时间：5月14日星期五上午10:00-11:30

Time：10:00-11:30 AM，Fri.，May 14，2021

地点：西湖大学云栖校区5号楼1楼学术报告厅

Venue: Lecture Hall, 1st Floor, Building 5,  Yunqi Campus

主持人：西湖大学生命科学学院教授 杨剑

Host：Prof. Jian Yang, School of Life Sciences

主讲嘉宾/Speaker:

Dr. Xiao-Jing Wang ,

Distinguished Global Professor of Neural Science and Mathematics

Center for Neural Science, New York University

Xiao-Jing Wang is the Founding Provost, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at NYU Shanghai, and Professor of Neural Science at New York University. Before joining NYU in the fall of 2012, Wang was Professor of Neurobiology at Yale University. At Yale he also served as the Director of the Swartz Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, and held secondary faculty appointments in Physics, Applied Mathematics and Psychology.

Wang is an expert on the neurobiology of executive and cognitive functions. His group has pioneered neural circuit models of the prefrontal cortex, which is often called the “CEO of the brain”. In particular, Wang is known for his work on the cellular basis of short-term memory, neural mechanisms for decision-making, communication and synchronization through inhibitory neurons in the brain. His research group is now embarking on a new initiative of developing neurobiologically-realistic large-scale brain circuit models of cognitively-controlled flexible behavior.

Wang received his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, both with the highest distinction, from the University of Brussels, Belgium. He is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, Goldman-Rakic Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation and the Chinese Government’s, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Science, Letters, and Fine Arts of Belgium1000 Talent Award. Wang is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

讲座摘要/Abstract:

While Theoretical Physics has triumphed in the 20th century, Theoretical or Computational Neuroscience represents one of the most exciting fields today. The brain is the biological system that gives rise to all our psychological experiences, including thoughts, emotions and consciousness. Because of the extreme complexity of neural circuits, and the need to make sense of big data collected using advanced experimental tools, theory and computational modeling have taken center stage in brain research. Here I will introduce this highly cross-disciplinary field that has attracted mathematicians, physicists and engineers, and discuss our ongoing work in building mathematical models of large-scale brain circuits to understand cognition and intelligence.

联系人/Contact：

生命科学学院

于文越 yuwenyue@westlake.edu.cn