Seminar Schedule – Fall 2021
Wednesday, September 8, 12:15 PM – Early Career Workshop
For junior faculty and post-doctoral fellows affiliated with the CSN. This meeting will provide information on grant funding from the BU Federal Relations Office and Foundation Relations Office.
Hosted by Prof. Mike Hasselmo
Wednesday, September 22, 12:15 PM – Prof. Benjamin Scott
Boston University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Title: Neural mechanisms for inference and decision making
Hosted by Prof. Mike Hasselmo
Advances in Systems & Computational Neuroscience
Tuesday, October 5 | 9 am – Wednesday, October 6 | 1:30 pm
Location: Hybrid Zoom/Eichenbaum Colloquium Room, 610 Commonwealth Avenue*
*Event may move to virtual if COVID protocols require.
| 5 Oct | Event |
| 8:15 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:05 AM | Welcome – Michael Hasselmo, Director CSN |
| 9:20 AM | Nancy Kopell, Boston University
“How Does Deep Brain Stimulation Work For Parkinson’s Disease?” |
| 10:00 AM | Brent Doiron, University of Chicago
“Cellular mechanisms for quenching neuronal variability” |
| 10:40 AM | Coffee |
| 11:30 AM | Sam Gershman, Harvard University
“Dopamine prediction errors are dead, long live dopamine prediction errors!” |
| 12:10 PM | Lunch |
| 1:50 PM | Xue Han, Boston University
“Calcium and voltage imaging analysis of neural network across spatiotemporal scales during behavior” |
| 2:30 PM | Tatiana Engel, CSHL
“Latent circuits in recurrent neural networks “ |
| 3:10 PM | Coffee |
| 4:00 PM | Jennifer Luebke, Boston University
“Diversity and selective vulnerability of cortical pyramidal neurons.” |
| 4:40 PM | Kanaka Rajan, Mount Sinai
“How Brain Circuits Function in Health and Disease: Understanding Brain-wide Current Flow” |
| 5:30 PM | Reception |
| 6 Oct | |
| 8:15 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | Stefano Fusi, Columbia University
“The role of hippocampus in memory compression” |
| 9:40 AM | Ila Fiete, MIT
“Place cells: capacity, volatility, and predetermined scaffolds“ |
| 10:20 AM | Coffee |
| 10:50 AM | Demba Ba, Harvard University
“Sparse Coding, Artificial Neural Networks, and the Brain: Toward “Substantive Intelligence” |
| 11:30 AM | Jerry Chen, Boston University
“CRACKing Neural Circuits Underlying Behavior” |
| 12:10 PM | Closing Remarks
Chand Chandrasekaran & Ben Scott |
| 12:20 PM | Lunch |
Registration is required to attend in person!
Wednesday, October 27, 12:15 PM – Prof. Michael Yartsev
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Bioengineering
Title: Neural mechanisms of complex spatial, social and acoustic behaviors in bat
Hosted by Prof. Jerry Chen
Wednesday, November 3, 12:15 PM – Prof. Scott Linderman
Stanford University, Department of Statistics
Title: Discovering structure in neural and behavioral data
Hosted by Prof. Ben Scott