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您好！实验室邀请了Hebrew  University的Professor Haim  Sompolinsky来讲座，欢迎感兴趣的老师和同学参加。讲座信息如下：

报告人：Haim Sompolinsky  (Professor of Physics and William N. Skirball  Professor of Neuroscience at The Hebrew  University）

题目：In quest for the  emergent brain

时间：10:00 AM, 20 July, 2012  (Friday)

地点：北京师范大学脑成像中心3层大会议室

报告人简介：

Prof Haim Sompolinsky  is the pioneer of theoretical neuroscience. Prof. Sompolinsky aims to uncover  the fundamental principles of the organization, the dynamics and the function of  the brain, viewing the brain through multiscale lenses, spanning the molecular,  the cellular, and the circuit levels. Prof. Sompolinsky has developed new  theoretical approaches to computational neuroscience based on the principles and  methods of statistical physics, and physics of dynamical and stochastic systems.  This new field, Neurophysics, builds in part on Sompolinsky's earlier work on  critical phenomena, random systems, spin glasses, and chaos. His research areas  cover theoretical and computational investigations of cortical dynamics, sensory  processing, motor control, neuronal population coding, long and short-term  memory, and neural learning. The highlights of his research include theories and  models of local cortical circuits, visual cortex, associative memory,  statistical mechanics of learning, chaos and excitation-inhibition balance in  neuronal networks, principles of neural population codes, statistical mechanics  of compressed sensing and sparse coding in neuronal systems, and the Tempotron  model of spike time based neural learning. Prof. Sompolinsky is  the founder of several units of computational neuroscience research, including  Hebrew University's Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, the new  Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, computational neuroscience  research and education at Harvard, Swartz Theoretical Neuroscience Program at  Harvard.Prof. has been awarded  several grand awards including Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational  Neuroscience, Landau Prize for Brain Science, Foreign Honorary Member of the  American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Prof Sompolinsky has  published more than 150 papers in prestigious journals suc as Science, Ann  Review Neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience,Neuron, Plos  Biology,J.Neuroscience,Physical review letter etc.

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