The Sloan-Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience 1994 —

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 Produce new science

Sloan Foundation (1934, Alfred Sloan) General Motors Swartz Foundation (1994, Jerome Swartz) 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

Sloan Centers, 1994 -2000 Selected in a competitive process (5/10) Cal Tech, Salk, UCSF, NYU, Brandeis Total $15. 5 million

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

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

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

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

And Around the World

Where they went California UCSD(4), Berkeley(3), Irvine, UCLA, Davis, UCSF, Salk, UC Riverside, Santa Cruz NY CSHL(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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Other Observations Why Centers? Influence on experimentalists Influence on government agencies

Contact the Sloan-Swartz Centers Directly www. The. Swartz. Foundation. org

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