Workshops

Spring 2018

Representation, Coding and Computation in Neural Circuits

Feb. 12 – Feb. 15, 2018

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Monday, February 12th, 2018
9:00 am – 9:20 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am – 9:30 am		Opening Remarks
9:30 am – 10:00 am		Pattern Separation and Completion in Subregions of the Hippocampus Jim Knierim, Johns Hopkins University
10:00 am – 10:30 am		CRISP: Challenging the Standard Framework of Hippocampal Memory Function Laurenz Wiskott, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
10:30 am – 11:00 am		Break
11:00 am – 11:30 am		Place-Cell Sequences in the Hippocampus David Foster, UC Berkeley
11:30 am – 12:00 pm		Active Dendrites in the Formation of Hippocampal Place Fields Mark Sheffield, University of Chicago
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm		Continuous 8 Hz Alternation between Divergent Representations in the Hippocampus Loren Frank, UCSF
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm		Coding of Space and Time in Cortical Structures Michael Hasselmo, Boston University
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm		Decoding the Population Activity of Grid Cells for Spatial Localization and Goal-Directed Navigation Andreas Herz, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm		Recurrent Circuitry Implements Concentration-Invariant Odor Coding in Piriform Cortex Kevin Franks, Duke University
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm		Discussion
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm		Reception

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am – 10:00 am		Basal Ganglia Architecture for Reinforcement Learning Josh Berke, UCSF
10:00 am – 10:30 am		Computational and Experimental Approaches to Study Dendritic Integration of Convergent Synaptic Inputs Jun Ding, Stanford University
10:30 am – 11:00 am		Break
11:00 am – 11:30 am		Synaptic Learning Rules Tuned to Functional Requirements Jennifer Raymond, Stanford University
11:30 am – 12:00 pm		A View of Cortex from the Thalamus S. Murray Sherman, University of Chicago
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm		Dissecting the Dynamics of Signal Transmission in Thalamocortical Circuits Martin Usrey, UC Davis
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm		Corticogeniculate Feedback Sharpens the Temporal Resolution of LGN Responses Farran Briggs, University of Rochester
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm		Emergence of Direction Selectivity at the Convergence of Thalamo-Cortical Synapses in Visual Cortex Massimo Scanziani, UCSF
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm		Discussion

Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am – 10:00 am		What Electric Signals Tell Us about the Brain Code Costas Anastassiou, Allen Institute for Brain Science
10:00 am – 10:30 am		Relating Circuit Dynamics to Computation: Robustness and Dimension-Specific Computation in Cortical Dynamics Shaul Druckmann, Stanford University
10:30 am – 11:00 am		Break
11:00 am – 11:30 am		How Fast Is a Neural "Winner-Take-All" When Deciding Between Many Noisy Options? Ila Fiete, University of Texas at Austin
11:30 am – 12:00 pm		The Regime of Sensory Cortical Computation: Loose E/I Balance and Normalization Ken Miller, Columbia University
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm		Precise Multimodal Control of Neural Ensemble Activity Hillel Adesnik, UC Berkeley
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm		Discussion
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm		Walk in the Hills

Thursday, February 15th, 2018
9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am – 10:00 am		Differential Tuning of Excitation and Inhibition Underlies Direction Selectivity in Ferret Visual Cortex Dan Wilson, Max Planck Florida Institute
10:00 am – 10:30 am		Horizontal Connectivity and Prediction of Coherences in the Integration of Contour and Motion in the Primary Visual Cortex Yves Fregnac, UNIC
10:30 am – 11:00 am		Break
11:00 am – 11:30 am		What Are All Those Neurons in Foveal V1 Doing? Bruno Olshausen, UC Berkeley
11:30 am – 12:00 pm		Detecting Object Boundaries in Natural Scenes Requires 'Incitatory' Cell-Cell Interactions Bartlett Mel, University of Southern California
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm		An Accurate Functional Model of Single Neurons in V1, V2 and V4 Jack Gallant, UC Berkeley
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm		The Code for Faces and Objects in IT Cortex Doris Tsao, California Institute of Technology
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm		Emerging Dynamics and Cognition in the Global Brain Xiao-Jing Wang, New York University
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm		Discussion