April 8, 2024

26th Annual Stony Brook Mind/Brain Lecture
"Everyone knows what attention is..." - On its neural basis in the primate brain. The lecture will be given by Prof. Sabine Kastner from Princeton University.
March 5, 2024

Three Center Directors of the Swartz Foundation are awarded the Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize
The Swartz Foundation is happy and proud to congratulate Larry Abbott, Terrence Sejnowski and Haim Sompolinsky for being awarded the 2024 prestigious Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize for their pioneering contributions to the field of computational and theoretical neuroscience. All three winners have been Directors of the Swartz Centers at Columbia U., Salk Institute, and Harvard U., respectively.
For 30 years the Swartz Foundation has had a leading role in fostering this important field of research, and this Prize is a wonderful affirmation of its role.

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