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Theoretical Neuroscience
September 17 - 18, 2005
New York University
Center for Neural Science
SPEAKERS
Carlos Brody, Nicolas Brunel, Peter Dayan, Alain Destexhe,
Bard Ermentrout, John Hopfield, Haim Sompolinsky, Alessandro Treves.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
David Cai, David McLaughlin, John Rinzel,
Nava Rubin, Robert Shapley, Mike Shelley, Eero Simoncelli.
The planned eighth Symposium now scheduled for September 17-18, 2005 will be about Theoretical Neuroscience.
The function of the brain is so complex, and its structure so intricate, that to understand how the brain works requires a close interaction between theory and experiment. In this Symposium the speakers will emphasize the fruitful bi-directional interaction between mathematical modeling and neurobiological experimentation.
SCHEDULE
All sessions listed below will take place in Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer St, room 109.
| Saturday, September 17 (morning): Temporal representations |
| 9:15-9:30 |
Introduction |
| 9:30-10:00 |
John Rinzel (NYU)
discussant
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| 10:00-11:00 |
John Hopfield (Princeton University)
Are noisy gamma rhythms important for spike-timing based computation?
[ Abstract ]
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)
Phase resetting, noise, and synchrony
[ Abstract ]
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| 12:30-2:30 |
Lunch |
| Saturday, September 17
(afternoon): Network dynamics |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Mike Shelley (NYU)
discussant
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| 3:00-4:00 |
Nicolas Brunel (CNRS, Paris 5, France)
Effects of spatial connectivity and delays on spatio-temporal dynamics of cortical networks models
[ Abstract ]
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| 4:00-4:30 |
Coffee break |
| 4:30-5:30 |
Alain Destexhe (CNRS, Gif, France)
"Seeing" network activity through membrane potential fluctuations
[ Abstract ]
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| Sunday, September 18
(morning): Learning and Memory |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Larry Abbott (Columbia)
discussant
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| 10:00-11:00 |
Haim Sompolinsky
(Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
Supervised learning of spike-timing based decision rules
[ Abstract ]
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Trieste, Italy & NTNU, Trondheim, Norway)
Frontal Latching Networks and the neuronal basis of infinite recursion
[ Abstract ]
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| 12:30-2:30 |
Lunch |
| Sunday, September 18
(afternoon): Coding |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Eero Simoncelli (NYU)
discussant
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| 3:00-4:00 |
Peter Dayan (Gatsby Institute, United Kingdom)
Coding for Uncertainty
[ Abstract ]
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| 4:00-4:30 |
Coffee break |
| 4:30-5:30 |
Carlos Brody (Cold Spring Harbor)
Combining working memory and decision-making in a simple neural model of two-interval discrimination
[ Abstract ]
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REGISTRATION
To register for this conference, please download the pdf file here
and return it with the appropriate registration fee.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This conference is supported in part by the Swartz Foundation.
View descriptions of previous NYU/CNS Symposia.
For additional information regarding this conference, please
contact symposium.info@cns.nyu.edu
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