The Rockefeller University » Unsupervised Pretraining in Biological Neural Networks

Event Details

Type: Neuroscience Seminar Series
Speaker(s): Carsen Stringer, Ph.D., group leader, HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Open to: Campus and Guests

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