UWIN hosts a monthly seminar series that highlights neural engineering and computational neuroscience research at the University of Washington. The seminar series also brings external speakers to campus. The 2018-19 seminar series is as follows:
Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 3:30pm, Health Sciences Building (HSB) G-328
- “Challenges in Optimizing Deep Brain Stimulation
Howard Chizeck, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
- “Trans-skull imaging of brain activity in neonatal mice during spontaneous sleep-wake cycles”
Bill Moody, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Washington
Wednesday, November 14, 2018, 3:30pm, Health Sciences Building (HSB) K-069 – a special joint UWIN/eScience seminar:
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“Digital Biomarkers: Do they hold promise for better neuropsychiatric disease detection?”
Reza Hosseini Ghomi, Senior Fellow, Department of Neurology, University of Washington; Chief Medical Officer, NeuroLex Laboratories
Wednesday, December 12, 2018, 3:30pm, Husky Union Building (HUB) 337
- “Engineering Odor Guided Flight”
Tom Daniel, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Washington
- “Highly-Integrated Neural Stimulation Electronics for Bidirectional Brain-Computer Interfaces (BBCI) including Artifact Cancellation”
Chris Rudell, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Wednesday, January 9, 2019, 3:30pm, Husky Union Building (HUB) 337
- “Successful learning in artificial networks thanks to individual neuron failure”
Guillaume Lajoie, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Université de Montréal, Associate Member, Mila — Quebec Institute for Learning Algorithms
Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 3:30pm, Husky Union Building (HUB) 337
- “Quantitative methods to identify behavioral states”
Adam Calhoun, Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Neuroscience Insititute, Princeton University
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 3:30pm, Husky Union Building (HUB) 337
- “Dissecting the closed-loop feedback in animal echolocation”
Wu-Jung Lee, Research Associate, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington
- “Sensory Substitution, Multisensory Conflict, and Body Ownership: Stepping, Seeing, Sensing, Stabbing!”
Eric Rombokas , Research Scientist, VA Center for Limb Loss and Mobility; Affiliate Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington
Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 3:30pm, Husky Union Building (HUB) 337
- “Computational models of cortical plasticity induced with brain-computer interfaces”
Eberhard Fetz, Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington
- “Probing spatial and color vision at the resolution of single cone photoreceptors”
Ramkumar Sabesan, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington
Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 3:30pm, Husky Union Building (HUB) 337
- “Machine theories of animal learning”
Kameron Decker Harris, Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of Computer Science & Engineering and Biology, University of Washington
- “Cortical plasticity when interfacing with a brain-computer interface”
Jeff Ojemann, Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington
