Past News

2022

Nov 11

Memming Park will give a talk at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.

Nov 4

Memming Park will give a talk at HHMI Janelia Research Campus on "Learning signals in recurrent networks"

Jul 14-15

Giancarlo La Camera will give a talk at the "Inquiring (the) mind" workshop in Rome, held to honor the memory of physicist and computational neuroscientist Paolo Del Giudice.

Jun 21-22

Members of CNCD presented their work at the NIH BRAIN PI meeting.

Apr 29

Giancarlo La Camera contributed a chapter for the Springer book "Computational Modelling of the Brain: Modelling approaches to cells, circuits and networks".

Apr 28

Ian Jordan (Park Lab) successfully defended his dissertation titled "Metastable Dynamics Underlying Neural Computation".

Apr 20

Josue Nassar (Park Lab) successfully defended his dissertation titled "Bayesian Machine Learning for Analyzing and Controlling Neural Populations".

Apr 7

Josue Nassar (Park Lab) was awarded the President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students.

Mar 14-18

Tianshu Li and Xiaoyu Yang (LaCamera lab) gave talks at the APS March Meeting in Chicago (session on "Information Processing in sensory and motor systems")."

Mar 3

The CNCD group has published a featured review on metastable dynamics in cortical circuits in Applied Physics Reviews. Read more here.

2021

Nov 26

Memming Park gave a talk at the Annual Symposium of Korean Society for Computational Neuroscience, titled "Real-time neuroscience".

Oct 9

Memming Park gave a talk at the CRCNS workshop titled "Challenges and perspectives on large-scale neural data analysis".

Sept 29

Josue Nassar (Park Lab) gave an invited talk at the Flatiron institute titled "Maximizing exploration in unknown dynamical environments with (potential) attractors".

Sept 23

Maffei's group published a paper in eNeuro on the impact of reduced dopamine signaling on pyramidal neuron excitability in mouse motor cortex. The work has potential implications for Parkinson's disease.

Jun 15-17

Members of CNCD presented their work at the NIH BRAIN PI meeting.

Apr 29

Memming Park gave a seminar titled "Neural Dynamics in Neuroscience and Machine Learning".

Apr 6

G. La Camera published a paper in Cell Reports on the link between behavioral performance and metastable neural activity in prefrontal cortex.

Mar 20

G. La Camera gave talk on metastable activity in cortex at AMS section meeting.

Feb 24-26

Memming Park's group will have three posters at COSYNE 2021.

Feb 23

Memming Park is hosting the COSYNE 2021 tutorial session: Lecture by Kanaka Rajan. TAs include Ayesha Vermani and Josue Nassar from Memming's group.