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              - on twitter: wwtns@TheoreticalWide - on Youtube</font></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">New on the VVTNS YouTube Channel </font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.wwtns.online/past-seminars-2025-2026" target="_blank">https://www.wwtns.online/past-seminars-2025-2026</a></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><div><p style="background:transparent;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;margin:0px"><b><font size="4" color="#000000">Reading Minds & Machines</font></b></p></div><div><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;text-align:start"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;text-align:start"><font size="4">lecture delivered on February 18,  2026  by</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;text-align:start"><font size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><p style="background:transparent;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:helvetica-w01-roman,helvetica-w02-roman,helvetica-lt-w10-roman,sans-serif"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000">Michal Irani</font></span></span></span></p><p style="background:transparent;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:helvetica-w01-roman,helvetica-w02-roman,helvetica-lt-w10-roman,sans-serif"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000">The Weizmann Institute of Science</font></span></span></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"><b>Abstract: </b></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14px;text-align:justify">1.  Can we reconstruct images that a person saw, directly from their fMRI brain recordings?</span></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;text-align:justify">2. Can we reconstruct the training data that a deep-network trained on, directly from the parameters of the network?</span></div><p style="font-size:14px;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000">The answer to both of these intriguing questions is “Yes!” </font></p><p style="font-size:14px;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000">In this talk I will present some of our work in both domains. I will then show how combining the power of Brains & Machines can lead to significant breakthroughs in both areas, and potentially bridge the gap between Minds and Machines. Finally, I will show how combining the power of Multiple Brains (with NO shared data) may lead to new breakthrough discoveries in Brain-Science, and allow mapping of information between different brains.</font></p><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><p style="text-align:left;background:transparent;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;margin:0px"><i style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b>About V<font color="#500050">VTNS</font><font color="#500050"> :</font></b><font color="#500050"> </font>Launched as the World Wide  Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar (WWTN</span><span style="font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify">S) in</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify"> N</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify">ovember 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), Speakers have the occasion to talk about theoretical aspects of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars, </span></i><i style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify">held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET,</span></i><i style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify">  are 45-50 min long followed by a discussion. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.</span></i></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="m_-7611373616968474291m_-5827452734716430257m_7045304362081612403m_4179726376297834025m_5509523003637554824m_-436179444694456296m_-7681628874649059375m_7750187461389672445m_9094229232797745075m_-1462542758380322657m_7936782669738885075m_2132234319318737290m_3082520148829658712m_6732243839182647882m_-287356451416637581m_9199497142594163290m_3123758975499956944m_-4285543598660325014m_3406622003034096663m_-4434917348957094547m_6996923250378584115m_4339855878333796038m_2618317786332564474m_-6182961172059790657m_-6761930163476888199m_-1789248717287360482m_-7753075062499186717mt-signature"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.6em"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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