CCN Opening Celebration

Tuesday Mar 8, 2022, 4:00 PM → 7:00 PM America/New_York

Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium/2-GDFA (160 5th Avenue)

Please join us as we celebrate the opening of the Center for Computational Neuroscience, the fifth and most recent addition to the Flatiron Institute of the Simons Foundation.

Program:

Welcome Remarks

• Jim & Marilyn Simons, Co-Chairs, Simons Foundation Board of Directors
• David Spergel, President, Simons Foundation

CCN Mission and Vision

• Eero Simoncelli, founding Scientific Director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Silver Professor at NYU

Topics in Computational Neuroscience

• William Bialek, John Archibald Wheeler/Batelle Professor in Physics, Princeton University
• Larry Abbott, William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience and Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University

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A reception will follow the program in CCN on the third and fourth floors of 160 Fifth Ave.

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4:00 PM → 4:15 PM Welcome Remarks

Jim & Marilyn Simons, Co-Chairs, Simons Foundation Board of Directors
David Spergel, President, Simons Foundation

4:15 PM → 4:30 PM CCN Mission and Vision

Eero Simoncelli, founding Scientific Director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Silver Professor at NYU

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Topics in Computational Neuroscience

4:30 PM Ambitions for Theory

William Bialek, John Archibald Wheeler/Batelle Professor in Physics, Princeton University

5:00 PM Ambitions for Theory II: Connectomics

Larry Abbott, William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience and Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University

5:30 PM → 7:00 PM Reception