April 1, Monday: Tom Dean, Google — Administrivia and Introduction to Scalable Neuroscience
April 3, Wednesday: Tom Dean, Google — Survey of Alternative Approaches to Scalable Neuroscience
April 8, Monday: Ed Boyden, MIT — Physical Principles for Interfacing with the Nervous System
April 10, Wednesday: Ed Boyden, MIT — Architectures and Technologies for Neural System Interfaces
April 15, Monday: Kevin Briggman, National Institutes of Health — Reverse Engineering Neural Circuits
April 17, Wednesday: Mike Hawrylycz, Allen Institute — Allen Mouse and Human Brain Atlas Projects
April 22, Monday: Ed Callaway, Salk Institute — Rabies Virus for Tracing Neural Circuits
April 24, Wednesday: Stephen Smith, Stanford — Brain Maps to Brain Mechanisms
April 29, Monday: TBD — TBD —
May 1, Wednesday: TBD — TBD —
May 6, Monday: Tony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Sequencing the Connectome
May 8, Wednesday: TBD — TBD —
May 13, Monday: TBD — TBD —
May 15, Wednesday: TBD — TBD —
May 20, Monday: TBD — TBD —
May 22, Wednesday: TBD — TBD —
May 27, Monday: Memorial Day — No Class
May 29, Wednesday: TBD — TBD —
June 3, Monday: TBD — TBD —
Speaker: Kevin Briggman, National Institutes of Health
Date: April 15, 2013
Speaker: Ed Boyden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: April 8 & 10, 2013
Speaker: David Cox, Roland Institute, Harvard University
Date: TBD
Speaker: Tom Dean, Google
Date: April 1 & 3, 2013
Speaker: Mike Hawrylycz, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Date: April 17, 2013
Speaker: Stephen Smith, Stanford, University
Date: April 24, 2013
Speaker: Tony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: May 6, 2013
Speaker: Michael Gazzaniga, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University in 2009
Video: Available from Edinburgh here or the University’s YouTube channel.
Speaker: Eugene Izhikevich, Brain Corporation — formerly at The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA
Papers: Izhikevich and Edelman [2]
Supplements: Supporting material for the PNAS paper including PDF is available here
Speaker: Eric Kandel, Columbia University
Video: Charlie Rose’s Brain Series (VIDEO)
Speaker: Henry Markram, Brain Mind Institute at EPFL
Title: Simulating the Brain: The Next Decisive Years
Video: Invited talk at the 2011 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) (VIDEO)
Speaker: Dharmendra S. Modha, IBM, Almaden
Title: Towards Engineering the Mind by Reverse Engineering the Brain
Paper: Ananthanarayanan et al [1] (PDF)
Video: Invited talk at the Krasnow Institute’s Decade of the Mind Symposium (VIDEO)
Speaker: Paul Rhodes, Evolved Machines
Title: Synthetic Neural Arrays That Wire Themselves
Video: Nvidia High Performance Computing (VIDEO)
Speaker: Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University
Title: Are Humans Just Another Primate?
Video: Invited lecture at the California Academy of Sciences (VIDEO)