Upcoming Lab Teaching
posted on January 1, 2021

Upcoming lab teachings

Every Friday at 2:30pm, we get together (over pizza, sometimes) for lab teachings. On a rotating basis, each member of the lab speaks and teaches about something they know. Anything, really. Relevant and interesting topics, good skills to know, nice Python packages, neuroscientific princples, new findings and literature reviews… whatever!

Get on the listserv for announcements: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kording-lab-teachings

Call for topics

Please list below, topics you would like to learn more about (you may share your name or not, up to you):

Fall 2022

Date	Name	Topic
Sep. 16	Ilenna Jones	sequential Monte Carlo / Particle Filtering (and other things I learned at summer school)
Sep. 23	Justin Brantley	What I learned about writing/figures after getting my a$$ kicked by Brett Mensh
Sep. 30	Joey R	Decoding & Optimizing Episodic Memory
Oct. 7	David Barack	The New Central Executive
Oct. 14	Gene	…
Oct. 21	Ben Baker	…
Oct. 28	Jordan	…
Nov. 4	Felipe	MacTrack + OT review
Nov. 11	Richard	…
Nov. 18	Tony	Influence functions (?)
Dec. 2	Joey G	…
Dec. 9	up for grabs!

Spring 2022

Date	Name	Topic
Jan. 18	Ben	Review of some papers on Dance~Intelligence
Jan. 25	Ari	Kalman Filtering
Feb. 1	Richard	My (pet) theory of what computation is
Feb. 8	Sébastien Tremblay	Non-necessary computations in the primate brain
Feb. 15	Konrad, Ilenna, Jordan	Abstract writing
Feb. 22	Tony	Heterogeneous treatment effects
Mar. 1	Nachi Stern	The Physical Effects of Learning
Mar. 8
Mar. 15	Jordan	Reproducible science with git, Jupyter, and LaTeX
Mar. 22	*	Lab Research Talks
Mar. 29
Apr. 5
Apr. 12
Apr. 19	Xiaowei Jiang	Biomarkers of EEG/fNIRS
Apr. 26	Felipe	Candidacy Talk: Neural Basis of Social Grooming in Primates
May. 03	David Barack	Basis of Foraging
May. 10	Joey	Compilers as linking hypotheses

Old lab teaching topics

Fall 2021

Date	Name	Topic
Sep. 21	Justin	‘Reward is enough, Silver et al. 2021’ paper presentation
Sep. 28	Ilenna	‘Parallel and Recurrent Cascade Models, Harkin et al 2021’ paper presentation
Oct. 5	Ben	Discussion + Q & A on Ben’s CNI seminar on Representations in Neuroscience
Oct. 12	Jordan Matelsky	“A web-app in an hour: Frontend, backend, and rolling to production.” (Hands-on coding)
Oct. 19	Nidhi	Role of the cerebellum in cognition
Oct. 26	Felipe	Behavioral Diversity for Cognition
Nov. 2	Richard	(tentative) fun with numerical differentiation and integration tricks
Nov. 9	Tony	Causal inference through the DoWhy package
Nov. 16	Compute Czars	“Hackathon” for maintaining lab servers
Nov. 23
Nov. 30
Dec. 7	Saeed Salehi	Julia programming language
Dec. 14	*	Lab Research Presentations
Dec. 21

Summer 2021

Date	Name	Topic
Jun. 11	everyone!	each share a cool thing we’ve found / are working on
Jun. 18	Mark Badger	Birds of a feather flock together in 3D shape space
Jun. 25
Jul. 2	canceled
Jul. 9	everyone!	each share a cool thing we’ve found / are working on
Jul. 16	Tony	Mini teaching: sensitivity analysis
Jul. 23	canceled
Jul. 30	Richard	Fancy regression with structured data and measurement error
Aug. 6	Ben	TBD
Aug. 13	Gene	TBD
Aug. 20
Aug. 27

Fall semester begins during the week of Aug 30

Spring 2021

Date	Name	Topic
Feb. 12
Feb. 19
Feb. 26	Tony	Asymptotic theory towards double ML
Mar. 5	Richard	MCMC sampling
Mar. 12
Mar. 19	Roozbeh	AlphaFold
Mar. 26	Ilenna	The New Problem of Induction
Apr. 2
Apr. 9	Ben B.	A Philosophical Understanding of Representations for Neruoscience
Apr. 16	Joshua Glaser	Interpretable Machine Learning for Neuroscience
Apr. 23	Richard	Kernels and Gaussian Processes
Apr. 30	Ilenna	Normal, Extraordinary, and Revolutionary Science
May. 7	Lab break
May. 14	Lab break
May. 21	Lab break
May. 28	Lab break

Upcoming Lab Teaching posted on January 1, 2021