This is an informal study group, meeting on Fridays, 2pm, in CSIRO ICT Centre (Schottky room), Marsfield.  The following is a schedule for the new series on Information-theoretic models in Neural Computation.  Date  Title  Presenter  Affiliation  27/11/2009 Information-theoretic modelling of scaling in communication systems Mikhail Prokopenko CSIRO ICT Centre  04/12/2009 Information transfer in recurrent neural networks  Oliver Obst CSIRO ICT Centre  11/12/2009 Information and assortativity in directed networks   Mahendra Piraveenan University of Sydney and CSIRO ICT Centre     18/12/2009 no seminar      25/12/2009    Christmas break      08/01/2010  Hierarchical connectivity and criticality in large scale networks of spiking neurons Mikail Rubinov University of New South Wales and CSIRO ICT Centre     15/01/2010  Information transfer and inter-regional cortical interactions in a visuomotor tracking task Joseph Lizier  University of Sydney and CSIRO ICT Centre    22/01/2010          29/01/2010           05/02/2010    A connectionist approach, assisted by fMRI, to understanding motion perception Ron Li CSIRO ICT Centre     12/02/2010   To be announced Nihat Ay Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in The Sciences, Leipzig, Germany  19/02/2010   Information-theoretic criteria for optimal sensor topologies   Rosalind Wang   CSIRO ICT Centre   Past discussions within our discussion group on "Entropy and Self-organisation" ranged over a number of topics: A series on adaptive systems A series on applications  A series on Artificial Life  (4 selected papers from ALife X: The 10th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2006) A series on Measures of Complexity  (10 selected papers from 1983-2005) Entropy, Extropy, Cellular Automata, Chaos Self-Assembly, Amorphous Computing, Artificial Life Self-referentiality, Gödel's Theorem Ant Colony Optimisation Sensor Networks, Small Worlds, Scale-free Networks . . . You are welcome to join  . . .