Past INC Seminar Series July 14 2008 Institute for Neural Computation and the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center Donald A. Robin, Ph.D., Professor, Research Imaging Center and Departments of Neurology, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering Chief, Speech and Language Program, Research Imaging Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Professor, Honors College and College of Liberal and Fine Arts University of Texas, San Antonio "Image-guided, Robotic Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (irTMS): Applications to understanding Speech Motor Control and its Disorders" 2:00 P.M. Cognitive Science Building Room 280 University of California, San Diego Host: Howard Poizner July 08 2008 Marifi Guler, Eastern Mediterranean University, Department of Computer Engineering (Turkey) "Towards a dissipative stochastic mechanics based theory of ion channel noise" 12:00 P.M. Cognitive Science Building Room 180 University of California, San Diego Hosts: Peter Rowat June 17 2008 Institute for Neural Computation and the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center Denise Henriques, Ph.D., Director, Sensorimotor Control Lab Departments of Kinesiology and Psychology Center for Vision Research York University "Multisensory interactions for motor control" 2:30 P. M. Chemistry Research Building Room 209 University of California, San Diego Hosts: Howard Poizner 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 Feb 18 2005 Dennis Garlick, The University of Sydney "Providing the missing link between brain research and human intelligence" 12:00 - 2:00 PM Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego Nov 8 2004 Howard Poizner, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University "New Strategies For Investigating Higher-Level Motor Disorders" 12:00 - 1:30 PM Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego Aug 25 2004 Dr. Jamshid Ghajar "Traumatic Brain Injury;Saving the Brain, Losing the Mind" 11:00 AM Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego May 25 2004 Eric Baum "What is Thought?" 11:00 AM Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego March 12 2004 Eugene M. Izhikevich, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA Spike-Timing Resonances in Cortical Networks with Conduction Delays 12:00 Noon Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego March 10 2004 Soo-Young Lee ,Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Neuromorphic Chips based on Human Auditory Pathway Modeling Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego March 8 2004 Robert E. Kass, Department of Statistics and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition Carnegie Mellon University Neuron Firing Patterns and Bayesian Curve Fitting 3:00 pm SOM Dean's Large Conference Room Hosted by UCSD Division of Biostatistics Directions: click here August 13 2003 John W. Fisher, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory An Applied Information Theoeretic View of Multi-modal Data Registration, Association, and Fusion 12:00 Noon Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego July 28 2003 Mike Lewicki, Dept. Computer Science & Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition Carnegie Mellon University Learning higher-order structures in natural images 3:30pm - 4:30pm Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego June 4 2003 Nebojsa Jojic, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA. Epitomic analysis of appearance and shape 12:00 Noon Chancellor's Complex, Room 111A University of California, San Diego Click here fo seminar location Location: May 9 2003 Geoffrey Hinton , University of Toronto "What are lateral connections for?" 11:30 A.M Chancellor's Complex, Room 111A University of California, San Diego February 27 2003 Robert Hecht-Nielsen , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD "Thinking" Link to video 4:00 P.M. Liebow Auditorium 2nd Floor, Basic Science Building School of Medicine University of California, San Diego February 21 2003 Vladimir Vapnik , NEC RESEARCH, Princeton "EMPIRICAL INFERENCE PROBLEMS" 4:00 P.M. Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego February 11 2003 Jitendra Malik , University of California at Berkeley "Ecological Statistics and Visual Grouping" 12:00 Noon Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego October 29 2002 Bruno Olshausen , University of California, Davis Sparse Coding of Time-Varying Natural Images 12:00 Noon Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego October 17 2002 Yongping Li, VerbalTek, Inc. Machine learning algorithmic research on speech and face recognition 10:00 A.M - 11:00 A.M Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 280 University of California, San Diego October 15 2002 Wieslaw L. Nowinski, Biomedical Imaging Lab, Institute of Engineering, Singapore, Anatomical and functional brain atlases and their applications 12:00 Noon Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego October 2 2002 Peter Desain, Music, Mind, Machine Group, NICI, University of Nijmegen, NL. Detection of Perceived and Imagined Rhythm from ERPs 1:30 PM The Swartz Center Directions to the Center: http://sccn.ucsd.edu/center_map.pdf Contact: Scott Makeig (smakeig@ucsd.edu) Lori Koller (lkoller@ucsd.edu) 858-458-927 July 10 2002 Lars Kai Hansen, Technical University of Denmark How useful are unlabeled examples for supervised learning? Noon - 1pm Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego June 12 2002 Sen Song, Volen Center for Complex Systems Department of Biology, Brandeis University Competitive Hebbian Learning Through Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) 12:00 Noon Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego June 10 2002 Laurenz Wiskott, Humboldt University Is Slowness a Principle for the Emergence of Complex Cells in Primary Visual Cortex? 12:00 Noon Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 180 University of California, San Diego May 8 2002 Norbert Krueger, University of Stirling (Scotland) Two Regularities in Visual Scenes: Statistical Interdependencies and Rigid Body Motion 12:00 Noon Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego May 7 2002 Holger Quast, Drittes Physikalisches Institut. Georg August Universität Göttingen (Germany) Pattern Recognition on Nonverbal Speech Data-of Robot Dogs, Emotional Machines, and Talking Cars 12:00 Noon Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego April 23 2002 Robert Hecht-Nielsen, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD Neuroscience & Artificial Intelligence: The End of the Beginning 5:00 P.M. Garren Auditorium Basic Science Building School of Medicine University of California, San Diego April 9 2002 Joachim Denzler, Chair for Pattern Recognition. University of Erlangen, Germany Optimal Active Vision for Object Recognition 12:00 Noon Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego February 11 2002 John Moody, Oregon Graduate Institute Learning to Trade via Direct Reinforcement 4:30 P.M. Liebow Auditorium, 2100 Basic Science Building, School of Medicine University of California, San Diego December 18 2001 Eitan Sharon, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science Multiscale in Vision: image segmentation and boundary detection using adaptive measurements in multiple levels 12:00 Noon Cognitive Sciences Building, Room 003 University of California, San Diego