Sunday, September 17, 2017
Time | Event | |
17:00 - 19:00 | Registration and Welcome | |
19:00 - 19:05 | Opening remarks - Organizers | |
19:05 - 19:50 | Directing variability for learning in birdsong. - Adrienne Fairhall (Seattle) | |
20:00 - 22:00 | Dinner |
Monday, September 18, 2017
Time | Event | |
09:30 - 10:15 | Flexible statistical inference for mechanistic models of neural dynamics - Jakob Macke (Bonn) | |
10:15 - 10:45 | Dimensionality Reduction of Neural Dynamics Within and Across Trials By Tensor Decomposition - Alex Williams*, Tony Kim, Fori Wang, Saurabh Vyas, Krishna Shenoy, Mark Schnitzer, Tamara Kolda, Surya Ganguli | |
10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break | |
11:15 - 12:00 | Efficient coding strategies in populations of sensory neurons - Julijana Gjorgjieva (Frankfurt) | |
12:00 - 12:30 | Multiplexed computations in retinal ganglion cells of a single type - Olivier Marre*, Stephane Deny, Ulisse Ferrari, Emilie Mace, Pierre Yger, Romain Caplette, Serge Picaud, Gasper Tkacik | |
12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
14:30 - 15:15 | Brain-computer interfaces for basic science - Byron Yu (Pittsburgh) | |
15:15 - 15:45 | Modeling within and across area neuronal variability in the visual system - Chengcheng Huang*, Douglas Ruff, Ryan Pyle, Robert Rosenbaum, Marlene Cohen, Brent Doiron | |
15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee break | |
16:15 - 17:00 | Dissecting striatal circuitry for reward seeking behavior. - Ilana Witten (Princeton) | |
17:00 - 17:30 | Noise-robust ``codewords" of the retinal population code: applicability, geometry, and correspondence to neuronal communities - Adrianna Loback*, Jason Prentice, Mark Ioffe, Michael Berry | |
17:30 - 20:00 | Poster Session | |
20:00 - 22:00 | Dinner |
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Time | Event | |
09:30 - 10:15 | Motor cortex embeds muscle-like commands in an untangled population response - Mark Churchland (Columbia) | |
10:15 - 10:45 | Task engagement induces shift from sensory to behavioral representations in primary auditory cortex - Sophie Bagur*, Martin Averseng, Diego Elgueda, Stephen David, Jonathan Fritz, Pingbo Yin, Shihab Shamma, Yves Boubenec, Srdjan Ostojic | |
10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break | |
11:15 - 12:00 | Discovering dynamic computations in the brain from large-scale neural recordings - Tatiana Engel (Cold Spring Harbor) | |
12:00 - 12:30 | Learning probabilistic representations with randomly connected neural circuits - Ori Maoz*, Gasper Tkacik, Roozbeh Kiani, Elad Schneidman | |
12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
14:30 - 15:15 | Changing dynamical roles of different cortical cell-types with learning - Maneesh Sahani (UCL) | |
15:15 - 15:45 | High cellular and columnar variability underlies the absence of early orientation selectivity - David Whitney, Gordon Smith, Bettina Hein, David Fitzpatrick, Matthias Kaschube* | |
15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee break | |
16:15 - 16:45 | A motor readout of visual perception: Deciphering cuttlefish camouflage at single-chromatophore resolution - Sam Reiter*, Philipp Hülsdunk, Theodosia Woo, Marcel Lauterbach, Jessica Eberle, Daniel Noll, Matthias Kaschube, Gilles Laurent | |
16:45 - 17:15 | A sensorimotor hub driving phototaxis in zebrafis - Alexis Dubreuil*,Sébastien Wolf, Georges Debrégeas, Rémi Monasson | |
17:30 - 20:00 | Poster session | |
20:00 - 22:00 | Dinner |
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Time | Event | |
09:30 - 10:15 | Concentration invariant odor coding - Dmitry Rinberg (NYU) | |
10:15 - 10:45 | A model circuit describing spatial integration and its modulation by running of four neuronal classes recorded in V1. - Mario Dipoppa*, Matteo Carandini, Kenneth Harris | |
10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break | |
11:15 - 11:45 | Distinct regulation of history-dependent responses by two cortical interneuron populations - Elizabeth Phillips, Christoph Schreiner, Andrea Hasenstaub | |
11:45 - 12:30 | Stimulus quality vs stimulus intensity in sensory discrimination: Behavior and some neural correlates - Alfonso Renart (Lisbon) | |
12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |