This year's guest is Adrienne Fairhall (Professor of computational neuroscience at the University of Washington).

Adrienne Fairhall is a Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle. She is the co-director of the Computational Neuroscience Program and of the UW Institute for Neuroengineering, has directed the Marine Biological Lab (MBL) course “Methods in Computational Neuroscience” and, together with Prof. Rajesh Rao, offered the first massive open online course (MOOC) in computational neuroscience on Coursera (2013).

She obtained her Honors degree in theoretical physics from the Australian National University and a PhD in statistical physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (1998). After that, she received her postdoctoral training at the NEC Research Institute, Princeton, with Bill Bialek and at Princeton University with Michael Berry.

Her work focuses on the mathematical and physical principles that govern information coding and transmission in the nervous system, with a particular interest in the interplay between neural coding and cellular and circuit dynamics, such as adaptation processes. Through collaborations with experimental labs, the Fairhall lab develops mathematical and statistical analysis and modeling methods to understand these aspects.

The program consists of two talks and round table discussions on science and life in science. Additionally, there are spots for lunch or dinner with Prof. Fairhall. Sign up HERE!

Monday, 25.11.2019 at 17:00 LMU Biocenter B01.019

Julius Bernstein Lecture: Decoding Complex Representations in Dopamine

Tuesday, 26.11.2019 at 9:00 LMU Biocenter B01.015

Round Table Discussions

Tuesday, 26.11.2019 at 13:00 LMU Biocenter D00.003

Open Discussion Forum: The State of Theory in Neuroscience

2018

Matteo Carandini (UCL)

2017

Christof Koch (Allen Institute for Brain Science) - cancelled

2016

Gina Turrigiano (Brandeis University)

2015

Gilles Laurent (MPI for Brain Research)

2014

Ed Boyden (MIT)

2013

Larry Abbott (Columbia University)

2012

Nikos Logothetis (MPI for Biological Cybernetics)

2011

May-Britt Moser (Kavli Institute of Systems Neuroscience)

2010

Karel Svoboda (Janelia Research Campus)

2009

Markus Meister (Caltech)

Talking Science is made possible through the generous support of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Munich and organized by:

• Diana Amaro (LMU)
• Tobias Bernklau (TUM)
• Yannik Bauer (LMU)
• Virginia Palieri (MPI for Neurobiology)