June 11, 2012

expert encounter with Professor Sebastian Seung

Speakers:
Professor Sebastian Seung, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, MIT

Professor Sebastian Seung came to the SMC before speaking at the Cheltenham Festival and giving a public lecture at LSE later, to tell journalists about his new book Connectome. As an upcoming name in neuroscience – Professor of Computational Neuroscience at MIT and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute – his book describes his team\’s efforts to map all the neural connections in the brain, with the hypothesis that he basis of our identity lies not in our genes but in this network between our brain cells.