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The Sloan-Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience 1994 - 2009. “… though I know to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory” Hamlet, speaking of Laertes. Goals. Bring theoreticians into neuroscience Place them in the academic and industrial enterprise - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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
Bring theoreticians into neuroscience
Place them in the academic and industrial enterprise
Produce new science
Goals
Sloan Foundation Swartz Foundation(1934, Alfred Sloan)
(1994, Jerome Swartz)
General Motors Symbol Technologies
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
Selected in a competitive process (5/10)
Cal Tech, Salk, UCSF, NYU, Brandeis
Total $15.5 million
Sloan Centers, 1994-2000
Joint funding, 2000-2003
Swartz Foundation, 2003-2009
Total $20 million
Sloan – Swartz Centers
103 post-docs have taken academic positions
Current US Centers
NYU BrandeisCal Tech
Salk UCSF
103 post-docs have taken academic positions
Current US Centers
Columbia HarvardPrinceton
YaleUCSD Cold Spring Harbor
103 post-docs have taken academic positions
Post-Docs Have Taken Academic Positions: In the US …
And Around the World
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
Royal Bank of ScotlandCSO CapitalSoftware companiesGenetic analysisPharmaceuticalStart-up companies
Pipeline --- 42 people
Other kinds of work
Eero Simoncelli
Special Mention Early in the program we supported a few young ass't profs who were just starting.
X.J. Wang
Nava Rubin
And Others
Carlos Brody
Tony Zador
Mitya Chklovski
Dieter Jaeger
Astrid Prince, Francis Chance, Leslie Kay, Tim Lewis and Emilio Salinas.
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
Gain fields and normalization
Information theoretic methods
Spike timing dependent plasticity
Large scale digital models
Communication and coherence
Science
Cognitive behavior, short term memory,
decision making
Computerized anatomy Motor planning centers
Optimization methods
Why Centers?
Influence on experimentalists
Influence on government agencies
Other Observations
www.TheSwartzFoundation.org
Contact the Sloan-Swartz Centers Directly
Thank YouThank You