We are a cross-departmental student-run group, whose aim is to bring together the Houston computational neuroscience community (BCM/RICE/UH/UTHealth). We meet weekly to discuss papers. Every other week will be focused on our NeuroNex center project to infer graphical models for interactions between neurons and the world. Other weeks we will cover general topics in computational neuroscience, including cellular, systems, cognitive, stats, machine learning topics.
Friday @ 9:00am-10:00am
BCM S553
If you’d like to be added to the email list or sign up to present, please contact Zhengwei Wu (zhengwei [dot] wu [at] bcm [dot] edu).
| Date | Presenter | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 31 | Krešimir | Coherent chaos in a recurrent neural network with structured connectivity. Landau and Sompolinsky bioRxiv (2018) |
| Date | Presenter | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 12 | Emin | Computational principles of synaptic memory consolidation. Benna and Fusi Nature Neurosci. (2016) |
| Jan 19 | Robbe Goris | Q&A session |
| Jan 26 | No meeting | GCC Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience Annual Conference |
| Feb 2 | Giuseppe | Structure in neural population recordings: an expected byproduct of simpler phenomena? Elsayed and Cunningham Nature Neurosci. (2017) |
| Feb 9 | Adrian | MDL, Bayesian Inference and the Geometry of the Space of Probability Distributions. Vijay Balasubramanian |
| Feb 16 | No meeting | Rush and Helen Record Neuroscience Forum |
| Feb 23 | Tianyi | Learning and attention reveal a general relationship betweenpopulation activity and behavior Ni et al. Science (2018) |
| Mar 2 | No meeting | COSYNE Meeting |
| Mar 9 | Satyajit Ghosh | Postdoc candidate talk |
| Mar 16 | Raj | A nonlinear updating algorithm captures suboptimal inference in the presence of signal-dependent noise Egger and Jazayeri bioRxiv (2018) |
| Mar 23 | Zhe | Opening the Black Box: Low-Dimensional Dynamics in High-Dimensional Recurrent Neural Networks Sussillo and Barak Neural Computation (2013) |
| Mar 30 | Alan | Linking connectivity, dynamics and computations in recurrent neural networks Mastrogiuseppe and Ostojic arXiv (2017) |
| Apr 6 | Chad Giusti | Simplicial models for neural system function. |
| Apr 13 | Dimitri | Functional selectivity and specific connectivity of inhibitory neurons in primary visual cortex bioRxiv (2018) |
| Apr 20 | No meeting | NeuroNex DataJoint Training Workshop |
| Apr 27 | Yossi | New Types of Experiments Reveal that a Neuron Functions as Multiple Independent Threshold Units Sardi et al. Scientific Reports (2017) |
| May 4 | Saket | Q&A Session: Biological solutions to two fundamental computational problems |
| May 11 | Kresimir | Spontaneous behaviors drive multidimensional, brain-wide neural activity Stringer et al. bioRxiv (2018) |
| Date | Presenter | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15 | Xaq | Bayesian Efficient Coding. Park and Pillow bioRxiv (2017) |
| Sep 22 | Kresimir | Inferring structural connectivity using Ising couplings in models of neuronal networks. Kadirvelu et al. Scientific Reports (2017) |
| Sep 29 | No meeting | |
| Oct 6 | Genevera | Introduction to Graphical Models (Ch.9) |
| Oct 13 | Qianli | With or without you: predictive coding and Bayesian inference in the brain. Aitchison & Lengyel Curr. Op. in Neurobio. (2017) |
| Oct 20 | Ralf Haefner | Perceptual Decision-Making as Probabilistic Inference by Neural Sampling. Haefner et al. Neuron (2016) |
| Oct 27 | NeuroEngineering symposium | |
| Nov 3 | Aram | The Infinite Hidden Markov Model Beal et al. NIPS (2002) |
| Nov 3 | Kijung | Graph Neural Networks: A Survey and Perspectives for the Brain's Inference Algorithm [1][2][3][4] |
| Nov 10 | Adrian | Rats optimally accumulate and discount evidence in a dynamic environment. Piet et al. bioRxiv (2017) |
| Nov 17 | Ingmar | Q&A Session: A synthetic approach to understand hard navigation in the brain. Kanitscheider & Fiete NIPS (2017) |
| Nov 24 | Thanksgiving | |
| Dec 1 | Harel | Synaptic Transmission Optimization Predicts Expression Loci of Long-Term Plasticity. Costa et al. Neuron (2017) |
| Dec 8 | NIPS | |
| Dec 15 | Kaushik | A theory of multineuronal dimensionality, dynamics and measurement. Gao et al. bioRxiv (2017) |