Symposium – Mind and Memory: Biological and Digital
Date: 20 May 2014
Participants: Prof. John A. Hardy, Prof. Peter St. George-Hyslop, Prof. Brenda Milner and Prof. Marvin Minsky
Greetings:
Prof. Yoav Henis, Vice President, Research and Development, Tel Aviv University, HE Mr. Matthew Gould, The British Ambassador to Israel
“Whole Genome Analysis and the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease”, a lecture by Prof. John A. Hardy, University College London, UK
“Biochemical Genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease”, a lecture by Prof. Peter St. George-Hyslop, University of Toronto, Canada University of Cambridge, UK
“Translational Alzheimer’s Disease Research at Tel Aviv University”, a lecture by Prof. Danny Michaelson, Sagol School of Neuroscience, and Department of Neurobiology, Tel Aviv University
“Temporal Lobes and Memory: Looking Back and Looking Forward”, a lecture by Prof. Brenda Milner, McGill University, Canada
“Preventing Relapse in Alcoholism by Memory Erasure: Neurobiological Mechanisms of Memory Plasticity”, a lecture by Dr. Segev Barak, The School of Psychological Sciences
and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
- Location TAU
- Date Tuesday, 20 May 2014
“How Many Neurons Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?”, a lecture by Prof. Yael Hanein, School of Electrical Engineering and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
“DeepFace: Closing the Gap to Human-Level Performance in Face Verification”, a lecture Prof. Lior Wolf, The Blavatnik School of Computer Science Tel Aviv University
“Brain Inspired Computation in the 21st Century”, a lecture by Prof. Nathan Intrator, The Blavatnik School of Computer Science and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
“Future Theories of Mind”, a lecture by Prof. Marvin Minsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Location TAU
- Date Tuesday, 20 May 2014