Zu Gast an der RUB

Friedrich T. Sommer aus Berkely (USA) ist für zwei Monate zu Gast bei der Mercator Research Group „Structure of Memory“ (Prof. S. Cheng).

Weitere Informationen nur auf Englisch:

Friedrich T. Sommer from Berkely will visit Prof. Sen Cheng (TP B2) from the Mercator Research Group „Structure of Memory“ during March and April 2012. Friedrich T. Sommer is Associate Adjunct Professor at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience and at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at University of California, Berkeley.
He received a PhD in Physics from University of Düsseldorf with a thesis on the theory of associative memories. He conducted postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Tuebingen and he holds a Habilitation degree in Computer Science from University of Ulm.

Fritz Sommer’s broad research interest is to understand how brains learn and perform tasks with ease that computer algorithms struggle with, for example analyzing a cluttered visual scene or retrieving relevant information from a large body of stored data. Long-standing research interests include models of memory and studies of the computation performed by networks of sensory neurons.
His recent interests include developing a theory of learning in sensor-motor loops and using ideas from compressed sensing in models how functional brain regions communicate. His lab uses approaches from Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics and Physics to devise computational models of the brain, as well as techniques for analyzing neuroscience data. Further, the group collaborates with various experimental neuroscientists.