“… though I know to divide him inventorially would dizzy the

arithmetic of memory”Hamlet, speaking of Laertes

The Sloan-Swartz The Sloan-Swartz Program in Theoretical Program in Theoretical

NeuroscienceNeuroscience1994 - 20091994 - 2009

Bring theoreticians into neuroscience

Place them in the academic and industrial enterprise

Produce new science  

Goals

Sloan Foundation Swartz Foundation(1934, Alfred Sloan) 

(1994, Jerome Swartz)

General Motors Symbol Technologies

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

  

Selected in a competitive process (5/10)

Cal Tech, Salk, UCSF, NYU, Brandeis

Total $15.5 million

Sloan Centers, 1994-2000

 Joint funding, 2000-2003

 Swartz Foundation, 2003-2009

 Total $20 million

Sloan – Swartz Centers

103 post-docs have taken academic positions

Current US Centers

NYU BrandeisCal Tech

Salk UCSF

103 post-docs have taken academic positions

Current US Centers

Columbia HarvardPrinceton

YaleUCSD Cold Spring Harbor

103 post-docs have taken academic positions

Post-Docs Have Taken Academic Positions: In the US …

And Around the World

California UCSD(4), Berkeley(3), Irvine, UCLA, Davis, UCSF, Salk, UC Riverside, Santa Cruz

NY CSHL(3), Columbia(3), NYU(2), Stony Brook, RPI, CCNYUPenn, CMU, Harvard, Boston U., Princeton, Rutgers, NJITWestern Mich., Alabama(2), Nebraska, Virginia(2), Kansas,

Baylor(3)U. Houston, Emory (2). U. Chicago(2), U. Wash(2), NIH, TulaneU. 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=89Plus 25 to other kinds of workPlus 49 in the pipeline

Where they went

Royal Bank of ScotlandCSO CapitalSoftware companiesGenetic analysisPharmaceuticalStart-up companies

Pipeline --- 42 people

Other kinds of work

Eero Simoncelli

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

X.J. Wang 

Nava Rubin

And Others

Carlos Brody

Tony Zador

Mitya Chklovski

Dieter Jaeger

Astrid Prince, Francis Chance, Leslie Kay, Tim Lewis and Emilio Salinas.

 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.

Other Activities

Gain fields and normalization

Information theoretic methods

Spike timing dependent plasticity

Large scale digital models

Communication and coherence

Science

Cognitive behavior, short term memory,

decision making

Computerized anatomy Motor planning centers

Optimization methods  

Why Centers?

Influence on experimentalists

Influence on government agencies

Other Observations

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