Schedule

           Program Schedule

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June 8


Morning

Chair : Olivier Faugeras

9:00 – 9.15

Introductory remarks : Olivier Faugeras

9.15-10:00 The visual brain : computing through multiscale complexity
Yves Fregnac (CNRS, UNIC, France) Keynote Lecture
10.00-10:30 Genetic networks specifying the functional architecture of orientation domains in V1
Fred Wolf
(MPI-DS, Germany)
10.30-11:00 Break
11.00-11:30 Understanding order and disorder in visual cortical circuits through self-organiszation
Jaun Daniel Flórez Weidinger, (MPI-DS, Germany)
11.30-12:00
On the effects of the pinwheel network symmetries on cortical response
Pascal Chossat (Inria, France) Invited Lecture
12.00-12:30 Statistical dynamics of balanced cortical circuits
Robert Rosenbaum (University of Notre Dame, USA)

                                                            Lunch 12.30 – 14.00


Afternoon Sessions I
Cortical models
Chair : Yves Frégnac
Session II
Connectivity/Coding
Chair : André Longtin
14.00-14.30 A gauge theory for coupling cortical layers
Alessandro Sarti (CAMS, France) Invited Lecture
Binary recurrent neural networks with random coding
Claude Berrou (CNRS Lab-STICC, France)
14.30-15.00 Differential effects of attention and input strength in auditory bistability
James Rankin (CNS, New York, USA)
Topological analysis detects intrinsic geometric structure in neural correlations
Vladimir Itskov (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
15.00-15.30 Pinwheel-dipole structures in V1 : exhaustivity, parsimony and balanced detection
Alberto Romagnoni (ENS, France)
Local independence graphs to understand the functional connectivity in the brain
Christine Tuleau-Malot (CNRS-LJAD, France)
15.30-16.00 Break
16.00-16.30 Noise-driven up-down transitions in a
simple model for general anesthesia

Pedro García-Rodríguez (Inria, France)

Global control of attractor switches in large-scale brain dynamics
Emmanuel Daucé (Ecole Centrale Marseille,
Inserm, France)
17.00-19.00

Poster Session I
and welcome cocktail


Evening


20.00 Program committee and Organizing Committee Dinner

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 June 9

Morning


Chair : Paul Bressloff
9.15-10:00 Space: the final frontier spatiotemporal dynamics in neural fields
Bard Ermentrout
Keynote Lecture
10.00-10:30 Stochastic synchronization of neural activity waves
Zachary P. Kilpatrick (University of Houston, USA)
10.30 11:00 Break
11.00-11:30 Paradoxical oscillations from feedforward networks
Andre Longtin (University of Ottawa, Canada) Invited Lecture
11.30-12:00 A master equation for neural population dynamics – Bridging microscopic spiking neural networks and mesoscopic population models
Tilo Schwalger (EPFL, Switzerland)
12.00-12:30 How somatic spikes are influenced by nonlinear active dendrites
Romain Veltz (Inria, France)

          Lunch 12.30 – 14.00


Afternoon Sessions I
Stochastic models
Chair : Wilhelm Stannat
Session II
Rhythms / Spiking
Chair : Martin Wechselberger
14.00-14.30 Neurons in mean-field interaction
Sylvain Rubenthaler (UNSA, LJAD, France)
Plausible and phenomenological models of multifunctional central pattern generators Andrey Shilnikov (Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, USA)
14.30-15.00 Asymptotic analysis of stochastic travelling waves in stochastic neural field equations
James Maclaurin (Inria, France)
A simple model of theta-gamma coupling
Lorenzo Fontolan (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
15.00-15.30 Analysis and appoximation of stochastic Nerve Axon Equations
Martin Sauer (TU Berlin, Germany)
Rigourous results on robust traveling waves in periodically-forced chains of simple type-I oscillators
Stanislas M. Mintchev (The Cooper Union, USA)
15.30-16.00

Break

16.00-16.30 A numerical method for stochastic travelling waves in neural tissue
G. J. Lord (Maxwell Institute, MACS, Heriot Watt University, UK)
The role of canards in transition to bursting and spike adding
Maciej Krupa (Inria, France) Invited Lecture
17.00-19.00 Poster Session II

Evening


 20:00

Conference banquet

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     June 10

Morning


Chair : Stephen Coombes
9.15-10:00 Simple or realistic models?
Suzanne Ditlevsen 
Keynote Lecture
10.00-10:30 A stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley model with periodic input
Michèle Thieullen (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France) Invited Lecture
10.30 11:00 Break
11.00-11:30 Stochastic neural field equations
Wilhelm Stannat (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) Invited Lecture
11.30-12:00 New directions in bifurcation theory emerging from modeling neurosciences
Jean-Pierre Francoise (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France) Invited Lecture
12.00-12:30 The role of cell volume changes in normal and pathological dynamics of the brain
Martin Wechselberger (University of Sidney, Australia) Invited Lecture

                                                           Lunch 12.30 – 14.00


Afternoon Sessions I
Development / Plasticity
Chair : Romain Veltz
Session II
Neural fields
Chair : Zachary Kilpatrick
14.00-14.30 Competitive reaction diffusion systems with spatial cues: homeoprotein and the stability of compartments in developing nervous system
Cristobal Quininao, (Collège de France and LJLL, France)
Using sun-star calculus for normal form calculations in neural field equations
Stephan van-Gils (University of Twente, the Netherlands) Invited Lecture
14.30-15.00 Context-dependent representation in recurrent neural networks
Gilles Wainrib (ENS, France)
Traveling pulses in some nonlocal FitzHugh-Nagumo equations
Gregory Faye (CAMS France
)
15.00-15.30 How did the evolution of color vision impact V1 functional architecture
Manuel Schottdorf (MPI-DS, Germany)
Standing and travelling waves in a spherical brain model: the Nunez model revisted
Sid Visser (University of Nottingham, UK)
15.30-16.00 Break
16.00-16.30 Interaction of synaptic plasticity rules lead to structure formation in balanced random networks
Felix Effenberger (MPI-MS Germany)
Complex multiple timescale dynamics in a periodically forced Wendling-Chauvel neural mass model
Mathieu Desroches (Inria, France)
16.45-17.15 Poster awards and closing ceremony