Past Events

  • NYCU-UCSD Mini Symposium on EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (8/1/24) - Recording of event - Agenda
  • NICE 2024 (Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements) (April 23-26, 2024), Scripps Seaside Forum in La Jolla, California - Event info
  • Winter School on Brains and Computation at UC San Diego (1/8/24) - more info
  • The Rockwood Memorial Lecture 2023 -(11/20/23) Tobi Delbruck (11/20/23): Event Camera Silicon Retina - View event recording
  • MoBI Work shop (June 5-7, 2023) and 4th International Mobile Brain-Body Imaging Conference (June 8-10) - Credit: Makoto Miyakoshi! View photos
  • CARTA Symposium: AI and Anthropogeny (3/3/23) - Event Chairs: Dr. Terry Sejnowski and Dr. Patricia Churchland; More info/recordings
  • Winter School on Brains and Computation (12/15/22) - More info here!
  • GSoLEN Webinar: How to Hook Them! Bringing education to life with insights from the neuroscience of movie-making (December 6, 2022)
    Conversations with Drs. Barbara Oakley and Terry Sejnowski - View a recording of the webinar
  • EEGLAB 2022 (November 17-21, 2022), UC San Diego Supercomputer Center.
  • Rockwood Memorial Lecture 2022 with Jonathan Wolpaw, M.D. (November 17th, 2022). Click here to view the recording!
  • 2022 IEEE EMBS Brain, Mind, and Body: Cognitive Neuroengineering for Health and Wellness (November 10-11, 2022)
    View the presentations; Event website.
  • The 17th Annual KIBM Symposium was held on June 17, 2022. More info
  • MoBI 2022 (June 5-10, 2022) - view event pictures!
    The 4th International Mobile Brain-Body Imaging Conference (June 8-10, 2022), at UC San Diego, the birthplace of MoBI, with a new 3-day hands-on MoBI workshop prior to the conference (June 5-7)
  • INC Luncheon (May 26, 2022). View pictures!
  • The 20th anniversary of the founding of the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience (SCCN) - Monday, January 10, 2022. Speakers included UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla, Senior Associate VCR Miroslav Krstic, and Jerry Swartz from the Swartz Foundation.
  • IEEE EMBS Symposium 2021, December 15-16, 2021 - Videos of the event are now available HERE!
    This symposium and workshop brought together researchers and practitioners across academia, industry and the clinical profession to crystalize a vision towards holistic integration of unobtrusive neurotechnology and medicine with a focus on minimally invasive strategies including neurofeedback and electroceuticals that harness/cultivate harmony between brain, mind, and body. Promo Video; Event website.
  • KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research & INC Cognitive Neuroscience Retreat
    Saturday, July 10, 2021, Virtual Event. View videos from the INC Cognitive Neuroscience Retreat on INC's YouTube Channel!
  • 2021 Rockwood Memorial Lecture (7/26/21) - Yoshua Bengio, Mila, Université de Montréal (7/26/21); View the presentation
    From Conscious Processing to System 2 Deep Learning
  • 2021 Virtual EEGLAB Workshop (June 14-18, 2021) - More information
  • Virtual Mobile Brain-Body Imaging Conference and Social Gathering (June 7, 2021)
  • 2020 MURI Workshop on Sleep, Memory and Learning (12/15/20) - Videos now available
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Retreat [virtual via Zoom] - Videos here. In conjunction with the KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research
    Saturday, June 27, 2020, 9:40 am – 4:15 pm, Keynote Speaker: Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the NIMH
  • Collaboratory Science in Society: FRAGILITY - June 19, 2020, 2-4 pm PDT - View the flier
    With Dr. John Doyle (Caltech), Lord Martin Rees (Cambridge), Dr. Patricia Churchland (UC San Diego), and
    Dr. Terrence Sejnowski (Salk Institute and UC San Diego)
    Video Part I
    Video Part 2
  • Collaboratory SCIENCE IN SOCIETY: LONELINESS (Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 - flier)
    With Drs. Candice Odgers (UC Irvine), Kay Tye (Salk), and Karen Dobkins (UC San Diego)
    Watch the Video
  • Consciousness and the Physics of the Brain (video), Friday, Jan. 10, 2020
    Public Lecture and Reception: Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (University of Oxford) and Dr. Stuart Hameroff (University of Arizona, Tucson).
  • 2019 IEEE EMBS Workshop on Brain, Mind, and Body: Cognitive Neuroengineering for Health and Wellness.
    December 19-20, 2019. Click here to view presentations on YouTube! Event website.
  • MURI Workshop on Memory Consolidation (December 3, 2019) - UC San Diego Supercomputer Center Auditorium
  • Collaboratory SCIENCE IN SOCIETY: CONSCIENCE (October 29, 2019)
    An evening with Dr. Patricia Churchland (UC San Diego), author of Conscience, and Dr. Read Montague (Virginia Tech)
    Watch the Video
  • Twenty-ninth EEGLAB Workshop - Aspet, France - June 17-21, 2019; More info, photos here!
  • 26th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation (June 1, 2019), USC, Michelson Center for Convergent Biosciences.
    Keynote speaker: Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute (flier)
  • 2019 Rockwood Memorial Lecture (May 30, 4-6 pm) at the Sanford Consortium - Roth Auditorium; Watch the presentation
    Pietro Perona - Visipedia: People, Machines, and Data Working Together to Achieve Knowledge (flier)
  • INC Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat in conjunction with the 14th Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research (4/13/19); More info
  • INC Open House (4/2/19) - View event presentations!
  • 28th EEGLab Workshop (11/8-12/18) San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego. More info
  • Music and the Mind: Shaping Our Children’s Lives Through Music Engagement (Sound Health, September 7-8, 2018). More info
  • 2018 Rockwood Memorial Lecture (6/13/18): Dr. Don Norman, The Design Lab, UC San Diego: Adventures in Representation: A Lifetime of Struggle; Watch the presentation
  • INC Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat In conjunction with the KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research (5/12/18); More info
  • 25th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation (5/5/18) - California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
  • SoundHealth - National Institutes of Health (NIH) workshop (Jan. 26-27, 2017); More info
  • 2017 MURI Winter School: Dynamics of Multifunction Brain Networks (January 11-13, 2017, UC San Diego)
  • 25th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (May 5, 2018); More info
  • 2017 Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat and Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research - Saturday, May 13, 2017; More info
  • 24th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, UC San Diego
  • 2017 Rockwood Memorial Lecture (4/17/17) - Dr. Christof Koch: Big Science, Team Science, Open Science
  • 2016 Rockwood Memorial Lecture (12/15/16) - Dr. Krishna Shenoy: Brain-Machine Interfaces
  • 2016 MURI Winter Workshop on Memory Consolidation 11/19/16); Keynote: Gyorgy Buzsaki (NYU). Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute Building - La Jolla, CA 92037
  • 23rd Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, UCLA (June 4, 2016)
  • 2016 Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat and Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research (5/7/16); More info
  • 2015 MURI Winter Workshop on Memory Consolidation (12/03/2015); Keynote: Larry Squire (UC San Diego)
  • Mozart and the Mind (9/25-27/2015)
  • 14th Brain Connectivity Workshop hosted by the Swartz Center (06/10-12/2015)
  • 22nd Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, USC (May 26, 2015); More info
  • Convergence Music Symposium: A Multidisciplinary Dialogue on Music (5/18/14) - A collaboration between TDLC, the Dept. of Music at UC San Diego, and Mozart & the Mind. Read more and view panel discussions.
  • 2015 Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat and Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research (5/9/15)
  • 2015 Rockwood Memorial Lecture (04/24/2015) - Dr. Kwabena Boahen: Neuromorphic Chips
  • 2014 Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat and Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research (5/10/14)
  • 2014 Rockwood Memorial Lecture (4/14/14) - Dr. Bruce McNaughton: Doughnuts in the Brain: A Toroidal Attractor Theory of the Cognitive Map
  • 2013 Rockwood Memorial Lecture (4/1/13) -  Dr. Dmitri B. Chklovskii: Can connectomics help us understand neural computation? Insights from the fly visual system; view flyer.
  • The cortical control of speech articulation (webcast) - (02/20/2014) - Speaker: Dr. Kristofer Bouchard, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF. The cortical control of speech articulation.
  • 21st Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, UC Irvine (2014)
  • Free Interactive Music & the Brain Exposition – Mozart & the Mind (05/18/2013) - Learn how INC members became involved!
  • 2013 Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat and Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research (5/4/13)
  • TDLC Webinar: Barbara Oakley (03/12/2013) - How to Learn More Deeply and Creatively: Concrete Tools from Neuroscience and from Zombies
  • 20th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, California Institute of Technology (2013)
  • 2012 Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat and Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research (5/5/12)
  • 2012 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich (4/23/12) - Spikes; flyer
  • 19th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, UC Riverside (2012)
  • Annual IEM-INC CANE Minisymposium (2011) - Highlights latest advances and emerging directions in brain-machine and neuron-silicon interface technology and their applications to neuroscience and neuroengineering. More about CANE.
  • 2011 Annual IEEE Biometical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Conference (11/10-12/2011)
  • Minisymposium on New Dimensions in Brain-Machine Interfaces (11/2011)
  • NEURON Summer Course (6/18/2011)
  • 2011 Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat and Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research (5/14/11)
  • 2011 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Rodney Douglas (4/4/11) - Constructive Cortical Computation; flyer
  • Osaka-UCSD Workshop 2011 (03/15-16/2011)
  • 18th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, UC San Diego (2011)
  • 2010 Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat and Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research (5/1/10)
  • 2010 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Geoffrey Hinton (3/10/10) - Deep learning with multiplicative interactions
  • 17th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, UC Los Angeles (2010)
  • 2009 Rockwood Memorial LectureJosh Bongard - Investigations at the Interface of Morphology, Evolution and Cognition; Resilient Machines (Through Continuous Self-Modeling)
  • 16th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, USC Los Angeles (2009)
  • 2008 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Jeff Hawkins, Founder, Palm, Inc. Handspring, and Numenta - Computing Beyond Turing: How neocortical theory is shaping the future of computing
  • 15th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, UC Irvine (2008)
  • 2007 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Tomaso Poggio, Center for Biological and Computational Learning, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - What Should Computer Vision Learn from Neuroscience?
  • 14th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (2007)
  • 2006 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Harvey Karten, Department of Neurosciences, UCSD - Unwiring the Brain: Neuromorphic Engineering of Motion Detection
  • 13th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, UC San Diego (2006)
  • 2005 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Jeffrey L. Elman, UC San Diego, Generalizing beyond our experience: Lessons from neural networks
  • 12th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, UC Los Angeles (2005)
  • 2004 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Richard Gregory, University of Bristol,"A Periodic Table for Perception"
  • 11th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, USC Los Angeles (2004)
  • 2003 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research, Inc., "A New Kind Of Science"
  • 10th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, UC Irvine (2003)
  • 2002 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Pasko Rakic, Yale University,"Building the Cerebral Cortex: From Stem Cells to Complex Architecture"
  • 9th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, Caltech (2002)
  • 2001 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Michael Dickinson, UC Berkeley, "How Fruit Flies flap for Flight Forces: Neuro-Mechanics of a Complex Behavior"
  • 8th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, UC San Diego (2001)
  • 2000 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Christoph von der Malsburg, Bochum University and University of Southern California,"The Learning Problem"
  • 7th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, UC Los Angeles (2000)
  • 1999 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Dana Ballard, University of Rochester, "Single-Spike Models of Predictive Coding"
  • 6th Annual Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, Caltech (May 22, 1999)
  • 1998 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto,"Finding Structure in Ensembles of Images"
  • 1997 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Michael Jordan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,"Graphic Models, Neural Networks, and Variational Methods"
  • 1996 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Jack Cowan, University of Chicago,"Geometric Visual Hallucinations, Migraine Auras, and Visual Illusions: What They Tell Us About Visual Cortex Circuitry"
  • 1995 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto,"Neural Networks that Learn by Generating Fantasies"
  • 1994 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: Stephen Grossberg, Boston University,"Neural Networks for Learning, Recognition, and Recall"
  • 1993 Rockwood Memorial Lecture: James L. McClelland, Carnegie-Mellon University,"The Interaction of Nature and Nurture in Development: A Parallel Distributed Processing Perspective"

Additional Past Series:

  • INC Seminar Series (2008-2014)
  • INC/CALIT2 Seminar Series (2006-2013)
  • IEM-INC CANE Minisymposium on New Dimensions in Brain-Machine Interfaces: The minisymposium highlights latest advances and emerging directions in brain-machine and neuron-silicon interface technology and their applications to neuroscience and neuroengineering. (2011)
  • Joint INC-IEM Neuroengineering Seminar Series (2009-2015)
  • Qualcomm/Brain Corporation/INC Computational Neuroscience Seminar Series (2010-2015)
  • NEURON summer courses: Intensive multi-day course that combines lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises to cover the principles and practice of designing, constructing, and using models in the NEURON simulation environment. (2011-2014)
  • Annual IEEE Biometical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Conference