Events

ILST seminar: Heidi Getz

December 10, 2018
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Location : 3401 Walnut Street, Room 401B of the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences Time : 1:30pm, Snacks provided!   Heidi Getz Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery Georgetown University   Sentence First, Arguments After: Mechanisms of Morphosyntax Acquisition   Natural languages contain complex grammatical patterns. For example, in German, verbs are morphologically finite when they […]

CNI Seminar: Matthew Schaff

December 11, 2018
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Matthew Schaff Department of Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania   Pairwise correlations in macaque auditory cortex predict multi-neuronal firing patterns   Our understanding of the function of the auditory cortex derives almost exclusively from experiments that study the coding properties of single neurons. Although these studies have shed important information, they are limited because they have […]

CNI seminar: Josh Merel

December 13, 2018
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Josh Merel DeepMind   Learning to generate humanoid motor behavior   In recent years, advances in reinforcement learning have made it increasingly possible to learn to solve complex tasks in a variety of domains. Our recent work mostly focuses on motor control for simulated bodies, with an aim towards building systems capable of generating flexible, […]