Jane Wang Department of Physics Cornell University Insect Flight: from Newton’s law to Neurons Insects are the first evolved to fly, and to fly is not to fall. How does an insect fly, why does it fly so well, and how can we infer its ‘thoughts’ from its flight dynamics? We have been […]
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Kostas Daniilidis Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania Geometry-aware deep learning: Equivariant representations for 3D recognition, pose, and motion Traditional convolutional networks have shown unprecedented success in supervised classification yet they are still vulnerable to 3D geometric transformations in their inputs. While data augmentation might alleviate the intrinsic lack of […]
Sandeep Robert Datta Harvard Medical School Relational representations for action and sensation in cortex
John Krakauer C. Malone Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, & Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Johns Hopkins University What does Neuroscience want to know? What does it mean to ask “How does the brain work?” or “What is the neural basis for cognition?” The argument I will make is that mind answers and brain answers are […]
The 2018-2019 Center for Neuroscience and Society (CNS) Talk Series focuses on Drugs, the Brain and Society. Lectures run 4:30-5:30 followed by discussion and a reception. Our lectures are free to attend, but due to limited seating, please rsvp to: info@neuroethics.upenn.edu. Thursday, February 7 4:30pm Addiction is a brain disease and it still matters* Alan I. Leshner, CEO Emeritus, American Association […]