Computational neuroscience seminars – List of computational neuroscience seminars happening across the University of Bristol.

This blog gives a detailed list of all CNU seminars, and also tries to bring together all computational neuroscience seminars happening across the university. Regular events part of this list are the Mind and Machine and Neural Dynamics seminar series. See also our CNU lab meetings. More info on bristolcnu.github.io

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

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

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May 2020 – CNU/CS seminar: Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek/University of Cambridge)

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29 May 2020 – Neural Dynamics: Lucia Prieto Godino (Francis Crick Institute)

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28 May 2020 – Mind and Machine seminar: Adrien Doerig (Brain Mind Institute, EPFL)

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

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22 May 2020 – Neural Dynamics: Bradley Love (UCL)

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15 May 2020 – CNU seminar: Grace Lindsay (Gatsby Computational Unit)

Attention in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Machine Learning

15 May 2020 – Neural Dynamics: Grace Lindsay (Gatsby Computational Unit)

Modelling the influence of feedback in the visual system

8 May 2020 – CNU seminar: William Podlaski (Oxford/Champalimaud)

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1 May 2020 – CNU seminar: James Bennett (Sussex)

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1 May 2020 – Neural Dynamics: Alex Cayco-Gajic (UCL/Paris (ENS))

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24 April 2020 – Neural Dynamics: Arno Onken (Edinburgh)

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3 April 2020 – Neural Dynamics: Timothy O’Leary (Cambridge)

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27 March 2020 – Neural Dynamics: Silvia Maggi (Nottingham)

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13 March 2020 – Neural Dynamics: Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova (Exeter)

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6 March 2020 – Neural Dynamics: Matthias Hennig (Edinburgh)

SpikeInterface: A project for reproducible next generation electrophysiology

20 Feb 2020 – Mind and Machine seminar: Jessica Hamrick (DeepMind, London)

Mental Simulation, Imagination, and Model-Based Deep RL

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

‘Learning with interacting synapses’

14 Feb 2020 – Neural Dynamics: Marcus Kaiser (Newcastle)

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31 Jan 2019 – Neural Dynamics: Eleni Vasilaki (Sheffield)

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17 Jan 2020 – CNU seminar: Aleks Domanski (Bristol)

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

13 Dec – CNU seminar: Emma Roscow (Bristol)

Replay in brains and machines

13 Dec 2019 – Neural Dynamics: Marc Goodfellow (Exeter)

Modelling pathological brain dynamics

12 Dec 2019 – Mind and Machine seminar: Nina Kazanina (Bristol)

Language in the Mind and Machine

6 Dec 2019 – Neural Dynamics: Armin Lak (Oxford)

Dopaminergic and prefrontal basis of learning from sensory confidence and reward value

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

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

14 Nov 2019 – Mind and Machine seminar: Chris Summerfield (Oxford)

Neoconnectionism: Deep Learning Models of Cognitive Function

8 Nov 2019 – Neural Dynamics: Dan Goodman (Imperial College London)

The Reluctant Machine Learner

1 Nov 2019 – CNU seminar: Laurence Aitchison (Bristol)

Bayesian inference for synaptic plasticity and deep learning

24 Oct 2019 – Mind and Machine seminar: Charles Leek (Liverpool)

What do Deep Neural Networks Tell us about Biological Vision?

11 Oct 2019 – Neural Dynamics: Cian O’Donnell (Bristol)

Neural Variability in Autism

10 Oct 2019 – Mind and Machine seminar: Dima Damen (Bristol)

A Fine-grained Perspective onto Object Interactions

4 Oct 2019 – Neural Dynamics: Dimitris Pinotsis (UCL)

Characterizing sensory and abstract representations in the brain

3 Oct 2019 – Mind and Machine seminar: Francis Song (Deepmind)

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This blog gives a detailed list of all CNU seminars, and also tries to bring together all computational neuroscience seminars happening across the university (starting in mid 2019). Regular events part of this list are the Mind and Machine and Neural Dynamics seminar series. See also our CNU lab meetings. More info on bristolcnu.github.io

21 June – CNU seminar: Katharina Wilmes (Imperial College London, UK)

Inhibitory microcircuits for top-down plasticity of sensory representations

19 June – Mind & machine seminar: Marco Baroni (Facebook, France)

The Emergence of a Grammatical Subsystem in Neural Language Models

11 June – CNU seminar: Irene Malvestio (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

Venue: 3.33 Wills Memorial Building Time: 4pm

Detection of directional interactions between single neurons: comparison of methods and application to sleep recordings

11 June – CNU seminar: Marinho Lopes (University of Bristol)

Venue: 3.33 Wills Memorial Building Time: 11:30am

Mathematical modelling of epilepsy and its applications in epilepsy surgery and epilepsy classification

6 June – Mind & machine seminar: Ella Gale (University of Bristol, UK)

Adding Structural Awareness to Deep Neural Networks Using Clusterflow Allows us to Defeat Adversarial Images and Solve Relational Problems

23 May – Mind & machine seminar: Bradley Love (University College London, UK)

Levels of Representation in a Deep Learning Model of Categorisation

17 May – Neural dynamics seminar: Anna Schapiro (University of Pennsylvania, US)

Learning and consolidating patterns in experience

9 May – Mind & machine seminar: Andrew Saxe (University of Oxford, UK)

A Mathematical Theory of Semantic Development in Deep Neural Networks

8 May – CNU seminar (joint CNU/ISL/CS seminar): Luigi Acerbi (University of Geneva/International Brain Lab, Switzerland)

Variational Bayesian Monte Carlo. Luigi also gave a tutorial on model inference.

29 April – CNU seminar: Mark van Rossum (University of Nottingham, UK)

Energy efficient plasticity

2019/2020 Seminars

2018/2019 Seminars