INC Seminar Series View past INC Seminars Upcoming Seminars (click title for abstract) May 13 2008 Sacha Albada, University of Sydney (Australia) "Mean-field modeling of the basal ganglia-thalamocortical system" 1:30 - 2:30 P. M. Cognitive Science Building Room 280 University of California, San Diego May 05 2008 Institute for Neural Computation and the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center K. Han Kim, Ph.D., Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory, Brandeis University “Motor Coordination: Interaction of multiple control systems in performance and learning” 2:00 P. M. Chemistry Research Building Room 209 University of California, San Diego Hosts: Howard Poizner Mar 05 2008 Institute for Neural Computation and the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center Claude Ghez, M.D., Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics, and Neurology College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University “Separate planning and control of hand trajectory and final position in reaching” 2:00 P. M. Cognitive Science Building Room 280 University of California, San Diego Hosts: Howard Poizner Nov 20 2007 Institute for Neural Computation and the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center Carol A. Seger, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Colorado State University “Exploring the Many Contributions of the Basal Ganglia to Human Learning and Cognition with fMRI” 1:00 P. M. Cognitive Science Building Room 280 University of California, San Diego Hosts: Howard Poizner, David Peterson Nov 9 2007 Pedro Julian, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina "3D-CMOS Neuromorphic Imager with Cortical Layer Interconnects" 12:00 P. M. - 1:00 P. M. Bonner Hall , Room 2130 University of California, San Diego Hosts: Terry Sejnowski and Gert Cauwenberghs Aug 20 2007 Institute for Neural Computation and the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center Dongpyo Lee, Department of Movement Science, University of Illinois, Chicago "Kinematic Rules Underlying Unrestricted and Restricted Reaching Movements" 3:00 P. M. Institute for Neural Computation Conference Room [second floor of Chemistry Research Building] Host:  Howard Poizner Jun 14 2007 Suzanna Becker, McMaster University "Hippocampal coding of space and time" 2:00 P. M. Cognitive Science 003, UCSD Host: Dr. Terrence J. Sejnowski Apr 23 2007 Nitish V. Thakor, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Engineering Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD “Towards Control of Multi-finger Prosthesis: Blind Decoding of Neurons” 4:00 PM 2130 Bonner Hall University of California, San Diego Mar 2 2007 Tobi Delbruck, Institute of Neuroinformatics University of Zurich Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech (through April 2007) "The World's Highest Performance Asynchronous Temporal Contrast Silicon Retina (and what you can do with it)” 4:00 PM Cognitive Science Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego Feb 12 2007 Albert Ali Salah, Bobazici University (Turkey) "A Computational Model of 3D Face Recognition" 3:00-4:00 PM Room 2004 (2nd floor), Calit2, Atkinson Hall. Jan 10 2007 Nadine Gaab, MIT "The neglected sense: auditory processing, musical training and its role in language/reading development and impairment" 2:30PM Cognitive Science Building, Room 180 University of California, San Diego Dec 11 2006 Tanya I. Baker, University of Chicago "What Forest Fires Tell Us About the Brain" 10:00 AM - 12 PM Cognitive Science Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego Jul 21 2006 Jack Cowan, University of Chicago "The Statistical Mechanics of Large-Scale Activity in the Neocortex" 11:00 AM Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego Jul 17 2006 Lars Kai Hansen, Technical University of Denmark "Cognitive Component Analysis" 12:00 - 2:00 PM Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego Jul 11 2006 Te-Won Lee, (Joint work with Taesu Kim and Intae Lee) Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego "Independent Vector Analysis" 12:00 - 2:00 PM Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego