Queens, NY – The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI), the AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence (ARNI), and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at…

Weekly Meeting Group Discussion: Saket Navlakha, Associate Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Labs (Available via Zoom) Saket Navlakha, Associate Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Labs, will present his work, "Reducing…

Title: The auditory cortex: A sensorimotor fulcrum for speech and music perception Abstract: The Auditory cortex sits at the center of all auditory-motor tasks and percepts, from listening to our…

Title: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason with Reinforcement Learning Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss how we can use Reinforcement Learning (RL) to improve reasoning in Large Language Models (LLM),…

Title: Phase transition in learning with neural networks  Abstract: Statistical physics has studied exactly solvable models of neural networks for more than four decades. In this talk, we will put…

Title: Neural basis for skilled movements Abstract: Generating behavior is an incredible achievement of the nervous system, considering the range of possible actions and the complexity of musculoskeletal arrangements. Motor…

Title: Scope of the working group, example project, and literature Short Description: From Nikolaus Kriegeskorte's (Professor of Psychology and of Neuroscience (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)…

Title: Efficient coding in reward neurons Abstract: Two of the greatest triumphs of computational neuroscience have been efficient coding accounts of tuning properties of sensory neurons and reinforcement learning accounts…

Title: Translating computational mechanisms to clinical applications Computational psychiatry is a rapidly growing field attempting to translate advances in computational neuroscience and machine learning into improved outcomes for patients suffering…

Title: A recurrent network model of planning explains hippocampal replay and human behaviour Abstract:  When faced with a novel situation, humans often spend substantial periods of time contemplating possible futures. For…