room 46-3189 (MIT Brain and Cognitive sciences department, map: https://goo.gl/maps/Rb2cmKqYe1C2
Free Will: Delusional or Real?
Friday Sept 23rd, 2:30 to 4:00 PM in 46-3189 (MIT, see below for details)
Please sign up here so we know how many snacks to get: https://www.facebook.com/events/775624079206673/
Description:
Free Will is conceived as one of the central tenants of human agency. Despite its central importance for moral responsibility and law, its existence as a real or a delusionary concept still under heated debate. The panel will tackle questions like: What is free will? Does...
The genomics journal club is returning for another year. We will be meeting every other Wednesday at 10 am, starting Sept 21st, in MCZ 202. For the first meeting, Allison Shultz will lead a discussion of a recent paper on evolution of resistance to transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils:
Epstein, B., Jones, M., Hamede, R., Hendricks, S., McCallum, H., Murchison, E. P., et al. (2016). Rapid evolutionary response to a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils. Nature Communications, 7, 1–7. http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160830/ncomms12684/full/ncomms12684....
Office of Career Services, 54 Dunster St Cambridge, MA 02138
There are many diverse pathways for students with a life sciences concentration. Come hear from experts who have distinctive careers within a number of scientific disciplines. You'll learn how scientists are applying their technical knowledge and expertise to tackle real-world challenges, and hear about where future opportunities may exist.
Panelists will include:
· Victoria Knight-Connoni, Director of Microbial Evaluation at Indigo Agriculture
Marc Freeman, Ph.D. “Astrocyte control of neural circuits and behavior”
Whether astrocytes play direct roles in information processing in the brain remain unclear and controversial. Astrocytes associate with synapses throughout the brain and express receptors for neurotransmitters that can elevate intracellular Ca2+. Astrocyte Ca2+ signaling has been proposed to modulate neural circuit activity, but molecular pathways regulating these events are poorly defined and in vivo evidence linking changes in astrocyte Ca2+ to alterations in...
Monday 19 September 2:15pm (refreshments at 2) Northwest 243
Discovery of Salient Low-Dimensional Dynamical Structure in Neuronal Population Activity Using Hopfield Networks Dr. Felix Effenberger https://felix-effenberger.github.io/academic/
We present a novel method for the classical task of finding and extracting recurring spatiotemporal patterns in parallel spike trains. In contrast to previously proposed methods it does not suffer from combinatorial explosion and does not seek to classify exactly recurring patterns, but rather approximate versions possibly...
Weld Hill Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum, 1300 Centre Street, Boston, MA 02131
Kasia Zieminska Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow
Please feel free to bring a lunch or join us for pizza after the lecture.
For more information about the speaker: http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/people/kasia-zieminska/
Directions for those driving or taking public transportation: http://arboretum.harvard.edu/visit/weld-hill-directions/
For the most up-to-date Arboretum seminar listings, please visit the Arnold Arboretum Seminars calendar:http://arboretum.harvard.edu/research/research-talks/