Anil Seth news


 

 



2014

04: A major new update of our Granger causality software is released.
04: New Ph.D. studens Hielke Prins joins the group.
03: New book, The 30 Second Brain, is released by Icon Press.



2013

10: New Ph.D. student Michael Schartner joins the group
08: New postdoc Jim Parkinson joins the Sackler Centre
03: New TMS/EEG machine being installed in the lab

2012

11: In Amsterdam for 3 weeks as Visiting Professor.
09: Appointed as Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at Sussex
08: Acer Chang and Maxine Sherman join the lab as new Ph.D. students.
07: ASSC16 went very well indeed thank you very much! More than 500 participants from 35 countries, a new ASSC record.
05: Chaired Paul Zak at the RSA on the 'Moral Molecule'. See the video/audio.
04: State of Mind: A Consciousness Expo:  June 30th, 2012: Part of ASSC16's citywide celebration of consciousness science.
03: Took part in a sell-out event at The Royal Institution: "Consciousness, the Hard Problem" with Alok Jha, Chris Frith, and Barry Smith.
02: Sackler Centre scientists lead a day on 'It's Make Your Mind Up Time' at Brighton Science Festival.

2011

          12: ASSC16 general call for abstracts now closed.

         

          11: Modelling Natural Action Selection published by Cambridge University Press, co-edited with Tony Prescott and Joanna Bryson.

           11: David Schwartzman joins the Sackler Centre as Research Assistant / Lab Manager.
           09: New postdoctoral fellow, Keisuke Suzuki, joins the SCCS as part of the CEEDS project.
           03: Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam on the Brain and Cognition research priority programme.
           02: Workshop on 'theoretical and computational approaches to consciousness' at Cosyne 2011 (Utah). 

      2010

10: Ropetackle event 'Neuroscience and the Guitar' sells out.  See description, an animation snippet, and a review.
10: New EU FP7 project starts: Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems (CEEDS). Sussex leads the primary scientific workpackage,
10: New D.Phil. student, Hazel Anderson, joins as part of the SCCS, supervised by Jamie Ward, Zoltan Dienes, and me.
9: Special issue of Cognitive Neuroscience on Consciousness now available, co-edited with Geraint Rees (UCL).



7: Sussex to host ASSC16, the 16th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of consciousness, in June 2012.
7: Appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam (2011-2014).
4: Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science now open!  See Chris Frith's opening lecture here.  Coverage in the New Scientist, The Observer, and the Times (see Media page)
4: New D.Phil. student, Colin Reveley, joins the group (joint supervision with Owen Holland).  Eugenia Radulescu is appointed as the second SCCS research fellow.
2: New postdoctoral research fellows, Drs. Daniel Bor and Lionel Barnett, join the group as part of the SCCS.
1: Chairing event at the Royal Society of the Arts on Self, Responsibility and Neuroscience, with Patrick Haggard, A.C. Grayling, and Barry Smith (Jan 25).
1: Dr. Tom Froese joins group as a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the SCCS.

2009

12:  Frontiers in Consciousness Research launched, as part of the Frontiers in Psychology family.
9:   Animal Consciousness: A synthetic approach is the cover article for Trends in Neurosciences (Sep 2009). See Science News.
7:   1-day workshop on Granger Causality and Transfer Entropy (16th July):  www.itcan09.org.uk.
6:   Promoted to Reader.
6:   New 'Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science' (SCCS) established at Sussex. More details and open positions available soon.
6:   Chair/speaker of plenary symposium at ASSC13 on 'Measuring Consciousness' (with Zoltan Dienes and Andreas Engel)
5:   New postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. Adam Barrett, joins the group.

2008

11:   Appointed Associate Editor of new Springer journal, Cognitive Computation.
9:  Organized 'consciousness' session at the Barcelona Brain, Cognition and Technology summer school / workshop. With Paul Verschure, Tony Prescott, and Tom Ziemke. 
8:   Co-organized and chaired 'From Alife to Mind': First formal session on consciousness at an Artificial Life international conference.
7:   Awarded EPSRC Leadership Fellowship, 'Towards a Next Generation Computational Neuroscience', value £~1,200,000. Ranked #1 by panel.
6:   Promoted to Senior Lecturer.
4:  Distinguished speaker at World Science Forum 2008, Seoul, Korea, April 2008. World premiere of 'Entity', a Wayne McGregor | Random Dance piece (see below). Watch this video.



2007

9:  Theme issue of Phil. Trans R. Soc. B on Modelling Natural Action Selection is now out!



6:  Animal Consciousness: Towards a Scientific Description and Natural History.  A plenary symposium at  ASSC11 organized with David Edelman, and with guest speakers Bjorn Merker and Irene Pepperberg.
1: Invited guest speaker at the 80th birthday festschrift for Walter Freeman: Brain Network Dynamics (Berkeley, CA, Jan 26-27 2007).

2006

10: New job! Lecturer in Informatics at the University of Sussex.
6: ASSC10 Tutorial: A Scientific Method for the Study of Animal Consciousness, organized with David Edelman. (Oxford University)

2005

12: Appointed Associate Editor of Adaptive Behavior.
11: New Scientist cover story: The robot that thinks like you.
10:  Invited plenary speaker as part of 10 week public lecture series on consciousness held in Reykjavik, Iceland.
7:  'Modeling Natural Action Selection'. Co-organized with Tony Prescott and Joanna Bryson;held in Edinburgh, UK. Resulted in a theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B.

2004

6:  SAB2004 workshop: 'Neurorobotics Models in Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics'. Co-organized with Olaf Sporns and Jeff Krichmar; held in Santa Monica, CA. Resulted in a special issue of Neuroinformatics.