Events
Upcoming Events
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Quest | CBMM Seminar Series: Prof. Thomas Serre
Date: Tues., February 11th, 4PMLocation: Singleton AuditoriumDr. Thomas Serre, Sr. Professor of Science at Brown University's Carney Center for Computational Brain Science, will give a seminar as part of the Quest for Intelligence and CBMM seminar series. -
Quest | CBMM Seminar Series: Kelsey Allen, DeepMind
Date: Tues., February 25th, 4PMLocation: Singleton AuditoriumDeepMind Senior Research Scientist Kelsey Allen, who completed her PhD in MIT's BCS department in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Josh Tenenbaum, will speak in Singleton Auditorium on Feb. 25th as part of the Quest | CBMM Seminar Series. -
Quest | CBMM Seminar Series: Joel Leibo, DeepMind
Date: Tues., March 4th, 4PMLocation: Singleton AuditoriumJoel Leibo, senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind and professor at King's College London, will speak in Singleton Auditorium as part of the Quest and CBMM seminar series on March 4th. -
BCS Colloquium: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible
Date: Thurs., March 20, 2025, 4:00PM - 5:00PMLocation: Singleton AuditoriumStanford University Assostant Professor of Psychology Judy Fan to speak at the BCS Colloquium in conjunction with the Quest for Intelligence. -
Mission Update: Perceptual Intelligence
Date: Tues., April 15th, 2025Location: 45-792Quest Director Professor Jim DiCarlo is joined by Professor Josh Tenenbaum and Vikash Kumar Mansingkha to discuss the Perceptual Intelligence mission. -
Quest | CBMM Special Seminar: Adi Shamir
Date: Fri., April 25th, 4PMLocation: Singleton AuditoriumCryptographer Adi Shamir to speak in a special seminar as part of the Quest | CBMM event series. -
Research Update: Scaling Inference
Date: Tues., April 29th, 2025Location: 45-792Join BCS' Vikash Kumar Mansingkha for a round-table discussion about the Scaling Inference initiative at the Quest. -
Quest | CBMM Seminar Series: Prof. Nidhi Seethapathi
Date: Tues., May 6th, 4PMLocation: Singleton AuditoriumMIT Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Nidhi Seethapathi will present a seminar to the Quest and CBMM communities on May 6th. Her lab works to build predictive models to help understand human movement using a combination of theory, computational modeling, and experiments.
Past Events
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Research Meeting - Dan Mitropolsky
Date: Tues., December 3rd, 4PMLocation: MIBR Reading Room, 46-5165Dan Mitropolsky is a postdoctoral fellow in the Miller and Poggio labs at MIT. His focus combines computer science with a study of the brain to understand what makes language and learning possible. -
Panel Discussion: Open Questions in Theory of Learning
Date: Tues., November 12th, 4PMLocation: Singleton AuditoriumThis panel will introduce some new simple foundational results in the theory of supervised learning. It will also discuss open problems in the theory of learning, including problems specific to neuroscience. -
Matter of Minds 2024
Date: Nov. 4, 9:30am–3:30pmLocation: Building 45, 8th floorOn November 4, 2024, the Quest hosted a day-long event, focussed on recent research in natural intelligence and current topics in AI.