Thought Process a podcast by UWloo alumnus Jack MacKinnon features conversations with CTN members:
CTN Founding Director Chris Eliasmith discusses if AI can ever be truly conscious on the Machine Learning Street Talk podcast.
Sue Ann Campbell is President Elect of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society. CAIMS represents applied and industrial mathematics in Canada. The society has become a significant presence in industrial, scientific, and technological circles within and outside of Canada.
The University of Waterloo's Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience seminar series begins the Fall 2022 term on October 25 with a virtual presentation by Adrien Peyrache at 14:30, and continues the following week, Nov 1 at 14:30 with a virtual presentation by Yalda Mohsenzadeh.
The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience will be hosting its first Research Day. This will be a chance to start the new academic year by getting re-acquainted with each other and the diversity of research conducted by CTN core and affiliate faculty.
Bryan Tripp and collaborators have published a new paper in PLOS Computational Biology showing how biological constraints can lead to a highly effective model of mouse visual cortex.
As part of her recent Master's work in Psychology (Updating Local and Global Probability Events During Maze Navigation) Sixuan Chen completed the diploma in Theoretical Neuroscience. Congratulations Sixuan. Sixuan is currently a lab manager and research associate with the laboratory of Wei Ji Ma of New York University.
Britt Anderson, CTN core member (Psychology) will be a discussant for the "What is Attention?" session of the London School of Economics workshop: Attention: An international workshop to be held Sept 14 and 15.
Wonder what you missed at the University of Waterloo's Brain Day? The videos from our three live and one remote lecture are now live at our youtube channel.
Founding member of CTN, Professor emeritus of Philosophy, and 2013 Killam prize winner Paul Thagard has a new book out: Bots and Beasts: What makes Machines, Animals and People smart.