Program

Sunday, August 6

15:00 Reception

18:00 Welcome drinks

20:00 Dinner

Monday, August 7 --- Introduction and Single Neuron Dynamics

9:30 Introductory Comments (Gilles Laurent, Christian Machens, Jakob Macke)

11:00 Tim Vogels: Single-neuron dynamics

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Astrid Prinz: Biophysical Models of Single Neurons

17:00 Introduction to Projects

19:00 Dinner

Tuesday, August 8 --- Statistical analysis of neural data

9:30 Byron Yu & Jakob Macke: Analysing multi-cell recordings

11:00 Coffee Break

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Tutorials and Exercises

19:00 Dinner

Wednesday, August 9 --- Network dynamics

9:30 Tatjana Tchumatchenko & Julijana Gjorgjieva: Theory of network dynamics

11:00 Coffee Break

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Tutorials and Exercises

19:00 Dinner

Thursday, August 10 --- Normative models:

9:30 Mate Lengyel: Bayesian models of perception and neural computation

11:00 Coffee Break

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Tutorials and Exercises

19:00 Dinner

Friday, August 11 --- Physical Constraints on Computing

9:30 Simon Laughlin: How constrains 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 Assignments of Projects

19:00 Dinner

Saturday, August 12

Lisbon Tour

Boat trip on the river, including dinner

Sunday, August 13

Sintra Tour

Monday, August 14 --- Sensory coding and receptive fields

9:30 Maneesh Sahani: Neural Coding

Jennifer Linden: Examples from the Auditory System

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Maneesh Sahani:How Good are Linear Models

Jennifer Linden: Beyond Linear Models

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Project Work / Tutorials

19:00 Dinner

Tuesday, August 15 --- Spatial Coding and Memory

9:30 Thanos Siapas & Andreas Herz

11:00 Coffee Break

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Project Work / Tutorials

19:00 Dinner

Wednesday, August 16 --- Vision

9:30 Andreas Tolias: Structure, function and computation of cortical microcircuits

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Zhaoping Li: Three stages of vision: encoding, selection, decoding

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Project Work / Tutorials

19:00 Dinner

Thursday, August 17 --- Neural Circuits and Synaptic Plasticity

9:30 Claudia Clopath: Modelling the emergence of functional microcircuits

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Tom Mrsic-Flogel: Circuit motis for computation in visual cortex

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Project Work / Tutorials

19:00 Dinner

Friday, August 18 --- Map formation and self-organization

9:30 Matthias Kaschube: Models of map-formation in visual cortex

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 David Fitzpatrick: Synaptic architecture of cortical transformations

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Project Work / Tutorials

19:00 Dinner

Saturday, August 19

9:00 - 13:00 Surf Course/Beach

Sunday, August 20

Free Day

Monday, August 21 --- Balanced Networks and Efficient Population Coding

9:30 Sophie Deneve: Efficient coding with spikes

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Christian Machens Computations in balanced networks

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Project Work / Tutorials

19:00 Dinner

Tuesday, August 22 --- Dendritic Computations & Birdsong Production

9:30 Michael Häusser: Principles of synaptic integration in singles neurons

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Richard Hahnloser

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Project Work / Tutorials

19:00 Dinner

Wednesday, August 23 --- Reinforcement Learning

9:30 Anne Collins

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Joe Paton

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Project Work / Tutorials

19:00 Dinner

Thursday, August 24

Project Work

Friday, August 25

Project Presentations

Farewell Party

Saturday, August 26

Departure