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March 26, 2024
CNCD retreat
We're having our second Center retreat on Mar 26. Jochen Braun will be our guest speaker.
We're having our second Center retreat on Mar 26. Jochen Braun will be our guest speaker.
CNCD Seminar
Neuroscience Seminars @IACS
November 2, 2023
October 5, 2023
CNCD retreat
We're having our first Center retreat on Sept 30th!
We're having our first Center retreat on Sept 30th!
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News
Jan 1
We welcome our new faculty member, Siwei Wang. Welcome Siwei!
2023
Tianshu Li (LaCamera lab) has successfully defended her dissertation titled "Neural
Mechanisms for Strategy-dependent Decision-making in the Prefrontal Cortex". Congratulations
Tianshu!
Giancarlo LaCamera will give a talk at the ICERM Workshop on Topology and Geometry in Neuroscience, Brown University.
Sept 20
Liam Lang (Fontanini lab) has successfully defended her dissertation titled "Metastable
Cortical Dynamics During Taste-based Decision-making". Congratulations Liam!
Maria Isaac and Priscilla E Yevoo (Maffei Lab) presented posters at the Gordon Conference: Inhibition in the CNS. Priscilla E Yevoo also gave a talk at the Gordon Conference Seminar: Inhibition in the CNS, the pre-conference symposium with a committee that selects talks by trainees based
on poster abstracts.
Jun 15
Memming Park will give a talk on “Persistent learning signals and memory in recurrent
networks" at the Univerity of Heidelberg.
Jun 12-13
Members of CNCD presented their work at the NIH BRAIN PI meeting.
May 14-18
Giancarlo LaCamera gave a talk at the minisymposium on "Metastability: Transient Dynamics
in Complex Systems" at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems in Portland, Oregon (US).
Piotr Sokol (Park Lab) successfully defended his dissertation titled "Geometry of
learning and representation in neural networks"
May 1-5
Braden Brinkman gave talks on "Non-perturbative renormalization group analysis of
collective behavior in networks of spiking neurons" at the Boston University Dynamics Seminar and the French-German Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation Seminar on Exploring New Topics with Functional Renormalisation.
Apr 19-22
Priscilla E Yevoo, Maria Isaac, and Hillary C. Schiff (Maffei Lab) presented posters
at AChemS.
Mar 23
Memming Park will give a talk at the University of Lisbon on "Learning signals in recurrent networks".
Mar 9-12
Matthew Dowling (Park Lab) will give a workshop talk at COSYNE 2023.
Mar 9-12
La Camera's group will have one poster and Memming Park's group will have three posters at COSYNE 2023.
Mar 1
Tianshu Li (La Camera lab) will give a seminar at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science
Feb 28
LaCamera's group published a model of decentralized vision from dermal photoreceptors
to explain visual orientation in sea urchins. The paper has appeared in the Journal in iScience.
Feb 24
Braden Brinkman will give a talk at the More and More Neurons Symposium titled "Non-Perturbative Renormalization Group Analysis of Collective Behavior in
Networks of Spiking Neurons".
Jan 24
Tong Liang (Brinkman Lab) successfully defended his dissertation titled "Statistical inference and mathematical modeling of nonlinear behavior in stochastic
biological systems". Congratulations Tong!
Jan 19
Josue Nassar (Park Lab) was named a finalist for the SUNY chancellor distinguished
PhD graduate dissertation. Read more here.
Jan 11
Maffei and Fontanini's groups published a paper in Science Advances titled "Experience-dependent plasticity of gustatory insular cortex circuits and taste preferences".
2022
Nov 11
Memming Park will give a talk at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.
Memming Park will give a talk at HHMI Janelia Research Campus on "Learning signals
in recurrent networks"
Giancarlo La Camera will give a talk at the "Inquiring (the) mind" workshop in Rome,
held to honor the memory of physicist and computational neuroscientist Paolo Del Giudice.
Members of CNCD presented their work at the NIH BRAIN PI meeting.
Apr 29
Giancarlo La Camera contributed a chapter for the Springer book "Computational Modelling of the Brain: Modelling approaches to cells, circuits and
networks".
Apr 28
Ian Jordan (Park Lab) successfully defended his dissertation titled "Metastable Dynamics
Underlying Neural Computation".
Apr 20
Josue Nassar (Park Lab) successfully defended his dissertation titled "Bayesian Machine Learning for Analyzing and Controlling Neural Populations".
Apr 7
Josue Nassar (Park Lab) was awarded the President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students.
Mar 14-18
Tianshu Li and Xiaoyu Yang (LaCamera lab) gave talks at the APS March Meeting in Chicago
(session on "Information Processing in sensory and motor systems")."
Mar 3
The CNCD group has published a featured review on metastable dynamics in cortical circuits in Applied Physics Reviews. Read more
here.
Contact
Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics
Life Sciences 573
SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794 - 5230
Tel: (631) 632-8616
Fax: (631) 632–6661
Fax: (631) 632–6661