Stefan Köhler
Western University
Steve Furber
University of Manchester
The SpiNNaker Project
Research2Reality, a new social media and television campaign by six of Canada’s top research institutions — including the University of Waterloo — aims to bring high-impact university research to the living rooms and laptops of millions of Canadians.
The campaign, which will grow to include six public service announcements airing on the Discovery and Discovery Science channels, looks at the ways Canadian research impacts issues that matter deeply to Canadians, including health, technology, natural resources and sustainable energy.
The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo is holding their second annual summer school on large-scale brain modelling. The two-week school will teach participants how to use the Nengo simulation package to build state-of-the-art cognitive and neural models.
Graham Taylor
University of Guelph
Learning Representations with Multiplicative Interactions
Melvyn A. Goodale
University of Western Ontario
How We See and Hear Stuff: Visual and Auditory Routes to Understanding the Material Properties of Objects
Ben Thompson
University of Waterloo
Learning to See with a “Lazy Eye”; Harnessing Visual Cortex Plasticity to Treat Amblyopia
Speaker: Marc Bellemare (University of Alberta)
Title: Pixels and Priors: Learning a Generative Model of Atari 2600 Games
Speaker: Josh Berke (University of Michigan)
Next Colloquium
The brain is a horrendously complex and poorly understood system that poses both an immense challenge -- and possibly rich rewards -- to neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and computer scientists.