🚨 Deadline approaching! Applications for both the Gatsby-only (theory-focused) and SWC-Gatsby joint (computational/data-focused) PhD programs are due next Monday! New courses on the theory of learning are coming soon! Join our inspiring, curious, and collaborative community

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit@gatsbyucl.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🙋Are you interested in bridging theory & experiments? Applications are now open for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit & SWC joint PhD programme. Join us and be part of a vibrant research community! 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science... @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social

Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants (1/2)

Submission deadline extended! Submit your poster or lightning talk abstract by Wednesday 15th October 2025, 12:00pm

UCL NeuroAI@ucl-neuroai.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📢 We are very happy to announce the 2025 @ucl.ac.uk #NeuroAI Annual Conference! Join us on Wed 5 November 2025 at @uclchildhealth.bsky.social Details and registration: www.ucl.ac.uk/event-ticket... Poster and lightning talks submissions are now open, up to 8th Oct. @ucl-neurodomain.bsky.social

The Wu Tsai Institute at Yale is hiring another faculty member in neurocomputation. Come work with us in a growing community at the interface of neuroscience and AI! More info below 👇

Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University@wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition? Two calls are open: Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25 Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review 🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities #KnowTogether

🙋Are you interested in bridging theory & experiments? Applications are now open for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit & SWC joint PhD programme. Join us and be part of a vibrant research community! 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science... @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social

Interested in doing a Ph.D. to work on building models of the brain/behavior? Consider applying to graduate schools at CU Anschutz: 1. Neuroscience www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-pro... 2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bioengineeri... You could work with several comp neuro PIs, including me.

👋 Attending #ICML2025 next week? Don't forget to check out work involving our researchers!

Almost last call to register for UK neural computation conference in London July 10-11. Registration deadline is July 1st. We have some great talks and posters as well as a session on funding with ARIA. 🤖🧠🧪 Look forward to seeing you all there. Now click here 👇 neuralcomputation.uk

Congratulations to Adrienne Fairhall, Prof. of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Adjunct Prof. of Applied Mathematics, and Adjunct Prof. of Physics, who has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! 🍾 🎉

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

There are few fully-funded PhD positions left for this year’s Theoretical Neuroscience/ Machine learning program at Gatsby! Apply by May 27 and start in September. Please distribute broadly

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit@gatsbyucl.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 We have an opportunity for students to join our PhD programme in Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning this September. Application deadline is 27 May 2025. Information & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme

📢 Applications are open for 2025 Analytical Connectionism! Topical focus: bias in learning Learn key connectionist models & analytical tools for neural-network analysis, and work on novel projects with faculty & postdoc mentors ⏰ Apply by 18 April ℹ️ www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2025

We’re looking for interns at the Palmigiano Lab in the Gatsby Unit! Learn more about us at www.palmigianolab.com. These are 3-month, paid internships focused on theoretical and CS-based neuroscience projects. Apply centrally through the Gatsby website: www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/vacan.... Deadline Jan 17!

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Interested in theoretical neuroscience or machine learning but come from a non-quantitative background? This summer school is for you! Learn the foundational theory needed to excel in a quantitative PhD in 7 weeks. Apply by feb 7!

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit@gatsbyucl.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 Apply now for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London! You will develop mathematics skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience or #MachineLearning field. ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-bridging-programme Please help spread the word!

(1/5) Fun fact: Several classic results in the stat. mech. of learning can be derived in a couple lines of simple algebra! In this paper with Haim Sompolinsky, we simplify and unify derivations for high-dimensional convex learning problems using a bipartite cavity method. arxiv.org/abs/2412.01110

Simplified derivations for high-dimensional convex learning problems

Statistical physics provides tools for analyzing high-dimensional problems in machine learning and theoretical neuroscience. These calculations, particularly those using the replica method, often invo...

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