Vyash Puliyadi PhD Dissertation Defense
Vyash Puliyadi public presentation of his PhD Dissertation in Krieger 347
Vyash Puliyadi public presentation of his PhD Dissertation in Krieger 347
Growing up in Science is a worldwide set of conversations about the lived experiences of scientists. In 2014, it was started by Wei Ji Ma as a monthly mentorship series at New York University. In a typical event, one faculty member shares their life story, with a focus on struggles, failures, doubts, detours, and weaknesses. […]
Title: The cognitive science of multi-step planning Weiji Ma, a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at NYU will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Abstract: As DeepMind has revolutionized the AI of planning in combinatorially large problems, our lack of understanding of how humans plan in such […]
Yun-Fei Liu will be defending his dissertation on Tuesday, December 12th from 1-2pm in Ames 217. Ames 217
Policy compression: the quest for simplicity in action selection Sam Gershman, a Professor of Psychology at Harvard will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! The brain has evolved to produce a diversity of behaviors under stringent computational resource constraints. Given this limited capacity, how do biological agents balance […]
Carolyn Parkinson, an Associate Professor of Psychology at UCLA will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Title and Abstract coming soon.
Neural circuits underlying learned motor sequence execution Bence P. Ölveczky, a Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Abstract: Our ability to sequence movements and actions in response to unpredictable environmental events underlies our rich and adaptive behavioral repertoire. Such flexible behaviors contrast […]
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Richly structured reward predictions in dopaminergic learning circuits Angela Langdon from the National Institute of Mental Health will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Theories from reinforcement learning have been highly influential for interpreting neural activity in the biological circuits critical for animal and human learning. Central among […]
Cognitive tools for uncovering useful abstractions Judith Fan, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford, will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! In the 17th century, the Cartesian coordinate system was groundbreaking. It exposed the unity between algebra and geometry, accelerating the development of the math that took […]
Combinatorial Creatures: Cortical plasticity within and across lifetimes. Leah Krubitzer, Professor of Psychology at UC-Davis, a will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! The neocortex is one of the most distinctive structures of the mammalian brain, yet also one of the most varied in terms of both size and […]
Elizabeth Spelke, a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, will be giving a Colloquium talk at 3:30 pm with a Q+A to follow! Title and Abstract coming soon.