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The Brain and Computation Boot Camp
Workshops
Spring 2018
The Brain and Computation Boot Camp
Jan 16, 2018
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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
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9:20 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am
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9:30 am
Opening Remarks
9:30 am
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10:30 am
Mapping Neural Connections and Their Development I
Jeff Lichtman, Harvard University
10:30 am
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11:00 am
Break
11:00 am
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12:00 pm
Mapping Neural Connections and Their Development II
Jeff Lichtman, Harvard University
12:00 pm
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1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
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3:00 pm
High Throughput Connectomics
Nir Shavit, MIT
3:00 pm
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3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm
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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
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9:30 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am
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10:30 am
Biophysics of Computation I
Bartlett Mel, USC
10:30 am
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11:00 am
Break
11:00 am
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12:00 pm
Biophysics of Computation II
Bartlett Mel, USC
12:00 pm
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2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
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3:00 pm
Computation in Networks of Neurons in the Brain I
Wolfgang Maass, Technische Universität Graz
3:00 pm
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3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm
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4:30 pm
Computation in Networks of Neurons in the Brain II
Wolfgang Maass, Technische Universität Graz
Thursday, January 18th, 2018
9:00 am
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9:30 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am
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10:30 am
Thalamocortical System I
Murray Sherman, University of Chicago
10:30 am
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11:00 am
Break
11:00 am
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12:00 pm
Thalamocortical System II
Murray Sherman, University of Chicago
12:00 pm
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1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
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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
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3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm
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5:00 pm
Neural Mechanisms of Vision
Bruno Olshausen, UC Berkeley
Friday, January 19th, 2018
9:00 am
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9:30 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am
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10:30 am
Theory of Computation I
Christos Papadimitriou, Columbia University
10:30 am
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11:00 am
Break
11:00 am
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12:00 pm
Theory of Computation II
Christos Papadimitriou, Columbia University
12:00 pm
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1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
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3:00 pm
Unsupervised Learning
Santosh Vempala, Georgia Institute of Technology
3:00 pm
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3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm
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5:00 pm
Bayesian Theories of Perception and Cognition
Peggy Seriès, University of Edinburgh
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