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Sleep is a fundamental biological process, and its disruption has profound impacts on human health. Using a variety of techniques including optogenetics, electrophysiology, imaging, and gene…
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Yang Dan Date
March 9th, 2020
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One of the most fundamental problems in learning theory is to view input data as random samples from an unknown distribution and then to make statistical inferences about the underlying distribution.…
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Maryam Aliakbarpour Date
March 2nd, 2020
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Mining biomedical text can be useful for validating new disease subgroups or summarizing information to guide policies and decision making. Yet, existing work predominately focuses on efficient…
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Joyce Ho Date
February 25th, 2020
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How do neurons perform the set of signaling functions necessary for proper circuit function? We aim to uncover cellular and molecular mechanisms that shape excitability among different mammalian…
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Matthew Rowan Date
February 17th, 2020
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Local spectral expansion is a very useful method for arguing about the spectral properties of several random walk matrices over simplicial complexes. The motivation of this work is to extend this…
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Vedat Levi Alev Date
February 10th, 2020
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The Spring 2020 Liam's Legacy Symposium will focus on community science, story telling, and our changing environment. Julia Drapkin will join us from ISeeChange, a New-Orleans-based…
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Julia Kumari Drapkin, Raina Turner-Greenlea, Zeena Abdulkarim Date
February 11th, 2020
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Most brain functions involve neuronal population activity that is distributed across multiple areas. The routing of signals through this distributed network is flexible, changing from…
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Adam Kohn Date
February 10th, 2020
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Over 400 million years ago, a group of tiny six-legged creatures evolved the ability to fly—an event that fundamentally transformed our planet. Equipped with the ability to fly, insects…
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Michael Dickinson Date
February 3rd, 2020
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The panelists will share and explore the national landscape of standardized testing, as portrayed in "The Test & the Art of Thinking", and will share their own personal experiences with…
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Akil Bello, Rick Clark, Diley Hernández, JeffSelingo, Heidi Turcotte Date
February 6th, 2020
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We say a probability distribution µ is spectrally independent if an associated correlation matrix has a bounded largest eigenvalue for the distribution and all of its conditional distributions.…
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Kuikui Liu Date
January 27th, 2020
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Daniel O'Connor discusses his laboratory’s recent work on the sensorimotor control of complex tongue movements. The brain generates complex sequences of movements that can be flexibly…
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Daniel O’Connor Date
January 27th, 2020
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Robust mean estimation is the following basic estimation question: given i.i.d. copies of a random vector X in d-dimensional Euclidean space of which a small constant fraction are corrupted, how well…
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Samuel Hopkins Date
December 2nd, 2019
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Animal behavior depends both on the intrinsic properties of individual neurons and how these neurons connect to and modulate one another. A major focus of modern neuroscience is to dissect behavior…
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Alberto Stolfi Date
November 25th, 2019
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In the 'frequent items' problem one sees a sequence of items in a stream (e.g. a stream of words coming into a search query engine likeGoogle) and wants to report a small list of items…
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Jelani Nelson Date
September 16th, 2019
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This talk focuses on network design algorithms for optimizing average consensus dynamics, dynamics that are widely used for information diffusion and distributed coordination in networked control…
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Yuhao Yi Date
November 18th, 2019
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In this talk, I first discuss our recent work on modeling, decoding, and controlling multisite human brain activity underlying mood states. I present a multiscale dynamical modeling framework that…
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Maryam Shanechi Date
November 11th, 2019
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