Spring Semester 2026

• Febuary 2nd, 2026 A neural data structure for novelty detection led by Carlton Smith.
• Febuary 9th, 2026 NetFormer: An interpretable model for recovering dynamical connectivity in neuronal population dynamics led by Josue Caro.
• March 9th, 2026 Neural constraints on learning led by Kat Yao and Prabaha Gangopadhyay.
• March 23rd, 2026 Biological learning in key-value memory networks led by Dongyu Gong.
• March 30th, 2026 External Speaker: Encoding and retrieving the right memories, at the right time by Marcelo Mattar (NYU).
• April 6th, 2026 Contributions of cortical neuron firing patterns, synaptic connectivity, and plasticity to task performance led by Meghan Cum and Andrea Cumpelik
• April 20th, 2026 External Speaker: Brian DePasquale (Boston University).
• April 27th, 2026 External Speaker: Evan Schaffer (Mt. Sinai).
• May 4th, 2026 External Speaker: Meta-Learning Theory-Informed Inductive Biases using Deep Kernel Gaussian Processes by Bahti Zakirov (Institute of Science and Technology Austria).