Program 2017
Sunday, August 7
Location: Reception at Lisb'On Hostel
15:00 Reception
18:00 Welcome drinks
20:00 Dinner
Monday, August 8 --- Introduction
9:30 Introductory Comments (Gilles Laurent, Mate Lengyel, Christian Machens)
10:15 Gilles Laurent
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Christian Machens
12:15 Mate Lengyel
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Presentations of Projects:
Alberto Bernacchia, Claudia Clopath, Pedro Goncalves, Jakob Macke & Balasz Ujfalussy
17:00 Discussion of Projects
19:00 Dinner
Tuesday, August 9 --- Physical Constraints on Computing
9:30 Simon Laughlin: How constraints shape function and design.
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Gilles Laurent: Bridging Marr's levels of analysis
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Discussion of Projects
17:00 Assignment of Projects
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday, August 10 --- Neural Circuits & Synaptic Plasticity
9:30 Claudia Clopath: Modelling the emergence of functional micro circuits
Tom Mrscic-Flogel: Organisation of local and long-range connectivity in cortical circuits
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Claudia Clopath: Modelling the emergence of functional micro circuits
Tom Mrsic-Flogel: Circuit motifs for computation in visual cortex
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Project Work
19:00 Dinner
Thursday, August 11 --- Neural Circuits & Single Neuron Computation
9:30 Peter Latham: Biophysics of neurons and synapses
Michael Haeusser: Principles of synaptic integration in single neurons
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Peter Latham: Requiem for the spike
Michael Haeusser: Interactions between single neurons and networks
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Project Work / optional tutorials
19:00 Dinner
Friday, August 12 --- Associative Memory & Hippocampus
9:30 Alessandro Treves: The dentate gyrus in evolution and in brain computation.
Karel Jezek: Physiology of spatial memory and navigation
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Alessandro Treves: Orthogonalizing memories in CA3
Karel Jezek: Physiology of spatial memory and navigation
15:00 Project Work / optional tutorials
19:00 Dinner
Saturday, August 13
Lisbon Tour
Boat trip on the river, including dinner
Sunday, August 14
Sintra Tour
Monday, August 15 --- Biophysics & Emergent Circuit properties
9:30 Alain Destexhe: Biophysical aspects of stochastic neuraldynamics, from single cells to populations
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Project Discussion
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Project Work / optional tutorials
19:00 Dinner
Tuesday, August 16 --- Balanced Networks & Efficient Population Coding
9:30 Sophie Deneve: Efficient coding
Christian Machens: Variability in neural responses
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Sophie Deneve: Efficient coding with spikes
Christian Machens: Learning efficient representations and computations with spikes
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Project Work / optional tutorials
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday, August 17 --- Neural Coding & Receptive Fields
9:30 Maneesh Sahani: Neural Coding
Jennifer Linden: Examples from the Auditory System
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Jennifer Linden: How Good Are Linear Models?
Maneesh Sahani: Beyond Linear Models
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Project Work / optional tutorials
19:00 Dinner
Thursday, August 18 --- Map Formation & Self-Organization in V1
9:30 Matthias Kaschube
David Fitzpatrick: The cellular and synaptic architecture of the cortical transform
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Matthias Kaschube
David Fitzpatrick: Building the cortical circuits for sight
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Project Work / optional tutorials
19:00 Dinner
Friday, August 19 --- The Basis of Vision & Bayesian Vision
9:30 Mate Lengyel: Bayesian models of perception and learning
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Project Discussion
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Project Work / optional tutorials by Mate Lengyel: Bayes and biophysics
19:00 Dinner
Saturday, August 20
9:00 - 13:00 Surf Course/Beach
Sunday, August 21
Free Day
Monday, August 22 --- Connectomics
9:30 Moritz Helmstaedter
Dmitri Chklovskii
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Moritz Helmstaedter
Dmitri Chklovskii
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Project Work / optional tutorials
19:00 Dinner
Tuesday, August 23 --- Reinforcement Learning & Optimal Control
9:30 Yael Niv: Neural reinforcement learning: how we learn to predict the future
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Peter Dayan: Neural reinforcement learning: From prediction to action
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Daniel Wolpert: Sensorimotor control and learning
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday, August 24 --- Population Coding & Hierarchical Processing in Vision
9:30 Andreas Tolias: Structure, function and computations of cortical microcircuits
Matthias Bethge: Neural models of natural task behavior
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Andreas Tolias: Structure, function and computations of cortical microcircuits
Matthias Bethge: Neural models of natural task behavior
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Zhaoping Li: Three stages of vision: encoding, selection, and decoding.
19:00 Dinner
Thursday, August 25
Project Work
Friday, August 26
Project Presentations
Saturday, August 27
Departure