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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
    10:00-11:00 John Hopfield (Princeton University)
    Are noisy gamma rhythms important for spike-timing based computation?
    [ Abstract ]
    11:00-11:30 Coffee break
    11:30-12:30 Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)
    Phase resetting, noise, and synchrony
    [ Abstract ]
    12:30-2:30 Lunch

    Saturday, September 17 (afternoon): Network dynamics
    2:30-3:00 Mike Shelley (NYU)
    discussant
    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 ]
    4:00-4:30 Coffee break
    4:30-5:30 Alain Destexhe (CNRS, Gif, France)
    "Seeing" network activity through membrane potential fluctuations
    [ Abstract ]

    Sunday, September 18 (morning): Learning and Memory
    9:30-10:00 Larry Abbott (Columbia)
    discussant
    10:00-11:00 Haim Sompolinsky (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
    Supervised learning of spike-timing based decision rules
    [ Abstract ]
    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 ]
    12:30-2:30 Lunch

    Sunday, September 18 (afternoon): Coding
    2:30-3:00 Eero Simoncelli (NYU)
    discussant
    3:00-4:00 Peter Dayan (Gatsby Institute, United Kingdom)
    Coding for Uncertainty
    [ Abstract ]
    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 ]


    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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