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October 2,
2023
The Swartz Foundation is happy to announce the four winners of the 4th Round of the Open Post-Doc Competition:
1. Dr. Asma Motiwala from Carnegie-Mellon University for her research on uncovering dynamics of movement preparation and memory maintenance using volitional control-based causal perturbations;
2. Dr. Caitlin Lienkaemper from Boston University for her research on using Combinatorial Threshold Linear Networks for studying the relationship between structure and dynamics in neural systems;
3. Dr. Navid Shervani-Tabar from Notre Dame University for his research on mathematical and computational approaches that foster brain-like learning in deep neural models by developing biologically plausible learning algorithms; and
4. Dr. Connor Bybee from UC Berkeley for his research on integrating complex brain computation and stochastic neural dynamics.
The Swartz Foundation congratulates the new Fellows and wishes them success in their research endeavors.
August 1,
2023
The Swartz Foundation Announces the 4th Round of the Open Post-Doc Competition
Submission deadline is September 13, 2023.
April 10,
2023
25th Annual
Stony Brook
Mind/Brain
Lecture
"Deciphering the Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia"
Featuring Prof. Emery N. Brown, MD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital.
August 25,
2022
2022
Annual Meeting for
The Swartz
Foundation
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
Long Island, NY
More information is available
here.
May 17,
2022
Past
recipients of the
Swartz Prize are
awarded the Gruber
Prize
All the four researchers
recently awarded the 2022
Gruber Prize in
Neuroscience
-- Prof. Larry Abbott (Columbia
U), Prof. Emery Neal Brown
(MIT/Harvard-MGH), Prof.
Terrence Sejnowski (Salk/UCSD),
and Prof. Haim Sompolinsky
(Hebrew U / Harvard U) -- have
been earlier recipients of the
Swartz Prize for Theoretical and
Computational Neuroscience (in
2010, 2020, 2011, and 2015,
respectively). For over 25 years
the Swartz Foundation has had a
leading role in fostering this
important field of research, and
this Prize is a wonderful
affirmation.
April 4,
2022
24th Annual
Stony Brook
Mind/Brain
Lecture
"Constructing the World of Taste
in Your Head"
Featuring Prof. Donald Katz,
Brandeis University
October 4,
2021
The
Swartz Foundation
2021 Annual
Meeting
This virtual meeting was
organized and led by profs. A.
Fairhall and E. Shea-Brown from
the U of Washington in Seattle.
The meeting agenda and selected
talks and presentation slides
are available
here.
Sept 2, 2020
The Swartz Foundation Announces Winners of the Open Post-Doc Competition
The Swartz Foundation is happy to announce the two winners of the 3rd Round of the Open Post-Doc Competition:
Dr. Ann Watson Draelos from Duke University for her research proposal on adaptive algorithms for automated circuit dissection, and Dr. Gregory A. Handy from the University of Chicago for his research proposal on theoretical frameworks for plasticity in diverse brain cell types.
The Swartz Foundation congratulates the new Fellows and wishes them success in their research endeavors.
The
Swartz Foundation
Announces the 3rd
Round of the Open
Post-Doc
Competition
Submission Deadline was
August 5, 2020. This competition
is now closed.
July 21-24,
2019
Sloan-Swartz
Centers for
Theoretical
Neurobiology: 2019
Annual
Meeting
Janelia Research Campus,
Ashburn, VA
April 4,
2016
20th
Annual Stony Brook
Mind/Brain
Lecture
Featuring Alan Alda, Nobel
Laureate Eric Kandel and
renowned mathematician Jim
Simons
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Research Centers and Initiatives
Brandeis University
California Institute of Technology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Columbia University
Harvard University
New York University
Princeton University
Salk Institute
University of California at San Diego
University of Washington
Yale University
The Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
The Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience was established in 2008. It is an annual award supported by the Swartz Foundation and administered by the Society for Neuroscience.
The award "honors an individual whose activities have produced a significant cumulative contribution to theoretical models or computational methods in neuroscience or who has made a particularly noteworthy recent advance in theoretical or computational neuroscience."
The winner receives a cash prize of US$30000 and expenses to attend the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. The list of awardees is available
here.
The awardee for 2021 is Prof. Nicolas Brunel of Duke University.
Mind/Brain Lecture Series
Since 1997 the Swartz Foundation has been sponsoring the annual Mind/Brain Lecture Series, hosted by the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Stony Brook University In New York. For a list of past speakers please click
here.
For information about the current lecture please click
here.
As described in this link, "the lecture series promotes the philosophical and scientific perspective that properties of the mind � from sensory perception to learning to thinking to consciousness � are a direct product of the intrinsic physical properties of the brain."
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