Program Schedule
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June 8 |
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Morning |
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Chair : Olivier Faugeras |
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| 9:00 – 9.15 |
Introductory remarks : Olivier Faugeras |
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| 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 Joscha Liedtke (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) | |
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Lunch 12.30 – 14.00 |
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| 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) Slides |
| 14.30-15.00 | Differential effects of attention and input strength in auditory bistability James Rankin (CNS, New York, USA) Slides |
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) Slides |
Global control of attractor switches in large-scale brain dynamics Emmanuel Daucé (Ecole Centrale Marseille, Inserm, France) Slides |
| 17.00-19.00 |
Poster Session I and welcome cocktail |
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Evening |
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| 20.00 | Program committee and Organizing Committee Dinner | |
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| June 9 | ||
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Morning |
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| 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) Slides |
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| 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) |
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Lunch 12.30 – 14.00 |
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| 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) Slides |
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) Slides |
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) |
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Break |
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| 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 | |
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Evening |
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| 20:00 |
Conference banquet |
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| June 10 | ||
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Morning |
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| 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 | |
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Lunch 12.30 – 14.00 |
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| 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 | |
