[Lisa_seminaires] [Lisa_labo] [Talk] Prof. Wulfram Gerstner on "Synaptic Plasticity to Learning Rules: an approach of theoretical neuroscience"

Yoshua Bengio yoshua.umontreal at gmail.com
Mar 22 Nov 22:03:38 EST 2016


Tentatively rescheduled for Wednesday Nov 23 (Wed.) at 3pm, rm 3195.



2016-11-21 11:53 GMT-05:00 Junyoung Chung <elecegg at gmail.com>:

> Hi everyone,
>
> tomorrow we will have a guest tutorial on neuroscience by Prof. Wulfram
> Gerstner. Here is the detail!
>
> Who:    Wulfram Gerstner
> When:  Nov. 22 (Tuesday) 3PM-5PM
> Where: AA6214
>
> Title: Synaptic Plasticity to Learning Rules: an approach of theoretical
> neuroscience
>
> Abstract: In this tutorial I will show what type of constraints
> experimental data set for biologically plausible learning rules and why
> inside these constraints we (as theoretical neuroscientists) have a lot of
> freedom to think about learning rules that are functionally relevant in
> learning paradigms. Taking examples from unsupervised learning,
> reinforcement learning, and surprise modulated learning I will point out
> potential links (and differences) to machine learning approaches.
>
> Bio: Wulfram Gerstner is Director of the Laboratory of Computational
> Neuroscience LCN at the EPFL. He studied physics at the universities of
> Tubingen and Munich and received a PhD from the Technical University of
> Munich. His research in computational neuroscience concentrates on models
> of spiking neurons and spike-timing dependent plasticity, on the problem of
> neuronal coding in single neurons and populations, as well as on the role
> of spatial representation for navigation of rat-like autonomous agents. He
> currently has a joint appointment at the School of Life Sciences and the
> School of Computer and Communications Sciences at the EPFL. He teaches
> courses for Physicists, Computer Scientists, Mathematicians, and Life
> Scientists.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> --Junyoung
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Junyoung Chung <elecegg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> on next Tuesday, we will have a guest tutorial on neuroscience by
>> professor Wulfram Gerstner who is visiting our lab for two weeks. Looking
>> forward to see many of you there!
>>
>> Who:    Wulfram Gerstner
>> When:  Nov. 22 (Tuesday) 3PM-5PM
>> Where: AA6214
>>
>> Title: Synaptic Plasticity to Learning Rules: an approach of theoretical
>> neuroscience
>>
>> Abstract: In this tutorial I will show what type of constraints
>> experimental data set for biologically plausible learning rules and why
>> inside these constraints we (as theoretical neuroscientists) have a lot of
>> freedom to think about learning rules that are functionally relevant in
>> learning paradigms. Taking examples from unsupervised learning,
>> reinforcement learning, and surprise modulated learning I will point out
>> potential links (and differences) to machine learning approaches.
>>
>> Bio: Wulfram Gerstner is Director of the Laboratory of Computational
>> Neuroscience LCN at the EPFL. He studied physics at the universities of
>> Tubingen and Munich and received a PhD from the Technical University of
>> Munich. His research in computational neuroscience concentrates on models
>> of spiking neurons and spike-timing dependent plasticity, on the problem of
>> neuronal coding in single neurons and populations, as well as on the role
>> of spatial representation for navigation of rat-like autonomous agents. He
>> currently has a joint appointment at the School of Life Sciences and the
>> School of Computer and Communications Sciences at the EPFL. He teaches
>> courses for Physicists, Computer Scientists, Mathematicians, and Life
>> Scientists.
>>
>> Best,
>> --Junyoung
>>
>
>
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