Stay up-to-date on events organized/sponsored by or of interest to the CTCN and affiliated faculty.
Upcoming events
The CTCN Public Lecture on Minds and Machines
4 p.m. May 5, 2025, Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (open to public)*
Scaling Intelligence the Human Way
*Zoom room in Somers Family Hall, Room 216, Danforth Campus (WashU community only)
2025 Computational Neuroscience Next Generation Symposium
Sept. 15-16, 2025, Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building
Graduate students and postdocs are invited to present their research at WashU.
Previous events
CTCN Seminar Series: Sanjoy Dasgupta, PhD
4 p.m. March 18, 2025, Brauer Hall 12, McKelvey School of Engineering, Danforth Campus*
Neural Machines: From Fruit Flies to Embedded Devices
Joint CTCN/CCSN Seminar: Randall O’Reilly, PhD
4 p.m. Feb. 11, 2025, Brauer Hall 12, McKelvey School of Engineering, Danforth Campus*
A Simulated Rat Pauses to Contemplate Its Future
This event is co-sponsored by the Cognitive, Computational and Systems Neuroscience Pathway (CCSN).
CTCN Talk: Zeyuan Wang
10 a.m. Jan. 15, 2025, Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
Exploring Biologically Plausible Neural Networks
CTCN Seminar Series: Anastasia Yendiki, PhD
4 p.m. Jan. 14, 2025, Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
Towards a Microscale Human Connectome
Biology Department Seminar: John Beggs, PhD
4 p.m. Dec. 16, 2024, Rebstock 322
The cortex and the critical point (what is criticality, and why should you care?)
CTCN Talk: Wanyu Lei
4 p.m. Dec. 3, 2024, Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
Feature Computation and Representation in the Brain and Artificial Neural Networks
CTCN Seminar Series: Anne Churchland, PhD
4 p.m. Oct. 22, 2024, Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
Movements and Engagement During Perceptual Decision-Making
Jaynes Centennial Symposium
Oct. 15, 2024
Join us for a symposium to celebrate the accomplishments of Edwin T. Jaynes, a distinguished physics professor whose work helped to shape the future of quantum science.
CTCN Seminar Series: Gasper Tkacik, PhD
4 p.m. Oct. 1, 2024, Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
Neural Coding: From Optimality Theories to Data
TRIADS Speaker Series: David Chalmers
Sept. 20, 2024
The Transdisciplinary Institute in Applied Data Sciences presents the TRIADS Speaker Series: David Chalmers, at 10 am. Sept. 20 for his talk “Can ChatGPT Think?”