Workshops

Spring 2018

The Brain and Computation Boot Camp

Jan. 16 – Jan. 19, 2018

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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
9:00 am – 9:20 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am – 9:30 am		Opening Remarks
9:30 am – 10:30 am		Mapping Neural Connections and Their Development I Jeff Lichtman, Harvard University
10:30 am – 11:00 am		Break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm		Mapping Neural Connections and Their Development II Jeff Lichtman, Harvard University
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm		High Throughput Connectomics Nir Shavit, MIT
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm		Allen Institute Large-scale Datasets and Modeling Tools Anton Arkhipov, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am – 10:30 am		Biophysics of Computation I Bartlett Mel, USC
10:30 am – 11:00 am		Break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm		Biophysics of Computation II Bartlett Mel, USC
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm		Computation in Networks of Neurons in the Brain I Wolfgang Maass, Technische Universität Graz
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm		Computation in Networks of Neurons in the Brain II Wolfgang Maass, Technische Universität Graz

Thursday, January 18th, 2018
9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am – 10:30 am		Thalamocortical System I Murray Sherman, University of Chicago
10:30 am – 11:00 am		Break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm		Thalamocortical System II Murray Sherman, University of Chicago
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm		The Brain and Body Compute Together: Neuromechanics and Sensorimotor Control Lena Ting, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm		Neural Mechanisms of Vision Bruno Olshausen, UC Berkeley

Friday, January 19th, 2018
9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am – 10:30 am		Theory of Computation I Christos Papadimitriou, Columbia University
10:30 am – 11:00 am		Break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm		Theory of Computation II Christos Papadimitriou, Columbia University
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm		Unsupervised Learning Santosh Vempala, Georgia Institute of Technology
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm		Bayesian Theories of Perception and Cognition Peggy Seriès, University of Edinburgh