Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series 2020 - 2021

Prof. George Em Karniadakis, Brown University
Learning nonlinear operators based on the universal approximation theorem of operators
Speaker(s): Prof. George Em Karniadakis
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: Virtual | Webinar
Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, kdsulliv@csail.mit.edu
Profs. Jim DiCarlo, Tomaso A Poggio, and Joshua Tenenbaum, CBMM, MIT
CBMM Special Seminar: Panel Discussion on the relationship between engineering and science in CBMM and the field
Speaker(s): Profs. Jim DiCarlo, Tomaso A Poggio, and Joshua Tenenbaum
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: Virtual | Webinar
Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, kdsulliv@csail.mit.edu
Multiple speakers,
CBMM Panel Discussion: Is the theory of Deep Learning relevant to applications?
Speaker(s): Multiple speakers
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: This panel discussion will be hosted remotely via Zoom.
Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, kdsulliv@csail.mit.edu
Nick Roy, CSAIL, AeroAstro, MIT
Representations vs Algorithms: Symbols and Geometry in Robotics
Speaker(s): Nick Roy
Date: Tuesday, November 03, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: Virtual | Webinar
Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, kdsulliv@csail.mit.edu
Multiple speakers,
CBMM Panel Discussion: Should models of cortex be falsifiable
Speaker(s): Multiple speakers
Date: Tuesday, December 01, 2020
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: This panel will be hosted via Zoom
Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, kdsulliv@csail.mit.edu
Prof. Santosh Vempala, Georgia Tech.
Computation and Learning with Assemblies of Neurons
Speaker(s): Prof. Santosh Vempala
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Location: Virtual | Webinar
Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, kdsulliv@csail.mit.edu
Prof. Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London
Common Sense Physics and Structured Representation in the Era of Deep Learning
Speaker(s): Prof. Murray Shanahan
Date: Tuesday, March 02, 2021
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual | Webinar
Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, kdsulliv@csail.mit.edu
Multiple speakers,
CBMM Panel Discussion: Are Deep Nets "Just" Associative Memories?
Speaker(s): Multiple speakers
Date: Tuesday, March 09, 2021
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Location: Virtual | Webinar
Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, kdsulliv@csail.mit.edu
This event has been cancelled. Prof. Aude Oliva, CSAIL MIT
Mapping Responses in the Human Brain Through Space and Time
Speaker(s): Prof. Aude Oliva
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Location: Virtual | Webinar
Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, kdsulliv@csail.mit.edu
Multiple speakers, Various
CBMM Panel Discussion: “Testing Generative Models in the Brain”
Speaker(s): Multiple speakers
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Location:
Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, kdsulliv@csail.mit.edu
Prof. Alan L. Yuille, John Hopkins University
Compositional Generative Networks & Adversarial Examiners: Beyond the Limitations of Current AI
Speaker(s): Prof. Alan L. Yuille
Date: Tuesday, May 04, 2021
Time: 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Location:
Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, kdsulliv@csail.mit.edu
Prof. Earl K. Miller, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, BCS Dept., MIT
Something Else About Working Memory
Speaker(s): Prof. Earl K. Miller
Date: Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Location:
Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, kdsulliv@csail.mit.edu
Prof. Robert D. Nowak, University of Wisconsin-Madison
CBMM Special Seminar: Banach Space Representer Theorems for Neural Networks
Speaker(s): Prof. Robert D. Nowak
Date: Tuesday, June 08, 2021
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Location: This seminar talk will be hosted remotely via Zoom.
Contact: CBMM Contact, cbmm-contact@mit.edu
Guangyu Robert Yang, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), EECS Dept., Schwarzman College of Computing (SCC), MIT
CBMM Special Seminar: Next-generation recurrent network models for cognitive neuroscience
Speaker(s): Guangyu Robert Yang
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Location: This seminar talk will be hosted remotely via Zoom.
Contact: CBMM Contact, contact-cbmm@mit.edu