Workshops

Spring 2018

Targeted Discovery in Brain Data

Mar. 19 – Mar. 22, 2018

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

Monday, March 19th, 2018
8:30 am – 8:50 am		Coffee and Check-In
8:50 am – 9:00 am		Opening Remarks
9:00 am – 10:00 am		Three Principles of Data Science: Predictability, Stability, and Computability Bin Yu, UC Berkeley
10:00 am – 10:30 am		Break
10:30 am – 11:30 am		Dynamic Modeling and Control of Multiscale Brain Networks Maryam Shanechi, University of Southern California
11:30 am – 12:00 pm		Discussion
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm		Decoding and Modeling the Brain’s Navigational Circuits I la Fiete, University of Texas at Austin
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm		Cortical Travelling Waves: Mechanisms and Computational Principles Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm		Discussion
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm		Reception

Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
8:30 am – 9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am – 10:00 am		Computational Geometry of Cortical Networks: Manifold-Embedding Analysis of Multi-Site Recordings, Connectomic Graphs, and Deep Learning Networks Clay Reid, Allen Institute for Brain Science
10:00 am – 10:30 am		Break
10:30 am – 11:30 am		Flows Reveal Hidden Dimensions in Mouse Visual Cortex Steven Zucker, Yale University
11:30 am – 12:00 pm		Discussion
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm		Automated Reconstruction of Synaptic-Resolution Neural Wiring Diagrams Using Large Scale Computation and Machine Learning Viren Jain, Google
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm		TBA Misha Ahrens, Janelia
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm		Discussion

Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
8:30 am – 9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am – 10:00 am		Physiological Measures of Information Flow in Sensing-Acting Cycles Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10:00 am – 10:30 am		Break
10:30 am – 11:30 am		Cortical Areas Interact through a Communication Subspace Christian Machens, Champalimaud Research
11:30 am – 12:00 pm		Discussion
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm		Similarity Alignment: A Missing Link Between Structure, Function and Algorithms Mitya Chklovskii, Simons Foundation
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm		Discussion

Thursday, March 22nd, 2018
8:30 am – 9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am – 10:00 am		Tracing, Intercepting and Modeling Communication in the Brain Fritz Sommer, UC Berkeley
10:00 am – 10:30 am		Break
10:30 am – 11:30 am		Inferring Single-Trial Neural Population Dynamics Using Sequential Auto-Encoders David Sussillo, Google
11:30 am – 12:00 pm		Discussion
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm		Break
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm		Walk in the Hills