The 2005/2006 Donegall Lecture

The Trinity College Dublin School of Mathematics is pleased to announce the 2005/2006 Donegall lecture

Tony Bell

A view of theoretical neuroscience and machine learning.

7.30 Thursday 10 November 2005

Schroedinger LT, Fitzgerald Bldg, TCD

THE DONEGALL LECTURESHIP was endowed in 1688 by Arthur Chichester, called the 1st Earl of Donegall, with an annuity of 30 pounds. For much of its history the Donegall lectureship was awarded to a Trinity College mathematician as an additional honour and a supplementary income. Since 1967 the lectureship has been awarded each year to a leading international scientist who visits the College and gives talks, including a public lecture called the Donegall lecture.

TONY BELL grew up in Castlerock, on the north coast of Ireland. He studied Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, later getting his PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). His postdoc work with Terry Sejnowski at the Salk Institute in San Diego yielded the ICA/Infomax algorithm for which he is most well known. He has also worked at Interval Research in Silicon Valley. Presently he is researching theoretical neuroscience at the University of California at Berkeley, at the Redwood Neuroscience Centre, a new group dedicated to the foundations of cortical theory.

For more information please contact Conor Houghton (p 01-6083542 and e houghton@maths.tcd.ie). Maps of TCD can be found at www.tcd.ie/Maps with the Physics building also called the Fitzgerald building described at www.tcd.ie/Maps/physics.html. This talk was supported by the Donegall endownment and by the TCD SFI AOIP Academic Capacity Building Grant Scheme.