Connectionists: Graduate Training in Mind, Brain, and Computation at Stanford

[Jay McClelland]

Graduate Training in Mind, Brain, and Computation at Stanford

The Center for Mind, Brain and Computation (MBC) at Stanford
University announces its new Graduate Training Program.  The
program is supported by an NSF IGERT graduate training grant.

The goal of the Center is to encourage research on the emergent
functions of the brain, exploiting a synergistic combination of
experimental and computational methods.  Topics of investigation
include plasticity, learning, and memory; decision making;
vision, attention, and reading; executive function and motor
control; cortical microcircuit function and dysfunction, and many
others.  Faculty affiliated with the program (see list below)
work at all levels of analysis of brain function, using a range
of computational, statistical, mathematical, and experimental
methods.

The graduate training program is designed to enhance the training
of students in participating Ph.D. Programs at Stanford who wish
to make integrated use of computational/mathematical and
experimental approaches in research related to the themes of the
Center. The program is affiliated with the Ph.D. programs in
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience, and
Psychology. Students in any of these programs are eligible to
become affiliates of the MBC program; affiliates may become
trainees after developing a specialized training program
in consultation with MBC faculty.  These training programs are
intended to allow the trainee to stretch beyond the coursework
and research training they would ordinarily receive in their
home discipline, under the joint supervision of a primary and
secondary mentor.  The secondary mentor should represent an
approach or discipline that complements that of the primary
mentor in ways relevant to the trainees goals.  Trainees who are
US nationals may be considered for support from the NSF IGERT
Grant.

If you are not yet a Ph.D. student at Stanford, and are
interested in MBC, you should apply to one or more of the
affiliated Ph.D. programs.  Concurrently, you may apply for MBC
affiliate status by requesting the application form from the MBC
program administrator, lehope at stanford.edu.  If you are already a
Ph.D. student at Stanford and would like to join the program, you
may contact the program administrator at any time to begin the
process.

For more information or to contact MBC, visit

   http://www.stanford.edu/group/mbc

For information about each allied Ph.D. program, replace xx
in xx.stanford.edu with cs, ee, neuroscience, or psychology.

MBC Program Director: Jay McClelland, Psychology
Co-Director:  Krishna Shenoy, Electrical Engineering

Steering Committee:
  John Huguenard, Neurology
  Daphne Koller, Computer Science
  William Newsome, Neurobiology
  Andrew Ng, Computer Science
  Terry Sanger, Neurology
  Brian Wandell, Psychology

Other Training Faculty:
  Stephen Baccus, Neurobiology
  Kwabena Boahen, Bioengineering
  Lera Boroditsky, Psychology
  Karl Deisseroth, Bioengineering and Psychiatry
  Scott Delp, Mechanical Engineering
  Gary Glover, Radiology
  Kalanit Grill-Spector, Psychology
  Trevor Hastie, Statistics
  Eric Knudsen, Neurobiology
  Brian Knutson, Psychology
  Robert Malenka, Psychiatry
  Samuel McClure, Psychology
  Vinod Menon, Psychiatry
  Teresa Meng, EE & CS
  Tirin Moore, Neurobiology
  Josef Parvizi, Neurology
  Jennifer Raymond, Neurobiology
  Mark Schnitzer, Biological Sciences
  Carla Shatz, Biological Sciences and Neurobiology
  Stephen Smith, Molecular & Cellular Physiology
  Richard Tsien, Molecular & Cellular Physiology
  Sebastian Thrun, CS & EE
  Anthony Wagner, Psychology
  Bernard Widrow, Electrical Engineering