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“… though I know to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory”

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

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“… though I know to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory”

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  1. The Sloan-Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience1994 - 2009 “… though I know to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory” Hamlet, speaking of Laertes

  2. Goals • Bring theoreticians into neuroscience • Place them in the academic and industrial enterprise • Produce new science

  3. Sloan Foundation Swartz Foundation (1934, Alfred Sloan) (1994, Jerome Swartz) General Motors Symbol Technologies

  4. 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

  5. Sloan Centers, 1994-2000 • Selected in a competitive process (5/10) • Cal Tech, Salk, UCSF, NYU, Brandeis • Total $15.5 million

  6. Sloan – Swartz Centers •  Joint funding, 2000-2003 •  Swartz Foundation, 2003-2009 •  Total $20 million

  7. Current US Centers 103 post-docs have taken academic positions Brandeis NYU Cal Tech Salk UCSF

  8. Current US Centers 103 post-docs have taken academic positions Harvard Columbia Princeton Yale Cold Spring Harbor UCSD

  9. Post-Docs Have Taken Academic Positions: In the US … 103 post-docs have taken academic positions

  10. And Around the World

  11. Where they went • CaliforniaUCSD(4), Berkeley(3), Irvine, UCLA, Davis, UCSF, Salk, UC Riverside, Santa Cruz • NYCSHL(3), Columbia(3), NYU(2), Stony Brook, RPI, CCNY • UPenn, CMU, Harvard, Boston U., Princeton, Rutgers, NJIT • Western Mich., Alabama(2), Nebraska, Virginia(2), Kansas, Baylor(3) • U. Houston, Emory (2). U. Chicago(2), U. Wash(2), NIH, Tulane • U. 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 • =89 • Plus 25 to other kinds of work • Plus 49 in the pipeline

  12. Other kinds of work • Royal Bank of Scotland • CSO Capital • Software companies • Genetic analysis • Pharmaceutical • Start-up companies • Pipeline --- 42 people

  13. Special Mention Early in the program we supported a few young ass't profs who were just starting. • Eero Simoncelli

  14. X.J. Wang

  15. Nava Rubin

  16. And Others • Carlos Brody

  17. Tony Zador

  18. Mitya Chklovski

  19. Dieter Jaeger • Astrid Prince, Francis Chance, Leslie Kay, Tim Lewis and Emilio Salinas.

  20. Other Activities •  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.

  21. Science • Gain fields and normalization • Information theoretic methods • Spike timing dependent plasticity • Large scale digital models • Communication and coherence

  22. Cognitive behavior, short term memory, decision making • Computerized anatomy • Motor planning centers • Optimization methods  

  23. Other Observations • Why Centers? • Influence on experimentalists • Influence on government agencies

  24. Contact the Sloan-Swartz Centers Directly www.TheSwartzFoundation.org

  25. Thank You

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