NCCD 2015 Schedule


Sunday, August 30

Evening
5:00 - 7:00 Registration
7:00 - 7:05 Opening remarks
7:05 - 7:50 Low-noise encoding of active touch by layer 4 in the somatosensory cortex
Karel Svoboda, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI
7:50 - 8:00 Break
8:00 - 10:00 Dinner

Monday, August 31

Morning
9:30 - 10:15 Cell-type specific sensorimotor processing during goal-directed behavior
Carl Petersen, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
10:15 - 10:45 Circuit mechanisms underlying inhibitory gradients in piriform cortex
Anne-Marie M. Oswald, University of Pittsburgh
10:45 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:00 Memories and Antimemories
Tim Vogels, University of Oxford
12:00 - 12:30 Structured connectivity as a source of slow dynamics in randomly connected networks
Daniel Marti, Ecole Normale Superieure
12:30 - 1:00 Spotlight talks
1:00 - 2:30 Lunch

Afternoon
2:30 - 3:15 Diverse inhibitory computations are masked by network integration
Andrea Hasenstaub, University of California at San Francisco
3:15 - 3:45 Activation of parvalbumin-positive interneurons enhances transient responses and changes tuning of offset responses in awake auditory cortex
K. Jannis Hildebrandt, University of Oldenburg
3:45 - 4:15 Break
4:15 - 5:00 An 'all-optical' approach for probing network dynamics in vivo
Michael Hausser, University College London
5:00 - 5:30 Characterization of a model circuit motif with two interneuron types
Marije ter Wal, Donders Institute, Radboud University
5:30 - 6:00 Break

Evening
6:00 - 9:00 Poster session 1
9:00 - 11:00 Dinner

Tuesday, September 1

Morning
9:30 - 10:15 Predictive coding with spikes
Sophie Deneve, Ecole Normale Superieure
10:15 - 10:45 A Novel Locally Balanced Dynamical State in Networks With Structural Heterogeneity And Slow Adaptation
Itamar Daniel Landau, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10:45 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:00 One balanced state or many? - A theory of the balanced state that keeps track of each and every spike
Fred Wolf, University of Gottingen
12:00 - 12:30 Inhibition-stabilized balanced dynamics account for stimulus-induced changes of noise variability in the cortex
Guillaume Hennequin, University of Cambridge
12:30 - 1:00 Changes in inhibition explain cortical variability and its role in sensory representations
Carsen Stringer, University College London
1:00 - 2:30 Lunch

Afternoon
2:30 - 3:15 State transitions in cortex: local circuit activity and sensory encoding across the cortical dynamic range
Jess Cardin, Yale University
3:15 - 3:45 Probing excitatory/inhibitory dynamics in awake visual cortex
I-Chun Lin, University College London
3:45 - 4:15 Break
4:15 - 4:45 Characterizing population-level interactions between V1 and V2
João D. Semedo, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown
4:45 - 5:15 Inhibitory subpopulations in V4 receive a selective common input during spatial attention
Adam C. Snyder, University of Pittsburgh
5:15 - 6:00 Break

Evening
6:00 - 9:00 Poster session 2
9:00 - 11:00 Dinner

Wednesday, September 2

Morning
9:30 - 10:15 Dynamic Changes in E/I Balance Contribute to Timing: Experimental and Theoretical Results
Dean Buonomano, University of California at Los Angeles
10:15 - 10:45 Mean field and dynamics of multi-stable states during ongoing and evoked cortical activity
Giancarlo La Camera, Stony Brook University
10:45 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:00 How top-down attention modulates excitatory and inhibitory cortical circuits.
Brent Doiron, University of Pittsburgh
12:00 - 12:30 High-dimensional projection of neural activity in a computational model of motion discrimination
Jean-Philippe Thivierge, University of Ottawa
12:30 - 1:00 Neuronal variability and choice variability in a hierarchical network model of perceptual decisions
Klaus Wimmer, IDIBAPS, Barcelona
1:00 - 1:15 Closing remarks
1:15 - 2:45 Lunch

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