<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">… the following will be of interest to many of you:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Simon Schultz from Imperial will be giving a talk in Maths next Tuesday.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tuesday, 27 January, 2-3pm, A17 Maths</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Denis</div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
..<br class="">Denis Schluppeck<br class=""><a href="mailto:denis.schluppeck@nottingham.ac.uk" class="">denis.schluppeck@nottingham.ac.uk</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Sorry, the time is missing in the message below. The seminar will be from 2pm to 3pm.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Etienne</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">On January 23, 2015 9:12:28 AM GMT, Etienne Farcot <<a href="mailto:etienne.farcot@nottingham.ac.uk" class="">etienne.farcot@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><pre class="k9mail">Dear all,<br class=""><br class="">Next Tuesday for the CMMB seminar we will have the pleasure to welcome <br class="">Simon Schultz, from Imperial College.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Date and venue: Tuesday 27th January, MATH-A17<br class=""><br class="">Title/Abstract:<br class="">Scaling up analyses of the neural population code for multiphoton imaging<br class=""><br class="">Recent developments in both optical microscopy techniques and polytrode <br class="">offer the prospect of scaling up the number of neurons that can be <br class="">simultaneously monitored from tens to hundreds and thousands. At <br class="">present, such experimental technology is restricted to a handful of <br class="">laboratories, but access barriers are likely to lower drastically, due <br class="">in part to initiatives such as President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative. In <br class="">this talk, I will present some contributions that we are making to <br class="">scaling up optical technologies for recording neural activity from large <br class="">populations of spatially localised cells in the mouse cortex. Once we <br class="">have acquired such datasets, however, the job is not done: most tools <br class="">for analysis of neural data currently available do not scale well with <br class="">dataset size, suffering from either computational or sampling bias <br class="">limitations as ensemble greater than a few tens of neurons are exceeded. <br class="">I will describe the approach we are taking to the development of <br class="">approaches for visualisation, information theoretic analysis and <br class="">decoding of large neural populations.</pre></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>