“… though I know to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory”
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“… though I know to divide him inventorially would dizzy the
arithmetic of memory”Hamlet, speaking of Laertes
The Sloan-Swartz The Sloan-Swartz Program in Theoretical Program in Theoretical
NeuroscienceNeuroscience1994 - 20091994 - 2009
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Bring theoreticians into neuroscience
Place them in the academic and industrial enterprise
Produce new science
Goals
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Sloan Foundation Swartz Foundation(1934, Alfred Sloan)
(1994, Jerome Swartz)
General Motors Symbol Technologies
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Sloan's Early Contributions to Neuroscience
1968-1975 Established neuroscience as a field Funded instrumentation, people, theory 1982 -1986 Established cognitive science as a field
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Selected in a competitive process (5/10)
Cal Tech, Salk, UCSF, NYU, Brandeis
Total $15.5 million
Sloan Centers, 1994-2000
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Joint funding, 2000-2003
Swartz Foundation, 2003-2009
Total $20 million
Sloan – Swartz Centers
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103 post-docs have taken academic positions
Current US Centers
NYU BrandeisCal Tech
Salk UCSF
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103 post-docs have taken academic positions
Current US Centers
Columbia HarvardPrinceton
YaleUCSD Cold Spring Harbor
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103 post-docs have taken academic positions
Post-Docs Have Taken Academic Positions: In the US …
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And Around the World
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California UCSD(4), Berkeley(3), Irvine, UCLA, Davis, UCSF, Salk, UC Riverside, Santa Cruz
NY CSHL(3), Columbia(3), NYU(2), Stony Brook, RPI, CCNYUPenn, CMU, Harvard, Boston U., Princeton, Rutgers, NJITWestern Mich., Alabama(2), Nebraska, Virginia(2), Kansas,
Baylor(3)U. Houston, Emory (2). U. Chicago(2), U. Wash(2), NIH, TulaneU. Colorado, Tulane, Missouri, Oklahoma, Maryland, Arizona,
Syracuse, So. Carolina, Canada (Toronto, Montreal)France(3), Britain(9), Germany(3), Spain(2), Italy, Austria,
Holland(2) Israel, China, Japan, Taiwan, Australia=89Plus 25 to other kinds of workPlus 49 in the pipeline
Where they went
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Royal Bank of ScotlandCSO CapitalSoftware companiesGenetic analysisPharmaceuticalStart-up companies
Pipeline --- 42 people
Other kinds of work
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Eero Simoncelli
Special Mention Early in the program we supported a few young ass't profs who were just starting.
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X.J. Wang
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Nava Rubin
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And Others
Carlos Brody
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Tony Zador
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Mitya Chklovski
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Dieter Jaeger
Astrid Prince, Francis Chance, Leslie Kay, Tim Lewis and Emilio Salinas.
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Workshops and Meetings ◦Santa Fe Institute 1994◦Pojaro Dunes 2001◦Gordon Conferences◦Banbury Workshops◦La Pietra-Florence◦Mind/Brain Lectures◦Summer Meetings◦NICS, COSYNE, etc.
Other Activities
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Gain fields and normalization
Information theoretic methods
Spike timing dependent plasticity
Large scale digital models
Communication and coherence
Science
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Cognitive behavior, short term memory,
decision making
Computerized anatomy Motor planning centers
Optimization methods
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Why Centers?
Influence on experimentalists
Influence on government agencies
Other Observations
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www.TheSwartzFoundation.org
Contact the Sloan-Swartz Centers Directly
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