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  3. Brains, Minds + Machines Seminar Series: Linking the statistics of network activity and network connectivity
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Brains, Minds + Machines Seminar Series: Linking the statistics of network activity and network connectivity

Add to CalendarAmerica/New_YorkBrains, Minds + Machines Seminar Series: Linking the statistics of network activity and network connectivity09/21/2018 8:00 pm09/21/2018 9:00 pmSingleton Auditorium (MIT 46-3002) - 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA 02139
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September 21, 2018
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Singleton Auditorium (MIT 46-3002) - 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA 02139
Contact
Frederico Azevedo, Hector Penagos
    Description

    Abstract:  There is an avalanche of new data on the brain’s activity, revealing the collective dynamics of vast numbers of neurons.  In principle, these collective dynamics can be of almost arbitrarily high dimension, with many independent degrees of freedom — and this may reflect powerful capacities for general computing or information.  In practice, datasets reveal a range of outcomes, including collective dynamics of much lower dimension — and this may reflect the structure of tasks or latent variables.  For what networks does each case occur? Our contribution to the answer is a new framework that links tractable statistical properties of network connectivity with the dimension of the activity that they produce.  I’ll describe where we have succeeded, where we have failed, and the many avenues that remain.
    Short Bio: Eric Shea-Brown is a professor at the University of Washington Applied Mathematics Department, an affiliate investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and is adjunct faculty in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and a member of the Program in Neuroscience. 

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