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As of Aug 28th, meetings take place in EC4 2101a (Boardroom), Thurs at 12:30p.

This year's meetings:

• Jan 10: Welcome back! Nicole's PhD Practice talk
• Jan 17: Karim and Graeme on their MPC-Diffusion project
• Jan 24: Isaac on his mental multiplication model
• Jan 31: roundtable
• Feb 7: Varun LLM reasoning paper
• Feb 14: Graeme on adaptive MPC
• Feb 21: Reading week (no meeting)
• Feb 28: Jake on memory adjacent neuroanatomy
• Mar 7: Michael on BO for space
• Mar 13 (Thurs noon, E7- 7411): Summer School Ranking & Graeme and Kathryn on SSPs for adaptive control (practice talk)
• Mar 21: No meeting Chris away
• Mar 28: No meeting Chris away
• Apr 4: Michael and nicole on BO paper as resubmitted
• Apr 11: Graeme on NICE highlights
• Apr 18: good friay (no meeting)
• Apr 25: roundtable
• May 2: roundtable (sprint preparation)
• May 9: Katherine, Lea, Hudson on Spaun 3
• May 16: Isaac and Varun posters
• May 23: Isaac on scene decomposition
• May 30: Anna and Michael visual working memory SSP poster
• Jun 6 & 13: No meeting, Nengo Summer School!
• Jun 20: Summer School debrief, roundtable
• Jun 27: Varun on croatia conference, Graeme poster
• July 4: Isaac on croatia
• July 11: no meeting (chris, michael, nicole away)
• July 18: Graeme on ACC
• July 25: no meeting (chris away)
• Aug 1: report from Telluride (nicole, varun, michael, chris)
• Aug 8: no meeting (chris away)
• Aug 15: roundtable
• Aug 22: no meeting (chris away)
• Aug 28: round table
• Sept 4: intros, new students, roundtable
• Sept 11: no meeting (chris away)
• Sept 18: Karim on lastest ssp cleanup
• Sept 25: kathryn, lea, nicole, cici - Spaun 3 update
• Oct 2: roundtable
• Oct 9: kathryn on neural circuits for threat representation
• Oct 16: no meeting (reading week)
• Oct 23: samarth on optical neural networks
• Oct 30: no meeting (chris away)
• Nov 6: no meeting (chris away)
• Nov 13: moxu on robot arm and vision system he built
• Nov 18: (Tuesday 12p-1p) graeme practice talk for comp (optional)
• Nov 20: no meeting (graeme PhD comprehensive)
• Nov 27: michael survey of state of the art for VSAs
• Dec 4: varun on EMNLP in china
• Dec 11: isaac on latest arc model/paper
• Dec 18:

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Meetings take place in E7 6443, Friday at 12:00a.

This year's meetings:

• Jan 12: Welcome back! Roundtable
• Jan 19: Karim will present the Mamba paper
• Jan 26: Roundtable
• Feb 2: Roundtable
• Feb 9: Ryan (whiskers) and Graeme (finger)
• Feb 16: Maddy - basal ganglia paper; conferences revisit
• Feb 23: no meeting - reading week
• Mar 1: Michael & Nicole - aistats paper (SSP sampling)
• Mar 8: no meeting - Chris away
• Mar 15: no meeting - Chris away
• Mar 22: no meeting - Chris away
• Mar 29: no meeting - Good Friday
• Apr 5: Karim - diffusion with SSPs
• Apr 12: Michael - two NICE papers
• Apr 19: Varun - tree of throught
• Apr 26: Roundtable
• May 3: Nicole - RL with Nengo (PhD Seminar)
• May 10: Michael - NICE summary
• May 17: Michael - QBO work
• May 24: Roundtable
• May 31: Pete - his speed accuracy tradeoff paper
• Jun 7: no meeting - summer school
• Jun 14: no meeting - summer school
• Jun 21: no meeting - chris away
• Jun 28: summer school debrief
• Jul 5: roundtable
• Jul 12: no meeting - Chris away
• Jul 19: Masters class in all things academic
• Jul 26: Ryan poster practice & Telluride debrief
• Aug 2: No meeting - Chris away
• Aug 9: Karim on GFlowNets
• Aug 16: No meeting - Chris away
• Aug 23: No meeting - Chris away
• Aug 30: roundtable
• Sept 6: Ryan - Conference summary
• Sept 13: Graeme - MPC results
• Sept 20: Varun - poster presentation and conference summary
• Sept 27: Michael on ICANN conference; Jake & Isaac - recent cool project
• Oct 4: Michael - autoregressive paper
• Oct 11: Conference project planning discussion
• Oct 18: roundtable
• Oct 25: Chris - continuous backprop for RL paper
• Nov 1: Michael - risk aware RL proposal
• Nov 8: Jake - concepts
• Nov 15: Ryan - defense practice
• Nov 22: Nicole - seminar
• Nov 29: Michael - robustness of neural networks
• Dec 6: Graeme - adaptive control with SSPs
• Dec 13: Karim - SSPs for image processing
• Dec 20: end of year (no meeting)

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Meetings take place in E7 6323, Friday at high noon (12 p.m.).

This year's meetings:

• Jan 13: Continuous time neural nets paper
• Jan 20: Brain sciences paper (maddy, nicole, chris, terry)
• Jan 27: Large language models survey (terry)
• Feb 3: Reward and efficient coding paper
• Feb 10: roundtable
• Feb 17: Nat's paper
• Feb 24: none (reading week)
• Mar 3: michael's SSP library
• Mar 10: reading raj rao's recent paper
• Mar 17: pete's practice defense; roundtable (time permitting)
• Mar 24: no meeting?(chris away)
• Mar 31: cancelled (Pete's defense at the same time/place)
• Apr 7: cancelled (good friday)
• Apr 14: reviewing summer school applicants
• Apr 21: Nicole, ICCM paper, Ryan, LMU Project
• Apr 28: Cancelled (ryan and chris away)
• May 5: Roundtable
• May 12: Michael, Terry, ICCM Prob papers
• May 17: Roundtable
• May 24: Roundtable
• Jun 2: pete on compute canada optimization package; terry on nrc/montreal trip
• Jun 9 - 15: cancelled (summer school)
• Jun 23: cancelled (people away)
• Jun 30: Pete D on how to use Compute Canada effectively
• Jul 7: Roundtable
• Jul 14: Discuss lecture 1 from Telluride
• Jul 21: Discuss lecture 2 from Telluride
• Jul 28: cancelled (chris away)
• Aug 4: Discuss lecture 3 from Telluride
• Aug 11: cancelled (chris away)
• Sept 8: Welcome roundtable
• Sept 15: figure out lab meeting schedule/roundtable
• Sept 22: Varun on quantum machine learning
• Sept 29: Karim on magnetic control of microbots and maybe LLMs
• Oct 6: roundtable
• Oct 13: Nicole CS Seminar on SLAM modeling
• Oct 20: Michael practice talk for AAAI
• Oct 27: Pete on compute canada methods
• Nov 3: Chris on conferences and deadlines we track
• Nov 10: Michael on sampling for SSP methods
• Nov 17: roundtable
• Nov 24: Nat practice PhD defense talk
• Dec 1: Cancelled (chris away)
• Dec 8: Michael on the Fourier former paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.00206.pdf)
• Dec 15: Cancelled (chris away)
• Dec 22:

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Meetings take place in E7 6323, Friday at high noon (12 p.m.).

This year's meetings:

• Sept 9: Welcome back! And round table
• Sept 16: Cancelled (people travelling)
• Sept 23: My favourite things from CogSci
• Sept 30: Sindi method (Nat)
• Oct 7: Amygdala model results (Pete)
• Oct 14: no meeting (reading week)
• Oct 21: deepmind paper on RL for matrix multiply
• Oct 28: round table
• Nov 4: round table
• Nov 11: Nicole comprehensive practice talk
• Nov 18: Hopfield networks is all you need blog/paper
• Nov 25: Hopfield networks (round 2)
• Dec 2: Round table
• Dec 9: Continuous time neural nets paper
• Dec 16: round table
• Jan 9: round table
• Jan 16: Brain sciences paper (maddy, nicole, chris, terry)
• Jan 23: Large language models survey (terry)
• Jan 30: Reward and efficient coding paper

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Meetings take place in E7 6323 online Friday at high noon (12 p.m.).

This year's meetings:

• Jan 8: Nicole on path integration work
• Jan 15: Round table
• Jan 22: Round table
• Jan 29: Andreas' tech report
• Feb 5: roundtable
• Feb 12: Nani 2nd order optimization methods; icml paper
• Feb 19: Nicole's cosyne poster
• Feb 26: Pete on his website - come ready to test it!
• Mar: Roundtables, abr discussion
• Apr 2: good friday
• Apr 23: nani on debugging neural networks
• Apr 30: Pawel on visual odometry
• May 7: michael on mutual information sampling with SSPs
• May 14: thomas master's thesis final talk
• May 21: nicole on complementary learning paper
• May 28: pete SYDE seminar presentation
• Jun 4: round table
• Jun 11: nat talk on recent work for syde seminar
• Jun 18: round table
• Jun 25: round table
• Jul 2: cancelled (canada day weekend)
• Jul 9: cancelled
• Jul 16: cancelled (chris away)
• Jul 23: roundtable
• Jul 30: roundtable
• Aug 6: pete on oscillators with nicole
• Aug 13: roundtable
• Aug 20: (last meeting)
• Aug 27: cancelled (chris away)

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Meetings take place in E7 6323 Friday at high noon (12 p.m.).

This year's meetings:

• Jan 10: Roundtable
• Jan 17: Ivana talks about her internship (starting at 1p)
• Jan 24: TBD
• Jan 31: Roundtable
• Feb 7: Nicole grid cells
• Feb 14: Andreas cerebellum
• Feb 21: reading week
• Feb 28: Nat prospectus practice
• Mar 6: Brent maze repn
• Mar 13: Pete decision making
• Mar 20: cancelled (covid)
• Mar 27: cancelled (covid)
• Apr 3: roundtable
• Apr 10: cancelled (covid)
• Apr 17: roundtable
• Apr 24: roundtable
• May 1: nicole on RL paper
• May 8: nat on MOSAIC model
• May 15: andreas on cerebellar model
• May 22: terry on his iccm submissions
• May 29: roundtable
• Jun 5: roundtable
• Jun 12: andreas on temporal tuning curves
• Jun 19: nani on feedfwd LMU training and NLP (maybe)
• Jun 26: chris on dynamic SSPs
• Jul 3: thomas on thesis plan and gesture recognition
• Jul 10: cogsci 3 min videos
• July 17: no meeting (chris away)
• July 24: roundtable
• July 31: no meeting (cogsci)
• Aug 7: cogsci review
• Aug 14 - Sept 4: no meeting
• Sept 11: brent thesis defense practice; roundtable
• Sept 18: roundtable
• Sept 25: ivana thesis defense practice
• Oct 2: roundtable
• Oct 9: terry on telluride
• Oct 16: pete d on his rl project
• Oct 23: nicole on her rl project
• Oct 30: roundtable
• Nov 6: roundtable
• Nov 13: hippo paper discussion: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.07669.pdf
• Nov 20: ivana on wisconsin card task
• Nov 27: michael on his past research
• Dec 4: roundtable
• Dec 11: nani on lmu deeplearning
• Jan 8: nicole on path integration work

Here we will post slides/discussions/papers related to recent or upcoming lab meetings. Subject to change, of course.

Meetings take place in E7 6323 Friday at high noon (12 p.m.).

This year's meetings:

• Jan 4: No meeting
• Jan 11: Roundtable
• Jan 18: Roundtable; Ivana talks about her internship
• Jan 25: Roundtable; cogsci updates
• Feb 1: roundtable; cogsci final results
• Feb 8: nat; arm model
• Feb 15: no meeting; chris away
• Feb 22: no meeting; reading week
• Mar 1: joost; intro to interests, recent work, etc.
• Mar 8: pete; bioneuron stuff
• Mar 15: no meeting; chris away
• Mar 22: Ivana giving an overview of recent NLP research
• Mar 29: chris; goings on in abr
• Apr 5: brent; practice syde talk
• Apr 12: pete; prospectus practice
• Apr 19: no meeting; good friday
• Apr 26: no meeting; chris away
• May 3: thomas; syde project (object visual memory)
• May 10: nat; syde project (reaching)
• May 17: roundtable
• May 24: no meeting (Kamp Steve!)
• May 31: ivana: LMU paper
• Jun 7: duggins consciousness
• Jun 14-21: no meeting (Brain Camp)
• Jun 28: roundtable
• Jul 5: no meeting (Telluride)
• Jul 12: joost; iccm test talk; paul thagard; cogsci talk
• Jul 19: thomas/brent; cogsci talks
• Jul 26: no meeting (cogsci)
• Aug 2: cogsci debrief
• Aug 9 - Aug 23: no meetings (various travel/3 conferences)
• Aug 30: jason; tbd
• Sept 6: roundtable
• Sept 13: andreas, comp presentation; cogsci/cosyne projects?
• Sept 20: terry, travels and collabs
• Sept 27: tbd (climate strike)
• Oct 4: cogsci updates
• Oct 11: nat and pete, SfN posters
• Oct 18: nani, practice talk for ml course
• Oct 25: pete on sfn, roundtable
• Nov 1: nat on sfn
• Nov 8: terry on learning and using predictions with lmus
• Nov 15: read and discuss this StarCraft paper
• Nov 22: Roundtable
• Nov 29: Roundtable
• Dec 6: nicole lead discussion of this paper
• Dec 13: pete decision model; nani course project
• Dec 20: hugo 'what I did here' :) (No more meetings this year!)

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Meetings take place in E7 6323 Friday at high noon.

Nengo development meetings take place based on the schedule here, and run for an hour.

This year's meetings:

• Jan 5: Allen on population mode
• Jan 12: cogsci update
• Jan 19: Chp 7 & 8 of HTBAB (Andreas) Note: 11am Start
• Jan 26: Chp 9 & 10 of HTBAB (Su)
• Feb 2: NengoLib (Aaron)
• Feb 9: Brent on "What I did this Fall."
• Feb 16: Ryan & Andreas on course project
• Feb 23: no meeting (reading week)
• Mar 2: no meeting (chris away)
• Mar 9: no meeting (chris away)
• Mar 16: no meeting (chris away)
• Mar 23: what we saw at cosyne
• Mar 30: no meeting (good friday)
• Apr 6: no meeting (brain day)
• Apr 13: no meeting (chris away)
• Apr 20: roundtable
• Apr 27: ivana on semantic network structure
• May 4: chris on spaun 2.0
• May 11: su on learning priors in spiking nets, and the oddball task
• May 18: no meeting (chris away)
• May 25: aaron and brent on capo caccia
• Jun 1: jan thesis defense rehearsal and the new nengo-spa
• Jun 8: nengo for summer school
• Jun 15: still nengo summer school
• Jun 22: no meeting (jan defense)
• Jun 29: sverrir CS seminar presentation
• Jul 6, 13: no meeting (people at telluride)
• Jul 20: no meeting (chris, terry away)
• July 27: roundtable
• Aug 3-17: no meeting (chris away)
• Aug 24: Jan on new vector binding method
• Aug 31: terry, aaron, ivana, chris telluride report
• Sep 7: sverrir on iccm and cogsci (and terry)
• Sep 14: no meeting (chris away)
• Sep 21: jason (new ctn researcher) on what he does
• Sep 28: no meeting (chris away)
• Oct 5: roundtable
• Oct 12: tbd
• Oct 19: tbd
• Oct 26: no meeting (chris away)
• Nov 2: roundtable, cogsci/cosyne updates
• Nov 9: no meeting, chris away
• Nov 16: roundtable, cogsci updates
• Nov 23: roundtable
• Nov 30: roundtable
• Dec 7: Andreas practice talk

Here we will post slides/discussions/papers related to recent or upcoming lab meetings. Subject to change, of course.

Meetings take place in PAS 2464 Friday at high noon.

Nengo development meetings take place based on the schedule here, and run for an hour.

This year's meetings:

• Jan 6: Andreas welcome, and talk
• Jan 13: round table
• Jan 20: cancelled (chris away)
• Jan 27: round table (volunteers?)
• Feb 3: cancelled (chris away)
• Feb 10: Cogsci Paper presentations
• Feb 17: finishing cogsci presentations
• Feb 24: no meeting (reading week)
• Mar 3: Evaluating applications for summer school
• Mar 10: Jan on Latex best practicies
• Mar 17: Chris: What I saw at NICE 2017
• Mar 24: Field trip (neurorobotics lab)
• Mar 31: round table
• April 7: Dr. Sue Ann Campbell from Faculty of Math on her research
• April 13: special time (Thursday, 11-noon) Aaron on delays and synapses
• April 14: no meeting (good friday)
• April 21: no meeting (chris away)
• April 28: Jan on new learning rule
• May 5: Andreas on 556 project
• May 12: Ryan on HCI project
• May 19: Terry on fluid grammar
• May 26: no meeting (heading to the cottage!)
• June 2: Ryan on 556 project
• June 9: no meeting (Summer School)
• June 16: no meeting (Summer School)
• June 23: Jan on nengo_spa
• June 30 - July 13: no meetings (people away; telluride)
• July 20: Cogsci practice talks
• July 28: No meeting (people away; cogsci)
• Aug 4: Cogsci recap; Andreas on ECE course project
• Aug 11: no meeting (chris away)
• Aug 18: no meeting (chris away; woods hole)
• Aug 25: Andreas on conductance based synapses
• Sept 1: Cogsci recap for real
• Sept 8: Florian on what he did this summer (SPA for classification in vehicles)
• Sept 15: Brainstorm for next cogsci conf submissions
• Sept 22: Cancelled (Paulfest conference)
• Sept 29: Jamie (maybe?) on 'population level' in Nengo
• Oct 6: Cancelled (Chris away)
• Oct 13: Duggins on master's thesis results
• Oct 20: Su on 'what I did this summer'
• Oct 27: Sverrir on past research
• Nov 3: Jan on Gephi; Chp 1 of HTBAB (Duggins)
• Nov 10: Chp 2 (No one, review) & 3 (Ryan) of HTBAB
• Nov 17: Chp 4 of HTBAB (Ivana)
• Nov 24: Pete Suma on Master's thesis and Terry on unified models of mind
• Dec 1: Eric thesis practice; Chp 5 of HTBAB (Sverrir)
• Dec 8: Chp 6 of HTBAB (Sean)
• Dec 15: Roundtable/Cogsci update
• Next year: Chp 7 & 8 of HTBAB (Andreas); Chp 9 & 10 of HTBAB (Su); HTBAB Appendices (Aaron)

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Meetings take place in PAS 2464 Friday at high noon.

Nengo development meetings take place on Tuesdays at 1p, and run for an hour.

This year's meetings:

• Jan 8: Aaron on BIRS conference
• Jan 15: Aaron on choosing encoders in smart ways
• Jan 22: (no meeting, chris away)
• Jan 29: Pete D on single cells; Brent and Sean on machine learning
• Feb 5: Mariah on big neuro data; Pete and Jan on question answering
• Feb 12: Eric's practice seminar
• Feb 19: cancelled (reading week)
• Feb 26: Dan on Deneve's methods
• Mar 4: Sean on his counting network
• Mar 11: (no meeting, chris away)
• Mar 18: (no meeting, chris away)
• Mar 25: (good friday)
• Apr 1: Workflow tools: Jan and Terry
• Apr 8: Jan on convolutions
• Apr 15: Jan - Seaborn; Terry - CI
• Apr 22: Aaron's seminar on heterogeneous synapses
• April 29: Brent - RATSLAM in Nengo
• May 6: (no meeting, chris talking at SONA)
• May 13: Aaron - Locality sensitive hashing; Ivana - Creativity workshop
• May 20: Su - CNNs for scene recognition; Brent - Sweden hackathon project
• May 27: Sean - Best Practices: PyTest, GitHub, SetupTools
• June 3: Brent - Hyperopt
• June 10-July 1: (no meeting, summer school, chris away, holiday)
• July 8: no meeting (chris away)
• July 15: Pete D - India and all his projects
• July 22: no meeting (chris away)
• July 29: Cogsci Presentations
• Aug 5: no meeting (chris away)
• Aug 12: no meeting (cogsci)
• Aug 19: Eric on Telluride
• Aug 26: no meeting (chris away)
• Sept 2: Mariah - ANDREA and Model based RL
• Sept 9: Pete B - Language
• Sept 16: Cogsci gang report
• Sept 23: Sean on Conceptors and a brief website review/brainstorm
• Sept 30: No meeting (chris away)
• Oct 7: Aaron - Dynamical systems (PhD comp-II report)
• Oct 14: RoundTable (or tbd)
• Oct 21: Charlie Tang (ex-CNRG) on deep learning (i'm guessing)
• Oct 28: Pete D on social modeling
• Nov 4: Discussion of DNC paper and commentary. Be sure to read them in advance!
• Nov 11: Ariel Goldstein on retrieval induced forgetting
• Nov 18: Nachiket Kapre on reconfigurable computing
• Nov 25: Aaron - Geometric decoder optimization
• Dec 2: Discuss possible cog sci topics
• Dec 9: Mariah and Ivana on Grace Hopper
• Dec 16: Terry on NIPS trip
• Jan 6: Welcome back; roundtable
• Jan 13: TBD

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Meetings take place in PAS 2464 Friday at high noon thirty.

Nengo development meetings take place on Tuesdays at noon, and run for half an hour.

This year's meetings:

• Jan 9: Travis defense practise
• Jan 16: Xuan on Spaun pt 1
• Jan 23: Xuan on Spaun pt 2
• Jan 30: Brent on quadcopter modelling
• Feb 6: Youssef on eye control
• Feb 27: Trevor on speech
• Mar 6: Amir on adaptive benchmarking
• Mar 13: Aaron on implementing gradient descent in NEF
• Mar 20: Peter on parsing
• Mar 27: No meeting (Chris away)
• Apr 3: No meeting (good friday)
• Apr 10: How to build a brain (preface & chp 1 - Aaron)
• Apr 17: How to build a brain (chp 2 - Chris [I guess, we can probably skip the NEF])
• Apr 24: How to build a brain (chp 3 - Trevor)
• May 1: How to build a brain (chp 4 - Pete B.)
• May 8: How to build a brain (chp 5 - Youssef)
• May 15: How to build a brain (chp 6 - Jan)
• May 22: How to build a brain (chp 7 - Xuan)
• May 29: How to build a brain (chp 8 - Brent)
• June 5: How to build a brain (chp 9 - Travis)
• June 26: How to build a brain (chp 10 - Eric)
• July 3: Jan practicing proposal defense talk (hippocampus/memory)
• July 10: Discussion of Spaun 2.0
• July 17: Jan and Pete cogsci presentations practice
• July 24: no meeting (people at cogsci)
• July 31: telluride update from eric
• Aug 7: Brent defense talk practice
• Aug 14: Roundtable
• Aug 21: Aaron NLP presentation (Chris cogsci)
• Aug 28: Cancelled
• Sept 4: Roundtable introductions
• Sept 11: No meeting (Chris away, Switzerland)
• Sept 18: Xuan final CS talk
• Sept 25: Terry/Jan Germany trip update/Youssef prospectus practice
• Oct 2: Pete B prospectus practice
• Oct 9: Mariah practice presentation (Chris away, Pittsburgh)
• Oct 16: No meeting (Chris away, China)
• Oct 23: Terry Spain trip update/Sean GUI info flow
• Oct 30: Chris China/Pitt/Montreal(crispr) trip updates; Terry Darpa
• Nov 6: Roundtable!
• Nov 13: Ivana on her recent research
• Nov 20: Cancelled (Lunch with CTN seminar speaker)
• Nov 27: Roundtable
• Dec 4: Xuan on India; Terry on Tutorial
• Dec 11: Chris on BIRS and roundtable
• Dec 18: No meeting; done for the year :)

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Meetings take place in PAS 2464 Fridays at high noon.

Starting January 17, Nengo development meetings will precede lab meetings, running from 11:30am to noon.

This year's meetings:

• Jan 10: Cancelled (chris away)
• Jan 17: Xuan on the super secret project (flying spaceships!)
• Jan 24: Trevor on writing reproducible papers, by example
• Jan 31: Roundtable
• Feb 7: Cogsci Results
• Feb 14: Travis with IARPA practice
• Feb 21: Daniel on hierarchical reinforcement learning model
• Feb 28: Terry on Nengo GUI and roundtable
• Mar 7: Dan and Travis on recent trips
• Mar 14: Trevor on speech recognition and synthesis
• Mar 21: Discussion of Chris's predictions
• Mar 28: Cancelled (Standford/Cornell visitors)
• Apr 4: Roundtable
• Apr 11: Brain Day discussion
• Apr 18: No meeting (Chris away)
• Apr 25: Jan on n-back task
• May 2: Youssef on eye control
• May 9: Aaron on associatve mem and cognitive control
• May 16: Roundtable
• May 23: Xuan's Comp II practice run
• May 30: Dan on Cappocaccia; Pete and Eric on Ottawa Summer School
• June 6: Roundtable
• June 13 & 20: Nengo summer school
• June 27: No Meeting (Chris away)
• Jul 4: Lisanne presentation (hippocampus model); Linus presentation
• Jul 11: James & Brent presentation (ICML & SciPy); Chris presentation (Sloan-Swartz)
• Jul 18: Travis on MBL brain camp; Chris cogsci practice
• Jul 25-Aug 8: No meeting (Chris away)
• Aug 15: Org meeting and updates
• Aug 22: Aaron reconstructing signals
• Aug 29: No meeting
• Sept 5: Jan on derivations and n-back
• Sept 12: Travis arm control
• Sept 19: Round table
• Sept 26: Dan on pong RL
• Oct 3: No meeting (chris away)
• Oct 10: Trevor speech synthesizer
• Oct 17: No meeting (Chris away)
• Oct 24: No meeting (Chris away)
• Oct 31: No meeting (Chris away)
• Nov 7: Pete area/future directions
• Nov 14: roundtable
• Nov 21: Terry on Brainstorms and TrueNorth
• Nov 28: Oliver on hippocampus
• Dec 5: Eric on his thesis proposal (vision)
• Dec 12: Billy on HRL and Nengo (see next year)

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We now have someone present a paper every month. Here's the current list: Eric Hunsberger - Sept; Sushant Malhotra - Oct

This year's meetings:

• Jan 11: Roundtable
• Jan 18: James Bergstra - Hyperparameters
• Jan 25: Pete Suma patent search, and company structures
• Feb 1: Roundtable
• Feb 8: Discussion with van der Meer lab of this paper.
• Feb 15: Do Feb 8 meeting (cancelled by blizzard)
• Feb 22: Pete presentation on company structures
• Mar 1: No Meeting (Chris Away)
• Mar 8: Trevor presentation on figshare
• Mar 15: Eric & Chris Cosyne overview; Chris practice TEDx talk
• Mar 22: Roundtable; Chris TEDx Talk
• Mar 29: Cancelled (Good Friday)
• Apr 5: Discuss project Sparta, and sprint/code issues
• Apr 12: Roundtable
• Apr 19: Sprint weekend!
• Apr 26: Xuan's talk on how to count with neurons (practice for upcoming talk on May 9th)
  Connor's presentation on work he has done.
• May 24: Roundtable
• May 31: Roundtable
• Jun 7: Carter on his Fear Conditioning model (practice for ICCM talk)
• Sept 13: Roundtable: start of a new term
• Sept 20: Roundtable
• Sept 27: Terry on adaptive nonlinear control
• Oct 4: Travis on operational space control and building a robot
• Oct 11: No meeting (Thanksgiving)
• Oct 18: Strategy discussion (top secret!)
• Oct 25: Roundtable
• Nov 1: Dan tutorial on Spinnaker and Nengo
• Nov 8: Conflict of interest discussion
• Nov 15: No meeting (chris away)
• Nov 22:
• Nov 29: Quadcopter presentation - Brent
• Dec 6: Sockets, Nengo, and you! - Xuan & Superparamagnetic Clustering - Aaron
• Dec 13: No meeting (chris & terry away)

Here we will post slides/discussions/papers related to recent or upcoming lab meetings. Subject to change, of course. Meetings in PAS 2464 Fridays at high noon.

We now have someone present a paper every month. Here's the current list: Eric Hunsberger - Sept; Sushant Malhotra - Oct

This year's meetings:

• Jan 6: Roundtable (& plan next meetings)
• Jan 13: Roundtable
• Jan 20: Aziz presents a paper
• Jan 27: Roundtable
• Feb 3: Travis
• Feb 10: Yan's practice talk & tutorial on Hessian free optimization
• Feb 17: Roundtable
• Feb 24: Roundtable
• Mar 3: Gurney and Redgrave papers (Xuan presenting)
• Mar 10: Roundtable
• Mar 17: Roundtable
• Mar 24: Chris out of town
• Apr 6: Good friday
• Apr 13: Rob Cross paper presentation (cocaine paper from Shizgal lab)
• Apr 20: Eugene on concepts
• Apr 27: Roundtable
• May 4: Carter paper presentation
• May 11: Chris away (Genoa)
• May 18: Joint meeting with van der Meer lab
• May 27: Roundtable
• June 1: Chris away (Zurich)
• June 8: Chris away (Brussels)
• June 15: Chris away (Sardinia)
• June 22: roundtable
• June 29: roundtable
• July 6: Chris & Terry away (Telluride)
• July 13: roundtable
• July 20: roundtable
• July 27 - Aug 17: Chris away (Holiday & Japan)
• Aug 24: Anqi presenting
• Aug 31: roundtable
• Sept 7: introductions and roundtable
• Sept 14: Travis and Trevor summer reports
• Sept 21: introduction, peter suma's summer & top-secret plan
• Sept 28: Travis presentation - http://bit.ly/OlCfA1
• Oct 5: Eric Hunsberger paper presentation - http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6209
• Oct 12: Roundtable
• Oct 19: Travis paper presentation - http://bit.ly/QJnasn
• Oct 26: Eric and Carter practice seminar presentations
• Nov 2: James on Theano
• Nov 9: Trevor on SfN
• Nov 16: Roundtable
• Nov 23: Roundtable
• Nov 30: Chris away
• Dec 7: Chris away
• Dec 14: Jeff Orchard on hippocampal model
• Jan 11: Roundtable (cnrg toolchain? Pete Suma patent search?)

Here we will post what's coming up at the RL Meetings in PAS 2464 Thurs 2:30-3:30.

• Oct 18: Organizational meeting
• Oct 25: Discussion of Matlab RL tutorial (Dan)
• Nov 1: Discussion of Terry's tutorial (Terry)
• Nov 8: Discussion of... more tutorials...
• Nov 15: Trevor present continuous RL
• Nov 22: Travis present continuous RL
• On hiatus until February (7th?)
• Feb: Explore tools, including RL-glue, pyRL, Morse
• Mar: Tool demos from James (Morse), Eric C (watermaze), Connor (watermaze)
• Mar 28: No meeting
• Apr 4: Dan presenting neural implementation of RL (cancelled b/c computer failure)
• Apr 11: Dan presenting neural implementation of RL (cancelled b/c ice storm)
• Apr 18: Dan presenting neural implementation of RL
• Apr 25: James on visual SLAM
• Jul 18: Hippocampus meeting

• Jan 7: Roundtable (& plan next meetings)
• Jan 14: Trevor on Learning nonlinear vector fcns
• Jan 21: Yan on mcRBM and segmentation
• Jan 28: Paul on semantic pointers and force
• Feb 4: Roundtable
• Feb 11: Travis presenting Neur Eng Paper (1pm)
• Feb 18: Cosyne Practice presentations
• Feb 25: No meeting (cosyne)
• Mar 4: Cosyne report
• Mar 11: No meeting (chris away)
• Mar 18:
• Mar 25: No meeting (chris away)
• Apr 1: No meeting (chris away)
• Apr 8: Roundtable
• Apr 15: Roundtable
• Apr 22: No meeting (Good friday)
• Apr 29: Roundtable
• May 6: No meeting (chris away)
• May 13: Roundtable
• May 20: Roundtable
• May 27: Paul and Tobias presentation on social concepts
• June 3: Roundtable
• June 10: No meeting (chris away)
• June 17: Roundtable
• June 24:
• Jul 1-Jul 22: No meetings (chris/terry away)
• Jul 29: Chris/Terry on Cogsci and Telluride
• Aug 5/12: No meetings (Chris Away)
• Aug 19: Roundtable (gradhouse goodbye/congrats)
• Aug 26: Roundtable
• Sept 2: Roundtable
• Sept 9: Dan on model of aging effects on raven's matrix performance
• Sept 16: Yan presenting: Time Cells paper
• Sept 32: Trevor on supervised and unsupervised learning
• Sept 30: Roundtable
• Oct 7: Roundtable
• Oct 14: Travis on 9 DOF arm and a hierarchical controller
• Oct 21: Xuan presenting SPAUN model
• Oct 28: Terry on reinforcement learning and basal ganglia
• Nov 4: Dan practice talk on Raven's
• Nov 11: Roundtable
• Nov 18: Travis paper presentation
• Nov 25: Dan paper presentation
• Dec 2: Trevor presenting a paper
• Dec 9: Round table
• Dec 16: Round table

• Jan 8: Travis presents the NOCH: framework for biologically plausible models of neural motor control [pdf].
• Jan 15: Roundtable
• Jan 22: No meeting (Marsat talk in biology)
• Jan 29: No meeting (Chris out of town)
• Feb 5: Charlie Tang recent machine vision results (denoising deep belief network)
• Feb 12: Bruce McKay is giving a talk B2-350
• Feb 19: Cosyne Poster practise & roundtable
• Feb 26: No meeting (Cosyne)
• Mar 5: Roundtable
• Mar 12: CTN interview (no meeting)
• Mar 19: Cosyne Summary (Bruce & Chris)
• Mar 26: Cancelled (Unlimited workshops)
• Apr 2: Cancelled (Good Friday)
• Apr 9: Roundtable
• Apr 16: Travis poster presentation
• Apr 23: Roundtable
• Apr 30: Eric presenting Nengo improvements
• May 7: Roundtable (welcome new folks)
• May 14: Jacqueline presenting Raven's vision work [pdf].
• Jan 15: Roundtable
• May 21: Travis report from NCM
• May 28: Roundtable
• June 4: Mo meeting (Chris in Brussels)
• June 11: Roundtable
• June 18: Cancelled (too many in Ottawa)
• June 29: Report on Summer School
• July 2: Cancelled (Chris in BC)
• July 9: Cancelled (Chris in BC)
• July 16: Report from Charlie on ICML [pdf]
• July 23: Scott (works with Paul) on part-whole
• July 30: Roundtable
• Aug 6: Cog Sci Presentation practise
• Aug 13: Cancelled (at Cogsci)
• Aug 20: Cancelled (Chris away)
• Aug 27: Cancelled (Chris away)
• Sept 3: Roundtable
• Sept 10: Cancelled (Chris away)
• Sept 17: Trevor presenting the new software development system
• Sept 24: Cog Sci talks we liked (Chris, Terry, Dan, Xuan) & website redesign (Trevor)
• Oct 1: Eric Hochstein talk on kinds of cognitive models
• Oct 8: roundtable
• Oct 15: Steve on his hemineglect model results
• Oct 22: Albert on his nonlinear dendrite models
• Oct 29: Nengo UI new features (Terry lead)
• Nov 5: Cancelled (Chris away)
• Nov 12: Chris on rat decision making
• Nov 19: Terry on conferences
• Nov 26: Roundtable
• Dec 3: Bruce practice talk
• Dec 10: roundtable (and party!)

• Jan 16: Kick off CTN meeting. We'll discuss Beck et al.
• Jan 30: Charlie and Terry on auto-associative memory [pdf]
• Feb 6: Lloyd on arbitrary statistical distributions with the NEF
• Feb 13: Travis on reference frame transformation in the brain [pdf]
• Feb 27: Marc presents data from his line bisection experiments in Fall 2008
• Mar 13: Discussion of the Bowers grandmother cell paper
• Mar 27: Roundtable
• April 24: Terry presents interesting conference tidbits. [pdf|odt]
• May 1: Roundtable
• May 8: Jon on object tracking [pdf]
• May 15: Marc presents interesting conference tidbits
• May 22: Cancelled (Chris in Brussels)
• May 29: Cancelled (Chris in Brussels)
• June 5: Paul on Creativity Through Emergent Binding in Neural Nets
• June 12: Roundtable
• June 19: Scott on epigenetics and the brain
• June 26: Roundtable
• July 3: Roundtable
• July 10: Britt Anderson on his research
• July 17: Bruce on Attention
• July 24: Cancelled (Chris & Terry out of town)
• July 31: Cancelled
• Aug 7: Cancelled
• Aug 14: David on Stable integrators [pdf]
• Aug 21: Terry on ICCM and CogSci conferences
• Aug 28: Roundtable
• Sept 4: Dan on Raven's Matrices
• Sept 11: Roundtable
• Sept 18: Charlie Anderson
• Sept 25: Xuan on serial order memory [ppt] [pdf]
• Oct 2: Cancelled (Chris in Montreal)
• Oct 9: Charlie on GPU programming [pdf]
• Oct 16: Travis on hierarchical control and optimality [pdf]
• Oct 23: Roundtable
• Oct 30: Roundtable
• Nov 6: Trevor and Xuan on long-term memory and reward system neuroanatomy [pdf]
• Nov 13 & 20: Cancelled (Chris out of town)
• Nov 27: Paul on models in the brain
• Dec 4: Roundtable (maybe run through demos)
• Dec 11: Terry & Chris report on NIPS
• Dec 18: Holidays!

• Oct 23: Charlie Tang on Boltzmann machines (part 1) [pdf]
• Oct 31: Paul Thagard on Changing minds about climate change
• Nov 28: Charlie Tang on Boltzmann machines (part 2)
• Dec 12: Jean-Frederique de Pasquale on Philosophy of modeling