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URL:/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/mark-re
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SUMMARY:Mark Reimers Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nMark Reimers\, Michigan State (https://iq.msu.edu/m
 ark-reimers/)\n\nLocation: E5 2004\n\nTitle: A new and inexpensive method
  for high-resolution imaging of\nneural activity across the cortex of smal
 l animals\n\nAbstract: In this talk I will introduce a new system for ima
 ging the\nactivity of several thousand labelled neurons distributed sparse
 ly\nacross the dorsal cortex of a mouse at high speed. The key is to use\n
 extensive computation to make up for the deficits of simple imaging\nsyste
 ms. I will describe the ideas behind our system and the\ntechnology that w
 e're using to implement these ideas\, at a cost of\nunder $50\,000. I will
  describe some of the technical issues we've\naddressed\, and issues that 
 we’re still working on. A natural\nquestion to ask is how much of the co
 mplex cortical activity can be\ninferred by recording from a small fractio
 n of neurons in each area. I\nwill present evidence from large-scale Zebra
 fish and mouse brain\nrecordings to suggest that a surprisingly small frac
 tion of labelled\nneurons may be sufficient to represent most of the popul
 ation activity\nin the upper layers of cortex.\n 
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URL:/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/ctn-sem
 inar-eva-dyer
SUMMARY:CTN Seminar Eva Dyer
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nProf. Eva Dyer (home page\n[https://bme.gatech.edu/
 bme/faculty/Eva-Dyer]) will present on her\nwork on Thursday\, March 6\, 3
 :30 p.m. in E5 2004.\n\nScaling Up Neural Data Pretraining to Uncover Shar
 ed Structure in\nBrain Function\n\nThe brain is incredibly complex\, with 
 diverse functions that emerge\nfrom the coordinated activity of billions o
 f neurons. These functions\nvary across brain regions and adapt dynamicall
 y as we engage in\ndifferent tasks\, process sensory information\, or gene
 rate behavior.\nYet\, each neural recording captures only a small glimpse 
 of this\nimmense complexity\, offering a limited view of the broader syste
 m.\nThis motivates the need for an algorithmic approach to stitch together
 \ndiverse datasets\, integrating neural activity across brain regions\,\nc
 ell types\, and individuals. In this talk\, I will present our work on\nbu
 ilding scalable models pretrained on a broad corpus of neural\nrecordings.
  Our findings demonstrate positive transfer across tasks\,\ncell types\, a
 nd individuals\, effectively bridging gaps between\nisolated studies. This
  unified framework opens new possibilities for\nneural decoding\, brain-ma
 chine interfaces\, and cross-species\nneuroscience\, offering a path towar
 d more generalizable models of\nbrain function.\n 
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URL:/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/ctn-sem
 inar-jeff-orchard-cognition-using-spiking-phasor
SUMMARY:CTN Seminar: Jeff Orchard - Cognition using Spiking-Phasor Neurons
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nApril 25 14:30 *In Person*\n\nSpeaker: Jeff Orchard
  [http://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jorchard] (CS\,\nÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ)\n\nTitle: Cognition u
 sing Spiking-Phasor Neurons\n 
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URL:/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/events/ctn-col
 loquium-maurizio-pitta-krembiluoft
SUMMARY:CTN Colloquium Maurizio de Pitta (Krembil/UofT) 
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nMarch 21 *IN PERSON* E5-2004 - Maurizio de Pitta\n[
 https://sites.google.com/site/mauriziodepitta/?pli=1] (Krembil/UofT)*\n \
 n\nTITLE: NEURON-GLIAL SWITCHES\n 
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SUMMARY:CTN Colloquium Eric Shea-Brown (Washington)
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nFebruary 20 (virtual) - Eric Shea-Brown\n[https://f
 aculty.washington.edu/etsb/] (Washington)\n \n\nTitle: When do high dimen
 sional networks learn to produce low\ndimensional dynamics?\n 
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SUMMARY:CTN Colloquia Sara Solla (Northwestern)
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nJanuary 17 (virtual) - Sara Solla\n[https://www.fei
 nberg.northwestern.edu/sites/neuroscience/faculty/profile.html?xid=16584]\
 n(NorthWestern)\n\nTitle: Low Dimensional Manifolds for Neural Dynamics\n 
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SUMMARY:CTN Seminar: Lyle Muller (Western)
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\n [A tree reflected in water. ] Title: Traveling wav
 es in cortex:\nspatiotemporal dynamics shape perceptual and cognitive proc
 esses\n\nAbstract:\n 
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SUMMARY:CTN Seminar: Mazyar Fallah 
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nCORTICAL INTERACTIONS IN THE OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM\n 
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