Fall 2002 ScheduleSpring 2002 Schedule
- Friday 25th October:
- Presenter: Maneesh Sahani
- Talk: More Factorial Hidden Markov Models
- Friday 18th October:
- Presenter: Maneesh Sahani
- Talk: Factorial Hidden Markov Models
- Friday 11th October:
- Presenter: Mark Kvale
- Talk: Speech Recogition: Hidden Markov Models
Fall 2001 Schedule
- Friday 14th June:
- No compjc this week.
- Friday 7th June:
- Presenter: Thomas Lauritzen
- Talk: Chaotic balanced states in networks of cortical neurons.
- Friday 24th May:
- Presenter: Thomas Ferree
- Talk: Scaling behavior in human EEG.
- Main Paper: Scaling properties of fluctuations in human electroencephalogram.
- Friday 17th May:
- Presenter: David Holcman
- Talk: Calcium dynamics in dendritic Spines.
- Friday 10th May:
- Presenter: Sergio Lucero
- Talk: Yet another introduction to Support Vector Machines.
- Friday 3rd May: COMPJC CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS...SEE NEXT WEEK
- Presenter: Sergio Lucero
- Talk: Yet another introduction to Support Vector Machines.
- Friday 26th Apr:
- No compjc this week.
- Friday 19th Apr:
- Presenter: Carlos Cassanello
- Paper: Self-Similarity Properties of Natural Images Resemble Those of Turbulent Flows (PDF)
- Friday 12th Apr:
- Speaker: Sam Sober
- Talk Title: The role of visual feedback in motor planning and execution. (Continued from last week!)
- Friday 5th Apr:
- Speaker: Sam Sober
- Talk Title: The role of visual feedback in motor planning and execution.
- Friday 29th Mar: No compjc this week!
- Friday 22th Mar:
- Special Talk: Dae-Shik Kim
- Talk Title: Bridging the gap between neuroimaging and neuroanatomy.
- Friday 15th Mar:
- Presenter: Matt Caywood
- Talk Title: "A tutorial on spatiotemporal connectionist networks."
- Main Paper: "Spatiotemporal Connectionist Networks: A Taxonomy and Review." (download)
- Kremer, 2001, Neural Computation 13 :249-306.
- Friday 8th Mar:
- No compjc this week! Tune in next week!
- Friday 1st Mar:
- Roundtable disscussion of last weeks topic: Support Vector Machines.
- Main Paper: "A tutorial on support vector machines for pattern recognition." (download)
- Burges, 1998, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2(2) :121-167.
- Friday 22st Feb:
- Presenter: Andrew Tan
- Main Paper: "A tutorial on support vector machines for pattern recognition." (download)
- Burges, 1998, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2(2) :121-167.
- Friday 15th Feb:
- Presenter: Mark Kvale
- Main Paper: "Spatial transformations in the parietal cortex using basis functions." (PDF)
- Pouget and Sejnowski, 1997, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 9(2) :222-237.
- Friday 8th Feb:
- Presenter: Carlos Cassanello
- Talk Title: A model to describe spike-trains with power-law Fano factor.
- Friday 1st Feb:
- Presenter: Kamal Sen
- Talk Title: Gain fields and neural computations.
- Friday 25th Jan:
- Special Talk: Zeph Landau
- Talk Title: So much data, so little time and space.
- Friday 18th Jan:
- Special Talk: Professor Larry Tecott
- Talk Title: Quantitative approaches to the analysis of spontaneous behavior in mice.
- Friday 11th Jan:
- Presenter: Robert Liu
- Talk Title: Empirical Mode Decomposition: a useful technique for neuroscience?
- View Talk: (PDF)
View Paper: Huang et. al. (PDF) (ps)
- Friday Dec. 14th - Friaday Jan. 4th:
- Compjc Holiday Break.
- Friday 7th Dec.:
- Presenters: Katrin Schenk
Paper: Schneidman et. al.
Analyzing Neural Codes using the Information Bottleneck Method
(pdf) (Postscript)
- Friday 30th Nov.:
- Presenter: Stephanie Palmer
Paper: Fairhall et. al.
Efficiency and ambiguity in an adaptive neural code.
(pdf)
- Friday Nov. 9th - Friday, Nov. 23:
- Compjc Neurosciences and Thanksgiving break.
- Friday 2nd Nov:
- Presenter: Mark Kvale
View Talk (Postscript) (PDF)
Talk Title: Adaptation to noise in the auditory system.
- Friday 26th Oct:
- Presenter: Katrin Schenk
View Talk (Postscript) (PDF)
Papers: More of Bialek, Nemenman & Tishby
Complexity Through Nonextensivity.
Get ps or pdf version.Bialek, Nemenman & Tishby
Predictability, Complexity and Learning.
Get ps or pdf version.
- Friday 19th Oct:
- Presenter: Katrin Schenk
Papers: Bialek, Nemenman & Tishby
Complexity Through Nonextensivity.
Get ps or pdf version.Bialek, Nemenman & Tishby
Predictability, Complexity and Learning.
Get ps or pdf version.
- Friday 12th Oct:
- No compjc this week.
- Friday 5th Oct:
- Presenter: Leslie Osborne
Talk Title:Rate coding of direction information in primate area MT>
- Friday 28st Sept:
- Guest Speaker: Naftali Tishby
View/Hear Talk
Talk Title:Information Theory and Neural Coding: Can we quantify relevance?
- Friday 21st Sept:
- Presenter: Brian Wright
Talk Title: Temporal Coding: Definitions, Misconceptions and Resolutions.
View Talk: (Postscript) (PDF)
Papers: Theunissen and Miller
Temporal Coding in Nervous Systems: A Rigorous Definition.
J. Computational Nsci., 2 (1995), 149-162.Brenner, Strong, Koberle, Bialek and de Ruyter van Steveninck
Synergy in a Neural Code.
Neural Comput. 12, 1531-1552 (2000). (pdf)
Summer 2001 Schedule
- Friday 15th June:
- Presenter: Matt Caywood
Papers: Chris J. S. Webber
Predictions of the Spontaneous Symmetry-Breaking Theory for Visual Code Completeness and Spatial Scaling in Single-Cell Learning Rules.
Neural Comp. 2001 13: 1023-1043. (pdf)Chris J. S. Webber
Self-Organization of Symmetry Networks: Transformation Invariance from the Spontaneous Symmetry-Breaking Mechanism.
Neural Comp. 2000 12: 565-596. (pdf)
