Tim Gardner, University of Oregon, will speak on "Tracking Neural Programs for Song." Prof. Gardner’s research group seeks to understand the neural circuit basis for memory stability in the songbird.  The talk will describe technical challenges to recording neural activity in singing birds, and engineering efforts to provide miniature devices for brain and nerve recording. They apply these tools to ask how the brain encodes a stable behavior – the stereotyped song of a zebra finch.  Co-presented by the Department of Physics and the Neuroscience Working Group.