Swartz Foundation Scientific Meetings

Banbury Center Workshop Series

The Swartz Foundation sponsors symposia on topics suggested by allied researchers. Each three-day symposium comprises twenty to thirty invited participants, who include speakers and interested observers from allied fields. Presentations are usually in the form of 20-minute talks, with a discussion period afterward. Small poster sessions are a part of some meetings. Some meetings are in the "Dahlem" style, focused more on discussion than presentation.

• Connections and Communication in the Brain (April 6-9, 2014)

• Neuronal Response Variability and Cortical Computation (April 3-6, 2011)

• Searching for Principles Underlying Memory in Biological Systems (April 12-15, 2009)

• Attention in Visual and Auditory Systems (April 20-23, 2008)
• New Frontiers in Studies of Nonconscious Processing (2007)
• Computational Approaches to Cortical Functions (2006)
• Neurobiology of Decision-Making (2005)
• Communication in Brain Systems (2004) *
• Can a Machine Be Conscious? (2001)
• Persistent Neural Activity (2000) *
• Toward Animal Models of Attention and Consciousness (2000)
• Functional Organization of the Thalamus and Cortex and their Interactions (1999)
• Neurocomputational Strategies: From Synapses to Behavior (1998)

*co-sponsored with The Sloan Foundation