Ken Miller Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Director, Center for Theoretical Biology, Columbia University Kenneth Miller is Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Director, Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, Columbia University. Co-Director of Columbia’s Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology, its Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, as well as its Neurobiology and Behavior Graduate Program, Professor Miller also serves as Vice-Chair of its Department of Neuroscience. He received his B.A. from Reed College, his M.S. and Ph.D. (with distinction) from Stanford University, and completed his postdoctoral work at UCSF and Caltech. A founding member of the editorial board of Journal of Computational Neuroscience, he is also Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, in Goettingen, Germany, and an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. He has served as faculty for many years at Woods Hole, teaching Methods in Computational Neuroscience. He is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Searle Scholar’s Award, Dell Webb Biology Fellowship, and National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Participant In: What Can Mathematics Teach Us About Mind/Brain? Saturday, September 15th 2:30 - 4:30PM Past Event Watch the video » Philosophy meets mathematics meets neuroscience in this roundtable investigating how cutting-edge mathematical models are elucidating the computational rules encoding brain functions and the implications for a deeper understanding of mind. Free and open to the public. Biology of Mind Saturday, February 22, 2014 2:30-4:30PM Past Event Watch the video » What is mind? Is it a property attributable to biological functionality alone, and, in particular, arising from the morphology of the mammalian brain and/or the influence of that animal’s body? How far down the evolutionary scale can we apply terms like cognition, consciousness, and intelligence? Are we capable of engineering artificial minds? Mind Matters: Past, Present, and Future Saturday, February 10th, 2018, 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » From Xenophanes’ 6th c. BCE theory of divine intellection imbuing, comprehending, and organizing the cosmos, through Nicholas of Cusa’s 15th c. definition of mind as “the limit and measure of all things,” through Hume and his Enlightenment kin’s aspiration to be the “Newton of the mind,” to the naturalized explanations of contemporary cognitive science, Western… read more » Math models Mind 2:30 on Saturday, January 19th, 2019 Past Event Watch the video » If a biologist were asked for a single word that would appropriately point to the essence and substance of biology, the word might be Life. It stands for the essential unity of that subject despite the enormous range of different interests of biologists—from proteins to the behavior of elephants to medical applications. Is there an… read more »
What Can Mathematics Teach Us About Mind/Brain? Saturday, September 15th 2:30 - 4:30PM Past Event Watch the video » Philosophy meets mathematics meets neuroscience in this roundtable investigating how cutting-edge mathematical models are elucidating the computational rules encoding brain functions and the implications for a deeper understanding of mind. Free and open to the public.
Biology of Mind Saturday, February 22, 2014 2:30-4:30PM Past Event Watch the video » What is mind? Is it a property attributable to biological functionality alone, and, in particular, arising from the morphology of the mammalian brain and/or the influence of that animal’s body? How far down the evolutionary scale can we apply terms like cognition, consciousness, and intelligence? Are we capable of engineering artificial minds?
Mind Matters: Past, Present, and Future Saturday, February 10th, 2018, 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » From Xenophanes’ 6th c. BCE theory of divine intellection imbuing, comprehending, and organizing the cosmos, through Nicholas of Cusa’s 15th c. definition of mind as “the limit and measure of all things,” through Hume and his Enlightenment kin’s aspiration to be the “Newton of the mind,” to the naturalized explanations of contemporary cognitive science, Western… read more »
Math models Mind 2:30 on Saturday, January 19th, 2019 Past Event Watch the video » If a biologist were asked for a single word that would appropriately point to the essence and substance of biology, the word might be Life. It stands for the essential unity of that subject despite the enormous range of different interests of biologists—from proteins to the behavior of elephants to medical applications. Is there an… read more »