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

Olexa Bilaniuk obilaniu at gmail.com
Mar 22 Nov 10:41:30 EST 2016


Send him our best wishes!



Olexa Bilaniuk


On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Myriam COTE <cotemyri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Unfortunately, Wulfram will not be able to give his presentation today.
> He is at home with a bad cold and a weak voice.
>
> He apologizes to everybody.
>
> Regards,
>
> Myriam Côté, eng, Ph.D.
> Executive Director, MILA
> Director of R&D and Industry Technology Transfers, IVADO
> 514 576-5212
>
> 2016-11-14 15:52 GMT-05:00 Junyoung Chung <elecegg at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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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