Kenneth Miller

Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Director, Center for Theoretical Biology, Columbia University

Kenneth Miller is the Peter Taylor Professor of Neuroscience, co-Director of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, and co-Director of the Neurobiology and Behavior Graduate Program at Columbia University. 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. He is a founding member of the editorial board of Journal of Computational Neuroscience and has served as faculty for many years at various summer schools in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience. He received the Swartz Prize in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience given by the Society for Neuroscience, and has also been recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Searle Scholar’s Award, and National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.

Participant In These Roundtable Discussions

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Feb 10th
2018
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Mind Matters: Past, Present, and Future

This roundtable traces the evolving understanding of mind from ancient philosophical and theological conceptions to contemporary accounts grounded in neuroscience, cognitive science, and computational models. It considers how advances across multiple scientific disciplines have reshaped ideas of mental phenomena, while also reflecting on the continuing roles of metaphysics and theology in interpreting the nature, limits, and future of mind, including speculation on how the concept of mind itself may change in the next century.
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Jan 19th
2019
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Math models Mind

This roundtable explores whether mathematics has a unifying essence analogous to “life” in biology, and what that might mean for the discipline as a whole. It considers the role of mathematical language, analogies, and connections in shaping the coherence and perceived beauty of mathematical ideas.