Victor M. Bearg Neuroscience Lecture Series
The Victor M. Bearg neuroscience lecture series is sponsored by Victor M. Bearg ('64), a Mellon College of Science graduate in physics. Mr. Bearg has generously endowed this Neuroscience Institute speaker series to bring dynamic lecturers to our community.
Emily Jacobs
Associate Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences, UC Santa Barbara
April 3, 2025
Previous Speakers
2024
John Krakauer
Combining novel behavioral training with technology for neurological recovery
March 21, 2024
2023
Jessica Hammer
Playing with the Mind's Eye
March 16, 2023
2021
Kafui Dzirasa and Elizabeth Ransey
Editing neural circuits using engineered synaptic bypasses
October 28, 2021
2020
Erich Jarvis
Professor, Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University
Evolution of brain pathways for vocal learning and speech; a personal journey
October 15, 2020
2019
Sophie Scott
University College London
The Neuroscience of Laughter
November 8, 2019
2018
Timothy Lillicrap
Google Deep Mind
Deep Learning and the Brain: Does the Brain Approximate Backpropagation?
April 12, 2018
2017
Gerald E. Loeb
University of Southern California and CEO, SynTouch, Inc.
Understanding Human Haptics by Building Robotic Systems
March 8, 2017
2016
Mriganka Sur
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Functional Logic of Cortical Circuits
February 29, 2016
Not recorded
