When

Fall term 2009
Wednesday, 7:00-8:00 PM

Where

Broad 200 (2nd floor conference room)
   

What

Introduction to current research and types of projects done in Computation and Neural Systems labs.
Each class would be dedicated to a different scientist's work, his recent publications, and the current projects available in his fields of research.
   

TA

Erik Schomburg
eschombucaltech.edu
   

Grading
  • Pass/Fail
  • 10 points required to pass the class
  • Students earn one point for each lecture they attend
  • Students can earn make-up points by:
    a. Asking for one or two relevant papers to read from a missed lecture
    b. Informing Erik when those papers have been read. One point per missed lecture, up to a maximum of two
    c. At most two lectures can be missed.
   

Syllabus

09.30

Colin Camerer (make-up/supplementary readings: Cognitive Heirarchy Model of Games)

10.07

Shinsuke Shimojo (make-up/supplementary readings: Illusions, Audiovisual simultaneity, Gaze bias, TMS)

10.14

Antonio Rangel (make-up/supplementary readings: Self-Control, Orbitofrontal Cortex)

10.21

Erik Winfree (make-up/supplementary readings: Origami Seeds, DNA Logic Circuits)

10.28

Ralph Adolphs (make-up/supplementary readings: Fear, Faces, and the Human Amygdala, Personal Space)

11.04

Pietro Perona (make-up/supplementary readings: Analysis of Social Behavior in Drosophila, High-Throughput Ethomics in Drosophilia, Object Class Recognition)

11.11

Henry Lester (slides; make-up/supplementary readings: J Neurosci paper on chronic nicotine enhancement of ACH receptors, AAPS Journal review of the same topic)

11.18

Thanos Siapas (make-up/supplementary readings: Theta Oscillations are travelling waves, Spike-timing between hippocampus and PFC)

11.24

Andreas Krause [Note: This is a TUESDAY] (make-up/supplementary readings: Optimizing Sensing (article from IEEE Computer Mag.), Online Learning)

12.02

David Anderson (make-up/supplementary readings: Trace fear conditioning requires attention and the anterior cingulate cortex, Light activation of olfactory avoidance response in Drosophila)

12.09

Christof Koch (make-up/supplementary readings: Origin of the extracellular action potential)
 
 

Note

First-year CNS graduate students will have lunch at the Athenaeum every week with the corresponding faculty member. Please email Erik Schomburg (eschombucaltech.edu) to subscribe.