CNS 246 Fall 1996

CNS 246 Schedule

CNS 246 will meet on Wednesdays from 1 to 3 pm in either BI44 (the computer room) or BI23 (the CNS seminar room), depending on the nature of the session. Most two hour sessions will be treated as two one hour meetings with a short break between them; that is, we will often do something entirely different in each half.

date topic instructor reading

October

2 Overview. Applications. Richard Andersen Andersen95
9 Recording technology: wire bundles John Pezaris Robinson68, Pezaris95a, Gray95
Recording technology: silicon David Kewley Kewley96, Drake88
16 Sorting: clustering Maneesh Sahani Gray95, Fee96a
Sorting: overlaps and filtering Abeles77, Gozani94,
18 Project proposals due
23 Bayesian clustering and k-d search Mike Lewicki Lewicki94
Independant Components Analysis Tony Bell Bell95, Bell96
30 Correlation & JPSTH Maneesh Sahani Aertsen89
Correlations in practice Jim Bower Sasaki89

November

6 Information measurement in ensembles Bill Bialek -
13 Temporal firing and odor encoding Gilles Laurent Laurent94, Wehr96, Macleod96
Patterns & synfire chains John Pezaris Abeles93, Abeles88,
20 No class
27 Dimensionality reduction: PCA etc. Maneesh Sahani Penev96
Unsupervised learning Seidemann96

December

4 Connectivity: theory Maneesh Sahani Palm88, Aertsen85, Boven90
Connectivity: experiments John Pezaris T'so86, Reid95
6 Projects due