EPFL-Latsis symposium on Neural Coding and Modeling

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Monday, Feb 17

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8h15-8h45 Registration

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Opening Session

• 8h45 Opening remarks:
  Professor Dusan Sidjansky for the LATSIS foundation and
  Professor Stefan Catsicas for the EPFL.

  Session 1: Information decoding I

• 9h00 W. Bialek, Princeton Univ., From randomness to relevance: Entropy, information and the brain Abstract
• 9h40 Andre Longtin, Univ. Ottawa Inhibitory Feedback and Network Oscillatory Responses to global stimuli. Abstract

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  10h20 - 10h45 Coffee

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  Session 2: Auditory System and Coincidence Detection

• 10h50 Leo van Hemmen, TU Munich . Mapping the Auditory Azimuth into the Brain: Through Many Channels or Just Two Populations? Abstract
• 11h30 John Rinzel, Courant Institute, NYU Temporal Precision in Coincidence Detecting Auditory Neurons Abstract
• 12h10 Walter Senn, Bern Gain modulation and coincidence detection through somato-dendritic interactions Abstract

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  Lunch

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  Session 3: Information decoding II

• 14h00 Barry Richmond, NIMH Decoding spike trains instant-by-instant using order statistics and mixture of Poissons models Abstract
• 14h40 Klaus Pawelzik Bremen, Building representations spike by spike. Abstract
• 15h20 Andreas Herz, HU Berlin Towards a functional characterization of neural response properties Abstract

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  16h00 - 16h30 Monday Poster Session 1 and Coffee

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  Session 4: Modeling aspects of vision I

• 16h30 Misha Tsodyks Population activity in primary visual cortex - experiments and models Abstract
• 17h10 Ernst Niebur, Johns Hopkins University Neural Implementation of Selective Attention Abstract

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  18h00 - 18h45 Monday Poster Session 2

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  Tuesday, Feb 18

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  Session 5: Network Dynamics: Cortical Microcircuits

• 9h00 W. Maass, TU-Graz Modeling real-time computation in generic cortical microcircuits Abstract
• 9h40 Phil Goodman, Brain Comp Lab, UNR Large-Scale Biologically Realistic Models of Cortical Microcircuit Dynamics and Multisensory Perception Abstract

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  10h20-10h45 Coffee

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  Session 6: Network Dynamics: General Theory

• 10h50 Nicolas Brunel, Paris Dynamics of networks of noisy spiking neurons: from integrate-and-fire to Hodgkin-Huxley (and back) Abstract
• 11h30 John Hertz, Nordita, Denmark Mean Field Approach to Dynamics of Inhomogeneous Cortical Networks Abstract
• 12h10 Carson Chow, Universtiy of Pittsburgh . Synchrony, synaptic depression, and enhanced information transfer Abstract

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  Lunch

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  Session 7: Network Dynamics: Correlations and Temporal Precision

• 14h00 David Horn, Tel Aviv, Israel Synfire waves in a doubly balanced network Abstract
• 14h40 Alain Destexhe, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette Detecting correlations and variances in synaptic `noise' Abstract

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  15h20 - 16h00 Tuesday Poster Session 1 and Coffee

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  Session 8: Synaptic Plasticity

• 16h00 Larry Abbott, Brandeis Synaptic Democracy and Hebbian Learning Abstract
• 16h40 Mayank Mehta, MIT Emergent properties of synaptic plasticity Abstract
• 17h20 Henry D.I. Abarbanel, UCSD A Biophysical Model of the Dynamics of Synaptic Plasticity Abstract

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  18h00 - 18h45 Tuesday Poster Session 2

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  Wednesday, Feb 19

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  Session 9: Hippocampus and Memory

• 9h00 Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience, London Replay, Repair and Consolidation Abstract
• 9h40 Alessandro Treves, Trieste, SISSA On the functional significance of the CA3-CA1 differentiation. Abstract

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  10h20 - 10h45 Coffee

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  Session 10: Modeling aspects of vision II

• 10h50 Klaus Obermayer, TU Berlin Models of Adaptation in Primary Visual Cortex Abstract
• 11h30 Pamela Reinagel, Harvard and UCSD Temporal precision in visual neurons of the thalamus: Physiology and theory Abstract