On November 8, 2023, the Initiative on Neurosciences hosted the fall poster session in the Student Union Ballroom, drawing over 130 people. All 5 local colleges, along with Wellesley College, UMass Chan Medical School, and Yale University were represented. You can read the abstracts here. The conference was headlined by a research talk from the new dean of the College of Natural Sciences, Michael Fox, “Shedding light on mechanisms that wire the brain”. We are grateful for dean Fox and the many students, staff, and faculty that showed up to make this event such a success!
He is perhaps best known for an influential book, which he co-wrote with Richard Sutton, called “Reinforcement Learning” (MIT Press). The book, which is now in its 2nd edition is considered almost a sacred text by neuroscientists studying the neural basis learning as well as engineers and computer scientists who work on artificial intelligence.