Recent and upcoming talks

● Sussex University, Nov 25: The history of consciousness in neuroscience and cognitive science (open lecture)  ● COST meeting, Ghent, November: Measuring consciousness (plenary) ● Barcelona Cognition, Brain, and Technology (BCBT) summer school, Sep 8-21: Causality, autonomy, emergence ● ALIFE XI, Winchester, Aug 5-8: Measuring emergence  ● Institute for Frontier areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, July 31: Causality, autonomy, emergence ● World Science Forum, Seoul, April 28: Explanatory correlates of consciousness (distinguished speaker) ● Entity World Premiere, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, April 11: Science ideas triggering creativity in the dance domain ● 2007● Sussex University, Nov 20: The history of consciousness in neuroscience and cognitive science (open lecture) ● Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, Nov 6: MEG analysis of working memory. Hull University Dept of Psychology, Oct 25: Attention, consciousness, deception and memory: Adventures in MEG ● 9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL2007), Lisbon, Sept 11: From causality to autonomy (plenary). ● Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC11), Las Vegas, June 25: Animal consciousness: Towards a scientific framework and natural history (plenary). ● Cognitive Science Brown Bag seminar, Zurich University, June 5: Causal networks in neural systems. ● COGS research seminar, Sussex University, May 31: Causal networks in neural systems. ● Mind and Life seminar series, Sussex University, May 29: From causality to autonomy. ● Computational Biology seminar series, Warwick University, April 27: Causal networks in neural systems. ● Allen Brain Institute journal club, Seattle, April 13: Causal networks in neural systems. ● Neuroscience seminar series, Sussex University, Feb 7: Causal networks in neural systems. ● Brain Network Dynamics meeting, Berkeley, Jan 27: Causal networks in neural systems (invited speaker).

2008

10:   Three-year postdoctoral researcher position available in computational neuroscience / consciousness. Informal enquires, email me.  Starts early 2009.  Will suit second postdoc.

09:  Organizing 'consciousness' session at the Barcelona Brain, Cognition and Technology summer school / workshop. With Paul Verschure, Tony Prescott, and Tom Ziemke. 

08:   Co-organized and chaired 'From Alife to Mind': First formal session on consciousness at an Artificial Life international conference.

07:   Awarded EPSRC Leadership Fellowship, 'Towards a Next Generation Computational Neuroscience', value ~1,300,000 GBP. Ranked #1 by panel.

06:   Promoted to Senior Lecturer.

04:  Distinguished speaker at World Science Forum 2008, Seoul, Korea, April 2008. World premiere of 'Entity', a Wayne McGregor | Random Dance piece (see below). Watch this video.

01:  Co-organizing (with O. Holland) themed session of Artificial Life XI (ALIFEXI) on 'Artificial Consciousness: From Alife to Mind'.

2007

11:  Appointed Editor of Scholarpedia Encyclopedia of Cognitive Neuroscience.  Participant in the Sadler's Wells (London, UK) workshop of the ENTITY project, a SciArt collaboration involving Random Dance company and Wayne McGregor, premier April 2008.

09:  New D.Phil. students: Paul Chorley and Stefan Markov.

09:  Theme issue of Phil. Trans R. Soc. B on Modelling Natural Action Selection is now out!

06:  Animal Consciousness: Towards a Scientific Description and Natural History.  A plenary symposium at  ASSC11 organized with David Edelman, and with guest speakers Bjorn Merker, Irene Pepperberg, and Graziano Fiorito.

04: Appointed Editor of Scholarpedia (consciousness chapter). See here.

01: Invited guest speaker at the 80th birthday festschrift for Walter Freeman: Brain Network Dynamics (Berkeley, CA, Jan 26-27 2007).

2006

12: "Theories and measures of consciousness" the most popular paper of December in the ASSC Eprint archive, and the second most popular overall.

10: New job! Lecturer in Informatics at the University of Sussex.

07: ALifeX Workshop: Neurodynamic Methods for Analysis and Control of Cognitive Behaviors, organized with Robert Kozma and Jun Tani. (Indiana University)

06: ASSC10 Tutorial: A Scientific Method for the Study of Animal Consciousness, organized with David Edelman. (Oxford University)

2005

12: Appointed Associate Editor of Adaptive Behavior.

11: New Scientist cover story: The robot that thinks like you.

10:  Invited plenary speaker as part of 10 week public lecture series on consciousness held in Reykjavik, Iceland.

07:  'Modeling Natural Action Selection'. Co-organized with Tony Prescott and Joanna Bryson;held in Edinburgh, UK. Resulted in a theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B.

04: MATLAB toolbox for Causal Connectivity Analysis is now available (v1.1, April 24 2006).

2004

06:  SAB2004 workshop: 'Neurorobotics Models in Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics'. Co-organized with Olaf Sporns and Jeff Krichmar; held in Santa Monica, CA. Resulted in a special issue of Neuroinformatics.

05: Action selection paper translated into Russian: