GATSBY COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE UNIT

ENS / Gatsby

30 May - 1 June 2007

Venue: 409, 4th floor Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR

PROGRAMME

409, 4 th floor seminar room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square

[30 minute talk plus 15 minutes for discussion or 10 minute talk plus 5 minutes for discussion]

Wednesday 30 May
11.00 – 11.30	Tea, coffee and Welcome
11.30 – 12.15	Udo Ernst - 'Can You Explain it for Me?' - Linking Extra-Classical Receptive Field Properties to Natural Image Statistics
12.15 – 13.00	Peter Dayan - Inhibition, Serotonin and Depression
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 14.45	Sophie Deneve - Probabilistic Inference with Spiking Neurons: a New Role for Divisive Inhibition
14.45 – 15.30	Zhaoping Li - Rapidly switching between priors by context in decision making during visual tasks
15.30 – 16.00	Tea and Coffee
16.00 – 16.45	Peter Latham - Deciding when to decide
16.45 – 17.30	Kai Krueger - Flexible Shaping: How learning in small steps helps

Thursday 31 May
10.00 – 10.45	Reza Moazzezi - Computation on the Transient
10.45 – 11.00	Nabil Bouaouli - Detecting Changes: a Probabilistic Interpretation of Short-Term Plasticity
11.00 – 11.30	Tea and Coffee
11.30 – 12.15	Yasser Roudi - (Line + Point) attractors in recurrent networks
12.15 – 13.00	Rava daSilveira - Adaptive and Other Computations in The Retina
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 14.15	Boris Gutkin - Random Perturbations of Spiking Activity in a Pair of Coupled Neurons
14.15 – 14.30	Timm Lochmann - Saliency, Attention, and Inference with Bayesian Neurons
14.30 – 15.15	Gianluigi Mongillo - Oscillatory Working Memory in Networks with Short-Term Synaptic Facilitation
15.15 – 15.45	Tea and Coffee
15.45 – 16.00	Pierre Morel - Motor Programming with Population Code-Based Networks
16.00 – 16.45	Anne Hsu - Orientation selectivity in goggle-reared kittens: An overcomplete unsupervised learning model
19.00 – finish	Dinner - Trattoria Verdi Restaurant, 110 Southampton Row, London , WC1 4BL

Friday 1 June
10.00– 10.45	Michiel Remme - The Role of Ongoing Dendritic Oscillations in Single-Neuron Computation
10.45 – 11.30	Rich Turner - Modeling Natural Sounds with Modulation Cascade Processes
11.30 - 12.00	Tea and Coffee
12.00 - 12.45	Misha Ahrens - Nonlinearities and contextual influences in the auditory cortex modeled with multilinear spectrotemporal methods
12.00– 13.00	Lunch
	FINISH

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