Mission Statement
This journal club aims to provide a forum for discussing neurons, brains, and behavior among people with diverse quantitative and neurobiology backgrounds. Weekly meetings will focus on a paper relevant to a theoretical understanding of some neuroscientific problem or system. Graduate students and postdocs are especially encouraged to attend and propose/present papers. Appropriate papers present neural data, theoretical models, foundational principles for computation, new statistical, mathematical, or machine learning methods, etc.
Time & Place
Wednesdays @ 1pm
NHB 4.202.
Contact
If you’d like to be added to the email list or sign up to present, please contact Rishidev Chaudhuri (rchaudhuri [at] austin [dot] utexas [dot] edu).
Meetings
| Date | Presenter and readers | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 02.15.2017 |
Rishidev Chaudhuri
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Murray JD, et al. (2017). Stable population coding for working memory coexists with heterogeneous neural dynamics in prefrontal cortex. PNAS 114. [PDF] |
| 02.22.2017 |
Tzuhsuan Ma |
Bradde S & Bialek W. (2016). PCA meets RG arXiv:1610.09733 |
| 03.01.2017 |
Cosyne |
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| 03.08.2017 | Kim Houck | Lillicrap T, et al. (2016). Random synaptic feedback weights support error backpropagation for deep learning. [PDF] |
| 03.15.2017 | Spring break | |
| 03.22.2017 | Ingmar Kanitscheider |
Zhang C, et al. (2016). Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization. [arXiv:1611.03530] |
| 03.29.2017 | Canceled | |
| 04.05.2017 | Andrei Khilkevich | Litwin-Kumar A, et al. (2017). Optimal degrees of synaptic connectivity. Neuron 93. [PDF] |
| 04.12.2017 | Brian Gereke | Stachenfeld KL, Botvinick M & Gershman SJ. (2016). The hippocampus as a predictive map. bioRxiv doi: . [Link] |
| 04.19.2017 | Berk Gercek |
Raju VR & Pitkow X. (2016). Inference by reparameterization in neural population codes. arXiv:1605.06544. [Link] |
| 04.26.2017 | Kathryn Bonnen |
Grabska-Barwinska A, et al. (2017) A probabilistic approach to demixing odors. Nature Neuroscience 20. [PDF] |
| 05.03.2017 | Christopher Roth |
Seung HS, Sompolinsky H & Tishby N. (1992). Statistical mechanics of learning from examples. Physical Review A 45. [PDF] |
| 05.10.2017 | Julie Charlton | Rubin DB, Van Hooser SD & Miller KD. (2015). The stabilized supralinear network: a unifying circuit motif underlying multi-input integration in sensory cortex. Neuron 85. [PDF] |