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MSc Thesis Defense: Görkem Er

Görkem Er, from UMRAM, has successfully defended his MSc thesis on September 13th, 2018. He is currently enrolled in Neuroscience Master program with his supervisor Hüseyin Boyacı at Bilkent University.   Thesis Title: The Role of Contrast and Size In Motion Perception: Behavioral And Neuroimaging Study Of Center-Surround Interactions In Primary Visual Cortex (V1) And […]

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New UMRAM Website

Our New Web Site is Published! UMRAM website www.umram.bilkent.edu.tr is now online with its new face! In order to provide better service in the academic and technological sense, our website, which is full of innovations, has been published. You can access up-to-date news, academic publications, projects, past and future events and conferences, detailed personal pages […]

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Mert Hidayetoglu of University of Illinois at Urbana Champain presented on his PhD studies

Mert Hidayetoglu of University of Illinois at Urbana Champain presented on his PhD studies. Talk was entitled “SUPERCOMPUTING FOR FULL-WAVE TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION IN NEAR-REAL TIME.” The abstract of the talk is: Full-wave methods incorporate all wave phenomena into the image reconstructions by solving the Helmholtz equation with no fundamental approximation. These phenomena include refraction, absorption, diffraction, and […]

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ASELSAN Local and National Medical Device Development

ASELSAN’dan 2 milyar dolarlık hamle ASELSAN, dışa bağımlılığın yüzde 85 olduğu ve yılda 2 milyar dolar ithalata yol açan medikal cihaz ve bileşenleri için yerli ve milli çözümler geliştiriyor. Türkiye’nin teknoloji merkezlerinden ASELSAN, yerli tıbbi cihazların geliştirilmesi ve bu alandaki yurt dışı bağımlılığın azaltılması için çok yönlü çalışma yürütüyor. Türkiye’de sağlık teknolojilerindeki dışa bağımlılık yüzde 85 düzeyinde bulunuyor […]

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Neural Activities in Cortical Area MT and Audiovisual Interactions in Time

Dr. Gene R. Stoner (Visiting Faculty) and his colleagues at UMRAM published a research article in Journal of Neurophysiology. In their study, they utilized a set of audiovisual stimuli that elicit an illusion demonstrating “temporal ventriloquism” in visual motion and that have spatiotemporal intervals for which neurons within area MT are selective. They found evidence […]

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