Gatsby Unit | Simpler Cognitive Systems workshop

Monday 24 November
10.15– 10.30	Tea, coffee and Welcome (Peter Dayan, Simon Laughlin)
10.30 – 11.30	Gasper Jekely - Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and the origin of the proto-eye
11.30 – 12.30	Berthold Hedwig - Phonotaxis in Crickets: From Auditory Processing to Motor Control
12.30 – 13.30	Holger Krapp - Multimodal Gaze Control
13.30 – 14.30	Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room)
14.30 – 15.30	Daniel Wolpert - Computations in Human Sensorimotor Control
15.30 – 16.00	Tea and Coffee
16.00 – 17.00	Daniel Osorio - Generalization and learning about colour by poultry chicks

Tuesday 25 November
10.00 – 11.00	Alex Kacelnik - When choice is just timing
11.00 – 11.30	Tea and Coffee
11.30 – 12.30	Mandyam Srinivasan – Probing Cognitive Capacity in Honeybees
12.30 – 13.30	Nigel Franks - A “Simple” but Distributed Cognitive System: Lessons from House Hunting Rock Ants
13..30 – 14.30	Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room)
14.30 – 15.30	Lars Chittka - How human are insects, and does it matter?
15.30 – 16.00	Tea and Coffee
16.00 – 17.00	Bill Kristan - Multiple mechanisms of decision-making in leeches
17.00 – 18.00	Bjoern Brembs - Learning the consequences: state-dependent modulation of spontaneous decisions in flies
19.00 – finish	Dinner - Trattoria Verdi Restaurant, 110 Southampton Row, London, WC1 4BL

Wednesday 26 November
10.00 – 11.00	George Kemenes - Cellular and molecular mechanisms of memory function and dysfunction in a defined invertebrate neuronal network
11.00 – 11.30	Tea and Coffee
11.30 – 12.30	Simon Laughlin - The freedom of information
12.30 – 13.30	General discussion (available)
13.30 – 14.30	Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room)
14.30	FINISH