jing Wang (New York University)  From cognitive-type microcircuit to large-scale modeling of the primate cortex
6/28/16 2pm-3:30pm Fisher Conference Room (RRI)

Timothy Lillicrap
(Google Deepmind)

Deep reinforcement learning: recent applications in motor control, playing Go, and implications for neuroscience.
5/13/16 2pm-3pm Fisher Conference Room (RRI)

Daniel Goldreich

(McMaster)

The Bayesian Brain: A soft touch for perceptual length contraction.
3/11/16 1pm-2pm Fisher Conference Room (RRI)

Maurice Chacron

(McGill)

Optimized coding of natural sensory input
2/19/16

3pm-4pm

Fisher Conference Room (RRI)

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

(Cambridge)

Deep neural networks: a new framework for understanding how the brain works