<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear colleagues — We are pleased to announce many available PhD positions at UT Austin in the Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience (CTCN). See below for details.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Alex Huth</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="font-size: 17px;" class="">Doctoral studies in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience (CTCN) at UT is a multidisciplinary, collaborative center dedicated to understanding how the brain computes. Faculty members contribute expertise from the fields of Neuroscience, Mathematics, Computer Science, Psychology, Physics, and Engineering. Research at CTNC broadly aims at developing both new theoretical and new empirical approaches to better understand neural computation. More information about CTCN can be found at <a href="http://ctcn.utexas.edu/" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">http://ctcn.utexas.edu/</a></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">A list of relevant faculty, sorted by department affiliation, is provided below. Students interested in pursuing theoretical or computational neuroscience at UT can apply to any of the listed departments.</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><u class="">Neuroscience (deadline 12/1/2017 — <a href="https://neuroscienceinstitute.utexas.edu/" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">https://<wbr class="">neuroscienceinstitute.utexas.<wbr class="">edu/</a>)</u></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Ila Fiete — Theoretical bases of representation and computation</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Robbe Goris (also in Psychology) — Visual information processing, electrophysiology</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Thibaud Taillefumier (also in Mathematics) — Theory of neural ensembles</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Alexander Huth (also in Computer Science) — Neural representation of language, fMRI</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Dan Johnston — Synaptic plasticity, dendritic and subcellular integration</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Kristen Harris — Synaptic structure & function</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Laura Colgin — Spatial memory, learning, and oscillations</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Mike Mauk — Information processing in the cerebellum</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Nicholas Priebe — Evolution of visual cortex, emergence of visual tuning, electrophysiology</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Alex Huk (also in Psychology) — Perceptual decision making, motion processing, electrophysiology</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><u class="">Computer Science (deadline 12/15/2017 — <a href="https://www.cs.utexas.edu/graduate/prospective-students/apply" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">https://www.cs.utexas.edu/<wbr class="">graduate/prospective-students/<wbr class="">apply</a>)</u></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Dana Ballard — Vision & motor control</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Alexander Huth (also in Neuroscience, see above)</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Risto Miikkulainen — Natural language processing, machine learning</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><u class="">Mathematics (deadline 12/15/2017 — <a href="https://www.ma.utexas.edu/academics/graduate/admissions/" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">https://www.ma.utexas.edu/<wbr class="">academics/graduate/admissions/</a><wbr class="">)</u></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Ngoc Mai Tran — Probability, combinatorics, graphs</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Thibaud Taillefumier (also in Neuroscience, see above)</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">François Baccelli (also in Electrical Engineering) — Probability, stochastic geometry, dynamical systems, network science</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><u class="">Psychology (deadline 12/1/2017 — <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/psychology/graduate/admissions/" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">https://liberalarts.utexas.<wbr class="">edu/psychology/graduate/<wbr class="">admissions/</a>)</u></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Bill Geisler — Vision, visually guided behavior</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Robbe Goris (also in Neuroscience, see above)</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Alex Huk (also in Neuroscience, see above)</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><div style="font-size: small;" class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Communication Sciences & Disorders (deadline 12/17/2017 </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">— </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><a href="https://csd.utexas.edu/graduate/phd-program-overview" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">https://csd.utexas.edu/graduate/phd-program-overview</a>)</span></u></div><div style="font-size: small;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Liberty Hamilton (also in Neurology at Dell Medical School) </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">—</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""> Neural representations of sound and language, electrocorticography (ECoG)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><u class="">Electrical & Computer Engineering (deadline 12/15/2017 — <a href="http://www.ece.utexas.edu/graduate/admissions" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">http://www.ece.utexas.edu/<wbr class="">graduate/admissions</a>)</u></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">David Soloveichik — Molecular and chemical computation</div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Physics (deadline 12/1/2017 </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">— </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><a href="https://ph.utexas.edu/prospective-graduate-students/admissions" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">https://ph.utexas.edu/prospective-graduate-students/admissions</a>)</span></u></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Ila Fiete (also in Neuroscience, see above)</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">--</div><div class=""><b class="">ALEXANDER G. HUTH, PhD</b> | Assistant Professor</div><div class="">The University of Texas at Austin</div><div class="">Departments of Computer Science & Neuroscience</div></div></body></html>