Events

Feb

Mon

3

Federal Holidays, MIT Academic Schedule

First Day of Classes

5:00am

Feb

Tue

4

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

Cog Lunch

Toward Building Machines that Learn Generalizable, Interpretable Knowledge

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Speaker(s)

Kevin Ellis (Tenenbaum Lab and Solar-Lezama Lab)

Feb

Tue

4

Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM)

Seminar

Brains, Minds + Machines Seminar Series: Doing for our robots what nature did for us

9:00pm to 10:00pm

Feb

Thu

6

McGovern Institute for Brain Research

Special Seminar

Dissection of the neural circuitry underlying short-term memory

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Speaker(s)

Kayvon Daie, HHMI Janelia

Feb

Fri

7

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience (MCN) Program

Seminar

Circadian Clock Genes and the Importance of Timing in Aging and Logevity

9:00pm to 11:00pm

Speaker(s)

Dr. Joseph Takahashi

Feb

Mon

10

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

Special Seminar

Mapping emotions: Discovering structure in mesoscale electrical brain recordings

9:00pm to 10:00pm

Speaker(s)

Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD

Feb

Tue

11

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

Cog Lunch

Time-averaging, Source Separation, and Perceptual “Filling In” of Sound Texture

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Speaker(s)

Richard McWalter (McDermott Lab)

Feb

Wed

12

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

Thesis Defense

Identifying Functionally Distinct Neuronal Ensembles Within the Memory Engram

8:00pm to 10:00pm

Speaker(s)

Xiaochen Sun

Feb

Wed

12

Simons Center for the Social Brain

SCSB Colloquium Series

SCSB Colloquium Series – Charles Nelson, Ph.D.

9:00pm to 10:00pm

Speaker(s)

Charles Nelson, Ph.D.

Feb

Thu

13

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

Special Seminar

Neurobiology of Inference

9:00pm to 10:00pm

Speaker(s)

Mehrdad Jazayeri, PhD

Feb

Mon

17

Federal Holidays, MIT Academic Schedule

President's Day - MIT Holiday Closing

5:00am

Feb

Tue

18

Federal Holidays, MIT Academic Schedule

Monday Schedule of Classes

5:00am

Feb

Fri

21

Simons Center for the Social Brain

Lunch Series

SCSB Lunch Series: Jesse Snedeker, Ph.D.

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Feb

Mon

24

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

Special Seminar

Understanding Auditory Computation

9:00pm to 10:00pm

Speaker(s)

Josh McDermott, PhD

Feb

Tue

25

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

Cog Lunch

Hierarchical neural network models that more closely match primary visual cortex also better explain object recognition behavior

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Speaker(s)

Tiago Guerra Marques (DiCarlo Lab)

Feb

Tue

25

Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM)

Seminar

Brains, Minds + Machines Seminar Series: How will we do mathematics in 2030?

9:00pm to 10:00pm

Feb

Wed

26

Simons Center for the Social Brain

SCSB Colloquium Series

SCSB Colloquium Series – Kevin Bender, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco

9:00pm to 10:00pm

Speaker(s)

Kevin Bender, Ph.D.

Feb

Thu

27

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition

Implicit learning of new phonotactic patterns is revealed in speech errors

9:00pm to 10:00pm

Speaker(s)

Feb

Fri

28

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

Seminar

Entity Abstraction in Visual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

8:00pm to 10:00pm

Speaker(s)

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