2014 Spring
Towards a Fully Integrated and Autonomous Brain Machine Interface
January 27, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Joe Francis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate Medical School
From Thalamic Inputs to Visual Cortical Maps
February 3, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Jose-Manuel Alonso, Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, SUNY College of Optometry
Functional Roles for Synaptic Depression Within the Fly Antennal Lobe
February 10, 2014
11:00am - 12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Aaditya V. Rangan, Associate Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
Seeing the Invisible: Chemical Imaging for Biomedicine
February 17, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Wei Min, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University
Theoretic and Algorithmic Blessings of High Dimension for Compressed Sensing
February 24, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Arian Maleki, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Neuron-Resolution Interrogation of Whole-Brain Function in Zebrafish
March 10, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Misha B. Ahrens, Lab Head, Janelia Farm Research Campus
On the Performance Dependence of the Neural Microdevice-Tissue Interface
March 17, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Kevin Otto, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
Flexible Gating of Contextual Influences in Natural Vision
March 24, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Odelia Schwartz, Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
EEG, Seizure Localization, and Epilepsy Surgery
March 31, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Catherine Schevon, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center
Recovery of Sparse Translation-Invariant Signals with Continuous Basis Pursuit
April 7, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Eero Simoncelli, Professor, Department of Neural Science, New York University
How High-Order Image Statistics Shape Cortical Visual Processing
April 14, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Jonathan D. Victor, Professor, Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College
On the Therapeutic Mechanisms of Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: Why High Frequency?
April 21, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Sridevi Sarma, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Clinically Viable Brain Computer Interfaces
May 5, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Karim Oweiss, Associate Professor, Michigan State University
May 6, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Stéphanie P. Lacour, Professor, Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces, EPFL
High-Resolution Brain Machine Interfaces Using Flexible Silicon Electronics
May 7, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Viventi, Assistant Professor, NYU-Poly
Advanced Nanobiomaterials for Neural Interfaces
May 9, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Prof. Mohammad Reza Abidian, Assistant Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Material Science & Engineering, and Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Measuring Functional Connectivity of the Brain from Electrophysiological Signals
May 12, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Sergul Aydore, Ph.D. candidate, University of Southern California
Representing Space in the Brain: Insights from Direct Recordings of Human Place and Grid Cells
May 13, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Prof. Joshua Jacobs, Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineeering, Science, and Health Systems, Drexel University
Neural Modules for Movement Construction Before and After Cortical Injury
May 15, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Prof. Vincent C.K. Cheung, Research Scientist, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Network Cohesion Index (NCI) for Analyzing Dynamic Brain Connectivity in Emotional Contexts
June 2, 2014
11:00am-12:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Dr. Gal Raz, Functional Brain Center, Wohl Institute for Advanced Imaging, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Investigating the Impact of Attention on Neural Coding
July 14, 2014
3:00-4:00pm
414 CEPSR
Speaker: Sameer Saproo, Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Neural Science and Dept. of Psychology, New York University
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