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Subject: Redwood Neuroscience Institute Newsletter - January 2005
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:20:33 -0800
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Redwood Neuroscience Institute Newsletter - January 2005 - www.rni.org
Contents:
- Seminar Series at RNI
- Jeff Hawkins' "On Intelligence" Upcoming Speaking Engagements
- RNI co-sponsors two speakers in the Stanford Neurobiology
Department's "Frontiers in Neuroscience" Lecture Series
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Seminar Series at RNI
These talks are held in the Redwood Neuroscience Institute Conference
Room and are open to the public. You are welcome to attend.
Friday, January 7, 2005
"Redwood Neuroscience Institute Neuroscience Conference Poster
Presentations"
12:00 noon
Friday, January 14, 2005
"Attempts to deconstruct the "cocktail-party effect"."
Pierre Divenyi, Speech and Hearing Research, V.A. Medical Cntr,
Martinez, CA
12:00 noon
NOTE: Wednesday, January 19, 2005
"Failure of motor learning in neural networks and human disease."
Terence D. Sanger, MD PhD, Department of Child Neurology, Stanford
University
Website: http://www.stanford.edu/~sanger/
12:00 noon
Friday, January 21, 2005
"Active sensing: object localization in rats"
Ehud Ahissar, Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute of
Science, Rehovot, Israel
Website:
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/neurobiology/labs/ahissar/ahissare.htm
12:00 noon
Friday, January 28, 2005
"An information-theoretic min cut approach to population coding."
Michael Gastpar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Website: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~gastpar/
12:00 noon
Friday, February 18, 2005
"Fine-Scale Specificity of Cortical Connections"
Ed Callaway, Systems Neurobiology Laboratories, Salk Institute
Website: http://www.salk.edu/faculty/faculty/details.php?id=9
12:00 noon
Friday, March 25, 20045
"The Role of Thalamus in the Flow of Information to Cortex" Murray
Sherman, Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology, The University of
Chicago
Website: http://pps.bsd.uchicago.edu/faculty/mSherman.html
12:00 noon
Friday, April 1, 2005
"Foraging for cortical reward signals: behavior, modeling, and
electrophysiology" Greg Corrado, Neuroscience Department, Stanford
University
12:00 noon
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Since the release of "On Intelligence" in October 2004, Jeff Hawkins has
been invited to speak at several different venues listed below.
"On Intelligence" has a companion website, www.OnIntelligence.org that
contains information for both the general reader, and for biologists and
computer scientists interested in exploring the theory further.
January 13, 2005, 4:00pm
SRI in Menlo Park, CA
February 2, 2005, 6:00pm
New York Academy of Science
February 3, 2005, 4:00pm
Princeton University
"Understanding the neocortex as a hierarchical sequence memory: biology,
theory, and implementation"
February 9, 2005
Talk at TTI/Vanguard Conference in San Francisco
"A New Theory of Neocortex and its Implications for Machine
Intelligence" http://www.ttivanguard.com/a_conferences.htm#SF2005
Four Seasons San Francisco
757 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-633-3000
February 10, 2005, 7:00pm
"The World Is Like A Song: How Music Led To A Theory of Human
Intelligence" Julliard School
Paul Hall Auditorium
Book signing is at 6:00pm and reception to follow.
Limited seating is available, for more information, call 516-367-6822.
February 16, 2005, 4:00pm
Haas Business School and Engineering Program, University of California
at Berkeley
February 28, 2005, 4:15pm
Stanford University Broad Area Colloquium
http://graphics.stanford.edu/ba-colloquium/#Information
TCSeq200 Lecture Hall
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/registrar/tcseq/map.html
March 17 thru 20, 2005
Attending Cosyne Conference in Salt Lake City, UT
www.cosyne.org/cosyne05.html
March 21, 2005, 12:00pm
PC Forum 2005
http://www.edventure.com/pcforum/index.cfm
Fairmont Scottsdale Princess
7575 East Princess Drive
Scottsdale, AZ 85255
May 9, 2005, 4:00pm
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
"Computation and Neural Systems" Seminar Series
Room 24 in Beckman Behavioral Biology
1200 E. California Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91125
May 18, 2005
Talk at the Stanford Entrepreneur Forum
For additional information on speaking events, please contact Teri Fry
at tfry@rni.org.
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This spring, the Redwood Neuroscience Institute will co-sponsor two
speakers, Michael Stryker and Sam Wang, in the Stanford Neurobiology
Department's "Frontiers in Neuroscience" Lecture Series, which includes
the following list of speakers:
April 7 Barbara Hempstead
April 14 Peter Detwiler
April 21 Peter Strick
April 28 Michael Stryker co-sponsored with RNI
May 5 Wendy Suzuki
May 12 TBA
May 19 Bruce Baker
May 26 Eric Shooter
June 2 Alex Kolodkin
June 9 Sam Wang co-sponsored with RNI
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